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 Dec 23, 2013@GervaisJohn
No, the schematics are not hosted anywhere else. I downloaded a random one just now and it transferred without issue and WorldEdit had no problems loading and pasting it.
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Posted Dec 23, 2013Want to help out with the plugin?
I'm looking for someone to join the TARDIS team to help with the documentation. You must have the following:
If you're interested, PM me!
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Posted Dec 23, 2013@roracle
Don't edit the config file and reload - stop the server first or use the admin commands
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Posted Dec 23, 2013Alright man, I've rattled my brain all day and night and I give up.
Nature of the issue is this: I know we can have custom rooms with the OBSIDIAN block. However, when I set everything up the way you say, I try to make a brand new TARDIS using Obsidian (a custom 11th Doctor tardis console schematic I found on the site you link to) and yet it says it's not enabled! I've moved it to the user_schematic folder, renamed it userschematic (as you say it should be in the changelog, but not so in the install of the plugin), set "TRUE" to custom block, and I can't get anything to work at all! It keeps saying it isn't turned on, and yet I tell it to and it says it isn't there.
Any help would be useful! Thank you!
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Posted Dec 23, 2013A wee teaser of the new TARDIS v2.7 Sonic Screwdriver
Coming soon to a Bukkit server near you :)
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Posted Dec 22, 2013@JaffaMiner
Perhaps by reading the instructions: http://eccentricdevotion.github.io/TARDIS/artron-energy.html
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Posted Dec 22, 2013@eccentricnz How do I initialize my Artron energy capacitor?
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Posted Dec 22, 2013Every time I download a custom schematic i get the error: Not in GZIP format. I made sure that I do not automatically un GZIP when downloading from Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, so I have no idea why I am getting this error. Are these hosted at any other location such as Google Docs?
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Posted Dec 22, 2013@gamerladd25
Set
rooms_require_blocks: falsein the TARDIS configUse ARS to grow rooms: http://eccentricdevotion.github.io/TARDIS/ars.html
@sbongbob
@Squawkers13
There are plans ahead for the TARDIS Resource Pack, it will not be updated to version 1.0 until we have the ability to add custom blocks. Before then the pack will probably be split into a series of mini packs:
This will give some flexibility as to what parts you want to use.
Care to elaborate?
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Posted Dec 22, 2013please help
i have moved the map files to the world data folder but i cant craft a remote!!
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Posted Dec 22, 2013@sbongbob
When he reskins the mobs, which i DO NOT recommend.
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Posted Dec 22, 2013@gamerladd25
A.R.S click on the sign and LEARN
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Posted Dec 22, 2013I but how do you use the place the block to make a room in the tardis
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Posted Dec 22, 2013when will the resource pack be updated to version 1.0 ? :)
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Posted Dec 22, 2013@gamerladd25
look for chest that was alredy there when you enterd the tardis for the first time
it shood say artron condenser when you open it
put stuff in there and it will turn it in to the energy you need
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Posted Dec 22, 2013Also every time I go to grow a room in the tardis it says to condense materials how do I do this
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Posted Dec 21, 2013@Eric1cool
It still builds one room at a time and the same speed as manual room growing, but it is easier to start a whole bunch of rooms growing (as long as you have enough artron energy)
You should use one system or the other though... not both together as ARS will overwrite manually grown rooms that are inside the ARS grid
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Posted Dec 21, 2013@eccentricnz
and the architectural sign will build anything i want it to in one go?
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Posted Dec 21, 2013@Eric1cool
It depends what value you have in the config under
room_speed, the higher the number (max 20) the faster they grow. At the default value I think they take about 2-3 minutes-
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Posted Dec 21, 2013@eccentricnz
yeah i found what i did wrong and how long will it take for a passage way to be grown?