#datastore is painful

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narrow drift
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i wanna learn how to make datastores but i cant get it to work and i cant find a single good tutorial on youtube, please someone help me

rustic yacht
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Ok

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Sure no problem

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@narrow drift

narrow drift
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hey

rustic yacht
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Good thing I made a video about it

narrow drift
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thanks

rustic yacht
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I dont have scripter role but still

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I’m still good

narrow drift
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oh thanks iil watch it and try to fix my code, thanks a lot!

rustic yacht
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K

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Let me explain little more

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Data store

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Your data is a array

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Which means it’s {}

narrow drift
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whats a array? i forgot

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oh its like a table

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ok got it

rustic yacht
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Check the video

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Tell me if u need help

narrow drift
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ok, thanks

narrow drift
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the video is just making a datastore it doesnt really explain what each part does

rustic yacht
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Ik

narrow drift
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so like if i want to make something different it couldnt if i only knew what was on the video

rustic yacht
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U see

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My laptop is shit

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My ping is 900

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Idk how to edit good

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And its laggy most of the time so I don’t record often

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Data store uses

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Asnyc or whatever

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Get and set

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When player first join they don’t have data so you set it

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To get data you do data = da:getasync(player.userid)

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To set it when they first join

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Just do ds:setasync(player.userid,0)

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To set it when player leaves just do ds:setasync(player.userid,{your saving value here})

narrow drift
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like i got a data for money and one for idk lvl

dusty wraith
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i recommend you use a custom data module

sleek hazelBOT
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dusty wraith
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use profileservice

narrow drift
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i dont want to use it

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i want to learn datastore

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i know its better

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and i will use it

rustic yacht
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U can make a loop

narrow drift
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but its good that i learn datastore too

rustic yacht
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Or stuff

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So

narrow drift
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wdym

rustic yacht
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For multi saving

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Is simple

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Let say ur data = (10,5)

dusty wraith
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Okay, well you can learn the basic methods, but there is a lot of variables to consider when handling data and it's better to just use a custom data module.

rustic yacht
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U can set your cash to cash = data[1] which is 10

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The first to come in the array

dusty wraith
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Read documentation on the data store, as well as watch youtube tutorials on how to secure data and whatnot as well as aread the dev forum.

narrow drift
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docs are confusing

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and there are like a gazzilion pages for datastore

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on the docs

dusty wraith
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Exactly why nobody really learns a lot about them and use modules from the people that did

rustic yacht
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E

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I made a video of using module script to save data

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U can check it out btw @narrow drift u probably can’t understand

narrow drift
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yeah the video doesnt really explain anything

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if its the same way as the first one

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you just do it

dusty wraith
narrow drift
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@dusty wraith

dusty wraith
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ty

rustic yacht
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Bruh

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Its bad quality

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Pls no insult

dusty wraith
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im not

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and it's not bad quality, people can understand things differently

rustic yacht
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I was going to delete the link

dusty wraith
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why

rustic yacht
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Bc why not

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No one watch it anyways

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I just do it for fun

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Maybe if I forget how to script

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With 3-4 years of experience

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I have goldfish memory

dusty wraith
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i want to

smoky ridge
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@narrow drift

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Datastores are easy

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want me to explain them to u?

narrow drift
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please

smoky ridge
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Ok

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So

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lemme write an example rq

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local DataStores = {}

local DataStoreService = Game:GetService('DataStoreService')

return DataStores
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the service itself

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very simple

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next up

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we have the actual datastores

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You can use one of i think 3 methods

narrow drift
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a

smoky ridge
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local DataStore1 = DataStoreService:GetDataStore('Example_Name1')
local DataStore2 = DataStoreService:GetOrderedDataStore('Example_Name2')
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imma just use 2

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because idk much about the last one yet

narrow drift
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if i had more it would be what

smoky ridge
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GetDataStore initializes a datastore

narrow drift
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getordereddatawhatever too?

