So I’m trying to make a Roblox game at 1 am because who doesn’t and i ran into a small problem: I have a variable that wont update in my server script even if i can see it being updated in the explorer and leaderstats.

My cultivation toggle script (local script under the text button):

local button = script.Parent
local cultivating = game.Players.LocalPlayer.leaderstats.Cultivating

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
    if cultivating.Value == false then
        cultivating.Value = true
        button.Text = "Stop Cultivating"
    else
        cultivating.Value = false
        button.Text = "Start Cultivating"
    end
end)

My leaderstats script (server script under serverscriptservice):

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

    local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder") 
    leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
    leaderstats.Parent = player

    local qi = Instance.new("IntValue")
    qi.Name = "Qi"
    qi.Value = 0
    qi.Parent = leaderstats
    
    local cultivating = Instance.new("BoolValue")
    cultivating.Name = "Cultivating"
    cultivating.Value = true
    cultivating.Parent = leaderstats
end)

My cultivation script (server script under serverscriptservice):

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    local leaderstats = player:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
    local qi = leaderstats:WaitForChild("Qi")
    local cultivating = leaderstats:WaitForChild("Cultivating")

    while true do
        if cultivating.Value == true then
            qi.Value += 1
        end
        wait(0.5)
    end
end)

I know this probably a stupid question and before you run to the downvote button take in mind that it is currently 2:03 in the morning and I have asked both chatgpt and claude ai to help me and they have both failed. Basically the variable “cultivating” is getting updated by the local script which works but doesn’t get updated inside the cultivation script.

I was expecting this to give me 1 qi every 0.5 seconds if I’m cultivating.

I tried using AI to help me (time wasted), tried debugging with a bunch of print statements and got to the conclusion that it is indeed the variable not updating inside the script. I have even tried declaring the variable inside the loop without any success.