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 Apr 30, 2013I can't use the backdoor I set.
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Posted Apr 30, 2013@gandalfphysicist How do you make a teleport plugin more dangerous or interesting?
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Posted Apr 30, 2013Would you be able to add more console controls to make flight more dangerous and interesting?
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Posted Apr 30, 2013@gandalfphysicist
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Posted Apr 30, 2013I am so sorry. I didn't see that I had to post a ticket.
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Posted Apr 30, 2013I have a few suggestions for tardis features listed below.
1: If the tardis has its own console model I'd like each "panel" of the console to have its own GUI to control the tardis manually.
2: air vents
3: "short cuts"
4: monitors to visually see what is outside
5: if you attempt to take a tardis wall block out of the tardis the tardis wont let you leave
6: an actual eye of harmony in the tardis (perhaps a ball of stationary lava source blocks)
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Posted Apr 30, 2013@killerdean13
Version 2.2 has a bug with the DIAMOND / deluxe sized TARDIS where the handbrake is broken, update to v2.3-beta-1, or create a different sized TARDIS, either way you'll need to delete your existing one
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Posted Apr 30, 2013Here is my problem. I want to travel and all. i config the repeaters and press the stone button. but the Hand break doesnt work. HELP!?!?! i cant travel D:
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Posted Apr 30, 2013@BaconCraftGaming
Could work, but what if there is no passage between rooms?
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Posted Apr 30, 2013Yeah, that's what I meant by giving back the seed block. And I kind of assumed that you could break the redstone blocks. Couldn't you make the radius of blocks replaced by air one block wider in each direction, and make the hallways have a one block space before the door, as in you make a donut of wool blocks, the the door, then the hallway? That's my idea, I'm not sure if it will work.
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Posted Apr 30, 2013@BaconCraftGaming
The trouble is detecting whether the room's wall is part of another room... If you can work out a way to do this, then I'd be happy to accept a pull request :)
Redstone blocks inside the TARDIS should be protected from harvesting, have you actually tried to break them?
The seed block is part of the room cost, but I could add an option to return it if the room is jettisoned.
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Posted Apr 30, 2013Awesome plugin. Do you think there could be some way to remove the walls of a room when you delete it? It gets annoying to remove them manually. And could you get the seed for the room back when you delete it? And maybe the tardis seed blocks when you delete the tardis? And you might want to replace the Redstone blocks on the roof of the Redstone tardis with red wool, because it can be used to create an "infinite Redstone source".
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Posted Apr 30, 2013@AthosEleven
Sounds like the TARDIS world is not loaded...
Errors from the server log? Paste 'em here: http://dev.bukkit.org/paste/ (the whole log from startup to the entry & delete error would be ideal)
If all else fails, edit the database or delete the plugins/TARDIS folder
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Posted Apr 30, 2013For some reason, my TARDIS will no longer allow me to enter, no matter how many times I click on it with the key. I try to destroy it, but after I break the sign, use /tardis exterminate, and attempt to create a new one, I get a message saying that I already have a TARDIS, and that I left it in the location where my old one was destroyed. I've rebuilt it and tried to destroy it again, but the same problem keeps occurring when I try to destroy it. How should I do this so that the TARDIS is completely destroyed and that I can make a new one?
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Posted Apr 30, 2013@Nicoiscool12
Yep that should be possible, I will work on it tonight (in about 8 hours time...)
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Posted Apr 30, 2013can you make this comptible with myworlds
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Posted Apr 30, 2013@ReayGun
http://eccentricdevotion.github.io/TARDIS/faqs.html#own-world
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Posted Apr 30, 2013@eccentricnz
Thanks yeah I found it was underground but how do I change that? Normally before it would be in its own world
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Posted Apr 30, 2013@Chriszh
Open to suggestions for making it simpler, submit a ticket...
@ReayGun
/tardis room helpgives you a list of rooms, or you could look in the TARDIS config.yml. You can also add your own custom room schematics...There will be items in the TARDIS chests for all TARDIS sizes if
bonus chestistruein the config and the TARDIS is being created in a normal world (ie underground) - the plugin puts the blocks that were displaced by the TARDIS interior into the chest.Beacons will not work underground, or, if the TARDIS is created in it's own world, you will need to initialise the Artron Energy Capacitor to turn it on!
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You can also use your own schematics by replacing one of the existing ones.
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Posted Apr 30, 2013I wish this plugin had less commands, it gets too confusing :/