My local script does not properly detect children

[SomeLoverForRoblox (PopA_Vein)]

I have two scripts.

One of them is a server script inside ServerScriptService that clones the folder “PlayerInfoTemplate” from game.Players and renames it “PlayerInfo” and sets the folder’s parent to the local player. This one works fine. /

local Players = game.Players
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local PlayerInfo = game.Players.PlayerInfoTemplate
local GaveTheInfo = false

RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function(Replicate)
	Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
		if GaveTheInfo == false then
			local Clone = PlayerInfo:Clone()
			Clone.Parent = plr
			Clone.Name = "PlayerInfo"
			GaveTheInfo = true
		end
	end)
end)

This is the PlayerInfoTemplate folder /

This is the local script that’s supposed to read the values inside of PlayerInfo and determines if it should spawn the player’s character based on the values with a remote event. /

local RunSerivce = game:GetService("RunService")
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local SpawnEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.CharacterEvents.SpawnEvent
local Data

RunSerivce.Heartbeat:Connect(function(The)

	Data = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerInfo
	if Data.CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned then
		print("SPAWNED")
		else
	end

	if Data.CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Value == false then
		if Data.CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.CanSpawn.Value == true then
			if Data.CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Spawning.Value == false then
				Data.CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Spawning.Value = true
			end
		end
		else
	end
	if Data.CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Spawning.Value == true then
		SpawnEvent:FireServer(Player, Data)
		Data.CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.CanSpawn.Value = false
		Data.CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Spawning.Value = false
		else
	end
end)

Running the game gives me this:

How is that even possible? “Modes” came with the whole cloned folder and my local script is saying that there’s no such thing as that. To make this more confusing, the code directly under the RunService.Heartbeat prints “SPAWNED” if Data.CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned exists and it works fine. Something is broken and I don’t know what. This makes no sense and I have no clue how to fix it.

[EgizianoEG (Egiziano)]

@SomeLoverForRoblox

Data = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerInfo

I think that’s because the script connection started while the folder is not loaded yet.
Maybey try to “WaitForChild” for the folder before the heartbeat connection so that when the event first executes, it will find the folder OR instead you can make an if statement and cancel the execution of the function if the folder isn’t found

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@SomeLoverForRoblox

Data = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerInfo

Also, you don’t need to get the player every time here instead, use the Player variable which is at the top of the script while also defining it by GetService for safier execution (the same with replicated storage) so your local script may look like this with some good practices:

local RunSerivce = game:GetService("RunService")
local Player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local SpawnEvent = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("CharacterEvents"):WaitForChild("SpawnEvent")
--local Data    -- This line is not needed anymore.

RunSerivce.Heartbeat:Connect(function(The)
	local Data = Player:FindFirstChild("PlayerInfo")
	local CharacterStats = Data:FindFirstChild("CharacterStats")
	-- FindFirstChild is used so that it won't error if the folders aren't found.

	if not Data or not CharacterStats then return end --| cancels the execution if the folders aren't found
	if Data.CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned then
		print("SPAWNED")
	else 
	end


	--[[if CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Value == false then
		if CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.CanSpawn.Value == true then
			if CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Spawning.Value == false then
				CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Spawning.Value = true
			end
		end
	else
	end ]] -- Shortened:

	if CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Value == false 
	and CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.CanSpawn.Value == true
	and CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Spawning.Value == false then
		CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Spawning.Value = true
	end
	
	if CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Spawning.Value == true then
		SpawnEvent:FireServer(Player, Data)
		CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.CanSpawn.Value = false
		CharacterStats.Modes.Spawned.Spawning.Value = false
	else
	end
end)

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@SomeLoverForRoblox

RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function(Replicate)
	Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)

About the server-side script, you should not connect events like that!
You’re consuming the server’s resources with no valid purpose while you can just connect the PlayerAdded event Once and it will execute the function whenever a single player joins like that:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
--local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")		No need!
local PlayerInfo = Players.PlayerInfoTemplate
--local GaveTheInfo = false		-- No purpose?

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local Clone = PlayerInfo:Clone()
	Clone.Parent = plr
	Clone.Name = "PlayerInfo"
	-- GaveTheInfo = true
end)

[SomeLoverForRoblox (PopA_Vein)]

Thank you! I went through with your tips and managed to work around the child issue. Also this sped up the speed of my game and got rid of some spawn glitches in the process.