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 12, 2015and anytime i pull a lever it pops off
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Posted Jan 12, 2015I got the plugin to work but i can't get any energy! it will not let me create a rift with the beacon and when i press any buttons all it says is "the artron energy capacitor has not been initialised!" what do i do? plz help
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Posted Jan 12, 2015@Redsar875
What doesn't work? I gave you two options, if neither work, then you haven't done it properly.
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Posted Jan 12, 2015@eccentricnz It still does not work
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Posted Jan 12, 2015@eccentricnz
After I posted I saw that.
You are coming right along with the new project. I wish I had a ounce of the smarts that you do when it comes to coding. I did a college course in Java, but I need way more practice
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Posted Jan 11, 2015@X00dis
Not stolen, just popping off for some reason :(
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Posted Jan 11, 2015New TARDISSchematicViewer file: https://github.com/eccentricdevotion/TARDISSchematicViewer/blob/master/dist/TARDISSchematicViewer.jar?raw=true just replace the old one...
Stairs and upper slabs + a I now know how to do directional blocks :)
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Posted Jan 11, 2015@eccentricnz
Got it, OBTW someone stole the door on the Swamp Hut preset..... Just a FYI..... :-D
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Posted Jan 11, 2015@X00dis
Need to do this part first, which will hopefully lead onto some editing. As a side note, the .tschm files are just GZIP compressed JSON files, so you can decompress them and then edit them manually in a text editor...
@Squawkers13
I did actually have a version that loaded textures, but it was horribly slow. I don't think my OpenGL skills are anywhere near good enough yet to optimise the app to use textures - look at how long it took Minecraft to get to the state it is in 1.8, bit of a steep learning curve...
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Posted Jan 11, 2015@eccentricnz
Will it ever load Minecraft (or BMV) textures for the blocks?
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Posted Jan 11, 2015Ok FINALLY got a chance to get on a computer and test out the viewer (wife was busy and wasn't paying attention).
I like the program, and cant wait to see what it will become
I had no trouble unzipping browsing for my schematic and loading it up. Took me a could seconds to figure out the zoom, but other than that, spot on.
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Posted Jan 11, 2015@eccentricnz
Do you think that there will be a time where the "viewer" becomes a "Editor"?
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Posted Jan 11, 2015@X00dis
Still to do:
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Posted Jan 11, 2015@Redsar875
Try
/tardisadmin purge [yourplayername]or delete the TARDIS.db file and restart the server-
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Posted Jan 11, 2015When I placed down a seed block, it says I have left a TARDIS (coordinates). When I tp to those coordinates a TARDIS seed or a TARDIS is not there. Please help.
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Posted Jan 11, 2015@eccentricnz
I will be testing this thing here in a bit.
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Posted Jan 11, 2015@eccentricnz
You Sir are brilliant. What's next for your new baby?
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Posted Jan 11, 2015Here's a test download of TARDISSchematicViewer for those that are interested:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53758864/TARDISSchematicViewer.zip
All care and no responsibility taken, use at your own risk. Source code publicly available on GitHub
It should also run on Linux and Windows 32-bit system, but you'll need to download the appropriate system libraries (http://jogamp.org/deployment/jogamp-current/archive/jogamp-all-platforms.7z), and then alter the startup script to point to the correct folder.
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Posted Jan 10, 2015Now with better colours, it's zoomable and rotatable, has half cubes and thin blocks, and you can show and hide layers...
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Posted Jan 10, 2015@eccentricnz
Looking brilliant!