Tool not parenting to the Backpack

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I’ve lost my marbles over this and descended into madness.

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I printed the parent of the tool after parenting it to the backpack, yet it still doesn’t show in the toolbar in-game, I tried printing the tool to see if it was the correct object and it was. I literally have no idea how to fix this issue, is it a Roblox studio bug?

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Can you show me a picture of where the tool is in the explorer during testing?

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Did you accidentally disable the backpack in one of your scripts?

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Here

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No, this is the only time I referenced the player’s backpack

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Thanks and when run, like when you test the game, does the tool show up in backpack?

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Nope. It isn’t in the backpack, but when I print it’s parent it says it’s in the backpack.

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hmm I see the problem now, do you mind if you send the section of the script using the module?

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It’s passing the player and gun object to the module

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Where did you define self.Gun?

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Why did you define self.Player in two functions?

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the 2 screenshots i provided are in seperate modulescripts, i only defined self.Player once in each

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Oh I see why, you’re moving the tool inside a metatable. So, the tool parent isn’t actually the backpack. It is the key named ‘backpack’ ([“backpack”] = tool).

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the word ‘self’ indicates you’re moving it in a metatable, not actually the real world

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so how would i go about making it so that its moved in the real world? i dont see any other way

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well, just as an example, instead of using ‘self’ to move the tool, use the real game instance (in this case:)

function Manager:Init()
   local SvrStrg = --... you know!
   SvrStrg["Guns"]:FindFirstChild("FO Assault Gun").Parent = --[[<player>.Backpack]]--
end

You’ll have to find and retrieve the player. Debugging is up to you, good luck!

edit: I edited only your Manager:Init() function