Need help saving multiple values in one datastore

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#1

I wanna save 2 intvalue when the player left. I’ve tried this way on youtube and devforum but it still doesn’t save the values and I got no errors in the console too. Here is the “Saving points” code:

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local playerPointsData = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("PlayerPoints")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
	leaderstats.Parent = player
	
	local Kills = Instance.new("IntValue")
	Kills.Name = "Kills"
	Kills.Value = 0
	Kills.Parent = leaderstats
	
	local Deaths = Instance.new("IntValue")
	Deaths.Name = "Deaths"
	Deaths.Value = 0
	Deaths.Parent = leaderstats
	
	local data
	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		data = playerPointsData:GetAsync("Player"..player.UserId)
	end)
	
	if success then
		print("Successfully get player's points")
		Kills.Value = data["Kills"]
		Deaths.Value = data["Deaths"]
	else
		warn(errorMessage)
	end
end)

local function getPlayerStatsValues(player)
	local playerStats = {}
	for _, stat in pairs(player.leaderstats:GetChildren()) do
		playerStats[stat.Name] = stat.Value
	end
	return playerStats
end

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local playerStatsValues = getPlayerStatsValues(player)
	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		playerPointsData:SetAsync("Player"..player.UserId, playerStatsValues)
	end)
	
	if success then
		print("Player's point successfully saved")
	else
		warn(errorMessage)
	end
end)
#2 
tableOfValues = {"a", "b", "c", "d"}
stringTable = table.concat(tableOfValues, "~") --use a unique delimiter
datastore:SetAsync(somekey, stringTable)

This will store a table of multiple values as a single string value inside a datastore, when you then use GetAsync or some other data store function to retrieve the data you can use string.split() to split the data up again.

#3

Do you have any other ways? Cuz I haven’t learned a lot about string functions.

#4

The easiest way to do this is to make a table with the player values

local tableToSave = {
	player.leaderstats.Kills.Value,
	player.leaderstats.Deaths.Value
}

and then just save it

playerPointsData:SetAsync("Player"..player.UserId, tableToSave)

You can also load the data this way (im assuming you know what pcalls are because you used them correctly:

if success and data then
	Kills.Value = data[1] -- First because that's the first one we saved
	Deaths.Value = data[2]
end
#5

Nice! It saved the points. Thank you very much! Very easy way.

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#6

But I think it’s better to assign the value to a key. Example:

["kills"] = player.leaderstats.Kills.Value

in order to recognize the values easier.

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