is there a way to make a clone without duplicating other clones? would stamping work? is there a way to move stamps?

To move stamps, make a main Sprite place each stamp where it needs to be each frame. Use lists to keep track of where each stamp should be.
Hope this helps!

Can I ask what you mean by “duplicating other clones”? What's your goal here?

im not trying to duplicate other clones im trying to stop it from

Your project might have a pitfall that is common to many projects that use clones and broadcasts. My example (a silly project where all clones say all lines of a knock-knock joke) is here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/835974034/ The fix involves local variables and use of if statements. If that is your project’s problem and if you share a link to your code then someone will probably give you better help.

The issue is presumably that you have clones creating clones when you only want the sprirte to do so. There are two easy fixes

1 - use an uncloned sprite to create the clones (spriteA creates clones of spriteB)

2 - use a local (this sprite only) variable. Set it to 0 for the sprite and to 1 at the start of a clone scriptl. Then only create clones if the variable=0.

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my game keeps make more clones even though i didnt do anything to make it do that i need help