Messing With Memory Using Roblox Setlocals

If you've ever tried to mess with a script's internal logic, you probably realized pretty quickly that roblox setlocals is the key to getting past those hardcoded variables. It is one of those functions that sounds like absolute gibberish to a casual player, but to anyone who has spent late nights staring at a code editor, it's basically a superpower. It is the kind of tool that lets you reach into a running script, find a value that was supposed to be "private," and change it to whatever you want. ...

February 14, 2026 · 7 min · Godat Townsend