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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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 Dec 30, 2012@HarlequinTusk
Weird, it fixed my permission issue o.o? Try #14 then? Both of those builds involved permissions changes. If not, give the dev some information I guess so he can try to fix?
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Posted Dec 30, 2012I confirm what Dugler123 is experiencing. I tried the latest dev build #15 you linked to and it now allows anyone to break and pick up spawners with silktouch using default configs, howerver with "usePermissions: true" and "silkspawners.silkdrop" in permissions only OP can break and pickup spawners.
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Posted Dec 30, 2012@Dugler123
http://puu.sh/1Hhri Try the most recent of the dev builds? Build #15 essentially. Link here: http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/
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Posted Dec 30, 2012Whats the permission to change a pigman spawner?
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Posted Dec 30, 2012@midnightfang22
I tried both versions of 22nd day release and also the version 2.0.2, no dice.
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Posted Dec 30, 2012@Dugler123
Try build 15 on the dev builds. 14 and 15 involved permission checking changes.
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Posted Dec 29, 2012Hi
We are using this plugin on 1.4.6 server. However even though I have permissions set to true in config and I have permissions configured with GroupManager, it still doesn't work properly. The most amazing part seems to be that, everything else works with permissions except the breaking of a spawner with silk touch. I set it up so only VIP and higher ranked people could use it. However only people with "op" status can break and receive a spawner when broken with silk touch.
I tried turning off permissions - everyone can break = me no like. I tried turning on/off pretty much everything in the config and each time restarting the server - no dice. I tried to set permissions with silkspawners.silkdrop AND silkspawners.silkdrop.* - neither one works. I tested the rest and they seem to function properly with permissions on.
Can you help?
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Posted Dec 29, 2012Got this error, since installing SilkSpawners..
It looks like a spawner, with NO mobtype?
http://pastebin.com/NshsdPvb
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Posted Dec 29, 2012@ForgenGod
As @midnightfang22 said, please try build 15, if it's still not working pastebin your permissions file.
@246CraftFX
Same for you, see above ;)
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Posted Dec 29, 2012@ForgenGod
Dev build #15 works for me for permissions.
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Posted Dec 29, 2012Hey, Permissions support aint working. Anyone can mine spawners. I made sure usePermissions was on true and event put a (-) node for default ranks, however they can still mine the spawner and I have even tried resetting the config.
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Posted Dec 27, 2012@246CraftFX
Use the dev builds? I works fine for me on beta :/
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Posted Dec 27, 2012Its R3DY here > the plugin is fucked and doesnt work :/ please fix it
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Posted Dec 27, 2012@TOOTHPlCK1
Jenkins is back up! Sorry for the short downtime!
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Posted Dec 27, 2012Your download server seems to be down... Any chance you could put a build up on a file host?
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Posted Dec 26, 2012@InvisiCraftOfficial
@InvisiCraftOfficial
Dude its Christmas ;)
Sorry for being not as active as usual, I'll tweak the perms again a bit.
Are you having usePermissions to true or false?
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Posted Dec 26, 2012Help??
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Posted Dec 24, 2012They are dropping for everyone including those without permission! I did check config.
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Posted Dec 24, 2012@InvisiCraftOfficial
@Theonlymongi
Exactly, please try build 14! Remember that there are per type permissions now, like
silkspawners.changetype.zombie or silkspanwers.silkdrop.* or silkspawners.destroydrop.cow
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Posted Dec 24, 2012@InvisiCraftOfficial
Use Build #14 from jenkis, i helped him fix!
http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/14/