Trouble getting when any humanoid from a table of all players in-game dies

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#1

Thou Goal:
Get when any player from a table that contains all the players currently in the server dies. I need it to also know which character died, or atleast the name of the player, and have it print out the name of the player that died.

Thy Issue:
I’m gonna be real with y’all, got absolutely no idea how to do this. Tables are NOT my thing.

Thy (ran out of alternatives to thy Attempts To Solve Thou Issue:
I’ve attempted to look through a couple posts but I couldn’t find much for this problem.

oh yeah heres the code:

local players = game:GetService("Players")

local gui = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent

local playersTable = {}

local function addPlayer(player)
	table.insert(playersTable, player)
	
	for _, playerName in ipairs(playersTable) do -- this was here for testing shenanigans
		print(playerName)
	end
end

local function removePlayer(player)
	table.remove(playersTable, table.find(playersTable, player))
	
	print(player.Name) -- here too
end

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(addPlayer)
players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(removePlayer)

-- INITIATOR
for _, player in ipairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
	table.insert(playersTable, player.Name)
	print(player.Name)
end

Oh! One more thing, I’ll likely be gone for three and a half hours. I’ll read any and all replies once I get back, thank you!

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#2

You could just use the humanoid.Died event to do this. For your code it’ll look something like this:

local players = game:GetService("Players")

local gui = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent

local playersTable = {}

local function addPlayer(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)
            local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
            humanoid.Died:Connect(function()
                print(player.Name, character) --print player's name and character model that died
            end)
    end)
end

local function removePlayer(player)
	table.remove(playersTable, table.find(playersTable, player))
	
	print(player.Name) -- here too
end

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(addPlayer)
players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(removePlayer)

I’m not sure if you still need a table of players in the game? You can just do

local all_players = game.Players:GetPlayers()

to get a list of players in the game at any time.

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#3

There is a documentation for this on the creator hub. here is the code from the documentation:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local function onPlayerAdded(player)
	local function onCharacterAdded(character)
		local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

		local function onDied()
			print(player.Name, "has died!")
		end

		humanoid.Died:Connect(onDied)
	end

	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(onCharacterAdded)
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)

simpler

humanoid.Died:Connect(function(died)
     --idk If died is right in the print. you can test around what died prints. if this doesn't work just use the longer one.
    print(died)
end)
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