Ragdoll script not working with character clones?

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Hey y’all! I’m currently creating a knife that kills people… like most knives… anyways:

It works fine, except for one thing, the ragdoll. I’ve been trying to achieve something like what happens on Murder Mystery 2, where when you kill someone, their body ragdoll’s onto the floor and stays there for the duration of the round.

I do this by cloning their character, and then putting it into the map folder. From there the ragdoll script does it’s stuff. The ragdoll part of the script is identical to the regular death ragdoll script, but it doesn’t work for some reason.

This is when I use a ragdoll clone


As you can see, it just freezes. A cold dead body with no motion. But now let’s use the almost exact same script for when you just die in general.


Ah, much better. This is what I am wanting the ragdoll to do when it spawns in. Here is the coding for both events.

Clone script:

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local collectionService = game:GetService("CollectionService")
local active = false
script.Parent.Parent.Handle.Touched:Connect(function(part)
	if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		if script.Parent.Parent.Active.Value == true and active == false then
        active = true
		local ownerChar = script.Parent.Parent.Parent
		local owner = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(ownerChar)
		local char = part.Parent
		local target = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(char)
		if owner ~= char and char.Humanoid.DisplayName ~= "" then
			part.Parent.Humanoid.Health = 0
local ragdoll = char:Clone()
            ragdoll.Name = ""
            ragdoll.Humanoid.NameDisplayDistance = 0
            ragdoll.Humanoid.DisplayName = ""
ragdoll.Humanoid.Health = 0
ragdoll.Humanoid.AutoJumpEnabled = false
            ragdoll.Parent = game.Workspace.Map
local d = ragdoll:GetDescendants()
            for i=1,#d do
            local current = d[i]
            if current:IsA("Motor6D") then
local socket = Instance.new("BallSocketConstraint")
socket.Radius = 0
socket.LimitsEnabled = true
socket.UpperAngle = 30
socket.TwistLimitsEnabled = true
socket.TwistLowerAngle = -30
socket.TwistUpperAngle = 30
local jointName = current.Name
local part0 = current.Part0
local atat0 = current.Parent:FindFirstChild(jointName.. "RigAttachment")
local atat1 = part0:FindFirstChild(jointName.. "RigAttachment")
if atat0 and atat1 then
socket.Attachment0, socket.Attachment1 = atat0, atat1
socket.Parent = current.Parent
current:Destroy()
end
end
end

            end
wait(1)
active = false
		end
	end
end)

Regular death script:

local character = script.Parent
character.Humanoid.BreakJointsOnDeath = false
character.Archivable = true
character.Humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
            local d = character:GetDescendants()
            for i=1,#d do
            local current = d[i]
            if current:IsA("Motor6D") then
local socket = Instance.new("BallSocketConstraint")
socket.Radius = 0
socket.LimitsEnabled = true
socket.UpperAngle = 30
socket.TwistLimitsEnabled = true
socket.TwistLowerAngle = -30
socket.TwistUpperAngle = 30
local jointName = current.Name
local part0 = current.Part0
local atat0 = current.Parent:FindFirstChild(jointName.. "RigAttachment")
local atat1 = part0:FindFirstChild(jointName.. "RigAttachment")
if atat0 and atat1 then
socket.Attachment0, socket.Attachment1 = atat0, atat1
socket.Parent = current.Parent
print(current.Parent.Parent.Name.. "CoolSauce")
current:Destroy()
end
end
end
end)

EDIT: I should add that the ragdoll script is located within the knife itself, and the regular death is located within StarterCharacterScripts.

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I ran into a similar issue to this, it just ragdolls the corpse on the server, but the corpse on the client is a t-pose. The corpse HumanoidRootPart is out of place on the server as well!

-- On Death
		local function OnDeath()
			if DeathDebounce then return end
			DeathDebounce = true

			Humanoid.DisplayDistanceType = Enum.HumanoidDisplayDistanceType.None
			Character.Archivable = true
			for i, v in pairs(Character:GetDescendants()) do
				if v:IsA("BasePart") then
					v:SetNetworkOwner(nil)
				end
			end
			
			-- Create Corpse
			local Corpse = Character:Clone()
			local CorpseHead = Corpse:FindFirstChild("Head")
			Corpse.Name = Character.Name.."-Corpse"
			if CorpseHead then
				CorpseHead.CanCollide = true
			end
			
			Corpse.Parent = workspace

			-- Ragdoll
			Ragdoll(Corpse, Corpse.Humanoid)

			task.wait(RespawnTime) -- Wait Respawn Time

			-- Make Sure Player Character doesn't Load Twice in a Row
			if not Player.Character or Player.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid").Health <= 0 then
				Player:LoadCharacter()
			end
		end
		Humanoid.Died:Connect(OnDeath)

Did you find a solution to this issue after 3 years?