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 22, 2014@eccentricnz
Build 1000 includes this commit, which has no easter egg? Link
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Posted Sep 22, 2014@eccentricnz
Will you put a code in the comments, like atbash or ceaser or a1 z26, or something...
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Posted Sep 21, 2014So has anyone found the build #1000 easter egg yet?
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Posted Sep 21, 2014@Squawkers13
Too early to say, but require no, enhance maybe yes.
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Posted Sep 21, 2014Just curious, will the Sponge version of TARDIS require a client-side mod?
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Posted Sep 21, 2014@eccentricnz
I myself like the "fat" TARDIS. It feels more "Minecrafty".
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Posted Sep 21, 2014@alexander775941
There is unlikely to be a Bukkit 1.8... the recent upload was mostly coded before the recent furore over Bukkit, I just never uploaded it... bug fixes will still be added for 1.7.10 servers
@kingdom_keeper
The slimmer TARDIS is possible now with the Bukkit API so I don't see why it wouldn't be possible with Sponge - whether it is practical to add is another matter...
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Posted Sep 21, 2014Tardis works still in the 1.8spigot hack but the doors are glitches.
Btw is there any command to give a player a TARDIS seed? I would like to kow cause I am planning on adding the TARDIS seeds to a webshop for my server (it uses a points system I have set up in game and you can redeem earned points in the webshop.)
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Posted Sep 21, 2014@eccentricnz
With the sponge api, will the slim TARDIS work??? I am curious to know this fact...
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Posted Sep 21, 2014Didn't you say you wouldn't work on the plugin till bukkit 1.8
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Posted Sep 20, 2014@mintdragon
I don't know how long it will take at this stage - I don't think either new API will be hugely dissimilar to Bukkit, it depends more on whether I feel the plugin should be rewritten better than it currently is or whether to just try to map the new API to the old Bukkit one without restructuring the plugin. We will see when the time comes!
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Posted Sep 20, 2014@eccentricnz
Have you thought of any ideas for new features that will use said blocks/items? Also, how long do you think it will take to re-code TARDIS? As long as it took the first time, or have you learned some shortcuts since then?
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Posted Sep 20, 2014@mintdragon
Yep, it looks like (eventually) both APIs should exceed Bukkit, but while we're waiting (and as soon as the Minecraft Coder Pack is released for 1.8) I'm going have a go at making a Forge mod that hopefully Sponge will be able to utilise later on, probably just some simple stuff like new blocks/items for starters
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Posted Sep 20, 2014@astroboy335
If using the command to set isomorphic controls off doesn't work, then the problem is one of three things (in order of likeliness):
/tardisprefs isomorphic offand you should get a message telling you the setting has been changed-
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Posted Sep 20, 2014@Freestylevidshd
You need to rescan the TARDIS for lamp blocks so the plugin knows which blocks to turn on and off - run the
/tardis lampscommand-
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Posted Sep 20, 2014@eccentricnz
I'm very sorry for the confusion, I don't know what to do anymore. I'm sorry :( Ive tried looking through a ton of stuff and commands and nothing on the security lockout, I used the command but it won't let me touch or use anything at all.
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Posted Sep 20, 2014I'm really really really really excited for SpongeApi/MinecraftApi to come out. I have this feeling that TARDIS will be able to do more things than Bukkit currently lets it. It's probably going take a long time, but I'm still excited all the same.
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Posted Sep 20, 2014I have grown a budget Tardis. I destroyed the room to build a custom console room of my design. I have redstone lamps in my console room i have a swith and used /tardis update light and it has updated. However none of the lamps light up. Any ideas?
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Posted Sep 19, 2014TARDIS v3.1-beta-1 uploaded (link at the top of the page goes directly to the as yet unapproved file)
Change log is here: http://eccentricdevotion.github.io/TARDIS/change-log.html
This will most likely be the last TARDIS release on Bukkit (but not the end of the plugin!)
The TARDIS Jenkins server will also be offline until further notice.
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Posted Sep 19, 2014@astroboy335
The command and GUI are two separate ways to do the same thing...
/tardisprefs isomorphic on- turns isomorphic ON - only you can use the controls/tardisprefs isomorphic off- turns isomorphic OFF - anyone can use the controlsIn the player prefs GUI just find the icon that represents isomorphic and click it - it will toggle the setting on or off