SilkSpawners
SilkSpawners - Harvest mob spawners with silk touch
Version v8.3.0
Thanks for MILLIONS of downloads!
A sign shop addon for buying and selling spawners can be found here: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/12028/
Description
Ever wanted to move a mob spawner? With SilkSpawners, you can now pick up and move monster spawners.
If you use a pickaxe with the silktouch enchantment you will receive the spawner again.
You can control each mob spawner, allow crafting and of course mod support.
I'm happy to hear about your opinion, just leave a comment with a feature request, bug, improvement or just a personal opinion.
As a reminder I want to say that I worked very long on this and really appreciate a 'thank you' in form of a donation! (See details on the bottom or the button on the top)
Demonstration
Thanks @Koz4christ
Features
- NEW A sign shop addon can be found here: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/12028/
- Added BarAPI support (for 1.9+ only: support for Vanilla implementation)
- per Type spawner name and explosion chance!
- Support Minecraft from 1.8.8 to 1.21.7 (with the exclusion of 1.9 and 1.10)
- Configure a percentage of dropping a spawner on explosions (TNT & creeper)
- Spawner retains creature type
- Works on any spawner
- Crafting of each spawner (own recipe for every mob if wanted)
- Showing of creature type when spawners are placed, broken or held
- Commands for
- Changing a spawner in hand or sight
- Getting a new spawner (or egg) in the hand NEW: With offline player support!
- Console support
- Left-click spawner with spawn egg to change type (consuming egg or not)
- If enabled, right click with an egg and a MonsterSpawner of this type will appear
- Permissions support
- Support for
- Custom mobs added by client/server mods
- Spawning any entity with spawn eggs (dragons, non-creature entities, etc.)
- Dumping entity ID map on startup for debugging mods
- Compatible with
- CraftBukkit
++and Spigot (see spawnersUnstackable) - MCPC(+) and ported mods (auto-detects IDs)
- Not Enough Items (newer builds only)
- CraftBukkit
- Flexible creature type names on input (pigman, zombiepigman, pigzombie, etc. all accepted), official names on output (Magma Cube, not "LavaSlime")
- Colored item names
- Localization of all messages
- Mimic support
- There is an economy addon to charge the users when they change a spawner: SilkSpawnersEcoAddon
Third party features, all of them can be disabled
Please take a look at the detailed information about bStats below!
- bStats for usage statistics
- Auto Updater (connecting to http://dev.bukkit.org for updating checking)
- can be disabled if you switch autoUpdater to false in the config.yml
Configuration
See the config here!
(Fully commented!)
Permissions
You can find a list of permissions and creatures here!
Commands
Only the bukkit permissions are supported!
I highly recommend that you use a plugin for permissions like bPermissions
If no permission system is found, all commands are for OPs only!
If you suffix a mob name with egg you will receive an egg instead.
NEW NEW NEW NEW
/ss help - Displays the help menu.
/ss list|all - Displays all available creatures.
/ss view - Displays information about the viewed spawner.
/ss reload|rl - Reloads the configuration files.
/ss change|set <newMob> - Changes the spawner you are currently holding or viewing at.
/ss give|add <player> <mob> [amount] - Gives a spawner or egg to the player. Amount is optional.
/ss selfget|i <mob> [amount] - Gives a spawner or egg to you. Amount is optional.
NEW NEW NEW NEW
Localization
English (default) by timbru31
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German by timbru31
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Dutch by Jeroendedoem
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Indonesian by smsunarto
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Norwegian by Riaz
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Swedish by Syrianen
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Italian by xMarioAnak
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Spanish by JUMBONET
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Turkish by xwerswoodx
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French by Don_Sensileone
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Portuguese by Luligabi
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Polish by PLKaratusPL
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Russian by EV.Jack
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Feel free to share your localizations and they will be added here, just leave a comment with a link to a translated localization.yml!
Thank you for contributing!
Downloads/Source Code/Dev Builds
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 dev builds/bleeding edge builds) - - Dev builds from Jenkins
(Source code hosted on GitHub) - - Source Code
Future Plans (a.k.a. ToDo)
Maybe add economyDeveloped an addon, SilkSpawnersEcoAddonBetter API?Added in 3.1, custom event
Known Bugs
- If sign shops are not working, you may want to try my custom sign shop addon: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/12028/
- Mobs like Ghasts or Giants are too big for the spawner, this a Minecraft bug and I can't fix that
- Some older Essentials versions/ports are not updated properly for 1.8. There is a maintained fork called EssentialsX you should try.
- If you use Gui Sign Shop and users are unable to place spawners, you need to grant them the guishop.spawner permission from Gui Sign Shop
- Holographic Displays makes Slime spawners non functional
- UltraCosmetics, causes some spawners to non function: https://github.com/iSach/UltraCosmetics/issues/259
Technical Details
You can find more information here!
API
SilkSpawners is equipped with an API. You can find more information here!
Changelog
Version 8.3.0
- Adds support for Minecraft 1.21.5 - 1.21.7
- Adds configurable no silk message
- Fixes an issue with dropping zero items
- Adds "all" as an allowed tool
- Fixes a check for Breeze explosions
Version 8.2.0
- Adds support for Minecraft 1.21.3 & 1.21.4
- Ignores Wind Charge explosion events
- Reads NBT tag from MineableSpawners
- Fixes a bug where the defaultCreature was not working as intended
Credits
@mushroomhostage for his awesome plugin! I'm glad you allowed me to maintain it!
Thanks to all the testers with the 3.0 dev versions!
