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 Mar 24, 2021how is there so many downloads like hooow
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Posted Mar 28, 2021In reply to whytho87:
Kinda suspicious
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Posted Mar 29, 2021In reply to Ari_RERA_43:
Yep. A crazy bug in BukkitDev. But kinda funny
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Posted Apr 21, 2021In reply to whytho87:
this is og. It makes sense
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Posted Apr 26, 2021In reply to mcnostalgia:
this person does not understand how much 1 billion is
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Posted Mar 6, 2021What are the chances of getting the spawner? Every time I use my silk touch pick, it always breaks! I've mined about 5 or 6 spawners, and they all broke. Again I ask, what the chances of getting the spawner?
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Posted Mar 11, 2021In reply to blossomboss101:
Depends on your configuration. Per default 100% as long as a correct tool is used and permissions are correctly setup.
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Posted Mar 15, 2021In reply to xghostkillerx:
How will I do that?
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Posted Mar 1, 2021I'm having trouble configuring the Users access. I tryed to put the
silkspawners.place/craft/...etc inside the config files, god knows how many different variations of commands, and nothing seems to work. Only the Op is able to manage and thats it.
Can some one help me or show me how it should be done to see if I'm doing it wrong or if its a bug ?!
I really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
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Posted Mar 2, 2021In reply to Rumpelghast:
You'd need to post your permission(s) file(s) in order to get any valuable help.
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Posted Mar 2, 2021In reply to xghostkillerx:
I'm using the "config.yml" that your plugin provides.
Not that different than what you must have there.
I didn't find any other file to put those permissions in it.
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Posted Mar 3, 2021In reply to xghostkillerx:
I learn since we spoke, that exists a way to configure a permission.uml file, so I did and even then it not work.
I followed the https://bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-guide-permissions.50305/ guide
permissions.yml
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Posted Feb 22, 2021Hello! Nice plugin you've made here. However I need help with the iron golems. How can I make them spawn in air? For me they need a block so spawn on, is there any way to disable this?
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Posted Feb 23, 2021In reply to sweppyyy:
Set the option
iron-golems-can-spawn-in-airtotruein yourpaper.yml.-
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Posted Feb 18, 2021Hey great plugin, but i have one problem... even though im op, when i try to place an iron-golem-spawner, it says: You do not have the permission to place a(n) golem spawner! I Also tryed to give me * permissions... nothing seems to work : / pls help.
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Posted Feb 19, 2021In reply to placeblock:
It clearly states what the problem is, I can't help you to setup your permissions correctly.
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Posted Jan 28, 2021does this work on version 1.16.4 minecraft?
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Posted Jan 30, 2021In reply to mamasitathegoat:
Of course! All Minecraft versions from 1.8 up to 1.16.5 are supported!
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Posted Jan 19, 2021Sorry if this comment is stupid but I'm tired and I want to sleep and not read, if I keep enough mobs with this plugin would I get a spawner for it?
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Posted Jan 3, 2021how do I turn off silk spawners in the nether but keep them in the overworld?