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 Feb 1, 2016This is the list of mobs when you do /silkspawners list: Endermite, CustomWolf, CustomMooshroom, Guardian, Slime, MagmaCube, CustomCat, Ghast, Blaze, Ocelot, CustomSheep, Rabbit, Giant, CustomIronGolem, CustomPig, EnderDragon, Horse, Zombie, Skeleton, Enderman, Cow, CustomWither, CustomSpider, Selector, CustomPigman, Bat, CustomChicken, Silverfish, Squid, Witch, Creeper, CaveSpider WHY IS THERE CUSTOM MOBS HERE?!?!
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Posted Jan 31, 2016When I write the following command it doesn't work: /spawner pig 1 Saxion /silkspawner pig 1 Saxion It says cannot recognize pig This also doesn't work for sheep, spider, Mooshroom, chicken, wolf, cat, pig, golem.
WHAT DO I DO!?!?!?
Thanks, Saxion
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Posted Jan 31, 2016Can someone help me please? How do I remove Custom<mob_name> from spawners? How can I just write this command: silkspawners Pig 1 <player>? Without th custom?
Thanks, Saxion
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Posted Jan 9, 2016@JugadorON
Should work, reset your config or anything.
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Posted Dec 21, 2015silkspawners.place.*
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Not work!!! Players can't place spawners. Only "place".
When attempting to place a spawner in the game, you get a message saying that the player has no permissions.
I use PermissionsEX. The console does not any error message.
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SilkSpawners v3.6.7
Craftbukkit 1.7.9
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Posted Nov 24, 2015@Jackieeex143
You could just negate/remove the silkspawners.* permission in the nether or end world permission config, as the permission plugins all support multiple worlds. :)
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Posted Nov 23, 2015Hello, been using this plugin for a while now. I am opening another server, and want to disable silk spawners plugin in the nether and end. Is there a way I can do this?
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Posted Nov 17, 2015thanks mate its working now
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Posted Nov 17, 2015@Srzzy
Upgrade to Java 7 or better Java 8.
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Posted Nov 17, 2015Silkspawners not working
can someone tell me what the hell is going on when ever i get silkspawners it doesnt work it says the cause but i have no clue what it means
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: de/dustplanet/silkspawners/SilkSpawners : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
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Posted Oct 25, 2015I've tried using SilkSpawners and it was working for a while, but not it has stopped working because of the update. Mobs aren't spawning from the spawners. The only mobs that DO spawn are the friendly mobs and the Iron Golem. I have upgraded my Essentials to EssentialsX 2.0.1 and they still don't spawn even though it says that all spawner issues have been fixed.
Does anyone know what's going on???
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Posted Oct 14, 2015It seems as though slime spawners dont spawn anything. I am using the latest version of silkspawners.
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Posted Oct 12, 2015I downloaded it and tried it.But i cant place spawners..What do i do?
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Posted Sep 29, 2015Do spawners have a chance of dropping if blow up by tnt or a creeper spawn egg?
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Posted Sep 19, 2015how do i make it so if someone buys a spawner it stays that spawner forever like :
[Buy] 1 52:99 $1000
Thats just a example, if someone buys it its either a pig spawner or they place it, mine it and its a pig spawner please help
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Posted Sep 11, 2015I've developed a new addon for creating shops (both buy and sell), it's available as a premium resource on SpigotMC: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/12028/
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Posted Aug 29, 2015@Retracker
Read the message: you will need v3.6.7 for 1.8.8
@marubal21
If you don't have the permission to change spawners with eggs, right and left click should be blocked.
@GothkittyGirl
If SilkSpawners is red, please post the console output on startup.
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Posted Aug 17, 2015does this plugin offer a way to prevent players from using a spawn egg to change the spawn type? if not does anyone know a plugin or a way to prevent players from doing so?
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Posted Aug 15, 2015i have a 1.8.8 server and i downloaded silkspawners the latest version and when i start the server and I do /pl the plugin name shows in the color red instead of green which means its disabled. How can I fix this, thank you.
Console error from silkspawners:
[SilkSpawners] Enabling SilkSpawners v3.6.6 [19:54:14] [Server thread/INFO]: [SilkSpawners] This version of the plugin is NOT compatible with your Minecraft version! [19:54:14] [Server thread/INFO]: [SilkSpawners] Please check your versions to make sure they match! [19:54:14] [Server thread/INFO]: [SilkSpawners] Disabling now! [19:54:14] [Server thread/INFO]: [SilkSpawners] Compatible versions are: [1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.4, 1.7.2, 1.7.5, 1.7.8, 1.7.9, 1.7.10, 1.8, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.6, 1.8.7] [19:54:14] [Server thread/INFO]: [SilkSpawners] Your version is: 1.8.8 [19:54:14] [Server thread/INFO]: [SilkSpawners] You can disable this check by setting testMCVersion to false in the config!
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Posted Aug 14, 2015Silkspawner will not drop and spawner when my player mine them and they have the perm they need for this and when placing spawner it turns to a pig spawner. they have the perms for it was well and i do /plugins and silkspawners is red