What's wrong with my script exactly?

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#1

I’m making a custom random spawning system for practicing purposes, but it doesn’t work.

Code in a ServerScript, stored in ServerScriptService.

local collectionService = game:GetService("CollectionService")
local spawnLocationsTag = collectionService:GetTagged("SpawnLocations")
-- The spawnLocationsTag includes 9 Parts, representing spawn locations. All of them are named 'SpawnLocation1', 'SpawnLocation2', 'SpawnLocation3', 'SpawnLocation4', and so on.

print("Test") -- Prints successfully
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	local humanoidRootPart = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
	local spawnLocationValue = math.random(1, 9)

	print("Test") -- Prints successfully
	print(spawnLocationValue) -- Prints successfully

	for i, spawnLocation in (spawnLocationsTag) do
		print("Test") -- Prints successfully

		if spawnLocation.Name == "SpawnLocation" .. spawnLocationValue then
			humanoidRootPart.CFrame = spawnLocation.CFrame + Vector3.new(0, 10, 0)
			print("Test") -- Prints successfully
		end
	end
end)

No errors in the output, only the prints.

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#3

All of your prints are named ‘Test’, have you ensured that the correct ones are being printed and it’s not just the loop-print being repeated several times?

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#4

Yes

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#5

And the behaviour is just that everything is printed but the character isn’t teleported?

#6

Yes, everything prints but the player doesn’t teleport. They just teleport to the center of the world.

And if I add Roblox’s default spawn location, the player automatically teleports to it.

#7

Out of curiosity, what happens if you add a wait(2) before you start the for-loop?

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#8

Nothing happens, everything acts the same but instead there’s a two-second delay.

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#9

So you spawn else-where, wait 2 seconds, then teleport to the centre of the map?

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#10

Oh wait nvm it actually worked!

Thank you so much!

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#11

No worries, I imagine it was interfering with the default spawning behaviour of Roblox.

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#12

It would be good to have the client do the teleporting. Have the server send a remote event to the new position. It might break if the client is super laggy.

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#13

Just did that.

Thanks for the suggestion! Appreciated.

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