Banner
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Donations
I worked really hard on this plugin and I'm very happy about any donation.
Support me & buy me some beer, this makes me happy and keeps me interested in this plugin.
Donation chain: -> I receive some money -> Buy coffee -> Work longer -> Faster Updates -> Your benefit!
There is a button on top of this page (right to the different tabs)
I'm accepting bitcoins, too! :)

Address: 1NnrRgdy7CfiYN63vKHiypSi3MSctCP55C
License
This plugin is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license!

Information about the data usage collection bStats
Disabling bStats
The file ./plugins/bStats/config.yml contains an option to opt-out.
The following data is read and sent to https://bstats.org and can be seen under https://bstats.org/plugin/bukkit/SilkSpawners
- Your server's randomly generated UUID
- The amount of players on your server
- The online mode of your server
- The bukkit version of your server
- The java version of your system (e.g. Java 8)
- The name of your OS (e.g. Windows)
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Posted Jan 24, 2015@bennetheboss
Use: /ss <mob> <amount> <player> Example: /ss pigzombie 1 bennetheboss Gives you one zombie pigman spawner.
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Posted Jan 23, 2015Can someone help? When I mine a zombie pigmen spawner it gives me back a zombie spawner? I can silk the pigmen spawner but when I place it down it turns into a zombie spawner
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Posted Jan 21, 2015Can you turn it off some how.. so i can do /i 52:52 without it automatic turns back to a pig spawner??
bennetheboss
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Posted Jan 16, 2015@Frosty39801
Whoops, yes of course. Will be in the next dev build (271). Going to do this today
Edit 272 removed the messages https://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/272/
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Posted Jan 16, 2015Hey,
is there anyway to disable these debug messages in the console? I would prefer for them to be turned off due to the spammy console :P
[13:35:12 INFO]: Dah_Frozen issued server command: /i 52 1 name:&cPig_&fSpawner [13:35:13 INFO]: true [13:35:15 INFO]: true
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Posted Jan 11, 2015@Har88
That's because /ss is an alias of SuperSpleef, too.
I could imagine that SilkSpawners is loaded first (alphabetical order) and therefore can assign the alias /ss.
Here you have a list of commands:
SuperSpleef: command: /spleef aliases: /ss
SilkSpawners: command: /silkspawners aliases: /silkspawner /ss /spawner /silk /spawnersilk
Hope this helps.
@oliver276
Thanks :)
@blake1323
It's well known that the "old" entityIDs stored as the durability are broken in 1.8
It works fine, either with the own NBT tag, the Vanilla NBT tag or the lore fallback.
I don't get the point what you are trying to say, sorry! Can you explain it further?
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Posted Jan 11, 2015@Har88
The command from SuperSpleef should override the alias from SilkSpawners - that means there's probably a longer command to do the same thing in SilkSpawners (maybe /superspleef?)
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Posted Jan 10, 2015This is conflicting with SuperSpleef, i try /ss join 1 and it says unrecognized creature join, How can i fix this issue? possible to disable the alias /ss for silkspawners?
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Posted Jan 8, 2015Alright, so I have been doing a decent amount of testing and messing around with SilkSpawners... And I can now say that the Spawner IDS do NOT work with Spigot 1.8. I changed useLegacyName to true, and still nothing. I downgraded versions, and still nothing. And suggestions about my problem?
Thanks,
Balakeh
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Posted Jan 6, 2015@ImmenseButtPain
There is a permission node for TNT ignited by the player: silkspawners.explodedrop
Doing it with Creepers and other explosions would require too much work to see if a player is allowed to pickup the spawner.
Range check is currently not planned, sorry.
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Posted Jan 6, 2015Can you make it so you have to have a permission for the spawner to drop with the explosion chance? As it make it so you have to be within 20 or so blocks from the spawner, and if it explodes it'll drop?
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Posted Jan 4, 2015@dogelord118
Great, now players can get spawners even when they don't have enough money.
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Posted Jan 3, 2015I wrote it in the instructions, its <player>, exactly like that
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Posted Jan 1, 2015@dogelord118
ok i got it to work but it keep saying player not found what command for it i tried @p and @player
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Posted Jan 1, 2015@dogelord118
hey i did what u said but it wont work it wont allow me to addd 2 command on the sign
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Posted Jan 1, 2015i download the plugin im and im running 1.8 server i installed the plugin and the commands and everything are fine but when i try to mine it nothing drops i even setup the perms for it because maybe it was that but no when i mine a spawner with silktouch pickaxe it doesnt work. pls help i need for my server
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Posted Jan 1, 2015To implement this into signs, just use regular essentials chat and a plugin called commandsigns. Its simple to learn. First, set up the essentials sign, since you can use colors. like [buy] 1 zombie $50000. Then with commandsigns, type /commandsigns 1 /^eco take <player> 50000, then do /commandsigns 2 /^give @p 52 1 0 {BlockEntityTag:{EntityId:zombie}}. Then left click the sign. Voila, you have a sign that gives spawners for money! Sorry if this sounded confusing, best I can think of.
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Posted Jan 1, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Okay, thank you. It would be greatly appreciated by many server owners if you do. Although i might just get a custom plugin coded where you can buy spawners with certain names with signs. :P
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Posted Jan 1, 2015@Frosty39801
Currently there are no plans to use such a feature, SilkSpawners has an API and if I might consider to implement this either in SilkSpawnersEcoAddon or a new Addon (like SilkSpawnersSignAddon)
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Posted Jan 1, 2015@Frosty39801
Use SignShop.
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/signshop/