TARDIS
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Downloads
I'm too lazy to upload TARDIS files to Bukkit anymore, as builds are automatically created when the plugin is updated and changes pushed to GitHub.
Version specific downloads can be found here: https://tardis.pages.dev/download
Please make sure you are using the latest Spigot/Paper builds (for the Minecraft version you are running) before installing TARDIS or creating an issue!
What it does
TARDIS is a plugin that gives you the ability to create a Police Box that lets you time travel (teleport) to random locations. It adds a Whovian twist to the typical /sethome and /home commands.
As a player, you can:
- Create a TARDIS that is bigger on the inside.
- Time travel to a random location.
- Time travel back home (where you created the TARDIS initially).
- Save and list interesting time travel locations, so you can return to them easily.
- Take companions with you when you time travel.
- Make your TARDIS blend in with the Chameleon Circuit.
- Use your own schematic to build the TARDIS interior
- Grow new TARDIS rooms
- Use Artron Energy
- Remote control the TARDIS
- Custom TARDIS sounds with companion Resource Pack
- Custom TARDIS textures with companion Resource Pack
Official documentation & FAQs
The documentation is here: https://tardis.pages.dev/
Tutorial videos for version 2+ (also included in the official docs)
Not all of these are up-to-date...
- Installation
- Creating a TARDIS - a bit old now, check the official docs for instructions
- Growing rooms and the Gravity well and changing Walls
- Time travelling
- Recharging Artron Energy - Updated with energy condenser chest!
- Companions
What's new?
Installation
As a minimum, just drop the TARDIS.jar, TARDISChunkGenerator.jar (look under Additional Files on the download page) and any optional plugins listed below into the Bukkit plugins folder and start your server. For more detailed instructions see: https://tardis.pages.dev/installation-v5
Optional installs
These are not needed for TARDIS to function, but enhance the plugin with extra features...
- Install the TARDIS-SoundResourcePack in the Minecraft client to hear custom TARDIS sounds
- Install the TARDIS-Resource-Pack to see aal the fancy textures and models (requires TARDIS v4.2 or higher).
- Install the TARDISChunkGenerator plugin so that you can generate TARDISes in their own self-contained world (included on the TARDIS plugin download page under Additional files).
- Install WorldGuard to automatically protect your TARDIS from griefing, and stop mobs spawning in TARDIS worlds.
- Install TARDISWeepingAngels to add some Whovian mobs to the game.
- Install a Permissions plugin, so that you can restrict or grant players the rights to use TARDIS’ different features. We like PermissionsBukkit.
Other important pages
| Subject | Link |
|---|---|
| Configuration | https://tardis.pages.dev/category/plugin-configuration |
| Commands | https://tardis.pages.dev/category/commands |
| Permissions | https://tardis.pages.dev/permissions-table |
| TARDIS Github repository | https://github.com/eccentricdevotion/TARDIS |
| Official todo list | https://github.com/eccentricdevotion/TARDIS/blob/master/todo.md |
| Bleeding edge builds (Will not always be available) |
Development builds of this project can be acquired at the provided continuous integration server. These builds have not been approved by the BukkitDev staff. Use them at your own risk. Latest TARDIS Build (Jenkins) Bleeding edge changes/commits |
Bugs / Requests
Please post a ticket for TARDIS plugin requests and bugs, thank you :)
WARNING: I am no longer prepared to waste my time looking at incomplete tickets. If your ticket does not follow the guidelines set out below, it will be deleted immediately!
Make sure you have read the FAQs first, as your question may already be answered there. Also make sure you have searched for a previous ticket with the same/similar issue (use the Filters to search closed tickets).
If you are going to create a BUG ticket you need to supply relevant information (as I'm not a mind reader, nor do I have access to your server...) - as a minimum you need:
- Exact CraftBukkit version i.e. NOT 'the latest' - use the
/tardis versioncommand if possible, otherwise copy from server log - Exact TARDIS version i.e. NOT 'the latest' - use the
/tardis versioncommand if possible, otherwise copy from server log - The server log showing the entire error (as a paste or at Pastebin - NOT a screenshot) - this should be the log from when the server starts up right through to when the error occurs
- If no error in the log, then a video of the bug happening or the EXACT steps needed to reproduce the issue.
- Attach your plugins/TARDIS/config.yml file or other configuration file if relevant
- Attach your plugins/TARDIS/TARDIS.db file if relevant
- List of other plugins on server
Stats
Basic statistics are collected for some versions of the TARDIS plugin (v2.5.8 and earlier). You can opt out at any time by setting opt-out: true in plugins/PluginMetrics/config.yml
External web access
Version 2.8 (and higher) of this plugin includes a translation feature (the /tardissay command) that connects to the Lingva translation service.
You can prevent players from using the command by removing / not giving them the permission tardis.translate
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Posted Feb 15, 2013Just tested this and working fine my end - no extra bits anywhere. Did you delete the TARDIS schematics folder before installing the new version?
Old world not deleted properly perhaps?
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Posted Feb 15, 2013No lag on my server, which is running on a VPS; 2 core with 1.5G ram dedicated to the minecraft server.
Currently 7 players, cpu around 20%.
I have had one dupe so far with the latest version, I repeated the same steps but no dupe the second time of course.
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Posted Feb 15, 2013@anton225
What are the specs on the server i run it on my home comuter for testing and its a quad core with 5gb of ram and i get no lag.
