My RemoteFunction isnt returning what i need

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Im making a shop for my game. And to make a shop, i need to get information about the items to properly display them. The information is stored inside the ServerStorage and the shop is run in a LocalScript, so i need to use RemoteFunction to return some info. However, when it returns and i run a for loop on the variable, it seems like it returned nothing because print is not showing anything.

Heres my code:

-- Local script
local shopitems = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Remotes").GetWepStats:InvokeServer()

for i,v in pairs(shopitems) do
    print(v.Name)
end

-- Server script
game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Remotes").GetWepStats.OnServerInvoke = function(p)
	local things = {}
	for i,v in pairs(game.ServerStorage.WeaponStats:GetChildren()) do
		local clone = v:Clone()
		table.insert(things, clone)
	end
	return things
end

“WeaponStats” is a folder that has more folders containing information about each item. The output does not print anything when the for loop is ran. Any ideas on what’s causing this?

2

Are there any errors/warns in the output?

3

No Errors, no warnings.

kind of hard to find warning because my output is constantly flooded with LoadLibrary stuff from my plugins.

4

Could you show me the WeaponStats folder?

5

This is all thats in the folder. The insides of the folder are just ModuleScripts

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6

I don’t believe items that aren’t visible to the client can be sent to the client.

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7

Remember that ServerStorage and ServerScriptService contents are inaccessible to clients.

Thus, when attempting to pass a reference to a descendant of one of those services, the client will get nil. So theoretically you’ve passed an empty table to the client. Also you never parent the clones anywhere.

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8

Yup. I parented the clones to ReplicatedStorage and that fixed it. Thanks