Weapons DataStore Not Working

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1

Hi, I was following a dataStore tutorial that is supposed to save the weapons the player owns. Whenever I join it doesn’t clone the items to my backpack nor do any errors show up in the output.

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local ServerStorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")

local player_data = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("player_data")

local tools = ServerStorage.ShopItems
local inventories = ServerStorage.Inventories

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(client)
	local key = "client_"..client.UserId
	local inventory = player_data:GetAsync(key)
	
	local inventory_folder = Instance.new("Folder")
	inventory_folder.Name = client.Name
	inventory_folder.Parent = inventories
	
	for _, name in ipairs(inventory or { }) do
		local tool = tools[name]
		tool:Clone().Parent = client.Backpack 
		tool:Clone().Parent = inventory_folder -- For saving and loading
	end
end)

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(client)
	local key = "client_".. client.UserId
	local tools = {}
	local inventory_folder = inventories[client.Name]
	
	for _, item in ipairs(inventory_folder:GetChildren()) do
		table.insert(tools, item.Name)
	end
	
	player_data:UpdateAsync(key, function(prev)
		return tools
		end)
		
		inventory_folder:Destroy()
	end)
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2

Have you tested this in the in-game and not studio? Roblox Studio tests doesn’t constantly save/load datastores that well.

3

Yeah, I tried this in game. The leaderstats work, but this weapons script isn’t.