Player taking damage over time instead of dying instantly

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#1

Am pretty new, I want the player to take damage over time instead of dying instantly. I don’t know how to code it, I tried messing around with it a can’t figure it out.

Here is part of the code I want to do it.:


		
		if Hunger.Value <= 0 then
			Player.Character:BreakJoints()
			else
#2

What you are doing there is making it so every time the Hunger value is less than 0 it will kill the character.

This is what you would do to achieve it:

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
  Player.Character.Humanoid.Health = Hunger.Value
end)

Basically what this does is it will always loop setting the player health what the hunger value is.

#3

You could have a script that just makes the player take damage if the hunger value is 0 which would look like


while wait(5) do -- every 5 seconds
    if Hunger.Value <= 0 then
         Player.Character.Humanoid:TakeDamage(5) -- Take 5 Damage
    end
end

Every 5 seconds if the hunger value is 0 they will start to take damage until they die or the hunger value goes above 0.

#4

Never use while do its not a good practice for loops. Also Hunger.Value <= 0 won’t work since it would be tracking the negatives. :TakeDamage() in this case wouldn’t work since if Hunger is 100 it would take 100 damage.

#5

Try this.

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

	if player.Hunger:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value") then
		if player.Hunger.Value < 0 then
			character.Humanoid:TakeDamage(100)
		end
	end
end)
#6

It’s better to do <= 0 than == 0 here because depending on how hunger is calculated & due to the way decimals work it’s possible that because of the nature of precision errors, 0 is never actually hit specifically, but instead skipped past resulting in a negative hunger stat.

#8 
local DECREASE_AMOUNT = 10
local Pizza = 20

game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

	local Hunger = Instance.new("IntValue", player)
	Hunger.Name = "Hunger"
	Hunger.Value = 100
	
	
	if player.Hunger:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value") then
		if player.Hunger.Value < 0 then
			character.Humanoid:TakeDamage(100)
			else
			while wait(DECREASE_FREQUENCY) do
	Hunger.Value -= DECREASE_AMOUNT
	    end
	 end
      end
end)

game.ReplicatedStorage.Eat.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)
	player.Hunger.Value += Pizza
end)
``` Try this, contact me if any problem and i'll try to help you.
#9

When it hits zero nothing happens you won’t take damage also I don’t know if this was in the script or not I want the make the player take damage over time.

#10 
game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local Hunger = Instance.new("IntValue")
	Hunger.Parent = Player
	Hunger.Name = "Hunger"
	
	local threshold = 50
	local amount = 3
	local interval = 4
	local damaged = false
	
	Hunger:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Value"):Connect(function()
		
		if Hunger.Value <= 50 and not damaged then
			if Player.Character and Player.Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
				Player.Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid"):TakeDamage(amount)
				damaged = true
			end
			wait(interval)
			damaged = false
		end
			
	end)
end)
#11

The whole thing doesn’t work the local values work with the script. The bar just disappears and nothing works I can give you the hunger bar code if you need it. Am sorry if this is a pain.

#12

Okay give me the hunger bar code

#13

Wait where are you putting this script?

#15

Also if you can change the code so the bar goes down instead of sideways that would be helpful.

#16 
game:GetService("Players").PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    while Hunger.Value >= 0 do
        Player.Character.Humanoid:TakeDamage(5)
        wait(1)
    end 
end)

Put this in a serverscript in serverscriptservice and test it

#17

I think what you did wrong was the Hunger.Value <= 0 then part.
This is how I think you can fix it:

local DECREASE_FREQUENCY = 1
local DECREASE_AMOUNT = 10
local Pizza = 20
local character = game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character or game.Players.LocalPlayer:CharacterAdded:Wait()

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	
	
	local Hunger = Instance.new("IntValue", Player)
	Hunger.Name = "Hunger"
	Hunger.Value = 100
	
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
		Hunger.Value = 100
	end)
	
	while wait(DECREASE_FREQUENCY) do
		
		if Hunger.Value = 0 then
			character.Humanoid.Health = 0
		else
		
		Hunger.Value -= DECREASE_AMOUNT
			end
		end
end)

game.ReplicatedStorage.Eat.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player)
	Player.Hunger.Value = Player.Hunger.Value + Pizza
end)

I have not tested this so I cannot gurantee this works, also I am not good in stats, and other stuff, so I have no Idea if I did any of that syntax right. Thanks!

#18

No, it’s not. it’s going into the negatives it could be on my side though. the bar works but the player isn’t taking damage.

#19

Something finally snap in my brain I used part of this script to fix it thank you.