Saving thousands of parts to datastores

[XdJackyboiiXd21 (GDoggs_Jack)]

Hi, I’m developing a game somewhat similar to Minecraft. I would like to be able to save what the player builds, but I know that data stores have a limit of something around 200,000 characters. If a player places down 10,000 blocks and I have to save the position, orientation, type of block etc… then I could quickly reach the limit which could cause data saving problems. I know that Islands allows you to place up to 100,000 blocks, so they must have a way to save large amounts of data. Do you have any ideas of how I would go about saving this much data? Maybe through multiple datastores? Any help is appreciated !

[OptimisticSide]

If you value storage usage and not efficiency, I’d recommend using Stravant’s BitBuffer Module. I’d first create a JSON string that stores some of the object’s properties, and then pass that through the module before giving it to the data-store.

[Infi_power]

@XdJackyboiiXd21

I know that data stores have a limit of something around 200,000 characters

Datastore limit increased to 4 Megabytes (or 4.000.000 characters).

Basically you want yo serialize parts, right?
This topic maybe helps you:

How to save parts, and the idea of Serialization

This article is the answer to the famous question “How to save objects using Datastore” and many other ways to word it. If you played with Datastore for enough time, I think you already know that Instances such as parts and models ect. can’t be simply saved using :SetAsync(), which makes it hard to save objects. Most people, with games that are supposed to have slots and stuff on them that you want to save, get stuck when doing this, although, I think finding a way to go over this is quite eas…

[Edit:] But also you need compression though, you can follow what @OptimisticSide said, or search for a compession library, or write yourself your compresser.

[XdJackyboiiXd21 (GDoggs_Jack)]

Thank you so much for both of your replies! Both compression and serialization looks good, I’ll be sure to research both.