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 Feb 1, 2013I hope you know the answer to this question :
I'm on a Voltz 1.0.7 Server and tried to install the TARDIS Plugin, but: Because Voltz isn't running on Bukkit we had to install Bukkit Forge and we were hoping that it will work, but it seems that it only installed the Plugin 75%. The server created a Folder with all files in it, but when I want to see all the TARDIS commands, it only shows some of them & I can't use any of them. Neither I can build a TARDIS...
Do you know, how to help? :)
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Posted Feb 1, 2013@lenon3579
You need to r-click to disengage the handbrake and left-click to engage the handbrake. I had to figure that out the hard way too.
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Posted Feb 1, 2013I'v got an issue with the handbrake...
i've built a big tardis (with diamond block), but the first time I've tried to timetravel with the redstone system instead of the command line system I got this: the handbrake stucked on the "off" position.
So, when the tardis get out of the time vortex it sends the message "engage the handbreak to exit", but when I do it, it displays "Handbrake OFF! Entering the time vortex", and so on, in a endless loop. That way I can't get out of TARDIS.
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Posted Feb 1, 2013@SeeJayEmm
What you should have being seeing...
http://youtu.be/Cmm47BOAq38
Sorry, got a bit off task recording this, but nice pumpkin patch in the distance!
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Posted Feb 1, 2013@bahey1999
Did you download the server I fixed for you? I just started it up right now, and was able to enter and exit your TARDIS and create a new one for myself...
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Posted Feb 1, 2013@eccentricnz
I know it must like this but it isn't work.
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Posted Feb 1, 2013@GervaisJohn
Stupid me forgot to put the handbrake block in the new EMERALD block TARDIS schematic... a
/tardis update handbrakeshould fix that if you haven't done it already...-
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Posted Feb 1, 2013@magicalpotatoe
It sounds like you don't have the plugin set up correctly... Do you get a message saying that you can't go in, or does clicking on the Police Box door just do nothing?
Do you have a multi-world plugin installed (Multiverse)?
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Posted Feb 1, 2013@SeeJayEmm
Okay, found the issue - the blocks were being protected, but only until the first time you time travelled, then their locations were deleted along with the Police box ones. Have coded a fix, will be in next version...
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Posted Jan 31, 2013@badsanta211
For now, when you are in your TARDIS type
/mv set spawn(if you're using Multiverse)For the next beta, I will set the world spawn when the world is created...
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Posted Jan 31, 2013found another glitch. if you die in the tardis world you respawn there with nothing under you and keep dying over and over cuz you fall into the void.
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Posted Jan 31, 2013@eccentricnz I am able to break these blocks w/o problems. No messages are displayed. My charged creeper has gone missing too. He was there yesterday (I upgraded to your latest build today).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w6pBDZN_fE
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Posted Jan 31, 2013Also, my TARDIS stays at it's spawn, but when I hit the door it throws me where the TARDIS should be. (I know 4.0 is beta I am just letting you know.)
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Posted Jan 31, 2013Does the handbreak not work in 4.0 beta? (I just installed it and it does nothing.)
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Posted Jan 31, 2013When i restart the server i get kicked out of my tardis and cant go back in cause it thinks im inside it.
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Posted Jan 31, 2013@SeeJayEmm
The iron / gold / diamond / emerald blocks under the TARDIS console should be protected from being harvested. You should get the same message when trying to break them, as you get when trying to break the Police Box blocks.
If not let me know...
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Posted Jan 31, 2013@bahey1999
No you shouldn't, the problem was with a corrupt Multiverse worlds.yml file, not with the TARDIS plugin. Now that Multiverse is behaving, new TARDIS worlds will be imported automatically.
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Posted Jan 31, 2013@magicalpotatoe
What do you mean by I always get stuck outside my tardis and cant get back in? It sounds like you have bigger issues than needing a tardis home command, especially as there is already:
/tardistravel home- to time travel to the home location/tardis home- to set the block you are looking at, as the TARDIS 'home' location/tardis comehere- to make the TARDIS come to the block you are looking at-
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Posted Jan 31, 2013@badsanta211
So you would need to use a separate world to house the TARDIS interiors. You can do this using by:
/mv create TARDIS_TimeVortex normal -g TARDISChunkGenerator/tardisadmin default_world true/tardisadmin default_world_name TARDIS_TimeVortex/tardisadmin include_default_world false-
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Posted Jan 31, 2013@markdf
Emerald TARDIS permission is
tardis.eleventhThere are already permissions for the Nether and The End, should be
truein the config and then give players:tardis.netherand/ortardis.end