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 May 15, 2013@Doty1154_
Eventually will be ported to the Minecraft plugin API, but until then there are no plans for a SP (mod) version
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Posted May 15, 2013Not to be a troll or (Insert Internet bad person)... but i would like to know if you have plans at all with other people or with yourself to make a singe player version of this (maybe with less commands), Because it would be awesome to add this to my Huge ftb pack of added custom stuff. But other than all that this still is great plugin that has blown away every single mod on my server. You sir are good no matter what you do.
-Thank you
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Posted May 15, 2013@SirMangler
Yep got it now, I was a bit slow off the mark on that one...
@MrSx009
That's not quite the description of what you mean that I was hoping for...
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Posted May 15, 2013@eccentricnz
I mean it try to load a lot of thing at the same moment.
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Posted May 15, 2013@eccentricnz
You don't understand the joke?
Its not a tardis, it's a paradox machine.
It allows you to hold a paradox in place without total destruction.
The master built it, the joke was I was rebuilding the tardis and made it with the wrong design.
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Posted May 14, 2013@MrSx009
Faster to load, no, not if you want to have custom rooms etc... But why, the server only has to load it once at startup, then who cares?
What do you mean by lower space?
See my post below about torches...
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Posted May 14, 2013Can you make the plugin faster to load and to take lower space?
And also add a config to change the torches to an other bloc ;)
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Posted May 14, 2013@eccentricnz
I've also been thinking about making a website for users to share their TARDIS schematic files with one another, if I did, would you consider sponsoring the website, to get the word out to users of the plugin?
Edit: are your newer releases backwards compatible with MC 1.5.1? (for compatibility reasons, I'm stuck on this version until ALL mods I use, are updated to the current version.)
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Posted May 14, 2013Here's a snapshot of one on top of a TARDIS:
>Click Me< http:i.imgur.com/uMHERrB.jpg
Edit: It would also be cool to let the user define custom items for the buttons inside the TARDIS, as I have some neat custom buttons, I would like to use(as the stone blends in too well), but when I try to update the button, it says the item is not a valid item (I suspect because you made a list of valid items to prevent people from using non-button items as the button) (perhaps you could add an area to the config to define additional valid button IDS?)
Anyways, thanks for this awesome plugin! I've actually been considering creating a website, so that users of it could share their custom schematics with each other!
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Posted May 14, 2013@nullschritt
Seems to be becoming a popular request... Probably won't be working on TARDIS for a few days, but will add it to the todo list.
Just out of interest what does the glass torch look like? People often request that the torch be changed to a lamp or glowstone, but I think that looks too clunky (and I personally think the default lamp texture is hideous!)
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Posted May 14, 2013@eccentricnz
Hello, I have just a small idea for a feature request, it would be cool to be able to define the item ID of the torch used on top of the TARDIS in the config, so I could use the glass torches on my custom server, as opposed to the regular one(the glass one looks more like a lamp, or light bulb). Any chance you'll throw this feature in?
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Posted May 14, 2013@eccentricnz
Thank you. I'm not exactly sure what I did. I had been trying to create a new server without any old files and it wouldn't work, but when I load my old stuff it works. I'm not sure why, but our plan was to load most of the old things into it anyway so c'est la vie. xD Thanks again you're always so helpful and this mod is one of the greatest mods in all of Minecraft.
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Posted May 13, 2013@Anderebu
Most likely a world in the config that no longer exists on the server. What comes up in the server log?
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/tardis updatecommand on any of the repeaters? If so there is a bug in version 2.3 where you will need to update all of them if you do just one...-
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Posted May 13, 2013Ok I think I am the only person having this issue as I checked the comments for a while now. Do you know of any issues where the randomizer isn't working? Everything else works fine and the TARDIS can travel with commands like comehere, however when I hit the randomizer it doesn't work. If I set it to the nether or end I still get the error about the dusty senators, but when I try to travel in the normal world there is no text that shows up at all.
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Posted May 13, 2013@Scraggarax
No one else has reported a huge memory leak... so it is hard to fix something if you don't know if it exists...
Running some tests now...
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Posted May 13, 2013@eccentricnz
When we run this plugin on our server, there's a huge memory leak and we run out of RAM really fast...
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Posted May 13, 2013@Scraggarax
What memory leak?
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Posted May 13, 2013Is the memory leak fixed in this update?
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Posted May 13, 2013@Lionlord63
Nothing, the TARDIS_TimeVortex world it is just an alternative way to allow TARDIS to grow rooms without each TARDIS being in its own world
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Posted May 13, 2013What does the time vortex world do?