My touch to damage script is not waiting

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#1

Hi there, so I am having trouble with my touch to damage script. What it is supposed to do is that when a Humanoid touches it, it does some damage every second. But instead, it’s waiting (for 1 second) then does lots of damage even though the take damage is set to 1. Sorry if I did not make sense but it’s not supposed to repeat the take damage then wait. It’s supposed to - 1 health then wait.

function onTouched(hit)
	if not hit or not hit.Parent or not game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) then return end
	local human = hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid")
	if human and human:IsA("Humanoid") then
		human.Health = human.Health-1
		wait(5)
	end
end

script.Parent.Touched:connect(onTouched)
#2

A few things are wrong, first off there’s no debounce so it will constantly hit. Also you are waiting after doing damage which will do basically nothing for you. And finally if you want to do damage over time you should use a for loop. Below is an example of what you should add into it (Debounce + loop for damage)

local hitTable = {}

function onTouched(hit)
    if not hit or not hit.Parent or not game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent) then return end
    local human = hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid")
    if human and human:IsA("Humanoid") and not hitTable[human.Parent] then
        hitTable[human.Parent] = true -- a debounce to prevent multiple hits
        for i = 1, 5 do -- loops 5 times
           human.Health -= 1 -- -= 1 is the same as = human.Health - 1
           wait(1)
        end
        hitTable[human.Parent] = false
    end
end

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(onTouched) -- changed :connect to :Connect to be more consistent with current roblox coding practices
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#3

Thank you very much. This works!:+1: