Saving Player Tools

[Ty_Harukii]

This has been a topic that many people have talked about, but I feel like mine isn’t as cut and dry. In my system, the tools have different values associated with them. For instance, I could have a weapon that has a level. You level up the weapon and that increases it’s damage. I can’t save tools in a datastore because I have data that’s unique to the user AND the tool. So, I can’t just store the tool by its name into the datastore, because that cuts out the other vital information, like the tool’s level.

So, should I just create a folder for each player that stores the player’s tool objects? Is that even possible? Will that save across servers and sessions?

[weakroblox35]

How to save your players' inventory items Might wanna rewrite it though, It does not use any error handlers.

[Ty_Harukii]

This uses DataStores to store tools by their name. This is specifically what I said that I can’t do because of the way the tools are set up. Each tool is unique, so drawing from a list of prefabbed tools and just comparing their names doesn’t make sense.

[weakroblox35]

It loops through the player folder and saves them?

[bonkybincer]

I would suggest saving each tool’s stats in a table.

Essentially, save one big table to a datastore containing smaller tables that store important information about each tool.

Keep a folder of template tools somewhere in ReplicatedStorage or ServerStorage and clone them into the player’s inventory accordingly, then apply the properties and values specific to each tool from that datastore.

[Ty_Harukii]

This is a better option. I just need a unique identifier for each tool. For instance, instead of just having “sword”, I would have to have “sword_12345” so that I can pair each tool to their respective data in the datastore. So I wouldn’t necessarily be storing the tools, just their data, then cloning that data to the templated tools from ReplicatedStorage or ServerStorage.

Thanks, that helps!

[bonkybincer]

Correct!

Here’s a visual representation of how the table would be structured:

local DatastoreTable = {
	["EpicSword"] = {
		["Level"] = 9000,
		["Epicness"] = 999999,
		["Swordness"] = 99999,
	},
	["NotSoEpicSword"] = {
		["Level"] = 2,
		["Epicness"] =3,
		["Swordness"] = 50,
	}
}

Tables and dictionaries are a blessing.

[Ty_Harukii]

Looks like I finally got it working. Thanks a bunch!