whats the propper way to save player data

[quartz cape]

ive made a few projects but every time i just create a leaderstats folder with intvalues and when people leave the game i have a server script collect the values and save them into datastore but i have troubles with this methode for big numbers or whole inventories, i was wondering how others do it or how its supposed to be done

[next nova]

With datastores

Or other like the

Idk how it is called but like custom data store api thingies

Oh I got it "Open cloud apis"

Basically external datastores(more advanced)

[twin stump]

whenever u want to save something just add it to the data

[drowsy trellis]

you can serialize the tool's properties into values when saving and deserialize when loading

[quartz cape]

What do you mean “judt add it to the data” ?

[hushed matrix]

** You are now Level 7! **

[quartz cape]

this is a example

thats how i store all my data and when the player leaves i store them all as a table in my script

[twin stump]

why do u do that

just make an attribute

[twin stump]

table.insert(profile,{})

[quartz cape]

how do i acces the save data in other scipts then ? i dont really get it

[cobalt cove]

:GetAsync(Key)

Here is a tutorial that i found useful if you still are having troubles. https://youtu.be/TIZ3qsCX5S0?si=WpWTN2hwZ9CH_1dc

[twin stump]

Datastore is a module script

[twin stump]

and thats wromg

[cobalt cove]

Works fine for me 👍

But so i can improve: