Script has stopped working. (please help)

[wcristy (dan)]

Hi, I have a problem with this script I made. I’m working on a horror game and everything goes well until you equip the flashlight, after the flashlight is equipped the script stops working and doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do. Please help!

local lp = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local playbtn = lp.PlayerGui:WaitForChild("ScreenGui1"):WaitForChild("BG"):WaitForChild("PlayButton")tool = game.Workspace.Flashlight
local handle = tool:WaitForChild("Handle")
local cancolide = game.Workspace.cancolide2
local typingso = game.ReplicatedStorage.Typing
local sound = game.Workspace.clicksound
local touch = game.Workspace.touchpart
local back = game.Workspace.backpart
local mons = game.Workspace.monster
local pointlight = game.Workspace.point.PointLight
local jump = game.Workspace.jump2
local debounce = false


local function typewrite(object, text: string, delay: number)
	object.Text = text
	local i: number = 0
	for _ in utf8.graphemes(text) do
		i += 1
		object.MaxVisibleGraphemes = i
		typingso:Play()
		task.wait(delay)
	end
end

playbtn.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	wait(3)
	script.Parent.Text = "Chapter 1 - Maybe it's all an illusion?"
	wait(3)
	typewrite(script.Parent, 'This house is really dark.', 0.04)
	wait(3)
	typewrite(script.Parent, 'I need to find a flashlight.', 0.04)
	wait(3)
	script.Parent.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 0, 0)
	script.Parent.Text = "Objective: Find a flashlight"
	cancolide.CanCollide = false
end)



touch.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
	if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		if not debounce then
			debounce = true
			print("working")
			script.Parent.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 1)
			typewrite(script.Parent, "I can't find it", 0.04)
			wait(3)
			typewrite(script.Parent, "I think it's not here!", 0.04)
			wait(3)
			typewrite(script.Parent, "Maybe I left it in the kitchen.", 0.04)
			wait(3)
			script.Parent.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 0, 0)
			script.Parent.Text = "Objective: Go back"
			back.Size = Vector3.new(3, 30, 30)
		end
	end
end)



tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	if not debounce then
		debounce = true
		sound:Play()
		handle.SpotLight.Enabled = true
		wait(0.1)
		script.Parent.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 1)
		typewrite(script.Parent, 'I found it!', 0.04)
		wait(3)
		typewrite(script.Parent, 'Hmm.. I want to watch some TV.', 0.04)
		wait(3)
		script.Parent.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 0, 0)
		script.Parent.Text = "Objective: Watch TV."
		wait(40)
		script.Parent.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 1, 1)
		typewrite(script.Parent, 'Oh no!', 0.04)
		wait(3)
		typewrite(script.Parent, 'I have to get my phone from my room!', 0.04)
		wait(3)
		script.Parent.TextColor3 = Color3.new(1, 0, 0)
		script.Parent.Text = "Objective: Open the door."
	end
end)

[wcristy (dan)]

So I found where the problem was. At the end of the tool script I didn’t put debounce = false.
Thank you ChatGPT!

It seems like your script might be having issues due to the debounce variable. The purpose of the debounce variable is to prevent multiple actions from happening simultaneously, but in your case, it looks like it’s preventing the execution of code after the tool is equipped.

When the tool is equipped, the debounce variable is set to true, and it doesn’t get reset to false afterward. Therefore, the code inside the tool.Equipped:Connect block won’t execute again.

To fix this, you should reset the debounce variable to false at the end of the tool.Equipped:Connect block. Add the following line at the end of that block: