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 3, 2013Is there any way to make the sky type for the TARDIS custom worlds, end-sky type? So that it looks like actual space, not just empty black?
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Posted Mar 3, 2013Is there another way to get animals in the police box? Whenever I try, the animal turns sideways, and its 2-block long hitbox prevents it from entering the door. I also tried materializing around a cow, and the cow suffocated before I could open the door and save him! Some more documentation on the subject would be helpful! Thanks :)
Also, just for fun, I decided to see if the door locking applied to physically opening the TARDIS door. It doesn't. Maybe run a check if the door is locked first? And maybe the ability to lock the door from the inside :)
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Posted Mar 3, 2013I also had an idea where you can make a zero room like in the old doctor who series and when you walk in you get the regeneration effect like how when the 4 doctor regenerated into the 5th doctor he went into the zero room to regain his sanity
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Posted Mar 3, 2013@SilverEnderman
Will take a look at the scanner tomorrow, taking a day off from doing any programming today :)
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Posted Mar 3, 2013@bob2jack
Stone / wood button or lever
Looks like I need to update the docs...
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Posted Mar 3, 2013what is the block for the scanner just wondering
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Posted Mar 2, 2013@eccentricnz
Thank you very much! It now appears to be working! I haven't tested to travel yet, but at least it builds OK. I'll be back with more reports as I test it.
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Posted Mar 2, 2013@fwilli
Oh nevemind i realised i hadnt updated spout
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Posted Mar 2, 2013@bob2jack
Anymore? what version did they work in?
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Posted Mar 2, 2013Am i misssing something? i just spent a freaking HOUR trying to install the spoutcraft client because of my stupid java being glitchy, ONLY for the tardis noises that didn't sound like retarded minecart noises (actually not that bad, its a good replacement) all just to hear the same stupid mine cart noise(still not that bad) and now i see the plugin(spout) is missing on my server! Where is it? where where where
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Posted Mar 2, 2013@facemywrath
http://eccentricdevotion.github.com/TARDIS/faqs.html
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Posted Mar 2, 2013I keep trying to set CreateWorlds to true but it resets it to false, is this why i can't grow rooms?
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Posted Mar 2, 2013the custom sounds dont work anymore? :(
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Posted Mar 2, 2013Players are defined in the scanner as "null". This gets rather scary, because I don't know exactly who is standing outside my door! And my TARDIS scanner doesn't seem to be updating to the current police box location anymore until I actually exit the TARDIS, whether across dimensions or otherwise! I will post a vid soon if you need it. Another suggestion: could doors be locked from the inside in a future version? Thanks :)
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Posted Mar 2, 2013A MUST HAVE PLUGIN EPIC!!!
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Posted Mar 2, 2013TARDIS v2.1-beta-1 has been released
Check out the changes in the description or visit the official docs page http://eccentricdevotion.github.com/TARDIS/change-log.html
Undoubtably there will be bugs that I had no idea existed and ways of doing things that would never have occurred to me, so post a ticket of you find anything
Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas :)
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Posted Mar 1, 2013@brassgoggles
Thanks for the video, can definitely see that there is a bug, but unfortunately doesn't show the cause. Breaking the button won't do anything as long as you put it back in the same spot, or
/tardis update buttonif you put it somewhere else.Could you please post the whole of the server log so I can see the entire error, this will be a huge help in tracking down the bug. Use a paste http://dev.bukkit.org/paste/
One tip for you - disable time travel to TARDIS_WORLD_playername worlds - there is nowhere to land in empty space so the random location finding times out and just plops you at level 135.
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Posted Mar 1, 2013@tobias4844
This is covered in the FAQs http://eccentricdevotion.github.com/TARDIS/faqs.html
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Posted Mar 1, 2013Me: -Builds TARDIS -Wants to add rooms -Gets message: You cannot grow rooms unless your TARDIS was created in his own world..
Please help
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Posted Mar 1, 2013This is a video of the broken handbrake bug, It happened to me this time, still no clue as to what triggered it.
lord knows whats going on when I break the stone button.
i also found this in the Console, don't know if it's relevant, but still
"2013-03-01 17:54:12 [SEVERE] Could not pass event PlayerInteractEvent to TARDIS v2.0 org.bukkit.event.EventException"
Edit: Now when i teleport out and set it to unoccupied i get the message "could not get the previous location of the TARDIS!"