Null Value

Hello, I am making a plugin that has stats involved in it and when i join the server it gives you your stats but if the player has not done one of the stats E.G. Get a kill it will say "kills: null" how do i change it from a null value to 0?

If you need to see the code just ask thanks

 

@killerzz1 An 'int' is 0 by default and primitives cannot be null. Are you using a wrapper class?

 

I don't know if I am or not

Code:

public class deaths {
    public static void setTimesdied(Player p){
   
       
        int deaths = Main.getInstance().settingsp.getplayer().getInt(p.getName()+".deaths");
        deaths =  deaths+1;
        Main.getInstance().settingsp.getplayer().set(p.getName()+".deaths", deaths);
        Main.getInstance().settingsp.saveplayer();   
       
    }

}

Here is my method for adding the deaths to a config.yml

 

@killerzz1 Show the code where you send the player the "kills: #" info.

 

@killerzz1 When a player join for the first time, save in the config his kill as 0,
or just check in your method if the player has killed or no.