Saving a Dictionary with DataStores

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#21

It doesn’t print it anymore, idk why, I didn’t change anything

#22

Does the data work properly now?

#23

Nope, it doesn’t, I can try a few more things but idk what to do

#24

Oh, this may be the issue but I am not sure. You’re defining the quest completion with a table that only has one value. It would be easier (and may fix your code) to define the quest as only the number.

i.e
["Open Shop"] = 0
vs.
["Open Shop"] = {0}

If you are currently attempting to do something along the lines of:
LoadedValue = Data["Open shop"]
calling LoadedValue will return the entire table. You would need to use LoadedValue[1] to access only the number value

#25

How would I be able to do that?

#26

That it looks like this

	local questsTable = {
		["Open Shop"] = 0
	}
#27

In your saving code, change
questsTable[quest.Name] = {}
to
questsTable[quest.Name] = quest:WaitForChild("Current").Value

(and remove the table.insert)

#28

Yes it does work, but now I just need the loading system to work!

#29

What is your issue there?

Also, is the first issue resolved?

#30

I found another problem, when I do the quest and it turns 1 when I leave and rejoin it does go to 1 but if I leave and rejoin again it goes back to 0

#31

Some of these issues may be related to testing in studio. Try testing in-game a few times and see if you have the same issues.

#32

Change

for i, questName in pairs(questsData) do

to

for questName, i in pairs(questsData) do

in your loading script

#33

I already did that, made a difference though

#34

It’s just table: 0xc7bf074d136a3934

#35

Also with the module script function it just says attempt to index nil with value

#36

Oh the issue is I didn’t do the module

#37

I’m about to be off for the night, but I will say debug printing can be your best friend.

Add prints everywhere something important happens to make sure the code is actually running consistently & check that the data you expect is what is going through. Use the information you gain about what is and isn’t working to try to figure out why from problem A to problem Z.

#38

Ok, will do, good night, cya sometime

#39

Does anyone know any other solutions?

#40

Hello my fellow amazing awesome spectacular Roblox Developers out there, I figured out what to do, so if you’re stuck on this type of question too here is what I did!

Saving:

local questsTable = {}

for _, quest in pairs(player:FindFirstChild("CurrentQuests"):GetChildren()) do
	if quest then
		questsTable[quest.Name] = {
			["Current"] = quest:FindFirstChild("Current").Value;
			["Reward"] = quest:FindFirstChild("Reward").Value;
			["Goal"] = quest:FindFirstChild("Goal").Value;
		}
	end
end

pcall(function()
	questsDataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, questsTable)
end)

Loading:

local questsData = nil

pcall(function()
	questsData = questsDataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId)
end)

if questsData ~= nil then

	for questName, questValues in pairs(questsData) do

		if not player:FindFirstChild("CurrentQuests"):FindFirstChild(questName) and #player:FindFirstChild("CurrentQuests"):GetChildren() < 3 then

			local questValue = Instance.new("BoolValue")
			questValue.Name = questName
			questValue.Value = true
			questValue.Parent = player:FindFirstChild("CurrentQuests")

			local rewardValue = Instance.new("NumberValue")
			rewardValue.Name = "Reward"
			rewardValue.Value = tonumber(questValues.Reward)
			rewardValue.Parent = questValue

			local currentValue = Instance.new("NumberValue")
			currentValue.Name = "Current"
			currentValue.Value = tonumber(questValues.Current)
			currentValue.Parent = questValue

			local goalValue = Instance.new("NumberValue")
			goalValue.Name = "Goal"
			goalValue.Value = tonumber(questValues.Goal)
			goalValue.Parent = questValue

			game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):FindFirstChild("QuestsAssets"):FindFirstChild("Remotes"):FindFirstChild("SendQuest"):FireClient(player, questName, tonumber(questValues.Reward), tonumber(questValues.Goal))
			game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):FindFirstChild("QuestsAssets"):FindFirstChild("Remotes"):FindFirstChild("UpdateQuest"):FireClient(player, questName, questValues.Current, questValues.Goal)
			
			if currentValue.Value >= goalValue.Value then
				
				game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):FindFirstChild("QuestsAssets"):FindFirstChild("Remotes"):FindFirstChild("UpdateQuest"):FireClient(player, questName, questValues.Current, questValues.Goal)
				game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):FindFirstChild("QuestsAssets"):FindFirstChild("Remotes"):FindFirstChild("ShowClaim"):FireClient(player, questName)
				game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):FindFirstChild("QuestsAssets"):FindFirstChild("Remotes"):FindFirstChild("SendCompleteNotification"):FireClient(player, questName)
				
				questModule[questName](player)
				
				require(replicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("ElevatorFunctions")):MuteSFX(replicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("SFX"):FindFirstChild("Notification"))
				
			end
			
		end

	end

end
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