Tutorial:Leaderstats

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Have you ever seen a Leaderboard in a Roblox game before and you want to know how to make it?

Well in today's tutorial I'll show you how to do just that!

Step 1

We'll first start off by making code that tells the game to do something once someone enters your game

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    
end)

Step 2

Next up we'll created a brand new Folder.

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    local Stat = Instance.new("Folder")
end)

Step 3

Then we'll name this Folder "leaderstats". (It has to be EXACTLY as stated otherwise it won’t work properly.)

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    local Stat = Instance.new("Folder")
    Stat.Name = "leaderstats"
end)

Step 4

After that we'll create a new IntValue and set its name and value.

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

    local Score = Instance.new("IntValue")
    Score.Name = "Stage"
    Score.Value = 0
end)

Step 5

Lastly we'll call the parents to both Stat and Score.

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

    local Score = Instance.new("IntValue")
    Score.Name = "Stage"
    Score.Value = 0

    Score.Parent = Stat
    Stat.Parent = Player
end)

Final Results

Now you have a working Leaderboard inside of your game, if you want to know how to save your leaderboard stats check out this tutorial.

Small Notes/Tips

You can add the parent within the Instance.new() by adding it like so down below:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    local Stat = Instance.new("Folder", Player)
    Stat.Name = "leaderstats"

    local Score = Instance.new("IntValue", leaderstats)
    Score.Name = "Stage"
    Score.Value = 0
end)

You can also make multiple stats to the leaderboard! Just. Don’t overdo it (Also you aren’t limited to just Int Values!):

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    local Stat = Instance.new("Folder", Player)
    Stat.Name = "leaderstats"

    local Score = Instance.new("IntValue", leaderstats)
    Score.Name = "Stage"
    Score.Value = 0
    
    local Rank = Instance.new("StringValue", leaderstats)
    Rank.Name = "Rank"
    Rank.Value = "Cool Guy"
end)