Instantiating a prefab and values

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Okay, sorry for poor title, I don’t know how I would title this. But okay, I have two scripts, but I’m only gonna include some of them, but if you need more of a certain script, feel free to ask. I’m gonna try wording this the best I can because I have a mild form of autism and I have my own way of speaking, so if you also need me to explain with what I mean, feel free to ask as well.

Okay, so I have a game, where if you click the warrior icon, it deducts money and it instantiates a prefab,
At the same time, every so often, on the other side of the map there is a enemy that is instantiated.

I have a part of a script that is attached to the enemy, and the script is like this :

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {//on trigger enter..
        if (other.tag == "Weapon")        //if the tag of the collider is "Weapon"
        {
            Health--;               //deduct health
        }

And that works.
However, below that section of the script, it says this :

        if(other.tag == "Player")
        {
            Health1.DeductHealth();
        }

Now in the Health1 Script, more specifically “DeductHealth” it is this :

    public void DeductHealth()
    {
        Health--;
        print("Health - " + Health);
    }

Now the issue I am having, is instead of removing health from the Warrior that was bought, it removes health from the original prefab, So I was wondering, am I doing something wrong? Is there no way to do this? Or…?

Thanks for reading!

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You have probably linked your warrior prefab to the enemy prefab via an inspector slot which takes a “Health1” component.

Any enemy that you instantiate will then reference the warrior prefab’s Health1 script.
What you should do instead is get the reference to the warrior which you’ve bought / instantiated and get its Health1 component, and last but not least, assign it to the Health1 variable in your enemy’s script.