How to make Tools save/load on join and persist on death?

[thin comet]

I tried everything, to do it myself, chatGPT, Youtube videos.

What I basically want that your tools save/load on join, and when you die you still keep them

My issues were

1- it either didnt save/load at all
2- When I died whilst holding a tool I lost that tool/or somehow it wiped the whole inventory
3- When you left while holding a tool its also lost.
4- Duplication issues
5- There is a Starterpack with 2 tool and those were sometimes duplicated too
6- When a consumable too was used up, then you died you still had the tools that you used up e.g Medkit

[opaque lily]

Do you have any of those attempts? Non-AI attempts of course

[thin comet]

No since I published the game a few times to test it live

[opaque lily]

Maybe start here then: https://create.roblox.com/docs/cloud-services/data-stores

[celest trench]

if you want to have tools be kept after death just put them in starterpack, you will get that item after death or when joining

[haughty robin]

You can put the tools inside the player in startergear so they persist on death and save / load them using datastore

[weary bough]

When the player leaves the game, forcefully unequip the tools, that is if you're saving items in the backpack (using datastore)

For duplication, you'll have to code the logic yourself. You can keep a cap (max number of similar items) or just unique items, and check if the backpack or character has more than 1 tool

[thin comet]

but wouldnt that make it for the whole server's starterpack?

[weary bough]

Yes?

[chilly ember]

So you mean that when a player leaves, their tools save, so like a saving and loading system? Look at a datastore tutorial on how to save inventory

Also fyi your account needs to be verified for datastores to work outside of studio

[weary bough]

Since when is that a thing?

I thought you only needed the 'allow access to api'

[celest trench]

you sure? I'm pretty sure I made it work and I'm not verified