Sword not functioning after copying it to backpack

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#1

Hey everyone,

I am currently trying to script my own GUI shop. When one presses script.Parent, an item - in this case the player should get “Sword”.

It’s a LocalScript inside a TextButton.

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

script.Parent.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function(click)
		game.ReplicatedStorage.Sword:Clone().Parent = player:WaitForChild("Backpack")
end)

When I test it and press the TextButton, I get the sword I pasted into game.ReplicatedStorage but nothing happens when I press my left mouse button.

When I copy&paste “Sword” from game.ReplicatedStorage to game.Workspace during a test, I can also pick it up by touching it but I can’t use it either. When I paste “Sword” into game.Workspace before starting the test, it works well.

Does copying the sword into ReplicatedStorage break the scripts inside it? Does anyone have an idea on what’s going on?

Thanks!

Abalone

Edit: Just realized that the Sword is also only visible locally. I will try to figure it out and then post the anwser here.

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#2
  1. Only server should have ability to give the sword, u can achieve this with remote events, where u send a message from the local to server and server checks if player has enough money and if hes not already the owner of the item
  2. Always clone items from ServerStorage, ReplicatedStorage is archivable by the local.
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#3

You will have to use RemoteEvents and connect client-side on button pressed to the server and then on the server you will have to clone the sword and parent it inside of player’s backpack.

#4

You should not handle player/item replication over the client as it is not replicated to all players. You can get through this problem using remote evens/functions as found on the roblox WIKI:

For your case, you should fire an event (With the player) once the player presses the button. Then the server retrieves it with an onserverevent/onserverinvoke and then you handle the cloning there, cloning it to the player.

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#5

Yess, finally got it to work. Thank you nutella and Artic for the tip. I did some research and came up with the following solution:

I created a RemoteEvent in game.ReplicatedStorage.

The Button I click now contains the following local script:

script.Parent.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
	game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent:FireServer("Sword")
end)

This fires the remote even when the button is pressed, sending the name of the requested gear.

In game.ServerScriptService I’ve created a second, “normal” script:

local RemoteEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent
local gear = game.ServerStorage.Gear

RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player,gearName) --Here I get the Player that clicked and the gearName
	local Backpack = player:FindFirstChild("Backpack")
	local gear = gear:FindFirstChild(gearName)
	gear:Clone().Parent = Backpack
end)

My Tools are stored in a folder within game.ServerStorage

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