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 Feb 7, 2014Whenever I start up my server, a message will say "Could not find map files, some recipes will not work" and I think this is what is causing me to not be able to craft the sonic screwdriver
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Posted Feb 7, 2014@sbongbob
i know
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Posted Feb 7, 2014@TheDoctorSoadTV
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I LOVE THIS IDEA
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Posted Feb 7, 2014eccenticnz, maybe you added it: http://bit.ly/1fNl8Sc
If you open the door with the key, and then touch block wool (or other block's), then the player automatically teleport inside the TARDIS, and any drop too with a touch of teleports inside interior.
If the outside of the door is opened, the inside, too, will it open. If you close the door inside and outside closes too (synchronization)
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Posted Feb 6, 2014@Squawkers13
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tardis/tickets/254-ars-modular-16x16x16-room-schematics/
Name of the console schematic in the OP...
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Posted Feb 6, 2014@eccentricnz
Could not find much about the console...
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Posted Feb 6, 2014@Squawkers13
I suggest you find the ARS tickets (there are two) and read them for the history of the ARS console.
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Posted Feb 6, 2014Just curious, why is the quartz-block TARDIS called the ARS TARDIS?
(Methinks Quartz TARDIS would be a better name...)
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Posted Feb 6, 2014@adamwbb
Thinks normally don't just 'randomly' break - it looks like this is due to an incorrectly edited TARDIS/permissions.txt file
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Posted Feb 6, 2014it jsut broke randomly
tardis creates world but no tardis
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Posted Feb 5, 2014@bob602
same issue i cant craft the screwdrivers or the circuits
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Posted Feb 5, 2014I made the sonic screwdriver, but it wont allow me to craft the admin addon or put the other addons on the sonic. Any help?
Also, I am opped with a permissions plugin enabled, and i set the permissions to true
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Posted Feb 5, 2014@sbongbob
Most of Google's services are indeed free. However, the API that is required for the TARDIS plugin to connect with their translation servers is indeed a paid service (unless this has changed in the relatively short time since eccentric stated his reasons for not using Google).
We're not talking about using Google as a search engine, but rather as a place the TARDIS plugin can go to at any given time to retrieve text in several different languages. Because Bing's service in this instance is free, and Google's is not, we will be using Bing, rather than Google.
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Posted Feb 5, 2014@eccentricnz
i use google for about a year and i have never paid
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Posted Feb 4, 2014@eccentricnz
Oh. You've found the ONE TIME where Bing is better that Google...
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Posted Feb 4, 2014@Squawkers13
For the simple fact that you have to pay for Google, and Bing is free
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Posted Feb 4, 2014@eccentricnz
Bing? Why not Google?
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Posted Feb 4, 2014@Squawkers13
@markdf
The languages are limited / determined by what the Bing translation service provides, though I have written a JavaScript pirate speak web app in the past that could be adapted...
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Posted Feb 4, 2014@eccentricnz
Awesome!
(You should use the Minecraft language lists- Arabic, Pirate Speak, etc...)
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Posted Feb 4, 2014@eccentricnz
What about 'swedish chef' from the muppets or be able to speak like a 'Pirate'?
Swedish chef
Talk like a pirate
:)