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Posted Feb 15, 2013@eccentricnz
1. Sorry, it somehow set itself to false, maybe I forgot to save. 2. First I placed a emarald block<sub> then a lime green wool block, and finaly a redstone torch, that should give it green walls right? 3. Oh, I thought it would change walls on the eleventh one too, then I just need to replace the cyand blu wool myself. 4.Ok, it's a great but fun feauture by the way, I was actually going to suggest some kind of monitor, and this is exactly what I wanted! :-) 5. Ok 6. By saying tardisprefs quotes off, it worked before, and it still sayd they are turned off, but I still get them. 7. It lags all the time ever since I installed the latest pre, it takes 1.5 minutes until one of my actions actually happens. Not only the plugin, the whole server, all the time. But this is the first time ever, and the lag dissapeared once I removed the plugin.</sub>
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Posted Feb 15, 2013@anton225
/tardisadmin name_tardis trueto change the config?-
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Posted Feb 15, 2013@Gartral
Hey, yeah i was teleported after i got locked in the room. Although i reset the whole thing while keeping the main map in place. decided to remove the tardis mod until after the new MC update, start it from scractch and use the mod from scratch. but thanks though i'll give it a try just to see if it was the case.
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Posted Feb 15, 2013@GervaisJohn
Bonus :) will look into it
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Posted Feb 15, 2013@byakuya06
Please post the full error from the server's log - the first line is useless to me, the lines after it will tell me where things are going wrong.
The MultiWorld plugin support is broken in 2.0-beta-8, so most likely the world is created, but stops working because it is not loaded into Bukkit properly.
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Posted Feb 15, 2013@vistaero
The scanner is just for fun, there is always going to be an issue with the surrounding area not being fully loaded/mobs not appearing until it has been visited - that is how Minecraft works... You don't have to use it if you don't want to...
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Posted Feb 15, 2013@eccentricnz
THANK YOU
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Posted Feb 15, 2013Hi! I found alot of bugs in the v2.0-PRE-b. Here is all I can remember:
1. It won't type a players name on "Police Box Sign" even though it's turned on. 2. The "Eleventh" TARDIS makes the walls out of Orange Wool even though I choose another material. 3. The Cyan Blue wool in roof of the "Eleventh" TARDIS don't change into another material. 4. The "Scanner's" range is too short. It detected mobs next to it, but not some that are just a little bit away. 5. Chests, furnaces etc are still turned in the wrong direction. 6. I can't turn the "quotes" off. 7. It lags, ALOT.
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Posted Feb 15, 2013The 11th doctor's TARDIS spawns with a random passage.
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Posted Feb 15, 2013@eccentricnz
Alright I made one and here is the file
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Posted Feb 15, 2013I have a problem with the plugin.
I'm using beta-8 and and the latest bukkit. I was able to use it for a while. I was able to enter, travel, grow rooms, etc. Everything was great. but later, I wasn't able to enter.
In my server's console, I see "[SEVERE] Could not pass event PlayerInteractEvent to TARDIS v2.0-beta-8" everytime, I want to enter. I'm not able to enter.
I'm using Multiworld Plugin for multiple worlds, I deleted the pre-v2.0 configuration files and plugin. How to fix it? Any solutions? (Same problem with both Bukkit 1.4.7 - R0.1 and R1.0)
Restarting the server didn't help. I think, destroying my TARDIS and recreate it will work, I did that once, it worked. But the issue came back.
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Posted Feb 15, 2013how do you make a own world for the tardis so you can build rooms
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Posted Feb 15, 2013What is the purpose of the scanner if I need to exit the TARDIS before scanning in order to see updated information?
Please, check it out, and say me if you want a video.
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Posted Feb 15, 2013TARDIS v2.0 Pre-release has been uploaded
Changes outlined below!
v2.0-PRE-b
/tardis directioncommand not updating the door location in databasev2.0-PRE-a
/tardis roomcommand/tardistravelcommand/tardis updatecommand/tardis comeherecommand/tardisadmin deletecommand/tardis room harmony- seed block SMOOTH STONE STAIR - The Eye contains a chest, which is automatically set as the TARDIS condenser./tardis room baker- seed block ENDER STONE/tardis room wood- seed block WOOD PLANK/tardis room antigravity- seed block SANDSTONE - This one goes up! Place the seed block in the middle of an empty room as you would for the Gravity Well/tardisadmin reloadcommand/tardis exterminatewith a configurable timeout period (confirm_timeout) when breaking the Police Box sign (deleting the TARDIS)/tardis update scannercommand to add it. The scanner will tell you about the location of the current saved destination/current Police Box location (if no destination has been set). It includes information on the following:/tardisprefs wall helpto see a list of available blocks. The preference is automatically set when creating the TARDIS - default, bigger and deluxe sizes are set to ORANGE_WOOL and the eleventh to LIGHT_GREY_WOOL if using LAPIS as the middle block (in the creation stack). Otherwise it is set the the material used for the middle block.debug: true, rooms grow faster/tardis comeherecommand to bring the Police Box to a predefined TARDIS area - this should stop potential overlaps and dupes-
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Posted Feb 15, 2013@Gartral
Hmm, not really. If a spot is taken, the next one is assigned when using
/tardistravel area, but if someone uses their save, I don't think we are currently checking if it is occupied - and that gives the potential for full overlap if some one is already in the spot...Bugger, I just uploaded a new file think I will have to do a Mojang and release a quick fix :)
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Posted Feb 15, 2013@eccentricnz
so you're saying that it would reserve a spot? that'd be kinda nice.. esspecially if it put a sign there saying who's spot it is so no-one tries to park their tardis there.
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Posted Feb 15, 2013@Gitimus
I think I might know what's going on.. were you ever teleported out of your TARDIS by *any* other means than the Door? this could be Death, Call, Tp, MVTP, or server crash. if it IS what I'm thinking, than a simple /mvtp TARDIS_WORLD_yournamehere *should* fix it.
EDIT: It would probably be a good idea too leave through the door..