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
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Posted Jul 10, 2015@Syrianen
Thanks! I've added it to the description :)
@devioursoul
Could you open a ticket and describe more detailed? Are you using Essentials Signs? Or EssentialsX?
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Posted Jul 8, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Thanks ;)
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Posted Jul 8, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
http://pastebin.com/PM5j0ySu
Swedish localization
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Posted Jul 8, 2015Hello,
I been able to work around most stuff, but one thing keeps bothering me.
I can buy spawners and instantly sell it using essentials. But after I buy it and place it, than break it and want to sell it, it will not sell.
This seems to be an issue with n t tags(don't quote me), although I am not sure how to fix this. Will happily donate to see this "fixed".
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Posted Jul 5, 2015@GoldenEagle1995
/give <player> mob_spawner 1 0 {BlockEntityTag:{EntityId:Spider}}
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Posted Jul 5, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
what you mean by proper NBT Tags, give an example
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Posted Jul 3, 2015when players mine a spawner and its not like a naturally spawning one(zombie, skeli, etc.) . the spawner will not drop.
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Posted Jul 1, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Yes, I am positive that the fortune enchant with silktouch affects the drop rate.
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Posted Jul 1, 2015@GamerSynchro
Are you sure this affects the drop rate? E.g. I always add only one spawner to the world when mined.
@topburns
Currently not, sorry
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Posted Jun 30, 2015Is there anyway to make it so that you can only mine spawners with a Diamond pickaxe and no other pickaxe
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Posted Jun 30, 2015Can you add a feature were it blocks the fortune enchant while mining a spawner?
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Posted Jun 29, 2015@JackPlayzMC12
Essentials for 1.8 is broken. Either use EssentialsX (linked in the Known Bugs section) or use SilkSpawners built in command. Third way: use proper NBT tags in the give command.
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Posted Jun 28, 2015Is it possible to disable this part of the config?
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Posted Jun 28, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Im not sure why but when I give myself a spawner for e.g /give {name} 52:99 That would be a Golem Spawner but when I place it it turns to a pig spawner and says (either this spawner is invalid or disabled)
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Posted Jun 28, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx Im not sure why but when I give myself a spawner for e.g /give {name} 52:99 That would be a Golem Spawner but when I place it it turns to a pig spawner and says (either this spawner is invalid or disabled)
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Posted Jun 20, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Im running Verison Spigot version 1.7.10-R0.1 and Unstackable spawners is false
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Posted Jun 20, 2015@twitchie123
Weird. Heard it for the second time now. Can you paste your /version output and tell me if you have unstackable spawners false or true? Thanks!
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Posted Jun 20, 2015I dont know if this is a bug with the plugin but whenever people get their spawners and try to put them into their inventory the spawner just disappears
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Posted Jun 20, 2015@turtlemode69
Have you tried EssentialsX instead of Essentials? Read the "Known Bugs" section please
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Posted Jun 19, 2015Help! how do i fix the problem with buying them from signs and doing /i or/give because they all turn into pig spawners
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