smoky ridge
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That's just for leaderboards and such

narrow drift
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oh ok

smoky ridge
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start with regular GetDataStore

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You have the name 'Example_Name1'

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meaning that datastore is not initialized when the game runs

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(this is a module script so no it wont until the module is required)

narrow drift
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oh ok

smoky ridge
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right

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so

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thats MAKING a datastore

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but

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said store has no data in it or nothing

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So lemme make another example

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local DataStoreService = Game:GetService('DataStoreService')

local PlayerInventory = DataStoreService:GetDataStore('PlayerInventory')
local Coins = DataStoreService:GetDataStore('PlayerInventory', 'Coins')
local Gems = DataStoreService:GetDataStore('PlayerInventory', 'Gems')
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Now our datastore has what's called 'scopes'

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essentially lets think of them as little areas in a box

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we have a big box we call a datastore, meant to hold data, that box has segments/sections called scopes that hold specific data, these scopes ARE optional, however you will need them in most cases for organizing said box.

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But again, now we have a box with segments/sections, still no data

narrow drift
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datastore IS painful

smoky ridge
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wat

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it's just a big box 😭

narrow drift
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its painful

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to make

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it may be a big box

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but u gotta process the tree into paper

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to make cardboard

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then shape it into the box

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then cut it

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to make the box

smoky ridge
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you don't gotta do allat

narrow drift
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its so anoying 😭

smoky ridge
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You just gotta grab the box materials via DataStoreService, get the box you want with :GetDataStore and seperate the box into segments using scopes

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3 steps

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as for data, i'm getting to that

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THAT is the hard part

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even though it's easy

narrow drift
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😭

smoky ridge
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local DataStoreService = game:GetService('DataStoreService')

local PlayerInventory = DataStoreService:GetDataStore('PlayerInventory')
local Coins = DataStoreService:GetDataStore('PlayerInventory', 'Coins')
local Gems = DataStoreService:GetDataStore('PlayerInventory', 'Gems')

local Key = 'InsertUserIDHere'

Coins:SetAsync(Key, 1)
print(Coins:GetAsync(Key))
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So now we have Coins:SetAsync()

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It's rather straightforward, just remove the 'Async' part from datastores and it makes things a lot easier to understand

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You're just Setting data for a certain Key, a key should normally be a userid, though it can be any alphanumeric string

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get, it's just getting the data that's been set

narrow drift
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can i only store numbers or can i store more than that?

smoky ridge
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if any

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otherwise it will return nil

narrow drift
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like instances or idk

smoky ridge
narrow drift
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strings

narrow drift
smoky ridge
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No, You can store strings, numbers, booleans, nil, and tables if you do some json shenanigans

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that's where the pain comes in

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you also have IncrementAsync, that simply adds on or takes away from an already set value

narrow drift
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so i assume that like if i want to store a tool i gotta check if the data has it then if it does clone the tool to players inv or smth?

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that sounds so anoying

smoky ridge
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Just use ItemIDs

narrow drift
smoky ridge
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set an ID for every item in your game

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and store said ID in a table or something

narrow drift
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what if the item has other shit inside it

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like a tool that has scripts inside it

smoky ridge
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you better have some alphanumeric identifier then

narrow drift
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id have to clone all the scripts and parent them n shit

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?

smoky ridge
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yes

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essentially, yes.

narrow drift
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thats so anoying

smoky ridge
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You get used to it after a bit

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trust me, there are effecient ways to do nearly everything

narrow drift
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datastore is painful

smoky ridge
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it is for the first few days, i'll admit

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don't get me started on DataStorePages, you don't even get autofill for half of that stuff

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but that's more advanced

narrow drift
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ive been trying to learn it for almost a month and i cant get it to work 😭

smoky ridge
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I can dumb it down even more if you need

narrow drift
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its 11pm iil play smth and go to sleep then after school tomorrow iil take a better look

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thanks a lot man