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 Sep 16, 2013Hey, it would be really awesome if you could make a command for which direction the TARDIS faces.
If there is already a command like that, could someone tell me what it is?
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Posted Sep 16, 2013New Question,
How do you delete a user schematic from TARDIS memory.?
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Posted Sep 16, 2013@sbongbob
To travel to a world type /tardistravel [world name] x y z
Example /tardistravel Space 100 70 100
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Posted Sep 16, 2013if i create a world Example: Space how do i get my tardis to travel to it?
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Posted Sep 16, 2013NM I figured it out, lol I didn't think to place a lever and click that....
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Posted Sep 16, 2013Here is my next question (hope there isn't a limit)
I tried to create the switch to turn off the lights. I typed /tardis update lights. Console told me to click the TARDIS light to update its position. I have clicked every block, lights and other blocks, and I always get you didn't click the correct type of light. What am I doing wrong?
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Posted Sep 15, 2013@BaconCraftGaming
Ticks is the TPS (ticks per second) value, it will be a max of 20tps. Assuming you are running essentials try /gc to check the TPS value. If its 20 or close to then its not your server lagging, which leaves your internet connection, your isp or perhaps your computer. If the TPS is much lower than 20 it could be the the host where your server is located, a plugin causing a problem, could be a java problem with the server (is it up todate). Lag is also determined by the amount of players to the amount of ram you have, redstone clocks running constantly, huge animal farms in small area, huge cane farms, large number of entities in loaded chunks, chunk errors...the list go's on.
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Posted Sep 15, 2013@BaconCraftGaming
I have no idea what you mean by ticks resetting. Ticks don't 'reset'.
I usually get about twice the FPS in a TARDIS world than I get in a regular Minecraft world, so it is very unlikely that TARDISChunkGenerator is causing your lag.
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Posted Sep 15, 2013I think it's the ticks resetting over and over that's causing my lag, because whenever I click anything, it presses it twice or places two blocks, depending on what I click. Another reason is because I used a different tardis plugin once upon a time, and it had HUGE rooms, but I didn't get any double-placing.
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Posted Sep 15, 2013@BaconCraftGaming
The generator doesn't cause the lag, but placing thousands of TARDIS blocks does...
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Posted Sep 15, 2013Could you possibly create an alternative less-lag tardis chunk generator that generates the tardis in an empty end world?
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Posted Sep 15, 2013@X00dis
Not currently, though there is some discussion of this here: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tardis/tickets/233-advanced-tardis-tardis-locator-updated-tardis-find/
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Posted Sep 15, 2013New question, Can you set up the config file so that along with the key, you can also give them the remote?
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Posted Sep 15, 2013@TheDoctoris17TH
I had that problom 2 I just reseted my plugins I still dont know what plugin it is try reseting your plugins Slowly to find out witch one it is
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Posted Sep 14, 2013HELP 11TH tardis. Stone Button for destinations will not work. I believe it might be that I dont have a different world for the inside of the tardis. But I need to know why its not working
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Posted Sep 14, 2013@sbongbob
Lol REALLY? jk, though its not 'spawning' a TARDIS when I make the lapis+iron+redstone torch thing. And yes, I am doing it correctly. Nothing happens, when I start the server it does mention copying map files (I have multiverse) Do I have to create a TARDIS world? Does it do it automaticly? And I know this isn't a ticket, it doesn't need to be.
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Posted Sep 14, 2013i posted a ticket jst recently but its like its been removed i cant fnd it anywhere
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Posted Sep 14, 2013@waterlubber well... ur selfish -_-
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Posted Sep 14, 2013Epic, though I'm not telling my server users about it. I'm using it for myself. :D
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Posted Sep 12, 2013@Leandier
Map files (as stated in the server log) are copied to the plugins/TARDIS/ folder and should then be put into the data folder of the world specified in server.properties - so if level-name=world, put the TARDIS map files into bukkit server folder/world/data/