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 Oct 7, 2015@eccentricnz It uses 1.4.7 :/
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Posted Oct 7, 2015@Kaijudo11
It's a bug, I'll look into when I can.
@Goyi24
No idea, what doesn't work? What Minecraft version does Tekkit Lite use?
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Posted Oct 7, 2015Hello, is there a way to make it work with tekkit lite?
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Posted Oct 7, 2015OK so I've been trying for the longest to put a gravity well system in my tardis. for some reason no matter what level I put the gravity well on (gravity well not anti gravity well) it builds the well up and not down. What Am I doing wrong?... I know I have to be doing something wrong or miss understood something. I need help lol. Just to clarify; I want to build a gravity well that goes down a level.
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Posted Oct 5, 2015@eccentricnz
I guess that answers his question then, no you can't
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Posted Oct 5, 2015@corbanj6534
I don't have control over what links appear at the top of the page...
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Posted Oct 5, 2015@eccentricnz
I think he means on the bukkit page, at the top, just a page with all the videos on it, which actually does seem very useful if players on a server need help with something, although the vimeo link is just as easy to use
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Posted Oct 4, 2015@airomis
A tab where? If there is a video, it is on the relevant documentation page...
https://vimeo.com/channels/tardis
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Posted Oct 4, 2015can you make a tab that holds the links to every video that will show what and how each part of the tardis works? i find alot of players don't understand the ars system, desktop theme,destination terminal and so on if there was a place that had the videos all in one place this would help alot with the plugin getting more complex day to day
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Posted Oct 3, 2015Ok I created a separate world for it sense it was lagging when I made it when it did it made entering the tardis enter laggy again it seems teleporting only to normal worlds will do it
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Posted Oct 3, 2015Is there a way to fix the lag between the teleport of those 2 worlds?
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Posted Oct 3, 2015nvm separate worlds werent enabled
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Posted Oct 3, 2015I fixed my bug It ended up being the jar file, the latest bukkit from build tools
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Posted Oct 1, 2015@eccentricnz
Thank you :)
So if TARDIS is now in charge of selectively preventing or allowing mobs depending on the situation, I should probably just make sure no other plugin is trying to control mob spawns in TARDIS worlds right? That seems to make sense.
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Posted Oct 1, 2015@WonkoTheSane1
Welcome back :) I personally have missed your quirky humour and insightful comments lol
Crikey, asking the hard questions already... the plugin has gotten so big I have to go and look up the answers myself - if I tried to keep it all in my head I'd need a TARDIS sized brain.
You can leave MV spawn settings as the defaults, TARDIS will take care of the rest.
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Posted Oct 1, 2015@eccentricnz
Hello again! I've been running a Vanilla server for a while now but I've started the move back to a modded server. I missed my TARDIS too much. The TARDIS worlds I'm bringing back to life are all very old. Some pre-ARS, others slightly newer. I'm having trouble tracking down all the changes to mob spawning over time though. So far I see that I need to remove the
mob-spawning: denyflag from all WorldGuard regions, right? I see you made a command to help with that. How should the Multiverse mob spawning settings look? They are currently set to allow all spawning.Anything else I need to update to make mob spawning/farming function correctly once I update the plugin to the latest version?
P.S. So glad to see you've been not only maintaining the plugin but adding cool new features as well :)
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Posted Sep 28, 2015@eccentricnz
I can confirm it works fine on my server too, the plugin causes no unexpected lag.
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Posted Sep 27, 2015@alexander775941775941775941
It is NOT a bug. It works on my server (a real server, not a home computer), its time to give up as you wont listen to any advice you were given and go play on a server where it works perfectly.
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Posted Sep 27, 2015@alexander775941775941775941
Dude, give it up, no code has changed, the only variables involved in the equation are those in your server/client environment therefore nothing will ever be done about it as I have no control over that. If an established, long running and trusted server starts noticing something I'm sure they'll let me know...
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Posted Sep 27, 2015I figured it out it is a bug, I did /tps and it said 20 meaning there is no lag what so ever on the server meaning It has to be the plugin...