Need help with datastore

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#1

I am making a blacklist system where the script fetches your data from a datastore and see if Blacklisted is true or not. But how would I insert such into a datastore because new players will not have them while people who already joined will have Blacklisted set to false unless they are blacklisted.

What way could I check if theres an already existing Blacklisted value under their UserId and if not how would I insert it?

#3

Datastores don’t save data to the players. It saves to a string value which could be anything; This means they don’t have to be in the game to become blacklisted.

Without the player joining the game you can use a admin menu or something of the sorts to add them to the blacklist.

This means that when they join the game it will fetch the value you or your script assigned to the datastore associated with the player.

local DSS = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local BlackList = DSS:GetDataStore("BlackList")

--- Blacklisting a player
function BlackList(Identifier,Reason)
    BlackList:SetAsync(tostring(Identifier),tostring(Reason))
end

--- Checking for blacklist
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
   local BlackListCheck = {BlackList:GetAsync(Player.Name),BlackList:GetAsync(Player.UserID)
  if BlackListCheck[1] == nil and BlackListCheck[2] == nil then
   --- Not BlackListed
   else
      if BlackListCheck[1] then
         Player:kick("You Have Been BlackListed From This Game Reason" .. BlackListCheck[1])
      end
      if BlackListCheck[2] then
         Player:kick("You Have Been BlackListed From This Game Reason" .. BlackListCheck[2])
      end
   end
end)
#4

Yes I am going to use some other script that manually sets blacklisted to true to them but I’m just looking how to fetch this value when they join the game

#5

I added a very poorly made one to my previous reply, It shows how you can use player.added to get the player and then fetch any data assosiated.

I don’t recommend banning by name like that script, people can change thier names so just ban and check for the userID.

You might want to include something like the reasoning and who banned them in case of appeals or admin abuse.

Here is what I made myself: (Feel free to pull it apart and use as much or as little as your want)

#6

Yeah I know I have previous datastore experience but not much

#7

Well if you get stuck ill reply when I’m next on.

If you want a better explanation of how to make the most of stores I do have a few posts out there explaining in more depth that cover to the point where you can pull datastores from other datastores and make an infinite store. Mines at the point where I can save parts and have a backlog of information all the way to when they first joined.