Sonic Screwdriver

You can craft an upgradable Sonic Screwdriver!

Type the command /tardisrecipe sonic in game to view the crafting recipe.

The standard Sonic

The standard Sonic Screwdriver allows you to: open doors, press buttons and toggle levers from a distance. If used while sneaking and right-clicking air, it will open a GUI for setting Player Preferences. Permission for use: tardis.sonic.standard

Upgrades

There are 10 upgrades that you can give your Sonic:

Upgrade	Recipe	Permissions
Bio-scanner Circuit	/tardisrecipe bio-scanner-circuit	tardis.sonic.bio,tardis.sonic.freeze
Redstone Activator Circuit	/tardisrecipe redstone-activator-circuit	tardis.sonic.redstone
Emerald Environment Circuit	/tardisrecipe emerald-environment-circuit	tardis.sonic.emerald, tardis.sonic.plant
Diamond Disruptor Circuit	/tardisrecipe diamond-disruptor-circuit	tardis.sonic.diamond, tardis.sonic.silktouch
Painter Circuit	/tardisrecipe painter-circuit	tardis.sonic.paint, tardis.sonic.paint_block
Ignite Circuit	/tardisrecipe ignite-circuit	tardis.sonic.ignite
Pickup Arrows Circuit	/tardisrecipe pickup-arrows-circuit	tardis.sonic.arrow
Knockback Circuit	/tardisrecipe knockback-circuit	tardis.sonic.knockback
Brush Circuit	/tardisrecipe brush-circuit	tardis.sonic.brush
Conversion Circuit	/tardisrecipe conversion-circuit	tardis.sonic.conversion
Server Admin Circuit	/tardisrecipe server-admin-circuit	tardis.sonic.admin

To upgrade your Sonic Screwdriver, you combine it with a new circuit in a crafting table or smithing table (though the smithing table requires an extra redstone template item). Each circuit has an associated permission, see the permissions page for more details.

Sonic abilities

Player Pref Menu

Right-clicking AIR while sneaking with any sonic screwdriver opens the Player Pref Menu GUI where you can click preference items to toggle them on and off. The preferences menu also has a map button to open the TARDIS Map and the Sonic Configurator.

If a player also has the tardis.admin permission, they can swith to the Admin Menu GUI.

Sonic Sorter

The standard sonic screwdriver, when LEFT-clicked on a CHEST or TRAPPED_CHEST, can sort the container’s contents by order of the block type and damage value. The permission for this is tardis.sonic.sort

Bio-scanner

The Bio-scanner upgrade allows your Sonic to scan a player’s health, hunger and time lived when you right-click them.

From a distance, the bio-scanner will freeze a player for 5 seconds. There is a cooldown period (default 60 seconds) between uses, and players require the permission tardis.sonic.freeze

Redstone Activator

The Redstone Activator upgrade allows your Sonic to power on and off redstone wire, lamps, pistons, detector rails and powered rails. You can also open iron doors by right-clicking them.

Emerald Environment

When right-clicking the ground with your Emerald Environment upgraded Sonic, it will tell you the same information as the TARDIS Scanner, but relative to your current location.

If players have the permission tardis.sonic.plant, using the Emerald Environment Sonic Screwdriver to harvest food plants will automatically re-sow the plant if the player has the appropriate seed item in their inventory.

Diamond Disruptor

The Diamond Disruptor upgraded Sonic instantly breaks glass, stained glass, glass panes, stained glass panes, iron fences, snow and web. If players have the tardis.sonic.silktouch permission, the sonic will drop the block itself — for example instead of receiving string from a web block, the drop will be web.

Painter

The Painter upgraded Sonic allows you to change the colour of dyeable blocks inside the TARDIS. These include WOOL, CARPET, STAINED CLAY, BEDS, CANDLES, CANDLE CAKES, STAINED GLASS and STAINED GLASS PANES. To change the colour of these blocks you must have a suitable dye item in the last (right-most) slot of you hotbar. LEFT-clicking a block while sneaking (hold down the SHIFT key) will change the block colour and consume 1 dye item.

You can change Chamemelon preset coloured Police Boxes. Have a suitable dye item in the last (right-most) slot of you hotbar, then RIGHT-click the item frame to set the colour.

If you have the permission tardis.sonic.paint_blocks you can tint any cubic shaped block in your TARDIS in addtion to the coloured blocks listed above. Use the same method as for coloured blocks to add the tint - to remove the tint, place a SPONGE block in the last (right-most) slot of your hotbar and LEFT-SHIFT-click the block.

Ignite

The Ignite upgraded Sonic allows you to set fire to flammable blocks. It is not very powerful, a flint and steel is probably more useful.

Pickup Arrows

The Pickup Arrows upgraded Sonic allows you to set the pickup status of arrows. Right-click the arrow, then step towards to pick it up.

Knockback

The Knockback upgraded Sonic allows you to repel monsters when right-clicking them.

Brush

The Brush upgraded Sonic allows you sonically brush suspicious blocks to get their hidden items. Right-click the block until the item pops out.

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Due to the current limitations of the Bukkit API the item will not emerge slowly like it would with a vanilla brush.

Conversion

The Conversion upgraded Sonic allows you sonically transform blocks from one state to another — you can turn concrete powder into concrete, dirt into mud, and mud into clay. The radius of blocks converted is determined by the config option preferences.sonic_radius.

Server Admin

The Server Admin upgraded Sonic allows you to open the Admin menu GUI, scan a TARDIS (owner, Artron Energy Level, last location and occupants) and remotely open a player’s inventory (for viewing only).

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Sonic Prefs Menu

You can change the texture of the sonic screwdriver to one of 15 different types.

To change the screwdriver texture:

• Open the Sonic Prefs menu using the command /tardisprefs sonic
• In the GUI, place your sonic in the lower left slot and then select the screwdriver of your choice
• To change the colour of the sonic’s display name, click the wool block to choose a colour
• Remove your screwdriver and close the GUI

Default screwdriver

Server admins can set the default screwdriver type — /tardisconfig default_sonic [type] — use tab completion to see a list of types.

Sonic Dock and charging

See the Sonic Dock page.