Need help with finding a tool in a player

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#1

I’m trying to make a button that deletes the tool a player is holding from the backpack and the startergear, but I’m having trouble with deleting it from those 2 and I was wondering if there was a way that I could use FindFirstChild() in different folders such as:

local tool FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool") -- the item the player is holding
player.Backpack.tool:Destroy() -- destroy the tool in the players backpack
player.StarterGear.tool:Destroy() -- destroy the tool in the startergear

it would be a great help if I could do this or there was some kind of alternative to it.

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#2

try to make like this:

local tool = player.Backpack:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool") -- the item the player is holding
tool:Destroy() -- destroy the tool in the players backpack
-- add next tool inside startergear
local tool2 = player.StarterGear:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool")
tool2:destroy
-- To Make tool is destroy within 2 path and calling with a same time
-- 1: Backpack, 2:StarterGear
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#3

the problem with this is that there are multiple tools in the backpack and startergear, the first tool variable was the one in the character since they can only hold 1 tool at a time

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#4

StarterGear is a game service or Player Service??

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#5

startergear is in the player service

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#6

So what I currently have now is deleting the tool from the backpack, but not the startergear

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

local character = player.Character

local tool = character:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool")

tool:Destroy()

local tool2 = player.StarterGear:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Tool")

tool2:Destroy()

end)
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#7

I have it all set up now but it’s all local so I’m going to add a Remote Event and see how that works out.

#8

your code is fatally broken because the variable problems…

make a tool variable within a name because the server will destroy the two tools… so i recommended to make like this

local tool1 = character:FindFirstChild("The Powerness Tool Ever") -- example
local tool2 = player.StarterGear:FindFirstChild("THE GODNESS TOOL") -- example

examplebutton.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() -- make the tool triggers
tool2:Destroy()
examplebutton2:Destroy()
end)

examplebutton2.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
tool1:Destroy()
examplebutton:Destroy()
end)
#9

the problem with this is that it would only delete specific ones, which would make this not really work

#10 
local function ClearTools(...)
	for i,v in pairs(table.pack(...)) do
		if typeof(v) ~= 'Instance' then continue end;
		
		for name,instance in pairs(v:GetChildren()) do
			if not instance:IsA('Tool') then continue end;
			v:Destroy();
		end;
		
	end;
end;

--//Cleaning all using and inventory tools//--
ClearTools(Player.Backpack, Player.StarterPack, Player.Character);

You can try to use this.

#11

Wouldn’t this delete every tool though?

#12

this is more better than myselfs

#13

Yes, but what you really want, just delete a specific tool or all them?

#14

I’m trying to make the button delete the tool that the player is currently holding

#15

All currently holding tools or some specific tool?

#16

Just the tool that the player has equipped.

#17

Just do it on server side.

PlayerCharacter:FindFirstChildWhichIsA('Tool'):Destroy()
#18

it needs to delete from the backpack and starterpack too

#19

that pretty complicated i think

#20

i had it all working actually but it was all local and when i tried doing it on a remote event it didnt work