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The Time Vortex (TARDIS)

by Plaaasma · for Minecraft

Build a TARDIS piece by piece, from a junk console flying through the time vortex to a police box that's bigger on the inside.

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Fabric · Forge +1Loaders

About The Time Vortex (TARDIS)

From Modrinth

Build a TARDIS piece by piece, from a junk console flying through the time vortex to a police box that's bigger on the inside.

This is a TARDIS mod done differently. You start with a junk console and a hull you glue together out of whatever blocks you want, fly it around, and slowly work your way up through a tech tree until it's a police box that's bigger on the inside.

The Time Vortex

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New to the mod? The video wiki walks through all of it, from the junk console to the police box.

1.1.0 is a full rewrite of the old Time Vortex mod. It runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge now, for 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.4, 1.21.11 and 26.3. TARDISes from 0.386 and older won't carry over into your old worlds.

Discord: https://discord.gg/bcxv36A5t7

Requires

Fabric API on Fabric. Everything else is optional.

Works with

JEI, Jade, WTHIT, CC: Tweaked, Create, Create Aeronautics, Ad Astra and Mod Menu, plus anything that uses FE or Team Reborn Energy. Shader packs work with Iris and Oculus, and so do performance mods like Sodium, Embeddium, Lithium, FerriteCore and ModernFix.

Here's what's in it:

  • Place a console and glue a hull around it out of any blocks. The whole thing flies and you steer it from the helm.
  • Set a course on the monitor and pull the lever to travel through the time vortex. Things go wrong on the way, and if you don't fix them in time you drift off course, lose artron or take damage. Miss too many and you fall out of the vortex.
At the Helm The Time Vortex
  • Save places in the Memory Banks, go back with Fast Return, roll the Randomiser, and use the scanner to find biomes, structures and players.
  • Fit modules into the console's panels and bays to unlock more: the helm, throttle, navigation computer, artron cells, fluid links, stabilisers and more.
Monitor
  • A whole tech tree. Mine Zeiton-7 and cinnabar, grow artron crystals around rifts, and run generators, capacitors, conduits and machines. The Artron Forge and the Matrix Assembler are multiblocks. Everything is in JEI.
Workshop
  • Build the Architectural Reconfiguration Rig around your junk TARDIS and it folds it up into a police box that's bigger on the inside. You can see straight through the doors from either side and walk in and out without a loading screen. Light, sound, mobs and redstone go through them too.
The Rig Bigger on the Inside
  • The police box flies like a real object. It leans into turns, spins, and bounces and tumbles when it hits things. With Create Aeronautics (1.21.1 NeoForge) it's a proper Aeronautics body.
  • Make your police box anywhere from an eighth of its size to eight times bigger.
  • A Cloaking Device module that makes your police box invisible.
  • A new TARDIS starts as the TT capsule. Fit a Chameleon Circuit and it can be a police box from any era of the show, or build its outside yourself out of any blocks and it flies as one piece, with any door in it as the way in. Every police box comes flat too, if you like the painted look.
  • Turn your TARDIS where it's parked, and choose which way it faces when it lands.
  • Build two Doorway Frames anywhere, link them, and walk through one into the other, even into another dimension. Window Frames let you see through without walking.
  • A Transcendental Cabinet, a cabinet that's bigger on the inside.
Police Box at Sunset
  • TARDISes have owners and keys, and everything works in singleplayer, open to LAN and on servers.
  • Lost your TARDIS? Its key points to it, and the TARDIS Remote calls it to you: from 128 blocks away at first, then farther, then anywhere in any world as you upgrade it.
  • Fly to the moon and the other planets with Ad Astra and keep breathing with the Atmospheric Generator (1.20.1 and 1.21.1).
  • Control your TARDIS from a CC: Tweaked computer.
  • The TARDIS Handbook, a guide book you get the first time you join, with recipes and live 3D pictures.
  • A config screen with settings for pretty much everything.
  • Translated into Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Russian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Ukrainian, Italian and Turkish.
The Moon

Code is MIT, the textures, models and sounds are all rights reserved.

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 9 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.

Loaders

Runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

The Time Vortex (TARDIS) on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Required on the server
Server type needed
Fabric, Forge, NeoForge
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
1.3.7-beta (beta), released 2026-11-02

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Fabric1.20.1 to 26.3 (6 versions)26.3
NeoForge1.21 to 26.3 (5 versions)26.3
Forge1.20.11.20.1

From 30 recorded builds of The Time Vortex (TARDIS).

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.3.7-beta beta2026-11-0226.3NeoForge
1.3.7-beta beta2026-11-0226.3Fabric
1.3.7-beta beta2026-11-021.21.4NeoForge
1.3.7-beta beta2026-11-021.21.4Fabric
1.3.7-beta beta2026-11-021.21.11Fabric
1.3.6-beta beta2026-10-3026.3Fabric

Dependencies

  • Optional: modrinth project 6AQIaxuO (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
  • Optional: modrinth project u6dRKJwZ (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
  • Optional: modrinth project nvQzSEkH (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
  • Optional: modrinth project gu7yAYhd (modrinth, not in our catalogue)

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run The Time Vortex (TARDIS) on a Minecraft server

Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Building & decoration

Blocks, furniture, decorations and building tools.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists The Time Vortex (TARDIS) as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
FabricForgeNeoForge
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
26.3 and 8 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-11-02Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorPlaaasma, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseMITFree

The Time Vortex (TARDIS), answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install The Time Vortex (TARDIS)?

Modrinth lists The Time Vortex (TARDIS) as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Is it free?

Yes. The Time Vortex (TARDIS) is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is MIT.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

NxLabs

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