Load a Map

Lesson 5 of 18 in Coddy's Roblox Game: Disaster Survival course.

Rounds happen on a map. The maps wait in ServerStorage, a service whose contents are not in the world: nobody sees them or touches them. Open ServerStorage.Maps in the Explorer outline and you will find the Island.

A round puts a copy of a map in the workspace with Clone, and removes it afterwards with Destroy. The original stays in ServerStorage, untouched, ready for the next round:

local map = ServerStorage.Maps.Island:Clone()
map.Name = "Map"
map.Parent = workspace

-- ... the round ...

map:Destroy()

A copy keeps the original's positions, so the island appears where it was built, far from the lobby. Moving the original instead of cloning it would work once: after the first Destroy there would be no Island left for round two.

Challenge

Medium

Make each round load the Island:

At the top, get ServerStorage with game:GetService.
When the round starts (after the lobby countdown), clone ServerStorage.Maps.Island, name the copy Map and parent it to the workspace.
When the round's countdown ends, destroy the map.

Press Play: when the round starts, the island appears far ahead of the lobby. Then Check.

Try it yourself

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Settings = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.Settings)

print("Rounds last " .. Settings.RoundLength .. " seconds")

-- Every player gets Wins on the leaderboard
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
	leaderstats.Parent = player

	local wins = Instance.new("IntValue")
	wins.Name = "Wins"
	wins.Parent = leaderstats
end)

-- The status board in the lobby
local gui = Instance.new("SurfaceGui")
gui.Parent = workspace.StatusBoard

local status = Instance.new("TextLabel")
status.Name = "Status"
status.Size = UDim2.fromScale(1, 1)
status.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(25, 25, 35)
status.TextColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)
status.TextScaled = true
status.Text = "Welcome to Disaster Survival!"
status.Parent = gui

local function setStatus(text)
	status.Text = text
end

-- The round loop
while true do
	for seconds = Settings.Intermission, 1, -1 do
		setStatus("Intermission: " .. seconds)
		task.wait(1)
	end

	for seconds = Settings.RoundLength, 1, -1 do
		setStatus("Time left: " .. seconds)
		task.wait(1)
	end
end