I have been writing a script in Roblox that updates a players’ Money value in a folder inserted in leaderstats. Bascilly how everyone creates a leaderboard. The Money value is changed by a ProximityPrompt``Triggered``Event. It is first set off a data store script. I am very new to Data Store.

As I don’t know enough to try to fix this own my own nor able to read the API in the right context, anyhelp would be greatly appreciated. Here’s my code:

-- Money Update Script

local buttons = game.Workspace.buttons

-- Event Vars

-- Main Vars

local buy_railroad = buttons.buy_railroad.ProximityPrompt

local removeweeds1 = buttons.remove_weeds1.ProximityPrompt

local removeweeds2 = buttons.remove_weeds2.ProximityPrompt

-- Propertys

-- Action Vars

local weedremovemodel1 = workspace["weed remove1"]

local weedremovemodel2 = workspace["weed remove2"]

-- Misc Vars

local instructionsgui = buttons.buy_railroad.Part.BillboardGui.Frame

-- Logic

-- Functions

local function takemoneyfromplayers(player, money)
    local playertotake = game.Players:FindFirstChild(player)
    if playertotake then
        local lstats = playertotake:FindFirstChild("leaderstats")
        if lstats then
            local moneystat = lstats:FindFirstChild("Money")
            if moneystat and moneystat:IsA("IntValue") then
                moneystat.Value = moneystat.Value - money
            end
        end
    end
end

buy_railroad.Triggered:Connect(function(player)
    instructionsgui.Visible = false
    buy_railroad.Enabled = false
    buy_railroad.Parent.Transparency = 1
    removeweeds1.Enabled = true
    removeweeds1.Parent.Transparency = 0.7
    takemoneyfromplayers(player.Name,20000)
end)

removeweeds1.Triggered:Connect(function(player)
    removeweeds1.Enabled = false
    removeweeds1.Parent.Transparency = 1
    removeweeds2.Enabled = true
    removeweeds2.Parent.Transparency = 0.7
    takemoneyfromplayers(player.Name,400)
    for _, descendant in pairs(weedremovemodel1:GetDescendants()) do
        if descendant:IsA("BasePart") or descendant:IsA("MeshPart") then
            descendant.CanCollide = false
            for transparency = 0.2, 1, 0.1 do
                if transparency < 1 then
                    descendant.Transparency = transparency
                    task.wait(0.01)
                else
                    break
                end
            end
        end
    end
end)

removeweeds2.Triggered:Connect(function(player)
    removeweeds2.Enabled = false
    removeweeds2.Parent.Transparency = 1
    takemoneyfromplayers(player.Name,400)
    for _, descendant in pairs(weedremovemodel2:GetDescendants()) do
        if descendant:IsA("BasePart") or descendant:IsA("MeshPart") then
            descendant.CanCollide = false
            for transparency = 0.2, 1, 0.1 do
                if transparency < 1 then
                    descendant.Transparency = transparency
                    task.wait(0.01)
                else
                    break
                end
            end
        end
    end
end)

--Data Store Script
local DSS=game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local mainDS=DSS:GetDataStore("Money")
local ReplicatedStorage=game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Events=ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild("Events")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    local leaderstats=Instance.new("Folder",player)
    leaderstats.Name="leaderstats"
    local money=Instance.new("IntValue",leaderstats)
    money.Name="Money"
    local data=mainDS:GetAsync(player.UserId)
    if data then
        if data[1] then
            money.Value=data[1]
        else
            money.Value=20000
        end
    end
    
    money.Changed:Connect(function()
        mainDS:SetAsync(player.UserId, {money.Value})
    end)
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
    local leaderstats=player:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
    local money=leaderstats:WaitForChild("Money")
    mainDS:SetAsync(player.UserId,{money.Value})
end)

I expect the data to save once i exit the game, but it doesn’t. It appeers to on the leaderboard, but after in the money script when Itake money away, it defults to the data store. I am sure of this due to printing the data store with the User’s ID and the correct key, "Money" and then printing it with a seperate script. It prints a dictionary with an empty Instance.