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 Mar 8, 2013OH :P my guests have it too :P
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Posted Mar 8, 2013@boogiebob9
You guests will need to have the permission too...
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Posted Mar 8, 2013So i have tardis.use but my guest's still cant create one plz help!!!!!
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Posted Mar 7, 2013@markdf
http://thenosefairy.co.nz/jenkins/TARDIS.jar
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http://keetley.servegame.com:8080/job/TARDIS/me.eccentric_nz.TARDIS$TARDIS/lastBuild/
Build #37 has a config option to stop the Chameleon Circuit from using IRON, GOLD, EMERALD, DIAMOND and TNT blocks (they are switched for similar coloured wool).
Set
all_chameleon_blocks: falsein the configDo we need to add any other blocks types?
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Posted Mar 7, 2013@Blainegreenway
One TARDIS per player is enough I think - Doctor Who only has one :) Non-OP players will need
tardis.usepermission to create one.The scanner lets you see what it is like outside the TARDIS... http://eccentricdevotion.github.com/TARDIS/scanner.html
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Posted Mar 7, 2013hey, umm is there a way to maybe get more than one tardis... oh also if you do the /tardis update it will give you the option to make a scanner what is a scanner
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Posted Mar 7, 2013@Hawnu
You can already do this, the world MUST be called TARDIS_TimeVortex and must use the TARDISChunkGenerator, so with Multiverse you would do something like:
/mv create TARDIS_TimeVortex NORMAL -g TARDISChunkGeneratorThen in TARDIS:
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Posted Mar 7, 2013@eccentricnz
Yes, certain blocks need to be blocked by default.
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Posted Mar 7, 2013@eccentricnz
And we can't forget TNT! Apparently, it can still be activated while it is part of the police box! BOOM!!!
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Posted Mar 7, 2013Please add support to rooms in a customize world for a tardis.
Ej: Worlds_Tardis (World of creation of tardis players) , current version of plugin not work the creation of rooms, in a customize world.
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Posted Mar 7, 2013@markdf
Indeed! Perhaps we should remove the precious blocks from the Chameleon Circuit, or at least make it configurable whether they are allowed.
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Posted Mar 7, 2013@eccentricnz
I didn't realise you could make the exterior all diamond...oh crap...now that would be a problem.
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Posted Mar 6, 2013@markdf
What if someone has a Diamond block TARDIS?
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Posted Mar 6, 2013I can confirm it the dupe does occasionally happens, although not as often as it used to. I haven't worked out yet how to make it dupe and the conditions that it happens with, else I'd have posted here already, but I'm still looking.
The problem appears worse than it actually is on my server, as there are dead Tardis's all around the map from earlier versions of the plugin. I don't see it as a major problem, as its only wool and its not going to effect the economy system.
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Posted Mar 6, 2013@eccentricnz
Well, I've actually been noticing them on a server I play on often. I checked the version, and it says 2.1 beta-1 the last time I checked after noticing a dupe bug. I was checking the servers live map online, and saw my TARDIS in two places, where it was, and at its home location all the way across the map. I teleported there myself and sure enough, found the police box sitting there. I was even able to harvest the wool, sign, torch and door! I now have stacks full of the stuff clogging my vault room. I wish I had access to server logs to paste in, but sadly, I don't. I'll try to get it to happen on my personal server and post a video as soon as I have the time and software to do so. Hopefully over the weekend. :)
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Posted Mar 6, 2013@SilverEnderman
I would be more interested in knowing about your dupe bugs, and squashing them! What version are you running that has dupes? Please post a video of the process required to cause the dupe.
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Posted Mar 6, 2013There is another rather annoying possibility that I had thought about. What if one were to short out the chameleon circuit on diamond or gold blocks, then move the TARDIS far away? With the police box duplication bug that has crept back up, the TARDIS could be an infinite source of rare and precious goods, thus upsetting server economies! Maybe if the chunk(s) containing a police box were kept loaded for longer after dematerialization, then this may be averted! There is also the possibility of similar catastrophes with shorting on TNT! Maybe a blacklist for all the blocks not allowed for use by the circuit? ;)
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Posted Mar 6, 2013@tubajedimaster
Please try the latest build: http://thenosefairy.co.nz/jenkins/TARDIS.jar
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Posted Mar 6, 2013I just had a full on handbrake bug, like the only way out of the tardis was to teleport type bug
http://dev.bukkit.org/paste/7272/
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Posted Mar 6, 2013I keep getting this error:
http://pastie.org/6384830