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 Mar 1, 2013@Sadorhael
I just built Libigot without
0015-Alternate-sync-free-but-safe-chunk-reference-cache.patchYou could try it and see if it makes any difference, get it here:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/53758864/libigot-1.4.7-R1.1-without-CB-Patch-15.jar
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Posted Mar 1, 2013@Sadorhael
I don't know if you have also seen this ticket: 56 - Missing blocks from TARDIS interior with Spigot in which it states:
My understanding is that Libigot is a fork of Spigot, so whether you can do the same thing? Perhaps PM @quarkbuddha to see if he has any insight into the matter.
If this was an easy fix, I would have done it by now, but I really don't know Java well enough to know exactly what the issue is. I would love to be able to support everything, but the choice for me is: do I spend hours trying to nut out what is wrong with someone else's beta software, or do I use that time to add features to my own work which I know works fine for 95% of users?
BTW, I'm very glad you read the FAQs, I will add Libigot to the docs!
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Posted Mar 1, 2013@eccentricnz
Thank you
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Posted Mar 1, 2013@eccentricnz
Yes, I have actually read the FAQ and I am aware that you state that about Spigot. However, after CraftBukkit shoved away some of the major plugins by enforcing their new regime, I was forced to move to Libigot. (I am using Heroes and that's a plugin my players love.) So my question here was in the hope that you would have knowledge about this particular error and a method for fixing it easily.
I am sorry to have taken your time, but I still hope for a fix that will make this work on Libigot as well. Have a nice day :-)
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Posted Mar 1, 2013@Zephrith
Fixed in latest build #24
http://keetley.servegame.com:8080/view/All/job/TARDIS/me.eccentric_nz.TARDIS$TARDIS/lastBuild/
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http://thenosefairy.co.nz/jenkins/TARDIS.jar
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Posted Mar 1, 2013@Sadorhael
Don't use Spigot, MCPC+ or other non-standard CraftBukkit builds. Please see the FAQS here: http://eccentricdevotion.github.com/TARDIS/faqs.html#missing
To everyone one in general... does no one read FAQs anymore when they have a problem? Just wondering :)
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Posted Mar 1, 2013@Zephrith
That's what you get when you're using bleeding edge builds...
Will fix this tonight, and the next build should have a normally functioning save sign :)
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Posted Mar 1, 2013Hey I noticed when I bound some players to some wall_signs and then cycled through the saves on my save sign it was littered with the players I bound to the signs followed by null,null,null. Is there any way to stop this from displaying on the save sign? Thanks
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Posted Feb 28, 2013As I clicked the door and was supposed to enter the tardis, it was not finished built, the tardis-world was still dark and the machine is not operational. It seems half-built. What has gone wrong? How may I fix it?
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Posted Feb 28, 2013Sure, Here it is.
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Posted Feb 28, 2013@brassgoggles
I have found out that this happens if to box is no where can we see the tardis.db
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Posted Feb 28, 2013Sure, ill ask him if it happens again, an emergency / force release command would be nifty
though it does not seem to matter if hes in or out of the tardis, occupied or unoccupied it simply refuses to do anything.
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Posted Feb 28, 2013@brassgoggles
Sounds like we need an 'emergency handbrake release' command -
/tardis iamacrappytimelordmaybe...After TPing the player out, he/she could try
/tardis occupyto toggle whether the plugin thinks they are in their TARDIS, but this may or may not helpSee if you can get the player to make a video?
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Posted Feb 28, 2013One of my players, and always the same one, not the rest of them, keeps breaking his tardis.
I have no clue how it happens but when it does the handbreak refuses to release, theres no error message, and when you click on the door it makes the opening noise but nothing happens.
teleporting him out of the tardis then resetting the server seems to fix it, but this is getting increasingly annoying, and he has no clue what may be causing it.
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Posted Feb 28, 2013@jDantastic
Something is using it:
MCPCPlusXNmsBlock_147(from your log) - try disabling other plugins, and try TARDIS travelling again e.g.:-
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Posted Feb 28, 2013@eccentricnz
Hmm...that actually is what I'm using. That's what I downloaded when I started the server.
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Posted Feb 28, 2013@jDantastic
dl.bukkit.org :)
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Posted Feb 28, 2013@eccentricnz
Actually one more quick question. I don't remember choosing to use MCPC+. Is there a way to switch from that to vanilla CraftBukkit?
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Posted Feb 28, 2013@eccentricnz
Thanks for the help anyway :)
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Posted Feb 28, 2013@jDantastic
Looks like you are running MCPC+ and this is probably the problem, other users have reported issues with using it and TARDIS (they have changed the way that bukkit does things...). Unfortunately we don't really have time to support other server variants (keeping up with vanilla CraftBukkit takes enough time as it is). Suggest you ask some questions on the MCPC+ forum. Sorry about that :(