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 23, 2013@LLLLLLLALALALAALLALALALA
While it would be possible to code the plugin to work, TARDIS is unlikely to support Wormhole X-Treme (now or in the future) as they do not have a documented API.
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Posted Feb 23, 2013Does anyone have any idea how to make this compatible with Wormhole X-Treme Wrolds? Here is a Link to their page: http:dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/wormhole-x-treme-worlds/ I dont believe that it is compatible with the Multiverse Plugin and the TARDIS plugin is not recognizing it as a multi-world plugin.
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Posted Feb 23, 2013@eccentricnz
yup. that worked perfectly! thanks! i LOVE this plugin by the way. it seems so un-vanilla its like a whole mod!
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Posted Feb 23, 2013@_DaBeagle_
Try travelling somewhere first, the sign only turns the circuit on and off, it doesn't actually change the police box appearance until you travel or do a
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Posted Feb 23, 2013this is truly an AMAZING plugin. one question though, how exactly can i get the chameleon mode to work? the sign says on but the outside is still blue wool.
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Posted Feb 23, 2013We now have a Jenkins CI server for bleeding edge builds of TARDIS. It will generally only be up while I'm working on the plugin, but for those interested in having the latest builds, you can get them here: http://keetley.servegame.com:8080/job/TARDIS/
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Posted Feb 23, 2013@Blainegreenway
Delete the whole folder so it recreates the database and makes a new config file. You also need to have TARDISChunkGenerator plugin installed (it comes with the TARDIS plugin in the ZIP file)
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Posted Feb 23, 2013ok so. i deleted the file and started fresh but it stil spawned me underground. Am i missing something?
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Posted Feb 23, 2013@Brawny1234
Can you post your server log for the error when trying to delete a TARDIS please
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Posted Feb 23, 2013@Blainegreenway
Yes you will need to remake your TARDIS - or even easier if you are running your own server is to just delete the plugins/TARDIS folder and start fresh - see the FAQs here
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Posted Feb 23, 2013ok one more question. i installed multiverse core and multiverse-portals but my tardis is still underground. do i have to re-make my tardis for the multi-verse to work?
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Posted Feb 23, 2013@MERCHANToDEATH
I do is just /tardis room [anyrandomthingthatsnotaroom] and it will show you the options
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Posted Feb 23, 2013I was wondering if you could add a command to list the rooms that can be made? If there already is one I did not see it. Thanks for your hard work, this is an excellent plugin, and you continue to improve it all the time.
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Posted Feb 23, 2013@legojud9
To use the room function in the TARDIS, you need to have multiverse, because currently if you do not have it your TARDIS is just underground somewhere with no space to grow. If you have multiverse the TARDIS will have its own world with a lot of space to grow. To solve your problem, ask your server owner to add multiverse to your server
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Posted Feb 23, 2013hello, can someone please help me... i dont know if i didnt read the instructions completely or what. but when i try to grow a room it says something like "rooms cannot be grown unless tardis is in its home world" can someone please tell me what to do. thanks!
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Posted Feb 23, 2013Hello, one of my players tardis was messed up after a server backup, so I've been trying to use /tardisadmin delete [Name] but every time I get an error in my console and a message "An internal error occurred while attempting to preform this command" I added all of the admin permissions for myself too. Is there a fix for this? Thanks!
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Posted Feb 23, 2013Whenever I try to make a room it says "Your TARDIS must be created in its own world" What does that mean?
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Posted Feb 22, 2013@Galzek
/tardis occupyshould toggle TARDIS occupation so you can break the sign and try again-
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Posted Feb 22, 2013I downloaded multiverse so that we can make our Tardis' grow. When I deleted my Tardis and created a new one after multiverse install it let me go into it, but the signs and buttons and everything were broken and on the ground. I left the Tardis, went back in and I was floating in a black space. If I logged out and logged back in I'd be standing outside the Tardis, when I went to go back in I'd be floating in black space again.
It wouldn't let me delete the Tardis by breaking the sign because it said someone was in there.
Any ideas why the buttons/etc were broken and maybe why I was floating in black voids?
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Posted Feb 22, 2013oh. xD sorry