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@ccattell

Oh, and always up for seeing what people have done with the plugin :) Not sure about time zone issues so maybe posting some pics is best idea?

@ccattell

TARDIS v2.1-beta-2 build #41 now has a /tardisprefs floor [material] command to change the default LIGHT_GREY_WOOL blocks to the block of your choice.

Have also renamed the all_chameleon_blocks option to all_blocks in the TARDIS config. If this is set to true, then potential economy breaking blocks can be used in the Chameleon Circuit and for room walls and floors - the new blocks are:

BEDROCK
DIAMOND_BLOCK
EMERALD_BLOCK
GOLD_BLOCK
IRON_BLOCK
JACK_O_LANTERN
LAPIS_BLOCK
LAPIS_LAZULI //alternate name
MELON
OBSIDIAN
PUMPKIN

Prepared to juggle some of these around between 'OK' ones and 'bad for economy' ones depending on feedback...

Also new is an addition to the /tardisgravity command added a couple of builds ago - you can now specify a velocity for gravity blocks:
/tardisgravity [direction] [distance] [velocity]

[direction] = up, down, north, west, south, east and remove
[distance] = number of blocks you want to move
[velocity] = speed at which you want to move - can be a decimal i.e. normal walking speed is 0.37

In my testing, as velocity goes up, then distance needs to go down otherwise you start hitting walls and ceilings :)

Basic video in comments (back a page or two) or here

@SilverEnderman

Yep, ties in nicely with our future plans to make the TARDIS 'steal-able', so look out for it when we implement that (currently scheduled for version 2.2)

@ccattell

Will do a /tardisprefs floor [material] command, and add the config for extra (economy destroying) blocks as well

Adding the custom rooms to the config would not be an issue, the plugin doesn't use the schematics directly, so it's not as easy as just adding it to the config, also the "I made a cool new custom room but its not working..." stuff which will inevitably arise will be the painful bit - I'm of the opinion that a lot people do not read the documentation before jumping right in, as evidenced by the same questions being asked over and over in the comments... If at first you don't succeed RTFM!

The current v2.0 and v2.1-beta won't run on 1.5, but the final release of v2.1 will be fully compatible - will add the new blocks (Quartz TARDIS anyone?) and update any code as necessary, but not expecting anything major.

The (updated) Mob farming page is here: http://eccentricdevotion.github.com/TARDIS/farming.html though you will need one of the latest v2.1 builds: http://thenosefairy.co.nz/jenkins/TARDIS.jar to use it to best effect (animals no longer need to be inside the Police Box, only near it). You'll need a Farm room as you won't be able to use the spawn egg alternative method if you have separate world inventories.

@ccattell

Neither Bukkit nor TARDIS knows what a floor or a ceiling tile is, at the moment the wall preference just changes whatever is normally orange wool to the block of your choice, I could do something similar for another block type eg light grey wool which is normally the floor block. What in your definition is a celling tile?

Will look at adding lockable (wooden) doors tonight, but they will be just that 'lockable' not 'indestructible', if you need that, then a dedicated plugin like Lockette/Deadbolt is the way to go. TARDIS is not and never will be a multi-purpose plugin, what we need is a Sonic Screwdriver plugin that can lock doors...

I've been putting off custom rooms for a while now because I know it's going to be more trouble than its worth, there are way too many variables involved... and while I think that room growing is a cool feature, it kind of takes away from the whole Minecraft gaming experience of gathering resources and building your own thing... What is more likely to happen is that I create an area on the 'net where people can submit room designs and if I like them, then I'll put them into the plugin for everyone to use. The Eye of Harmony, secondary control rooms, greenhouse, mushroom, long passage, inertial dampened passages all came from tickets that users posted...

As far as timeframes go, well there are always pull requests...

With the wall block/economy issue, I could add a config setting that allows more blocks, as I have recently done for the Chameleon Circuit - that way server owners can decide for themselves what blocks they will allow.

@ccattell

No customs rooms as yet, though it is planned for a future version. The greenhouse, arboretum and pool rooms have lower floors, so try changing the schematic for one of those...

The only door positions that are recorded in the database are the main TARDIS and Police Box doors, so locking other doors is not possible at this stage. Suggest using LWC plugin or something similar.

The reason you can't use just any block for the walls is so we don't upset server economies too much, if you could grow a room with GOLD/IRON/DIAMOND etc blocks, then these could be easily harvested giving the player almost unlimited money... If you really want to add extra blocks, I suggest you fork the TARDIS source code on GitHub (link above) and add the materials you want to the TARDISWalls class file, then build your own custom version.

@MERCHANToDEATH

The charged creeper is part of the Artron Energy Capacitor. When you first initialise the TARDIS by clicking the Artron button with the TARDIS key he spawns inside the capacitor to show that you now have power.

It's one of my favourite TARDIS features, so unfortunately for you he'll be staying :)

The latest TARDIS build #39 has Inertial Dampened Passages (or sideways gravity wells)...

http://thenosefairy.co.nz/jenkins/TARDIS.jar

@avestar101

Perhaps looking in the official docs linked above would help...

http://eccentricdevotion.github.com/TARDIS/creating-a-tardis.html

@mrgflan

Deleted a world? Check the server log and post any errors here: http://dev.bukkit.org/paste/

@boogiebob9

If your guests have the permission tardis.use and they still can't create a TARDIS, then something else is blocking it, or you don't actually have the permissions set up right (refer to the permissions plugin documentation), or the permissions plugin doesn't support parent/child permission nodes - in which case give them the individual permissions instead http://eccentricdevotion.github.com/TARDIS/permissions.html