Chameleon Arch

The Tenth Doctor used a Chameleon Arch to change himself into the human John Smith to elude the Family of Blood. You can craft a fob watch to change yourself from a Time Lord to a regular player (a Steve — albeit with a random name).

• To see the custom fob watch texture you need to use the TARDIS-Resource-Pack.
• For best results when using the Chameleon Arch feature, the server can have LibsDisguises installed.
• Players must have the tardis.chameleonarch permission.

To view the fob watch recipe type:

/tardisrecipe fob-watch

Chameleon Arch use

Once you have crafted the fob watch, you can put it to use!

1. Right-click-AIR with the watch

   • Your health is reduced to 10% — when Martha Jones asked if the transformation into a human would be painful, the Tenth Doctor simply responded “Oh yeah; it hurts”, implying any change in species caused a great deal of pain
   • You are given random name
   • The Steve skin is applied
   • Your current Time Lord inventory and armour is saved, and you are given a new empty inventory

2. Do stuff... like trick people, become a farmer or join a village...

3. Try to pilot your TARDIS :(

   • Unfortunately the TARDIS no longer recognises that you are a Time Lord so denies you access to the controls

4. Try to select the fob watch in hotbar, even if you can, when you try to...

5. Right-click-AIR to ‘de-fob’

   • You can’t until the configured minimum ‘fobbed’ time requirement has been met

When ‘de-fobbing’ your Time Lord inventory and armour is restored.

If configured (see below), a player may lose both ‘fobbed’ and time Lord inventories when they die.

If you log off while ‘fobbed’ the amount of time you have been ‘fobbed’ for is recorded, when you log back in you will still need to meet the minimum time requirement.

Chameleon Arch commands

There are two commands associated with ‘fobbing’.

/tardis arch_time

Shows the player how much time left they have before they can ‘de-fob’

/tardisadmin arch [fake arch name]

Admins can use this to show the ‘fobbed’ player’s real name

note

Command usage is still logged with the player’s real name.

Chameleon Arch configuration

Server admins can change the Chameleon Arch options.

/plugins/TARDIS/config.yml

arch:
  enabled: [ true|false ]
  min_time: [ real time in minutes ]
  switch_inventory: [ true|false ]
  clear_inv_on_death: [ true|false ]

Config	Type	Default
arch:
enabled	boolean	true
Sets whether the feature is enabled, restart required for changes to take effect.
min_time	number	20
Sets how long a player must remain ‘fobbed’ in minutes the default is 20 - 1 Minecraft day.
switch_inventory	boolean	true
Sets whether to switch/clear the player’s inventory (be careful enabling this if using other inventory management plugins...)
clear_inv_on_death	boolean	false
Sets whether to clear (both) ‘fobbed’ and saved Time Lord inventories on death.