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 11, 2013@Gartral
The charged creeper is just for fun, he represents a powered Artron Energy Capacitor. It will disappear because mobs will eventually despawn, he reappears because there is a repeating task that checks whether he has gone AWOL and puts him back if he has.
Will add the PVP flag to TARDIS worlds.
Rooms were designed to be quite modular, they work best if connected by passages grown from the centre of one of the walls - with a little bit of fore-thought, overlapping shouldn't be a problem... When I finish the documentation this will be the recommended way to do it - the rest will be up to you! As a side note I will be making the Gravity Well a bit deeper so that you can grow a room under the Arboretum without them touching.
I'm liking your two other ideas, will add them to the Todo list - look for them in a future version. The door lock one will tie in nicely with existing plans to make the TARDIS 'stealable' by companions
The plan is to port this over to the Minecraft plugin API when that is released, so you'll get your SSP version one day...
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Posted Feb 11, 2013@eccentricnz I, and all my players LOVE this plugin! It's brilliant. however. I've noticed a few bugs..
first off, the Charged creeper randomly disapears and reapears.. what is it used for?
PVP is on in the worlds spawned by creating a tardis with MV.. this can lead to big problems. I recommend calling /mvm set pvp false.. however you do it from a plugin..
rooms can "Eat" each-other if you misplace a seed.. you should do a quick check for other rooms and throw an "oops.. can't do that" message if one room will over-lap another.
and now for a few suggestions not in the plugin yet!
Allow "Shorting out" the Chameleon curcuit. So that a player can always have a "Leaves" Police Box, or an "Ice" police box.
allow "Locking" to the door, so registered companions can't come in (This is useful incase you're working on the console.. or just having a bad day).
Make there be a Confirmation Message on breaking the sign... PLEASE.. I've lost my tardis and all in it twice on accident. ;_;
And as a final note.. if you make a single player version of this.. I would love you.
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Posted Feb 10, 2013@ewized
I can't get it to do it when just disconnecting myself, but only with a server restart.
Have fixed the server restart one :)
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Posted Feb 10, 2013@iheadsetangora
In the server console type:
tardisadmin delete [player]Replace
[player]with your minecraft player name-
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Posted Feb 10, 2013Im having problems Deleting a tardis, (You delete it by removing the sign right?) Everytime we do that, the tardis is still there, and wont let us make a new one
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Posted Feb 10, 2013when you in the middle of travelling and you log off or get kicked because the server is restarting you cant engage the lever.
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Posted Feb 10, 2013YAY now i can grow rooms, however now my tardis interior has chunks missing :(
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Posted Feb 9, 2013There should TOTALLY be a no gravity setting in a Zero Room or the whole TARDIS. That would be amazing.
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Posted Feb 9, 2013@vistaero
I did not know, but there are two different IDs for wooden slabs - 44 and 126 (I guess they changed it when they introduced slabs for all the different wood types), I only had 44 to stop this happening. Fixed for the next version :)
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Posted Feb 9, 2013@DomMK1
Because you installed Multiverse after you had run TARDIS already,
create_worldswill befalsein the config. Read this ticket to see what to-
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Posted Feb 9, 2013@eccentricnz
Sorry, try now.
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Posted Feb 9, 2013@vistaero
Video is private :(
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Posted Feb 9, 2013@Atrukos
Good work, have fun using the plugin :)
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Posted Feb 9, 2013Hello! I have one more bug, this time, related with landing over slabs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zxpmcFOXrw
I must be the bugs hunter :P
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Posted Feb 9, 2013here is my plugin review on this plugin :D enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNuhXNeDp54
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Posted Feb 9, 2013i just made a normal emerald tardis in the overworld, went into the tardis typed /tardis room passage and it said "you cannot grow rooms unless your TARDIS was created in its own world!". i installed multiverse but it still keeps saying that ?
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Posted Feb 9, 2013@DomMK1
Was your TARDIS created in its own world, how did you set it up?
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Posted Feb 9, 2013every time i try to make a room it says "you cannot grow rooms unless your TARDIS was created in its own world!" and i carnt figure out a way to fix this :( help
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Posted Feb 9, 2013@agentk33
Emerald block, lapis block, redstone torch.
Need the permission:
tardis.eleventh-
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Posted Feb 9, 2013how do i make the eleventh doctors TARDIS