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 30, 2014@TempusVulpi
More specifically it is usually a default world set up for Multiple TARDISes to be created in using a system called TIPS (TARDIS Interior Positioning System) that is similar to the functionality of sky block or plot type worlds. As always reading the docs will help: http://eccentricdevotion.github.io/TARDIS/time-vortex.html
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Posted Jun 30, 2014@TheMinecraftToolbox
Thank you for your most helpful and constructive criticism. It is kind of like telling a Star Wars fan not to bother with installing a Hoth world generator when they could just walk to a snowy biome! I'm pretty sure most people who use this plugin are after a bit more of a Whovian experience than just getting from point a to point b...
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Posted Jun 30, 2014@TempusVulpi
To answer your question the Time Vortex that we were talking about is basically the empty world the TARDIS is in. It sounds much more whovian instead of empty TARDIS world!
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Posted Jun 30, 2014Lol I came on my friend's server who has this plugin installed and when I decided I needed to go somewhere I used this, Its way to time consuming and useless, Just use a Warp plugin or Essentials, Its faster and easier.
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Posted Jun 30, 2014What exactly is the Time Vortex Thing that's been mentioned below? I didn't know this plugin had a Time Vortex?
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Posted Jun 28, 2014@eccentricnz
hahaha i love it. Im going to turn my companion building off now.
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Posted Jun 28, 2014@GervaisJohn
Companion building has been turned off
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Posted Jun 28, 2014@GervaisJohn
Wow, you really in trouble if Lord Zadok is involved
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Posted Jun 28, 2014"You can't do that because Lord_Zardoz has locked the TARDIS in a perpetual state of relativistic stability!" What?
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Posted Jun 28, 2014@WonkoTheSane1
MV 2.4 has been what most people use because its the last release. However 2.5 is the beta and its set up for 1.7.8 The big fifferance is when you update from 2.4 - 2.5 is the changed config file. If you just update the jar withoutediting the config file then you have what I call major panic in the form of super spawning monsters. Its kinda funny but the plugin will pick a mob and rapidly spawn them to the point of that they look like rabbits.
Ill link a copy of both configs
2.4 Worlds File https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwWBGf5XW-i6cEZncTJ0YkdqSFU/edit?usp=sharing
2.5 Worlds File https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwWBGf5XW-i6RVJaVFJyeDVzT28/edit?usp=sharing
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Posted Jun 28, 2014@X00dis
When did multiverse start using a different config? Is this something the rest of us need to be wary of and plan for?
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Posted Jun 28, 2014Well I think I know why land starts to show up in the time vortex. I recently updated multiverse. MV now uses a new config so I needed to re-import all of the worlds to include the TARDIS worlds. Well in doing so made the generator set as null. So when I was working on my TARDIS I eventually went far enough out that the world needed to load more of it. Which used minecraft to create the world vice TARDISChunkGenerator. I went through and re-added the TARDISChunkGenerator to all of the TARDIS worlds. This will help for any new chunks, but I dont think it will do anything for the land chunks that already formed.
Edit: Yep that did the trick. Now I just needed to replace 0 the land that did spawn. Now my Time vortex is land and monster free.
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Posted Jun 28, 2014@eccentricnz
So it would be as if I deleted the TARDIS, purged myself, and started from scratch
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Posted Jun 28, 2014@X00dis
I never heard back whether either of those things provided a solution...
2. it will try to create a new world with the name specified in the config (default_world_name) using the correct settings for a time vortex world. It won't recreate any objects inside the old world though...
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Posted Jun 28, 2014@WonkoTheSane1
You know I haven't tried sacrificing chicken jockeys, but I have thrown myself into the void a bunch of times. But I will try your idea
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Posted Jun 28, 2014So let me make sure I am understanding the proposed fix.
1. Replace the tardischunkgenerator.
Or
2. Stop the server, delete the offending tardis world and restart the server and the plugin will rebuild the deleted tardis world?
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Posted Jun 27, 2014@X00dis
@WonkoTheSane1
There's a related ticket somewhere... but I've never been able to reproduce it
Found 'em:
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tardis/tickets/583-tardis-world-not-generating-properly/
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tardis/tickets/594-grass-generating-in-tardis-world/
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Posted Jun 27, 2014@X00dis
Well there's your problem. It should be 3,826 bytes ;)
In all seriousness though I have no more ideas. I assume you regularly sacrifice a Chicken Jockey to the Minecraft gods?
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Posted Jun 27, 2014@WonkoTheSane1
All 3,826 Beautiful bits of chunky Generating is still there.
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Posted Jun 27, 2014@X00dis
I've been dreading the day the same fluke happens to my custom build actually. It seems somehow inevitable that something will go wrong and I'll run into a random village. The TARDIS Chunk Generator didn't go missing from your plugins folder by any chance did it?