#how would I go about making a quest system just the main componets?

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lime kayak
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really depends how you want the quest system to be

keen idol
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well what I was thinking was like you touch a part then a quest gui pops up telling what the player would do

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I probably would make a module script for that right?

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local module = {
    ["Quest1"] = {
        ["Text"] = "Collect 5 grapes, 4 Bannanas, and 7 apples"
    }
}

return module
lime kayak
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yeah, modules are a great way to handle quest stuff

keen idol
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yea I was thinking they would be

lime kayak
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you could have a big module to track whatever in the player - maybe you give certain objectives names like GrapesCollected, then when you collect a grape you +1 to it

keen idol
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yea I was just wondering how would I make the game know what script the player is on?

lime kayak
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every time an objective is increased you could call a function which checks whether the quest is complete or not

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i mean, you can organise it however you want

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i usually have a PlayerData module that stores all players data like this:

keen idol
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ah ok

lime kayak
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local playerData = {}

playerData[player] = {
  Quests = {
   ["Grape Collection Service"] = {
      Progress = {
        GrapesCollected = 5
        BananasCollected = 0
        ApplesCollected = 5
      }
  }
}

return playerData
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and maybe youd have a separate module for each quest giving the max values, so you can compare it pretty easily

keen idol
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yea

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man module scripts are so nice

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you can just change values without having to dig through lines of code

lime kayak
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agreed

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no need to find a bajillion value objects

keen idol
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also

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while you are here would making a system to keep track of kills be hard not like the datastore part but like to add the kill?

lime kayak
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nah it should be pretty straightforward i think

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id include that in PlayerData personally, but handle it however you want

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maybe just a 'Kills' dictionary, with the names of enemies as the key and +1 to the value when one is killed

keen idol
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yep

lime kayak
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like

local playerData = {}

playerData[player] = {
  Quests = {
   ["Grape Collection Service"] = {
      Progress = {
        GrapesCollected = 5
        BananasCollected = 0
        ApplesCollected = 5
      }
  }
  Kills = {
    ["Ogre"] = 5,
    ["Goblin"] = 1
  }
}

return playerData
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datastore part would be easy too, since you can just save the kills table directly

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or the whole playerdata depending on what you have in it

keen idol
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mhm

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thank you