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 |
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| 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 Apr 8, 2014@WonkoTheSane1
Most plugins provide a default "vanilla style" configuration by default. IE: a method by which admins can use admin stuff, while players benefit from the player side. Default settings _are_ set up by eccentricnz, and I think along those lines, the plugin should be documented in an easy to understand guide for new users, along with the FAQ and other documentation to explain the "custom" stuff, while (as I said) leaving the tutorial to be based on default settings that work for all players, right out of the blue box.
Also I know you asked for help on the documentation, and there are a lot of things in this plugin I know. I'll see if I can type some stuff up in my spare time.
Also, replicate the following steps to make sure it's not me please:
/gm 1
/tardisrecipe x (where x is the tardis recipe)
Shift Click on the crafted item in the recipe window
Very quickly: while the recipe item is in your inventory for a brief second, close the recipe window
Go to inventory and Shift Click the new item into your inventory OUT OF your hotbar.
/gm 0
Go in inventory and shift click it back to hotbar
Select the item with mouse scroll (maybe can push numbers, haven't tried)
You now have that item forever...or until you fall in lava.
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Posted Apr 8, 2014@roracle
Considering the enormous amount of features provided in this plugin, I think the documentation is very comprehensive if not always 100% up to date with every new feature the moment it's added. I have never had issues figuring out how to use features as long as I am willing to sit down and read through the documentation provided. eccentricnz is always extremely responsive with any other questions.
I've heard from others too that they feel there's no simple step-by-step instructions on how to use the plugin, to which my response is: This is a big plugin that does a lot of things. If all the instructions were provided in a step-by-step document you'd be complaining the document is 250 pages long and should be broken up into categories (like it is already).
Take the time to read the documentation. The depth you're asking for is all there. I mean, for crying out loud, the CONTENTS page alone is 4 printed pages.
http://eccentricdevotion.github.io/TARDIS/contents.html
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Posted Apr 8, 2014@roracle
I've asked in the past for 'helpers' to keep the documentation up-to-date - you either get new features or docs not both... feel free to contribute.
Save disks are on the Advanced Console page, seeing as that is where you use them... http://eccentricdevotion.github.io/TARDIS/advanced-console.html
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Posted Apr 8, 2014Thanks for the response, and I have yet another question. How on earth do I use the Save disks?
In addition: None of your FAQs ever go into depth about how to use this plugin. They all say how to use PARTS of it, but there isn't a comprehensive "work flow" the user can read. IE: It's lacking a step-by-step TARDIS guide, which is probably where most problems come from. All the information is scattered. Most of what I've learned about this plugin is not from reading. All reading did was give me the commands I needed. Figuring it out is still a trial and error thing. (On top of that a lot of the pages on your site are vastly outdated and have outdated videos, again adding to the great confusion).
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Posted Apr 8, 2014@offyoutoddle
SQL to update to UUIDs is here (assuming that each table has a 'uuid' field already): https://github.com/eccentricdevotion/TARDIS/blob/v2.8/src/main/java/me/eccentric_nz/TARDIS/database/TARDISUUIDConverter.java#L87
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Posted Apr 8, 2014@eccentricnz
all told a real pain for everyone, not the least yourself ;)
ok - any chance of any documentation on the datamodel, or a better still a sql update statement that will allow updating tardis owner? I'd like to convert my tardis over to use the online model (as its the future), so I need to give it to a new online account id. Its so huge, and I'm attached to it ;) - if it is simpler to do an update than rebuild the whole thing I'd love to if at all possible please?
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Posted Apr 7, 2014@roracle
You can't update the database from an old offline setup to the the new UUID version. But if you were to start fresh and only use offline mode it should still work fine. EDIT Well sort of, the whole reason for the change is the fact that Minecraft usernames are going to become changeable (i.e. no longer unique to the player) - the way that UUIDs work in offline mode is that it bases them off an MD5 hash of the player's name - so if the name changes so will the UUID, causing the TARDIS database look up to fail...
So:
Mojang & Bukkit are never going to support offline servers so there is not much that can be done about it and I haven't actually tested a new offline mode install myself...
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Posted Apr 7, 2014So if I'm reading correctly, I can't use offline mode with this plugin anymore? Or was it just for updating?
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Posted Apr 7, 2014@offyoutoddle
Only by editing the database
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Posted Apr 7, 2014@eccentricnz - thanks for the info, that came as news to me, sorry I wasn't up to speed on that one! This means that in converting over at some future point I will need to transfer ownership of my tardis, or delete it and restart - is there any way to 'save' a tardis and give it a new owner?
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Posted Apr 6, 2014@eccentricnz
ill make video and send it in the next comment then hopefully you can help me :(
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Posted Apr 6, 2014@offyoutoddle
Because the plugin would be broken in future versions of Minecraft, see my post here: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tardis/tickets/678-uuid-migration/ - it's not done by choice, all plugins that store data keyed to player names will need to update, including all permissions, economy, WorldGuard etc etc plugins
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Posted Apr 6, 2014@eccentricnz - thanks that is now all working fine.
just out of interest, what was the reason for that change with UUID's? I presume there is some advantage it brings to you with it? sorry I'm a curious type :D
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Posted Apr 5, 2014@offyoutoddle
Sorry you'll need to downgrade to build #743 as the UUID returned by offline servers is different than that returned by online servers.
For future reference, unless you run the server in online mode you'll no longer be able to update the plugin.
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Posted Apr 5, 2014hiya,
I've run into troubles upgrading to the beta 3 2.8 buld 747 - My tardis is no longer accessible to me? It says I haven't created a tardis yet. I cannot enter my tardis at all. I know that I run my server in offline mode privately, and I believe the problem is my UUID which has changed - is there anyway to transfer ownership of a tardis? I ran into issues when upgrading that it forced me to move it to online mode just to upgrade, and I've taken it back out.
cheers in advance
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Posted Apr 5, 2014@yolololoy
My answer is still the same as this comment: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tardis/?comment=5279
I can't help you unless you give me more information than just saying it doesn't work... Read this: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tardis/#w-bugs-requests
Perhaps you should make a video yourself that shows you setting up your server with TARDIS and then trying to craft items / use the TARDIS...
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Posted Apr 5, 2014@eccentricnz
I said that no errors are being shown and it finds the map file
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Posted Apr 4, 2014@yolololoy
I don't have time to make a video tutorial, it sounds to me like you haven't read this: http://eccentricdevotion.github.io/TARDIS/faqs.html#maps or this: http://eccentricdevotion.github.io/TARDIS/faqs.html#advanced or this: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tardis/tickets/674-sonic-screwdriver-crafting-error/
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Posted Apr 4, 2014@eccentricnz
no errors are being displayed no errors at all in the server, its just i cant craft anything or use the tardis i can enter the tardis but i cant create items/circuits or use the tardis
btw if i haven't set it up correctly please make a video tuturial because i already read everything for setting it up
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Posted Apr 2, 2014@jonatanTK
What do you expect to happen? Which wooden button are you clicking (there are two)? Are there any errors in the server log?
Please follow the procedure for bugs and requests!