Spawn npc's if there's less than 5 in workspace

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so this script already prevents npc’s spawning if there’s any in workspace, but I want for it to spawn more if there’s 5 or less in workspace

local existingMinions = workspace:FindFirstChild("BludMinions")
		if existingMinions then
			Head.Sad:Play()
		else

[manounou0 (TheRobloxian)]

is it a local or a normal script ?

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it’s a normal script. Located in ServerScriptService

[manounou0 (TheRobloxian)]

do a folder where every blud minions will go

[DAPSUEL]

yeah what goes after that???

[manounou0 (TheRobloxian)]

you need to do a in pairs thingy if you dont know what it is go ask to google me im not pretty good at scripting and i forgot what to do lol

[PiercedMissile]

I think you can do

 local existingMinions = workspace:FindFirstChild("BludMinions"):GetChildren()
		if #existingMinions < 5 then--if number of minions is folder is less than five, then

			Head.Sad:Play()
		else

This won’t work if you have something besides minions in the folder, you need npc’s ONLY in the folder, nothing else.

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attempt to index nil with ‘GetChildren’

[Lametta]

He thought that BludMinions was a folder for the minions *because it should be.

Though to fix what he assumed

local mins = 0
for _,v in pairs(workspace:GetChildren()) do
if v.Name == "BludMinions" then
mins += 1
end
end
if mins > 5 then
Head.Sad:Play()
end

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after some fixes for it to work with my script, and adding a folder this worked!