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 Jan 27, 2013@GervaisJohn
Yep could be good, though there should be configurable
allowing _stealingoption. Will have to wait for a future version though as I want to get v2.0 to a nice stable state first.-
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Posted Jan 27, 2013@eccentricnz
I just wanted to know because I wanted to re-create one so I could make a higher floor too. What do you think of the companion option?
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Posted Jan 27, 2013@GervaisJohn
No, at the moment you need a TARDIS to make a gravity well, but I may release a small plugin that let's you create them anywhere...
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Posted Jan 27, 2013Also, I think it would be cool if there was an option for companions to enter the TARDIS before you, so they can try to steal it if they want.
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Posted Jan 27, 2013I am asking if you can re-create a gravity well without a TARDIS.
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Posted Jan 27, 2013@GervaisJohn
Not sure what you mean by 'energy well' - gravity well? You would need to delete the database record for the gravity well in order to grow another one, probably going to need a 'jettison gravity' command...
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Posted Jan 27, 2013How do you get the energy well to work? Is there a way I could make another with the plugin without creating another gravity well room? (I do know you can not create two gravity rooms with the command and that is why I am asking.)
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Posted Jan 27, 2013@dandubois89
I installed beta-3 on the server set-up you sent me last time, and apart from the sign naming bug, and it disabling
create_worlds, time travel worked as expected. Are you LEFT-clicking the handbrake to engage it?BTW, thanks for the excellent troubleshooting :)
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Posted Jan 27, 2013@dandubois89
@Firefoxies
@Tokajima
@markdf
Beta-3b bug fix released. get it here: http:dev.bukkit.org/media/files/668/86/TARDIS.zip
v2.0-beta-3b
create_worldseven if Multiverse was installed on the servername_tardiswas true-
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Posted Jan 27, 2013@Firefoxies
I think so. Its not working for me. It seems like the plugin is not detecting multiverse properly. Read my below post to see the bugs I encountered. I temporarily reverted to Beta 2 until it gets fixed.
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Posted Jan 27, 2013I got the beta 3 and when I created a new TARDIS, it made it in the same world. I went to my config, set it to true then started the server again. It still made it in the same world. I had multiverse 2.4, so I decided to update it to 2.5, and again the TARDIS is made in the same world. Is this a bug?
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Posted Jan 27, 2013Great plugin :D
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Posted Jan 27, 2013@Tokajima
Do you have to have the create worlds option enabled. Do you have Multiverse installed as a plugin?
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Posted Jan 27, 2013Sorry, I'm kind of a noob at this; I'm still using beta 2, and when I try to grow a room, it comes up with an error. Something about not being able to grow the tardis unless it was created in it's own world. Does beta 3 fix this, or am I doing something wrong? Please reply quickly!
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Posted Jan 27, 2013@eccentricnz
Hey, me again!
I was testing out the new version of the plugin and seem to have hit some bugs. Now, I started with an entirely CLEAN Tardis Folder (Newly generated Config, DB, & Schematics. I also used the included ChunkGenerator in the Zip in case there were any changes.
Below is a console output from the beginning starting with making the tardis, an attempt to travel then leave the tardis and return home and leave the tardis. In the log I type in what I was doing and what informational text it told me to better help pin down the issues.
Let me know if you need any help, or any files. Thanks!
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Posted Jan 27, 2013Slight problem with beta 3, No one can enter their Tardis.
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Posted Jan 26, 2013TARDIS version 2.0-beta-3 released, get it here: http:dev.bukkit.org/media/files/667/957/TARDIS.zip
I put links to the tutorial videos (there are new ones) near the top of the page...
What's new/fixed?
/tardis update condensercommand after placing a chest. Watch the Recharging video for details/tardis room gravityto build one - start with an empty room and place the seed block in the middle of the floor. Watch the Gravity well video for detailscreate_worldsis set to false in the config./tardis update save-repeaterwhich was broken)-
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Posted Jan 26, 2013@badsanta211
Working on it now...
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Posted Jan 26, 2013speaking of which, when does that come out? Cant wait!!!!
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Posted Jan 26, 2013@badsanta211
While CraftBukkit server allows you to create new worlds, it doesn't know what to do with them after they are created. If you restart the server it forgets about them, which is why you need a multi-world plugin to manage them for you.
The TARDIS v2 plugin will create a new world for TARDISes if configured (which it is by default and you also have the TARDISChunkGenerator plugin installed), but without Multiverse or MultiWorld that world will not be available for use after you restart the server. Clicking on the Police Box door to go inside will throw an error saying it can't find the world...
Simple solution is to install Multiverse and then import your TARDIS world in. See this comment for the command...
TARDIS v2.-0-beta-3 will disable creating new worlds for TARDISes if a multi-world plugin is not found.