Roblox Lua Script Producing Error

[Callum_Cloth (not)]

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!

I wanna make my drill work and produce ores

2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!

This script:

local itemsfolder = game.Lighting.Ores:GetChildren()
local item = math.random(#itemsfolder)

local DrillTime = 3


if script.Parent.Mining.Value == true then
	while wait(DrillTime) do
		
		item = math.random(#itemsfolder):Clone()
		item.Parent = workspace.Ores
		item.Position = script.Parent.DropLocation.Position
		


	end
	
	
	
end

Displays error:

  13:48:36.860  Workspace.Model.Script:10: attempt to index number with 'Clone' 

[MatsRatz (Mat)]

uhh i think you should make a devforum post about this

[Callum_Cloth (not)]

This is the devforum site? What do you mean

[MatsRatz (Mat)]

yes but like on the devforum the actual devforum

[Callum_Cloth (not)]

Isnt the app and site the official devforum?

[adri200792]

When getting a random item from a folder it’s used like this:

local item = itemsfolder[math.random(1, #itemsfolder)]

[Callum_Cloth (not)]

it works the other way too, and i tried that way and still got the same error.

[Trainmaster2341]

You could try:

local number = math.random(#itemsfolder)
local randomItem = itemsfolder[number]

[Callum_Cloth (not)]

It works! I have never seen a method like that before but thanks for helping

[Callum_Cloth (not)]

Wait but I made my script like this

local itemsfolder = game.Lighting.Ores:GetChildren()
local number = math.random(#itemsfolder)
local randomItem = itemsfolder[number]

local DrillTime = 3


if script.Parent.Mining.Value == true then
	while wait(DrillTime) do

		number = itemsfolder[number]
		randomItem = number:Clone()
		
		randomItem.Parent = workspace.Ores
		randomItem.Position = script.Parent.DropLocation.Position



	end



end

and now errors same error

[4667hp (Account Info)]

Maybe something like this will work?

local itemsfolder = game.Lighting.Ores

local Items = {}
local DrillTime = 3

for i, v in itemsfolder:GetChildren() do
	table.insert(Items, v)
end

if script.Parent.Mining.Value == true then
	while task.wait(DrillTime) do
		
		local randomItem = Items[math.random(1, #Items)]:Clone()
		randomItem.Parent = workspace.Ores
		randomItem.Position = script.Parent.DropLocation.Position
	end
end

[Trainmaster2341]

This worked when I tested it. So try this and see if this works. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

local itemsfolder = game.Lighting.Ores:GetChildren()

local DrillTime = 3

if script.Parent.dril.Value == true then
while wait(DrillTime) do
local number = math.random(#itemsfolder)
local randomItem = itemsfolder[number]
if randomItem then

		print(randomItem)
		local Item = randomItem:Clone()
		print(Item)
	

		Item.Parent = workspace.Ores
		Item.Position = script.Parent.DropLocation.Position


	end
end

end

[Callum_Cloth (not)]

@4667hp

Maybe something like this will work?

@Trainmaster2341

This worked when I tested it. So try this and see if this works. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Both of your solutions work, thank you both for helping