The reason is that you are declaring the trash table in your mousepressed callback function. This means that each time you set it to be a new, empty, table. Apart from that your code is a little bit confusing, which makes it harder for you to find issues like this. I would recommend against nesting...

I am making a game where the character needs to collect trash to get the points but I am having trouble spawning multiple trash bags. The code I wrote spawns one trash bag and changes the x point but I need multiple bags with different x points. How can I do this? Here is the code. I can try this on...