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 Jun 20, 2013@grocksontuesday
Plugin config files generally use YAML format (.yml). YAML does not allow the use of tabs in the files (i.e. when you hit the 'tab' key on the keyboard) only spaces (ie hitting the 'spacebar' on the keyboard). Some text editors (like Notepad on the PC) automatically replace 4 spaces in a row with a tab when you edit the file which makes the (YAML) file invalid.
You need to use a text editor that allows you to change the spaces -> tabs preference so that it ALWAYS uses spaces. An example of one of these would be NotePad++ (which is free to download)
Probably the easiest way to fix your problem is to ZIP up your entire server folder, upload it somewhere (like Dropbox) so I can download it and see what the issue is firsthand.
Killing a charged creeper is meant to give you Artron Energy...
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Posted Jun 20, 2013@eccentricnz
Oh, and I just tried it, and it still said, "Could not get the previous location of the TARDIS!", but I just received 150 Artron Energy for killing a charged Creeper. Odd right? Should I just save my TARDIS_WORLD_(my username), and download the latest version?
P.S. Still confused on the *tabs* thing you were saying...
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Posted Jun 20, 2013@grocksontuesday
No, it's safe to delete and will not affect anything like that
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Posted Jun 20, 2013@eccentricnz
Will deleting chunks.txt ruin my fantastic TARDIS Interior?
P.S. Thanks for all the other info. You can tell, I'm such a newb. Which permissions manager would you recommend getting rid of? No apostrophe. Got it. What are *tabs* and *spaces*? Well, a better question would be where are they and how do I fix them, if you don't mind me asking...
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Posted Jun 20, 2013TARDIS v2.4 has been uploaded and is awaiting Bukkit approval :)
60,000+ downloads to date, thank you everyone!
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Posted Jun 20, 2013@KingOfMining1
Yes, compatible with 1.5.2RB
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Posted Jun 20, 2013@_DaBeagle_
The .csv files are generated from the schematic files and are what are read to grow rooms block by block
@henharm
Will add for 2.4 release
@momymomy
Somebody else's plugins folder is unlikely to help you... I personally have never used anything but Multiverse for world management and have had zero issues with it, ever.
Perhaps you should tell us what the actual problem seems to be...
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Posted Jun 20, 2013Your tardis secondary command isn't documented in the .yml file.
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Posted Jun 20, 2013This is probably a stupid question, but what are the excel documents for in the schematics? and if we change the schematics, do we need to change the document?
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Posted Jun 20, 2013can you link a plugins folder that has been CHECKED to make sure this plugin works this multi verse core and that because I've been try to fix it for 6 hours thank you if you do
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Posted Jun 19, 2013@jacmill1
Seen it before, looks pretty awesome, but wonder if it will ever actually get released... Don't have time for another project, and not really interested in doing a 'mod' until the Minecraft plugin API is released, at which time I will be porting this plugin over.
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Posted Jun 19, 2013@grocksontuesday
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Posted Jun 19, 2013@eccentricnz
Here. I believe this is it. I'm a newb, so this may or may not be it. I did /tardis comehere though, just as you said. By the way, this would be from the new world I made. Gio Labs 2_0.
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Posted Jun 19, 2013@ eccenticnz: I really love how far this plugin has come, and how helpful you've been, ( multiple of my problems you have solved, and even big ones too.) and I thank you. Now, have you ever heard of the Doctor who client mod? Those guys have also made outstanding progress http://ikingssgc.com/forums/index.php and they're looking for mod developers, now they have a lot done, but I think you would be great for developing the interior of the tardis for them ( growing rooms, the console, and so forth) so if you're interested, click on the link, if not, that's ok, but at least check them out
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Posted Jun 19, 2013Hi,
I submitted a ticket and just want to know is this compatible with the latest Bukkit 1.5.2 RB? Because this plugin is not working on my server.
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Posted Jun 19, 2013@RubbedMC
Top of the page, right under the BukkitDev logo, please follow the guidelines here: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tardis/#w-bugs-requests
To see closed bugs you'll need to use the 'filter' system
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Posted Jun 19, 2013Where do you post bugs and look at already reported bugs? You said to post a ticket, but didn't say where
Edit: If there is a built in ticket system in bukkit forums, sorry, I'm new to bukkit forums and didn't know.
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Posted Jun 19, 2013@GalenGhostbane
Also you might want to follow this comment thread when thinking about setting up
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Posted Jun 19, 2013@GalenGhostbane
The command is
/tardis update condenseras answered here.You don't need to crouch click, any interaction will do (left- or right-click)
I highly suspect that your players are trying to create a condenser chest outside of the TARDIS, they need to be in the TARDIS to make one
Suggest you update with this: http://www.thenosefairy.co.nz/jenkins/TARDIS.jar which is 99.5% what will be released as v2.4 later today or tomorrow - v2.3 has a few bugs
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Posted Jun 19, 2013@eccentricnz Hi eccentricnz, I'm running TARDIS 2.3 for CB 1.5.2-R0.1, with the recently released Craftbukkit 1.5.2 Recommended Build. As yet, I have not enabled create_worlds, as I wanted to test & checkout the plugin initially with as little server overhead as possible. I was going to test it for a day, and then enable the full features, but it became so quickly and fully embraced by my dev team that I haven't changed it yet. We've all just been playing with our Tardises and having loads of fun with them.
The Tardises (Diamond ones anyway) spawn with a bonus chest of the stuff removed from the world, but no condenser chest. As I said, one player fed me the command and procedure to put a condenser in my own Tardis, and that worked, but I don't remember the command. I do remember that he instructed me to Crouch when i clicked the chest after running the command, an instruction I've not yet found in the documentation. Subsequent players who try to create a condenser have tried the command /tardis update condenser after placing a chest, but they tell me they get the message "you can't make a backdoor here" upon using that command. (or words to that effect, I haven't seen the actual error message myself yet.)
But if that is in fact the correct command, then I'm not sure what the problem could be. I may just dig through the server logs from last weekend and check what command I actually ran that DID work.