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 Feb 1, 2015@Evandre0
/tardis arsremove-
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Posted Feb 1, 2015You cannot manually grow a room inside the ARS cuboid region with the /tardis room command.
Why ? Before it was easier , we were able to grow rooms where we want in this ARS area and now we must use the sign...
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Posted Jan 30, 2015@markdf
I know, which is why I wanted to merge the existing ones. Not to worry.
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Posted Jan 29, 2015@RedZombieHD
Individual tardis worlds is not a good choice unless its a small private server.
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Posted Jan 29, 2015@RedZombieHD
No
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Posted Jan 29, 2015Is there anyway to merge individual TARDIS worlds into the single TimeWortex world?
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Posted Jan 28, 2015@eccentricnz
Yes, you keep telling yourself that :)
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Posted Jan 28, 2015@Th3PotatoArmyHD
And did you actually read the error? Or the change log for the file when you downloaded it? Both would give you the reason...
Wrong version of WorldGuard - you need v6.0.x
Looks like you also need to update GroupManager, LibsDisguises and Multiverse-Core
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Posted Jan 28, 2015@mobilephone2003
Desktop theme changing has a configurable energy cost for all console types, this means that players have to condense extra blocks to be able to change the 'desktop', setting these higher than the default is going to deter mining interior blocks as well...
And as markdf points out, there is no benefit in having a TARDIS count if players are not able to destroy their TARDIS themselves, just set the config back to
0Sounds like the problem right there, by default the TARDIS checks whether the player is allowed to build before it lands (ops will obviously have access, but normal players wouldn't) - either disable travel to those worlds, or set
respect_worldguardtononeor some other WG flag-
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Posted Jan 28, 2015@markdf
No regions other than worlds with global build-deny rights, but the tardis goes there anyway.
I don't know what to check if I don't know what it's scanning for. We have no world thats completely protected other than WG.
Yes, having it at a higher number is OK, it's not about the rooms but the tardis itself. I'd much prefer people have to provide the blocks for the tardis than making a seed block.
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Posted Jan 28, 2015@markdf
Oh, I thought all plugin developers were omniscient, prescient gods. I'm crushed lol
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Posted Jan 28, 2015@mobilephone2003
'I think that goes back to my original point where they can break the walls and change the form and keep the items. A command to reset their count would be good for admins'
I don't see the problem, if you change it so players have to provide 100% of the blocks used to create a room then they are only reclaiming what they had to collect themselves anyway.
I assume the count you are referring to is the number of Tardis's a player can make, I think I have mine set at about 20, but its doesn't matter asplayers don't have permission to destroy their tardis, as I've explained before.
How can there be no place to land? Do you have world that is just a void that players can travel to? Is your main world covered completely in WG areas (seems unlikely)? Difficult to say what the problem is when the the description is just what the problem is without any other details. Have you pasted your cfg files, server log etc somewhere so they can be checked?
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Posted Jan 28, 2015A player has a tardis stuck in the time vortex, what happens in this situation?
It constantly says they're travelling.
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Posted Jan 28, 2015@eccentricnz
I think that goes back to my original point where they can break the walls and change the form and keep the items. A command to reset their count would be good for admins.
Also, when a player tries a random scan and there is no point to land, CPU hits 100% and the server lags out.
Need more descriptive errors posted in the console at least to say why the tardis can't get to a place, at the moment we don't know why.
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Posted Jan 28, 2015@mobilephone2003
The desktop theme can change the entire interior, not just the floor/ walls, i.e. from deluxe to budget, to redstone to whatever...
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Posted Jan 28, 2015@eccentricnz
I don't think the desktop theme is available with some models, a lot of them have gone for the "deluxe" one.
It doesn't look like it resets their count.
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Posted Jan 27, 2015@mobilephone2003
Also it's hardly unfair if they have access to the desktop theme feature... they can change consoles so long as they have energy.
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Posted Jan 27, 2015@mobilephone2003
In the first instance, use
/tardisadmin delete [player]- removes blocksnot
/tardisadmin purge [player]- just clears database entries, sometimes needed if the above fails for some reason (usually because the plugin isn't enabled properly in the first place or a world has already been deleted...)However I don't think either resets the player's TARDIS count (I can't remember off hand, I'll check after work)
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Posted Jan 27, 2015So going to back to my original thing, I'm now having players complain at me because I've restricted them to 1 tardis. They think it's "unfair" that I've made this restriction.
If I remove them from the database, it doesn't delete the tardis blocks.
Anything I can do?
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Posted Jan 27, 2015@EDSman11
Most probably because the plugin never enabled properly, check the log when the server was starting up.