Using player.components.inventory always returns nil

[Hautex]

I have recently begun modding in DST, and I have run into quite the annoying problem. No matter how or when I do it, trying to use the player inventory component always returns nil. I've been looking into the issue for a few days now, and tried starting over with simple piece code like this that gives the player a spear (in modmain.lua):

SpawnPrefab = GLOBAL.SpawnPrefab

function Init(player)
    print("spawning item")
    local prefab = SpawnPrefab("spear")
    player.components.inventory:GiveItem(prefab)
end

AddSimPostInit(Init)

But the spear never shows up, only .inventory nil errors do. If I try to use different PostInit functions, or GLOBAL.ThePlayer, or add nil checks it's all the same story. I also tried to use replica, but that also doesn't seem to function too well either. The mod is server-side, by the way.

What am I missing here? Any help is very much appreciated.

[-LukaS-]

SimPostInit is too early do be handing out items to players. You should use PlayerPostInit for that.

AddPlayerPostInit(function(inst)
    if not GLOBAL.TheWorld.ismastersim then
        return
    end
    
    inst.components.inventory:GiveItem(GLOBAL.SpawnPrefab("spear"))
end)

 

[Hautex]

Strangely, I had already tried AddPlayerPostInit and it didn't work at all. Your code works though, so I guess it had something to do with the function part? In any case, thanks a ton!