Saving inventory gui items using datastores

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#1

Ive been making an RNG game and it adding the items to the inventory upon rolling is going fine, but I dont know how to save the inventory items. can you help me with this? Thanks!

#2

Hey! I was in the exact same situation.

  • My solution was making a table of the items (invTable)
  • on player leave :JsonEncode(invTable) and save it.
  • on player join, load the Json table using :JsonDecode(loadedJson), store it as a variable (loadedJson)
  • now you have a table of your items loaded from a datastore called loadedJson!

Basically, you store the table as a string (encoding) and transform it to a lua table (decoding) upon loading saved data, since you cant store a whole table.

I cant write a whole script because im on phone, but if you have a question then let me know.

#3

where do i put the invtable and how to save and load and encode?

#4

if you dont know how to save and load data on a datastore then consider watching a tutorial first.

local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local inventoryTable = {...} -- your table of things in inventory

local encodedTable =  HttpService:JsonEncode(inventoryTable)
-- save the encodedTable on a datastore

--- LOADING ---
local loadedTable = datastore:getAsync() -- load the datastore
local loadedInventoryTable = HttpService:JsonDecode(loadedTable)
-- loadedInventoryTable is your previously saved table
#5

Assuming you’ve never done datastores before, and this game is more than just practice, you may want to decide on a datastore module to make things a lot easier to manage.

You can’t go wrong with the ProfileService module.

#6

and where do i put this script?
and is it local?

#7

You seem new. You should try the module @youbigown sent. I can’t help you more than that.