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 Jul 13, 2013@robodude99
You just need to look a bit harder for the source code... it has always been freely available, but bear in mind that the terms of the software licence require you to release any modifications to the public i.e. you can NOT make a version that only your server uses.
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Posted Jul 13, 20131.Can you post the source code for this, I would like to be able to make some slight modifications to the mod to suit my server better 2.Is there any way to bypass the square rule when it comes to making tardis rooms, many rooms on the online repository are not square and are unusable plz help.
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Posted Jul 12, 2013@BarzhDu
Check the config for the multi-world plugin (whichever one you're using) - make sure the generator is being used there
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Posted Jul 12, 2013TARDISChunkGenerator is there, and it seems it's being used, as the log mentions it ("enabling ...") Any ideas of what could have gone wrong?
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Posted Jul 12, 2013@_DaBeagle_
Major bug (the Redstone TARDIS is munted as well), you need to update to the latest Jenkins build
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Posted Jul 12, 2013not sure if this is a bug or if im just messing up, but with the coal tardis, i cant enter. i click the door and it makes the noise, but nothing happens. (probably me being ignorant and unobservant again)
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Posted Jul 12, 2013@BarzhDu
TARDISChunkGenerator missing? or the world is not using it...
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Posted Jul 12, 2013Using 2.4. My new Tardis world now has a floor of dirt & spawns villages. Is that an intentional update or a bug? Cheers. P.S.: Loving the redstone interior.
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Posted Jul 12, 2013You should make it so for people Who don't have permission files (Me) Can add people to the Tardis that aren't op
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Posted Jul 12, 2013@bootthanoo
This looks great, as eccentric said, a clock circuit with lots of Tardis's would not be good with several of these in each Tardis. Is it a constantly running clock or just a pulse as the player approaches the door? If its just a pulse then it could be ok. Perhaps two versions of the room, and the server op could set through permissions which version the players could use?
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Posted Jul 11, 2013@eccentricnz
Ah, my mistake. Here's a fix. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4808370/console4.schematic
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Posted Jul 11, 2013@bootthanoo
Pasted schematic (3) and only got a ring of glowstone...
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Posted Jul 11, 2013@eccentricnz
Updated schematic. Better lighting, better decor. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4808370/consoleroom3.schematic
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Posted Jul 11, 2013@eccentricnz
Mistake in the console room, the top repeater opposite from the entrance should be a comparator.
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Posted Jul 11, 2013@eccentricnz
Ah, I understand. Maybe pressure plates could work, or regular doors.
Here's the console room schematic. It's based off my/5's console room. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4808370/consoleroom2.schematic
Be sure to be at least 3 blocks from the ground.
it's 16x19, which allows for interior and exterior doors like old who. But that's optional.
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Posted Jul 11, 2013@bootthanoo
Ah, I know some servers don't allow redstone clocks as they can cause lag - I imagine a server with 50+ TARDIS each with 10 rooms/doors giving 500+ clocks running constantly could do that...
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Posted Jul 11, 2013@eccentricnz
A hopper clock is to hoppers pointed at each other with one item in and a comparator pointed out. This allows the command block to continuously check for players.
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Posted Jul 11, 2013@bootthanoo
I have no idea what a Hopper clock is or how it works, but this looks really cool, much better than a wood door :)
OK, next problem - put a main control room in (probably not 16 x 16, but could be restricted to that to make my life easier!) and then have the rooms aligned to chunk borders (otherwise imo there is no point in restricting room size to 16 x 16)
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Posted Jul 11, 2013@eccentricnz
This is what I have. There is no hidden redstone, the only a hopper clock behind the command block.
When a player walks within 5 blocks of the door, the door automatically opens. This is just enough time to start walking towards the door and not bump into it.
command block:
/testfor @a[r=5]
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Posted Jul 11, 2013@eccentricnz
The door would go on the red block.