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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)
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 economy~~ Developed an addon, SilkSpawnersEcoAddon
~~Better 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.
- You can find the source here: GitHub
- And the download from Jenkins here: Jenkins
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

Long changelog

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
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_ForgeUser8908097
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Posted Mar 22, 2015
@MusicReprod

Ezactly the same error i recieve!!!!

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Posted Mar 22, 2015
Hi,

I'm using SilkSpawners version: http://puu.sh/gKQgS/971e228123.jpg and CB version: http://puu.sh/gKQhG/b6b4dcc37b.jpg

Placing spawners is fine - however, when mining/using an explosion to drop a spawner a pig spawner is dropped (not the correct type: when testing I was using a zombie spawner)

Any ideas?

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Posted Mar 21, 2015
I'm setting mine to 3 just to be on the safe side.

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Posted Mar 21, 2015
@xGh0sTkiLLeRx

2, 4, 6, and 10, without the L seem to work for me. Thanks for the quick fixing, by the way! ^^

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Posted Mar 21, 2015
Yeah, setting spawnerDelay to 2 works.

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Posted Mar 21, 2015
@xGh0sTkiLLeRx

~~Even with a delay of 20L, I'm still getting a pig spawner.~~

EDIT: No, the change works if I use 20 (without the L).

EDIT II: It also works if I use spawnerDelay: 2

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Posted Mar 21, 2015
@danielfr789

Just tell us the output of the /version command and we can see for ourselves what the change was. Then we can submit a ticket for Spigot.

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Posted Mar 21, 2015
It seems as one of the 1.8.3 builds broke this plugin. I have found an earlier version of 1.8.3 spigot and it works fine. Message me on here if you want this build.

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Posted Mar 21, 2015
New build doesnt seem to be doing anything. I am still getting pig spawners when I silk touch zombie spawners.

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Posted Mar 21, 2015
Thanks for all your feedback, I've added a config setting called "spawnerDelay" in #281.
It's at the bottom. Please experiment a bit with this value and tell me if there is a value which works. This is measured in ticks, so (in general you can say) 1 second = 20 ticks.
SilkSpawners sets the mob type right when the placement event is fired, however this seems broken. After this delay (in ticks, now configurable), SilkSpawners will attempt to set the type again, in case the update was missed.
I still need to investigate the relevant Spigot cause, that broke SilkSpawners.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

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Posted Mar 21, 2015
how do i disable people from using eggs to right click their spawners and change the type of it because people who arent allowed to have villager spawners can just get one by using a egg on it and its really annoying fix it or tell us how to disable it, thanks

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Posted Mar 21, 2015
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Continuing from my previous message - I edited the NBT data of the spawner to change the EntityId to Rabbit. I then used a silktouch pick axe to mine it. This it what I got in my inventory:

id: minecraft:mob_spawner tag: BlockEntityTag: EntityId: Rabbit display: Name: Rabbit Spawner SilkSpawners: entityID: 101

I then placed that spawner, and it exhibited the same (incorrect) behavior and spawned pigs.
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I'm running CraftBukkit (not Spigot) version CraftBukkit version git-Bukkit-234e607 (MC: 1.8.3) and SilkSpawners 3.6.3-SNAPSHOT-b280. I see the 'pig' problem. I get a spawner as a kit (with Lore), place it, it says rabbit spawner placed, I see a rabbit spinning in the spawner, but it spawns pigs. If I look at it and type /ss, it says it's a pig spawner. If I leave the chunk and come back, it then shows a pig spinning in it. When I break it, it says pig spawner broken.

The same thing happens with Essentials disabled.

NBT Data is as follows:

Inventory -

id: minecraft:mob_spawner tag: display: Name: Rabbit Spawner Lore: entityID:101

Placement in the world (.mca file):

EntityId: Pig id: MobSpawner

SilkSpawners config: http://pastebin.com/wGtCTsFm
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Posted Mar 21, 2015
Not to rush you or anything but I'd really appreciate a pig spawner fix as all the placed spawners in my server have changed to pigs and I'm getting massive complaits every minute :)

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Posted Mar 20, 2015
@RydanMC

You can use the essentials give command to give spawners like this:

/give {username} mob_spawner 1 name:&r&eCreeper_&fSpawner {BlockEntityTag:{EntityId:Creeper}}

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@danielfr789

I completely understand your point and all, but the one issue we've been having is kits, do you know any way to fix this?

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Posted Mar 20, 2015
@SnakeDaoust

If you didn't already know, spawner information is no longer saved in the data value. In 1.8 spawner information are saved as a NBT tag.

Use /ss <creature> to give yourself a spawner

And also use the 1.8 version of SilkSpawners, not 1.8.3 as you are running 1.8.

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Hey, All spawners are Pig no matter what. Even if they get broken. When they still show the mob but only pigs spawn. Using Latest version of spigot.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ElT-v3wdVg&feature=youtu.be

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DpEj2OL9xI&feature=youtu.be

Video taken on build 280

Same issue with build 279 and 278

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Table of Contents

SilkSpawners - Harvest mob spawners with silk touch

Version v8.3.0

Description

Demonstration

Features

Configuration

Permissions

Commands

Localization

Downloads/Source Code/Dev Builds

Future Plans (a.k.a. ToDo)

Known Bugs

Technical Details

API

Changelog

Credits

Banner

Statistics (from bStats)

Donations

License

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