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 Jun 29, 2013@zw98
Need to install WorldEdit as well, as WorldGuard won't run without it: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/worldguard/#w-getting-started
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Posted Jun 29, 2013Alright, here it is, everything from when I started the server since Notepad hurts the eyes when scanning for a certain space. go ahead and comb through it to see whats wrong. I'm glad your the kind of plugin developer who stays on top of things. Thanks for doing this.
http://dev.bukkit.org/paste/8047/
The problem should be towards the bottom of the log, the more recent stuff.
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Posted Jun 29, 2013@zw98
http://dev.bukkit.org/paste/
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Posted Jun 29, 2013@eccentricnz
Shall I just give you what's in my log and you can scroll through and see what's up?
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Posted Jun 29, 2013TARDIS doesn't prevent block placement itself, it only hooks in to WorldGuard if installed and sets a region with the player as owner
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Posted Jun 29, 2013@zw98
Probably needs updating, can't tell without seeing the error in the console. The WorldGuard pages would be the best place to ask...
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Posted Jun 29, 2013I figured out another problem. Its having trouble loading the Worldguard.jar how do I fix that? It might be why mobs are spawning.
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Posted Jun 29, 2013@eccentricnz
I checked the server.properties file, and the spawn-protection is already set to 0, will test tonight and see if they are getting some sort of message when they try to build or break blocks
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Posted Jun 29, 2013@ccattell
Most probably this: http://eccentricdevotion.github.io/TARDIS/faqs.html#spawn
@dariothebest
http://eccentricdevotion.github.io/TARDIS/faqs.html#own-world
@zw98
Can't keep up messages are usually because your computer is underpowered for how many plugins you are trying to run, though I have seen it more often lately with the CraftBukkit recommended build... Mob spawning (or not) is not controlled by TARDIS, it will either be your multi-world plugin or WorldGuard. Not being able to break blocks is probably this: http://eccentricdevotion.github.io/TARDIS/faqs.html#spawn. Break the lamps and put an Iron door there instead.
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Posted Jun 29, 2013I'm having issues with my server. It keeps saying that it can't keep up. Is that a Bukkit problem at the moment? I only ask you because I can't break blocks in my TARDIS and mobs are starting to spawn. Also, my door got overridden with Redstone lamps so I can't get into my main interior.
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Posted Jun 29, 2013@eccentricnz
Thanks Eccentricnz, I couldn't get the Firefox addon to work, but I obtained another SQL editor, and successfully removed the player's entries from the database. After a server restart, he was able to make a new Tardis.
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Posted Jun 29, 2013How can I create a world for TARDIS only? And how should i go there?
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Posted Jun 28, 2013Hey, eccentric, haven't seen you in a while. I'm just about finished up with a MASSIVE new control room, (takes 3x3 chunks and is 3 or 4 floors high) with my version of what I was hoping for the ARS. You should check it out some time.
Also noob question probably, but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere... how can I make it so that other players can build inside of my TARDIS? Just in case it was a WorldGuard thing, I added a region to the area and added them as an owner and it didn't work.
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Posted Jun 28, 2013@GalenGhostbane
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/ will let you edit the database which sounds like the problem, sorry on my iPad in a museum right now so can't answer further yet
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Posted Jun 28, 2013seems the rescue command is broken other players can't accept even tho there op also I can only rescue myself
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Posted Jun 28, 2013Hello eccentricnz! Have you done a fix for the multiworld config? I have a player who deleted a tardis, then asked me to fix it. I edited the multiworld config, but in the meantime, he made a new tardis... and it didn't work (sorry, I don't have details of what was exactly wrong). I can't edit the Tardis.db, so I copied a Tardis world from another player, and copied the players name into the new world, and into multiworld.
long story short: not working. trying to delete his tardis results in "an internal error occurred" and he can't make another.
sorry to bother you, but... what info do you need to help me fix this?
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Posted Jun 28, 2013@bootthanoo
you can change the configuration to 100% chance of malfunction
/tardisadmin malfunction 100
i have my server set to 50 right now, lol
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Posted Jun 28, 2013Is there a way to induce a TARDIS malfunction?
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Posted Jun 28, 2013@flawlessbraz1
Check your permissions set up, here's a very basic PermissionsBukkit one: http://dev.bukkit.org/paste/7874/
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Posted Jun 28, 2013@brixazure
I'm away on business right now, but here's one I've posted before: http://dev.bukkit.org/paste/7874/