What way should I go about making a DataStore for amount of keys collected?

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#1

I want to make a game where you collect 64 keys in order to unlock the gate of the mines. The issue is that I don’t know how Im supposed to go about saving how many keys a player has, and deleting the keys that they already got in the game to make sure that they won’t get over 64 key.

How would I go about making this?

#2

Generally the way you format data should be as table so create a dictionary in the table regarding which keys have been collected. For each collected key, create an index of the key name with just a boolean value of true therefore if the keyname is nil then they haven’t collected it, else they have.

#3

If they are unique keys (as opposed to randomly generated) you can save them in an array by a unique identifier like if you set the name to be different for each one you could use that.

local collectedkeys: {string} = {}

-- check if collected
local already_found = table.find(collectedKeys, key.Name) ~= nil

-- collecting a new key
if not already_found then
    table.insert(collectedKeys, key.Name)
end

-- counting keys
local key_count = #collectedKeys

make sure to run some of these examples on the server to reduce client side hackers

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#4

Which type of datastore should I use for this operation?

e.x ( ProfileService, Reg DataStore, etc… )

#5

I personally use profileservice and that’s the only open sourced datastore module one I’ve used.

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#6

Do you know a tutorial on the forum or a introduction of it so I can use it in my game?

#7

There are several tutorials on youtube or elsewhere, also profile service has an api page.

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#8

Basic Usage - ProfileService If you are more comfortable using normal datastores there’s no problem with using that. SetAsync("Keys", collectedKeys) saving on collection shouldn’t give as many problems as other save-on-close solutions posted here like in the community tutorials pages “Datastores - Beginners to Advanced”

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