Event is not firing

[brave basalt]

i even did some debugging
btw bagpack is not nil

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer

local backpack = player:WaitForChild("Backpack")

local function Added(child)
    print(child)
end

backpack.ChildAdded:Connect(Added)

[gaunt torrent]

you never call the function

[brave basalt]

I accidently delete that but same issue

[gaunt torrent]

not sure why is happening then, i had similar problems before with the Added thing

my solution was making a server script

[gaunt torrent]

just put a script in server script and put this:

local function Added(child)
print(child)
end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(character)

    local backpack = player:WaitForChild("Backpack")

    
    backpack.ChildAdded:Connect(Added)
end)

end)

[brave basalt]

but i needed for client side

[gaunt torrent]

why

[gaunt torrent]

i just see what the problem is

local backpack = player:WaitForChild("Backpack") this is actually nil

not sure why, becouse u are using :WaitForChild

but if u put a task.wait(5) for example, it work

[gaunt torrent]

this is client side
task.wait(5)
local backpack = script.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("Backpack")

local function Added(child)
print(child)
end

backpack.ChildAdded:Connect(Added)

[ashen anvil]

Is it fixed

[ashen anvil]

What event are u even trying to fire

[gaunt torrent]

i guess the .childAdded

[raven crater]

player gets a new backpack whenever they respawn - it gets destroyed and a new one is created

this includes the initial spawn, so when you do player.Backpack in playeradded, their actual backpack is not this one

[placid totem]

new backpack is in clear the players items?

[raven crater]

this should work 👍

[raven crater]

or put this in startercharacterscripts

you'll also want to loop through anything that already exists in the backpack instead of relying exclusively on childadded

[raven crater]

no as in the backpack container gets destroyed, so if you have any links to it like childadded, those get destroyed too

its a weird roblox behavior idk why it does that, the docs dont mention it, but thats what happens. seen it before

it's why the task.wait(5) before fetching the backpack works - it's getting the second backpack when they actually spawn

also why fetching it on characteradded works

[gaunt torrent]

that makes alot more sense now

[placid totem]

does that do the same thing as :WaitForChild(backpack, 5)

or am i misunderstanding how waitforchild works

[raven crater]

no

[raven crater]

you are misunderstanding how it works go look it up in the docs

[placid totem]

ok

[raven crater]

generally you almost never want to use that second parameter

if you need to use it then something else went wrong before that point

[brave basalt]

so what u mean is the bagpack that im getting is previous one?

if that is true could you write me a code that could successfully run client side?

[raven crater]

you don't pay me enough to do that

[strong ginkgo]

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