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 Nov 22, 201451st anniversary of Doctor Who today (in my part of the world at least and so the plugin informs me...)
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Posted Nov 22, 2014@markdf
Yep, there's probably a number of things that I need to update in the docs, they always seem to lag behind the current features
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Posted Nov 22, 2014Permission tardis.eject is missing from the Index File
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Posted Nov 21, 2014@eccentricnz
I uploaded the two I made. On one I mention it's for 3.1 and needs to be in .tschm format, but didn't mention it on the other. I put the offset as "-1?" because I had no idea what it would be since we don't have to worry about that now days. I'm quite sure they're in working order.
Also I noticed the "bigger" one should only be one floor, but takes up two on the map. If it's exactly 16 high it's too low for the doors. I didn't change the floor level when I loaded up the 'bigger' schematic you offer in the set, but had to change it to make it work right. Not sure why it's one way on bigger, but another on the one I made. *shrug*
EDIT: I see what the issue is, the top block I copy is too high, puts it past the 16 block limit.
EDIT2: I'll have to re-submit those schematics. The default console I copied (bigger) somehow had one block with TWO sticky pistons sticking out of it, one pointed up, another down, and this was on every door with sticky pistons. When I would load it as my TARDIS, the sticky pistons would be pointed to the _sides_ instead of up/down. Another issue was the RedStone Torches didn't load originally and same with the door. Would be good to note with using this method to build.
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Posted Nov 21, 2014@Squawkers13
Let's get the ball rolling then: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tardis/tickets/916-create-a-tardis-plugin-api/
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Posted Nov 21, 2014@roracle
Yep, that page still needs a WE schematic
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Posted Nov 21, 2014Thanks for taking a look at the request mate.
On the custom TARDIS schematics page, to upload one, we need to put it in .schematic format, no? Do so with world edit?
(took my Bigger Baker idea and created what I call "Type 40 Deluxe", can't wait to show ^_^)
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Posted Nov 21, 2014@eccentricnz
That would be a very large ticket. They would have a lot to cover...
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Posted Nov 21, 2014@Squawkers13
Maybe they might, but they would have to say what they want the API to give access to...
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Posted Nov 21, 2014@eccentricnz
Maybe some other developers would also like the presence of a TARDIS API as well :)
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Posted Nov 21, 2014@roracle
I'm not knocking the plugin request, it looks well thought out and despite comments to the contrary wouldn't be that big a job. Maybe one for a rainy day... If it had access to a TARDIS API that might speed up coding it a bit
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Posted Nov 21, 2014@eccentricnz
My request wasn't ignored for that reason, as my request is far more than "jumping from block to block as long as you can see it" as that isn't what a Vortex Manipulator does. What I was requesting was something more in line with what it actually is. I could call something TARDIS and have it be a minecart that brings you from one side of the world to the other, but that's hardly a TARDIS, see?
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Posted Nov 20, 2014@eccentricnz
Great, when I install it Kade can see if he can find another backdoor to break it. LMAO
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Posted Nov 20, 2014@markdf
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Siege mode seems to be working much better now - might be safe to re-enable... build #1072
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Posted Nov 20, 2014@roracle
There already is a vortex manipulator plugin: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/vortex-manipulator/ which is why your request was probably ignored...
I presume you got the floor of your bigger baker up one block (just start the schematic one block lower...)
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Posted Nov 20, 2014@eccentricnz
Thank you. Fixed.
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Posted Nov 20, 2014@markdf
siege: enabled: false- still very much a work in progress...WorldGuard is adding the glass blocks when they fall into the void, change the config option
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Posted Nov 20, 2014@Kadecobian
oh great, /spawn was only if you fell out of the tardis and were then stuck on the glass blocks below. I will now remove the spawn command from everyone, I'd prefer players stuck for a day or two than expecting me to edit the database all the time.
Eccentric, what am I looking for the in the database and is there a way to stop people landing on glass blocks under their tardis? Having the players die and lose all there stuff is better giving me extra work editing the database.
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Posted Nov 20, 2014@Kadecobian
Edit the database and turn siege mode off, then rebuild
Best not to use new features until they have been released on here - Jenkins builds are usually fine for existing features, but new ones sometimes are not complete!
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Posted Nov 20, 2014Hi. I put my TARDIS in siege mode, TPd out, broke the TARDIS block, placed, then broke again, and it didn't give me the block the second time and now I have no way of using my TARDIS.