Should I use NumberValues or Humanoids for mining?

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  1. What do you want to achieve?
    My friend wants to make a mining system in his game, so he uses Humanoids since he wants weapons to be useful for this too.

  2. What is the issue?
    I told him he can use a NumberValue to check for the model’s “health”, but when it comes to efficiency my brain gets melted.

  3. What solutions have you thought of so far?
    I thought maybe he could add a bit of extra code in certain weapons to check for the NumberValue, but would that be necessary if he can just do damage to the Humanoid?

Basically, I’m not sure if using Humanoids for mining is efficient, but I’m also not sure if using a NumberValue and extra lines of code is necessary, and that’s where my brain starts to melt.
Though if it works as intended it works, right? Or maybe I’m wrong?

Thanks for reading :slight_smile:

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In my opinion, NumberValues are a better idea. Tons of humanoids in your map might make it a bit too laggy. You could optimize the tool to take away the NumberValue based on its damage, and if the value drops below zero, then destroy the model/part and spawn the rewards.

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