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 Apr 17, 2019Absolutely amazing plugin! Have used it on my server for a while now, BUT we're updating to 1.13.2 and it isn't currently compatible with anything past 1.12.2 with from what I can tell no signs of an update. So 10/10 if you're using this on or below 1.12.2
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Posted Mar 15, 2019/egg doesn't seem to give me an egg, and it says: "Unrecognized argument. See /silkspawners help"
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Posted Feb 26, 2019When a non-op players destroys the spawner with silk touch pick it doesnt drop it!
How do I manage permission so everyone has permission to destroy, place and change spawners?
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Posted Sep 30, 2019In reply to Forge_User_07959537:
the plugin needs and update it doesnt work past 1.12 but its required to use shop gui so right now silkspawner is just a let down
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Posted Feb 15, 2019Hello, the players in my server brake the spawner and it don't drop( i tried to activate the option to go to their hand and didn't worked). How can i solve it? People that is OP drops the spawner, idk why
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Posted Feb 7, 2019Is anyone aware of how to compile the GitHub version that is linked? I've tried from multiple angles and none of the complied Jar files seem to work. I have a 1.13 server and would love to try the dev build on there.
I'm using Eclipse to complie the java file, but not sure what I need to include and where :S.
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Posted Feb 1, 2019any eta on 1.13 update?
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Posted Jan 27, 2019Hey! I love the plugin but would like to stop players from mining and using the spawners in dungeons. is there anyway I could do this besides going through a multiple day process by using mcedit to remove all spawners from my world?
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Posted Jan 19, 2019is there a way i can make a XPOrb or ThrownExpBottle spawner work in 1.7.10? ive tried every plugin and nothing works.. ive enabled the mobs in the config and mobs.yml but nothing happes, the particles of the mob spawner attempting to spawn something shows up but no exp bottle or xp orb spawn. any help?
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Posted Jan 8, 2019when the plugin dev was on the site 2 days ago but doesnt reply to a single comment posted on his plugin :/ is this thing ever getting updated to 1.13? EVERYONE is waiting on you! your one of the last plugins we are ALL waiting on.... come on man. if you need help updating it ASK people.
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Posted Jan 8, 2019In reply to missycheshire666:
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Posted Jan 10, 2019In reply to xGh0sTkiLLeRx:
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Posted Jan 2, 2019Hello i need help with this problem thanks
https://github.com/timbru31/SilkSpawners/issues/186
I have been waiting for more than two months...
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Posted Dec 22, 2018please update!! there is no other better plugin than this one, nothing compares. please hurry up and try update soon! we have all been waiting for a reply for months
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Posted Dec 5, 2018update pls
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Posted Nov 7, 2018I've tried 4 different Mob Stacking plugins with no luck of any of them working, so I was wondering if there is a specific Mob stacking plugin compatible with this plugin or have I just done something wrong?
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Posted Oct 31, 2018So for some reason on my skyblock server using ASkyBlock sometimes there is spots on islands
that dont spawn any mobs what so ever until i break the spawners and re-add them was wondering
if that is your issue or chunk issue or askyblock issue?
version: 5.0.2
1.12.2 paper
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Posted Oct 14, 2018Can someone help a brother out and tell me what in WorldGuard is causing the message "Denied by WorldGuard" when attempting to change a spawner?
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Posted Dec 31, 2018SOLVED
It was an issue with silk spawners not being supported by WG. I found the following option in SilkSpawners config and set it to false.
# Should be checked for WorldGuard build ability to change spawners
useWorldGuard: true
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Posted Oct 6, 2018Why is it not updated to 1.13 yet? Is there anyway i can help to get the update up faster?