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)
- The version of your OS
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Posted Apr 3, 2015I cant figure out how to allow players to buy specific mob spanners because when they do its automatically a pig spawner
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Posted Apr 2, 2015@walman1123
Read the comments here:
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/silkspawners/?comment=993
http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/silkspawners/?comment=996
@Pablo_M98
SilkSpawners offers no TPS optimization or stuff like that. As already advised tweak your spigot.yml or use special lag plugins.
@JuniorTheNooob
Read the big red comments. I can't fix this issue since other plugins are causing it.
@Theepwner
If you run a new 1.8 server (world), then you can switch useLegacyName to false. Leave the rest true.
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Posted Apr 1, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
How do i use the lore to define a spawner with essentials kits. I have had done with the - 52:(whatever) 1 but what should i do now! Also thank you for the reply i greatly appreciate it!
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Posted Apr 1, 2015@Pablo_M98
Nothing that this plugin offers. Look into tweaking your spigot.yml (if you use spigot), and adding other plugins to minimize lag (clearlagg).
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Posted Apr 1, 2015Players from my server have built big farms with spawners and generate much lag (descends tps). Is there any solution?
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Posted Apr 1, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
What would you say are the recommended settings for those? I currently have all of them on true, on a 1.8.3 server. Thanks.
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Posted Apr 1, 2015I need help, I try to sell spawners on the signs and when ever someone buys the spawner everything works fine buying it wise, but when ever the player buys another kind of spawner it automatically into a Pig Spawner and it's really annoying.
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Posted Apr 1, 2015@marubal21
You can do it from the console:
/silkspawners [creature]|[creature]egg [amount] [name]
example:
/silkspawners creeper 20 xGhOsTkiLLeRx
(I will sooner or later update the whole command system, since it's ugly)
@Theepwner
useReflection: true -> uses methods that are beyond the Bukkit API and that break with every update. I'm dealing e.g. with items directly like the Minecraft Server handles them
testMCVersion: true -> Tests if your MC version is in the range of supported versions, if not disables SilkSpawners.
useMetadata: true -> if SilkSpawners can't store the mob via the NBT tag or the durability value the metadata (the lore) is used to store the mob. Needed for the crafting recipe to work.
useLegacyName: true -> a fallback I added for older spawners (due to 1.8 breaking changes) in order to guess the mob from the name of the spawner. (not reliable)
@walman1123
I can't do much about it other than to tell you the primary fix would be an update of the shop plugin. Since I do not longer run a server nor play Minecraft I don't encounter such problems.
The main fix is creating a kit with the lore fallback. Does that work for you? With essentials you can define kits easily.
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Posted Mar 31, 2015Is there a /givespawner command? Or any command that i could use to give a player a spawner of type x?
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Posted Mar 31, 2015What do each of these mean? useReflection: true testMCVersion: true useMetadata: true useLegacyName: true
Using these values, floauction works perfectly fine when auctioning specific spawners.
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Posted Mar 31, 2015it is the latest silk version and 1.8 spigot
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Posted Mar 31, 2015How do you reccomend we fix the selling signs of spawners and having them inside kits?
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Posted Mar 31, 2015@Disorbs
It applies for any 1.8 version
You should upgrade your SilkSpawners version, since all versions are backwards compatible.
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Posted Mar 31, 2015Does
only apply for 1.8.3 or how do i disable right click with egg on spawners? i only disable /spawner villy but people can just get a villy egg and right click spawner?
using 1.8.1 ss latest version
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Posted Mar 30, 2015@JoezMC
SilkSpawners offers no sell/buy option. Your sign/shop plugin needs to be fixed to respect the new NBT tag syntax. There are workarounds linked on the download page.
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Posted Mar 30, 2015I noticed a bug on my network I can't sell spawners using this plugin it gives them default pig even when I use proper item id and the picture of the spawner is pig how do you fix this as this is an essential for me to be able to sell spawners
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Posted Mar 30, 2015@bshields78
Could you post the output of your /version command?
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Posted Mar 29, 2015just adding in my info here and saying that the newest version 3.6.3 you have here still hasnt fixed the pig spawner issue. the build #281 did however work for me so i am so greatful for that because i have gone through about 10 different plugins trying to find one that would work. hopefull spigot gets this issue worked out but as i see youve been told and my reply here is kind of redundant i just wanted to add in a post to sho my support of what you are doing here because you seem to be THE only guy who has figured out a workable fix for this problem.
THANK YOU!!
for now #281 will do just fine as i only needed it to /give spawners from a token shop as essentials is unable to give these properly now.
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Posted Mar 29, 2015@Maeso
That's broken/changed in 1.8. Ask floAuctions to respect either the BlockEntityTag or the SilkSpawners NBT tag, in order to sell spawners with the right type. A few comments below thinkofdeath notified me about an extended API in Spigot 1.8.3 that he could use.
@Filmjolk
Works fine for me. (git-Spigot-dbe012b-61ef214)
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Posted Mar 28, 2015I'm using an older version of 1.8.3 spigot. I can't use the craft feature atm. keeps telling me I have insufficient perms. If anyone can confirm that it works on some of the latest spigot versions that would be great.