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 Jun 9, 2016@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Much appreciated!
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Posted Jun 9, 2016First 1.10 dev build
https://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/345/
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Posted Jun 9, 2016@MrJordan9821
asap is not always possible with a fulltime job and a release in the night ;)
Update to 1.10 is in progress nevertheless
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Posted Jun 8, 2016Doesn't work on 1.10, Please update asap http://pastebin.com/raw/mweKhn8i
(yawn)
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Posted May 28, 2016@DaleAGaming
You could take a at my Shop addon (premium resource though): https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/12028/
@meytroCURSE
Thanks for the suggestion, this is currently not possible.
@MrJordan9821
You could just use your permissions plugin and negate/revoke the permissions in a specific world
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Posted May 28, 2016Anyway to make it sellable
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Posted May 25, 2016Did you already think about adding a feature which moves the spawners directly into the inventory of the player who is breaking the spawner? That would help every Skyblock server because players have the habit to lose spawners all the time while breaking ;)
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Posted May 19, 2016@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Do you think you could make a option to disable silk spawners in certain wolves? I Plan to launch a new world friday (tomorrow) but the world has custom terrain and has way to many spawners... So do you think you can add a option to disable silk spawners in certain worlds please :)?
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Posted May 14, 2016@Dillzzzzz
Make a ticket and provide error logs please.
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Posted May 12, 2016I seem to get errors in the newer versions for Paper Spigot
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Posted May 10, 2016@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Thanks!
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Posted May 10, 2016@SmallSansSerif
Update is awaiting approval :)
@AdamTragedy
3.7.2 fixes this issue.
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Posted May 10, 2016Please update to 1.9.4 when you are able. Thank you!
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Posted May 1, 2016http://pastebin.com/bJSwmDwp
Errors spamming my console. Been using SS for a while now...just now seeing these pop up. Most recent version of Spigot 1.9.2 (0 versions behind), and SS version 3.7.2-SNAPSHOT-b334
EDIT:
Updated to b335 (latest on Jenkins), and now get this error spamming my console:
http://pastebin.com/nVZbZpUk
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Posted May 1, 2016@Poky83
Well it's not a SilkSpawners issue though, since the Slimes that spawn are spawned like the should spawn naturally - maybe another plugin is messing/changing how mobs behave?
@MrMonkeyPants344
Essentials is broken since 1.8. You might try EssentialsX or my sign shop addon (paid)
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Posted Apr 29, 2016Hey,
Im wanting to use Essentials Signs to sell spawners. How can I do this? I try 52:99 for Iron Golem but it comes out has pig, anyhelp?
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Posted Apr 29, 2016@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Hello again
I do not understand what you mean, at least I think we are not talking about the same thing , a little slime can pop and give slime balls when we kill him but only the largest will not be divided so they die without giving anything , this problem was not present in 1.8. I would like to know how I can solve this concern.
Thanks for your answer
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Posted Apr 27, 2016@Poky83
Spawning behavior is not touched, so the slimes are spawning the default (which is: "The size of the slime. Note that this value is zero-based, so 0 is the smallest slime, 1 is the next larger, etc. The sizes that spawn naturally are 0, 1, and 3.")
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Posted Apr 27, 2016I have a problem with slime spawner , they spawn but when i kill them they dont divide. What can i do ? :) Thanks for your answer and your plugin its great o/
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Posted Apr 17, 2016@AdamTragedy
Well seems like some other plugin is removing the NBT tags, SilkSpawners does not do that from itself. If you can identify the conflicting plugin, please let me know.
@ObbolaLink
The spawning algorithm is untouched, if you can confirm that your "test" server is working fine, please try to identify a conflicting plugin and let me know.
@ZeoBeats
SilkSpawners never offered shop support and the 1.8 update broke most of the shops. Due to popular demand I'll added the ShopAddon. I'm not sure if EssentialsX is behaving correctly with selling and buying spawners.