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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Statistics (from bStats)
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)
- The version of your OS
- The architecture of your OS (e.g. amd64)
- The system cores of your OS (e.g. 8)
- bStats-supported plugins
- Plugin version of bStats-supported plugins


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Posted Mar 7, 2015@didjee2
Update to dev builds.
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Posted Mar 3, 2015Hello xGh0sTkiLLeRx, Can you add an option in the config to remove the Change spawner with egg feature? It's really annoying and members can even do it without permission. (1.8 server).
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Posted Feb 25, 2015@Azfaloth
No sorry. I won't touch the spawning algorithm or the mob drops.
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Posted Feb 24, 2015Wonderful plugin! :) Do you think it would be possible in some way to reduce the mob drops or mob drop chance from spawner generated mobs? An option in the config maybe?
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Posted Feb 22, 2015you.rock
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Posted Feb 19, 2015We solved the issue we where having with "Zombie Pigman" spawners from the auction turning into "Zombie" spawners when placed by changing the spawners display name to "PigZombie" . Just figured Id let you know we resolved the problem.
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Posted Feb 18, 2015@GhastLegionNetwork
We want it so u can buy it in the shop and it turns to the spawner instead of pig
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Posted Feb 18, 2015@Th3PotatoArmyHD
Already fixed in the latest dev builds...
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Posted Feb 17, 2015@HyperSilence
Yes, please open a ticket and we can discuss the issue in detail there :)
Thanks
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Posted Feb 17, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
No luck with that. Would you happen to know how to Disable THAT specific part of essentials?
Also, if you would like I can open a ticket with this issue.
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Posted Feb 17, 2015Alright Ive gotten a msg back from the owner the only plugin we have installed on the server interacting with spawners is your silkspawners plugin. Would seeing the config.yml for our server assist you in any way of locating the issue ?
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Posted Feb 17, 2015@thecrazycree
If you run TokenShop this is definitely still causing issues, since the project seems inactive and my report was not fixed. Take a look at the localization (line 1) to disable the named spawners feature.
Is there any alternative for TokenShop you could use?
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Posted Feb 17, 2015Currently talking with my Server owner to see if any other plugins are interacting with the spawners. Came across this link also, seems related to the issue.
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/tokenshop/tickets/17-your-method-block-placed-conflicts-with-silk-spawners/#
Would changing the Display name of the spawner so that the first word did not start with "zombie" be a workaround for this? I don't have access to the config to try myself, I'm just the Mod on the server assisting the owner with issue's.
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Posted Feb 17, 2015@RubenUknow
Read the big red text on the download page. It's Essentials and there are workarounds linked.
@thecrazycree
Do you have any conflicting plugins installed which interacts with spawners?
@GhastLegionNetwork
Or just use the built in SilkSpawners give command ;)
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Posted Feb 17, 2015@nxtboyIII @HyperSilence @Plextay
Try this command, This should work /give <username> 52 1 name:&eCreeper_&fSpawner
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Posted Feb 16, 2015Having a issue on our server, When auctioning a Zombie Pigman Spawner the item is won from the auction as a Zombie pigman spawner and is the correct spawner type in inventory but when placed converts over to a regular zombie spawner?
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Posted Feb 16, 2015Same exact thing with me guys, really annoying please fix.
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Posted Feb 16, 2015@RubenUknow
RubenUknow, I'm having the same exact issue too :( And denying the permission essentials.spawnerconvert.* doesn't work D:
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Posted Feb 16, 2015So i installed the plugin and everything is working. The only thing that is NOT working is the thing that people can buy spawners using signs. I use [Buy] 1 52:40 $10 on a sign but when people try to buy it they get a pig spawner.
Any fixes for this?
Thanks,
Ruben
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Posted Feb 13, 2015@HyperSilence
Thanks for the hint, I looked into the Essentials code and might found some not working code, due to the 1.8 update.
Essentials contains a feature called "spawnerconvert" which converts spawners automatically to the "right" type. I could image that this feature broke and therefore defaults to pig now.
Could you try to deny the following permissions and report if it's working now?
essentials.spawnerconvert.*
essentials.spawnerconvert.pig