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 |
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| 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 27, 2013@MERCHANToDEATH
Grab this free Firefox add-on, and edit the Database:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/
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Posted Mar 27, 2013Please help I have a tardis that will not delete, we have tried breaking the sign and using the command, it removes the sign but the tardis outside shell stays and it can still be called to the player but he can never enter the tardis. It is not the door lock we checked that. I would just remove him and have him start over but I don''t know how to remove him from the sql lite database which is I think what annoys me about this plugin, would you consider adding mysql support so i could easily make changes to the database for the plugin? Any help with this would be appreciated I relly do not want to reset the entire plugin and everyone's tardis because of one tardis world being messed up. P.S. I use a ramdisk set up for my world, that uses symlink folders to direct to the worlds, could this be causing the problem, what I use is an ubuntu app called MSM.
Update: I have found a program to allow me to read the sqlite database, I removed the problem tardis information and I hope that this will fix the issue. I thank you for your time, and guess I just need to learn a little more about sqlite.
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Posted Mar 27, 2013@ccattell
Yep, one step at a time...
@ozancifci1
Please read the FAQs: http://eccentricdevotion.github.com/TARDIS/faqs.html
@Jenguinie
One TARDIS per player
@mtjaxter
/tardisadmin exclude TARDIS_WORLD_playername/tardisprefs platform on-
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Posted Mar 27, 2013@Jenguinie
Yes....the answer is no. You can't have more than one Tardis per person.
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Posted Mar 27, 2013I am having an issue honestly... I haven't changed anything on my server.
It seems the more Tardis's there are created, the more bugs/problems I seem to be having or something.
Right now, I cannot give people teleport to players/location because they can travel to other planets that I do not want them to.
Then the problem lies within, in the main world (world), when they try to do the random travel via repeaters/stone button. It always says this message [TARDIS] Could not find a suitable location within the current settings, the area may be protected.
The only area protected in this world is the spawn point. We do not use Towny/Factions or anything. The land_on_water is set to true. Perhaps something is wrong with my config point? Let me give you a link to the pastie of my config...
http://pastie.org/7141565
Also, when Platform is set to true, none of the tardis's create a platform in front, so you just fall if it spawns in such a way that you come out and fall...
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Posted Mar 27, 2013@ozancifci1
In response to your question about the texture pack...
If you're referring to the one in the help videos, you can find it here.
If you mean the one in the TARDIS plugin trailer, then you can find it here.
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Posted Mar 27, 2013Just curious... can you have more than one TARDIS? Anyone know?
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Posted Mar 27, 2013i cant grow up the rooms someone can help me?
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Posted Mar 27, 2013eccentriz i need your texture pack what's name texture pack
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Posted Mar 27, 2013But you should figure out a way to deal with the values of the blocks even if they change it from the default materials I'm sure that an all quartz room should have a different value than an all wool room......
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Posted Mar 27, 2013I've been figuring out how much actual Artron Energy it would take to grow the all the blocks in a room. The cost is based on the lookup tables currently used to convert blocks to Artron Energy if you were to put them in the TARDIS energy condenser chest...
So the Library and Workshop rooms are a bargain!
All this is in aid of a config option we'll be adding soon - it will enable server owners to balance the cost of a room against their server economies - by only allowing a room to be grown if you have collected and condensed the blocks needed to grow it.
You will probably also see the default energy values changing in the config (for fresh installs anyway).
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Posted Mar 26, 2013@MERCHANToDEATH
CreeperChecker errors are likely to be caused by a world that is in the TARDIS database, but missing / not loaded on the server.
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Posted Mar 26, 2013@mtjaxter
Good spotting, will code a fix for the next release.
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Posted Mar 26, 2013I found a bug/issue.
When you allow players to use a Tardis to travel to a player or a location (coordinates), if a world is excluded from being able to be travelled to, you can still travel to the player or location of that world that is excluded.
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Posted Mar 26, 2013@Jenguinie
Yes the TARDIS can be recharged by natural lightning, but you previously said you built a Beacon recharger, so that will be what is causing the lightning as it charges the TARDIS Artron Energy Capacitor (at the default settings it takes about 2 Minecraft days to recharge from empty). https://vimeo.com/57842293
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Posted Mar 26, 2013@eccentricnz
Sorry for asking so many questions, but above my TARDIS garage (TARDIS home location), lightning keeps occurring. Not sure if this is related to the plugin, but I read that artron energy can be recharged by naturally occurring lightning. Any ideas? Thanks so much once again.
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Posted Mar 26, 2013@Jenguinie
Great :) You might want to check out the other changes by reading the documentation: http://eccentricdevotion.github.com/TARDIS/ there is lots of cool new stuff!
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Posted Mar 26, 2013@eccentricnz
Thanks so much for everything! It's all working now.
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Posted Mar 26, 2013@Jenguinie
The one you update with
/tardis update handbrake:)-
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Posted Mar 26, 2013@eccentricnz
There are a few levers on the TARDIS console...
Which is the handbrake?