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 28, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Yes, because with dictionary WhatIsIt I can't put ID:(KITS), only detect monster spawner 52:0
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Posted Mar 27, 2015@thinkofdeath
Cool, I'll take a look at it :)
@thomas256
Glad to hear!
@Bobcat00
Thanks again, sir!
@Maeso
What's the exact problem? Receiving pig spawners?
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Posted Mar 27, 2015Any solution for use silkspawners + floauction?
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Posted Mar 27, 2015@walman1123
This is what I do: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/silkspawners/?page=14#c993 There may be other ways.
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Posted Mar 26, 2015I need help with silkspawners and essentials buy signs/kits. Whenever someone buys a spawner or uses the /kit command it is automatically a pig spawner, Please help!!
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Posted Mar 25, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Hi,
It works fine now.
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Posted Mar 25, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
If it helps in the latest version there is an api now which should simplify things for the future. I added a new ItemMeta type: BlockStateMeta which allows access to the 1.8 blockEntityTag. Should save on the nms/reflection calls as you can just blockStateMeta.setBlockState(block.getState()) to save the spawner to the item. Hopefully it is helpful for you (let me know if its broken in anyway).
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Posted Mar 25, 2015@xlLordCakeslx
Dumb question: they are using a silk touched pickaxe?
Do the other permissions like place work? or viewtype?
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Posted Mar 24, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx silkDropChance > 100 usePermissions > True
Following permissions related to SilkSpawner in my donor group(s) - silkspawners.viewtype - silkspawners.place.* - silkspawners.destroydrop.* - silkspawners.explodedrop - silkspawners.changetype.* - silkspawners.silkdrop.*
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Posted Mar 24, 2015@thomas256
Can you post your /version output?
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Posted Mar 24, 2015@xlLordCakeslx
Did you grant silkspawners.silkdrop.* ? Is silkDropChance > 0? Is usePermissions true? Without details I cannot help you.
@danielfr789
@Bobcat00
Confirming this, I tried git-Spigot-4b89e7b-7d0f836 with v3.6.3 and everything worked fine.
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Posted Mar 23, 2015SilkSpawners is no longer broken with LATEST BUILD. No need to download the latest dev build. Run BuildTools to get the latest version of spigot/bukkit.
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Posted Mar 23, 2015Hi, i've started to use SilkSpawners for a while and i think it's a great plugin overall. I do have one problem with permissions though.
I've went through all the permissions for SilkSpawners and set them up in my group manager config under worlds. The players i have with donor ranks still can't retrieve mined spawners.. i have no idea what i did wrong. Sorry if this is a vague report, but i'd like to get this solved ASAP.
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Posted Mar 23, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Sorry for the delay in replying, I was at work.
I just went back to plain-old 3.6.3 and it works properly when placing spawners with the latest CraftBukkit build git-Bukkit-7d0f836 (MC: 1.8.3). So your plugin seems to have been working right all along.
In the United States, we would refer to this as a "wild goose chase".
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Posted Mar 23, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Hi,
Sorry - I was rushing while posting that comment.
I'll give it a go now.I'm on a very new build of Spigot (I've made some edits so I don't want to rebuild unless I absolutely have to). The issues I reported are/were still present.
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Posted Mar 23, 2015@thomas256
If you would read the comments below, just between this comment and your first comment, you could see that there were changes by Spigot that broke SilkSpawners and that you could help me to debug this issue if you compile the latest Spigot and test v3.6.3 on it :)
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Posted Mar 23, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Hi,
Sorry to be impatient but any ideas for my issue?
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Posted Mar 23, 2015@Bobcat00
Yes there were code changes by Spigot that broke stuff. Could you try v3.6.3 (from BukkitDev) with the latest Spigot and see if this works, too?
Thanks :)
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Posted Mar 22, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
So I went back to build 280, made a new CraftBukkit build, and it works with the new build: "CraftBukkit version git-Bukkit-7d0f836 (MC: 1.8.3)". So perhaps you can remove your workaround. What would you suggest?
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Posted Mar 22, 2015I wonder if this is related: https://hub.spigotmc.org/jira/browse/SPIGOT-725