progress saving

[round venture]

I need help on how to make my game save player progress, there is an inventory system that needs to be saved and a personal structure that they customise and expand that needs to be saved currently, I asked the ai assistant but it didn't rly help much can someone give me a hand

[dawn glade]

** You are now Level 1! **

[dire lotus]

datastores

[round venture]

How do I implement it tho ?

[dire lotus]

🙂

[round venture]

That erm.dosent help much

[dire lotus]

sorry, when did you get the notion that my name was Google?

[round venture]

Buddy YOU replied to the HELP ticket

[dire lotus]

right, because google would just suddenly reply to the help ticket?

Weird how we're still having this conversation instead of going our separate ways, and for you, a Google search

do some fucking research you fat prick

lazy ass bum

[sly kestrel]

or he's just new

💔

i got you sponge give me some time to research

[dire lotus]

new to Google searching?

nah, let him do it himself

it's good for him

[sly kestrel]

whats hard about explaining a solution, you're calling him a fat prick only because he didn't google something, chill out

[dire lotus]

I'd call him a fat prick any time tbf

I hate people who refuse to use resources

so incessant about demanding something from people

[sly kestrel]

@round venture are you saving tools in your inventory, and how are "structures" built?

[round venture]

I didn't demand fuck all I asked a simple question if U didn't wanna answer fuck off 😭😭 so desperate to start a fucking argument when it's a forum literally fucking full of questions and Ur getting pissed off cuz I asked one are you slow ? 😭

[round venture]

They are meshparts that just get coppied and attached to eachother

[dire lotus]

Because apparently this doesn't insinuate a demand for a response tailored to spoon-feeding?

[tawny lantern]

roblox is best used with data oriented designs

you can't save objects nor its reference but an id to identify what it is

[round venture]

You told me that U weren't Google after you responded to the ticket I was just stating the point

[dire lotus]

by the way, have you used Google yet

I'm going to assume that you haven't

[round venture]

You still going 😭

How bored are you 😭😭

[dire lotus]

As far as the structure goes, you can consider buffers

[dire lotus]

Trust me when I say that in my hatred there is love; love enough to hate that you refuse to learn and grow for yourself, in this particular case through doing research

[tawny lantern]

comt is not wrong with being self sufficient but his way of saying it is out of line

[dire lotus]

out of line how?

was it the fat prick comment

[tawny lantern]

yea there's no point in being rude

[round venture]

Just unnecessary

[dire lotus]

sure there is, otherwise why would I

it makes me feel better about talking to him, so I think it's worth it

[round venture]

Your self worth that low you gotta insult ppl to make it worth talking to them ? 😭

[dire lotus]

self worth? This isn't about me, it's about you

[round venture]

You made it about yourself 😭

[dawn glade]

** You are now Level 2! **

[dire lotus]

Yeah, I gotta take ownership of some of it 🙂

[round venture]

all U had to do was j ignore the ticket bro didn't mean to offend you by asking 😭

[dire lotus]

nah I go through some of these to give written solutions, just not to become a whole ass dictionary

if you want to know something, please take initiative

[safe sorrel]

yo so if u need the server side script i can give it from one of my old games

[round venture]

Yea that would be great

[safe sorrel]

i will it in parts since the full script is to long

[round venture]

Okay Ty

[safe sorrel]

local ds = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local dms = ds:GetDataStore("dms")
-- get the values that u want to save

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
leaderstats.Parent = plr

--make the values u want to save in the leaderstats

local value = Instance.new("IntValue") -- smth like this
value.Name = "Value"
value.Parent = leaderstats

local plrUserId1 = tostring(plr.UserId)-- get the player's user id 

    local data = dms:GetAsync(plrUserId1)--get the player's data
    if data then
    else
        print("data was not found")
    end
end)

this is the first part

[dire lotus]

it is highly recommendable to pcall API methods

[safe sorrel]

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
local plrUserId2 = tostring(plr.UserId)-- get the userid
local dataToSave = { -- put the plr's data that u want to save
}
if dataToSave == true then
dms:SetAsync(plrUserId2, dataToSave)
else
print("data did not save")
end
end)

[dawn glade]

** You are now Level 1! **

[safe sorrel]

i know this was a old script that i used

but it still works pretty well with out it

[safe sorrel]

the second part of the script

[dire lotus]

if dataToSave == true will always be false in your code

[tawny lantern]

this script is a mess

[safe sorrel]

i know

[tawny lantern]

use this

[safe sorrel]

but it is better than nothing

either way i made it a long time ago

[tawny lantern]

data loss will happen in that script

and the last player will never get their data saved

[dire lotus]

I also want to point out that saving players in a FIFO order on bindtoclose is sufficient to ensure activation of setasync