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)
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Posted Jan 27, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
I will run more tests to see if it is silkspawners or not. Also this was said in that bug reported you showed: Build 2607: Spawners behave normally and will stop spawning pigs when they are destroyed. Build 2608: Spawners behave abnormally and will continue to spawn pigs after being destroyed.
Does silkspawners work on 2607? If so I will probably switch to that build.
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Posted Jan 26, 2013@lukecfairchild
Are you sure the bug/crash was caused by SilkSpawners?
Because I don't use the "worldServer" field, which seems to caused the error...
@Swainoo
Normally you should be able to receive the spawners via silktouch when the permissions are turned off, I'll re-test it before I release 3.0 anyways
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Posted Jan 25, 2013So just to get this right. Simply dropping the .jar into my plugins folder and letting it generate the folder/files, then leaving the files...perms should be off and anyone should be able to use this including OPs/owners.
As that is my setup, perms disabled, i have a diamond pickaxe with silktouch on it, but whenever i mine a spawner it just destroys.
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Posted Jan 25, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Ok, well that bug sucks, thats unfortunate. About the crashing here is the crash report: http://paste.thezomg.com/7156/35913187/
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Posted Jan 25, 2013@lukecfairchild
I tested it with 0 plugins loaded, it's a craftbukkit bug, the spawning still continues after breaking if SilkSpawners is not enabled!
See: https://bukkit.atlassian.net/browse/BUKKIT-3501
No IRC for now, I might make one, I dunno yet ;)
What crashing bug?
The one I mentioned above should be fixed now, I added 2-3 security checks to ensure this cannot longer happen!
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Posted Jan 24, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Hey man, so I am trying your dev builds. The latest one works great except. If you break a spawner. It keeps spawning mobs after its gone. Also do you have a IRC channel? If not you should really take the one on esper. I'll hold onto the operator position for you for now.
[Edit] Hmm that crashing bug isn't so pleasant.
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Posted Jan 24, 2013@Stevensaurus
When you put a spawner in your hand (or even put your mouse over it) it tells you what type it is in your chat box
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Posted Jan 24, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Alright, thanks. Is there any way to tell them apart?
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Posted Jan 23, 2013@Stevensaurus
@midnightfang22
Yes, midnightfang22 is correct.
The same type would stack unless you set stackableSpawners to false.
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Posted Jan 23, 2013@Stevensaurus
They would be 3 separate spawners.
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Posted Jan 23, 2013How does this work with multiple/stacked spawners in one inventory?
Say I mined one spider spawner, then one zombie spawner, then one skeleton spider. What would happen?
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Posted Jan 21, 2013@CollinDesigns
You can simply ignore it for now :)
I renamed the files now, I might change the updater a bit anyways.
[The error might occur still due to caching!]
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Posted Jan 21, 2013Console told me something to tell you, so here it is:
CONSOLE: [WARNING] [SilkSpawners] The author of this plugin (xGhOsTkiLLeRx) has misconfigured their Auto Update system CONSOLE: [WARNING] [SilkSpawners] Files uploaded to BukkitDev should contain the version number, seperated from the name by a 'v', such as PluginName v1.0 CONSOLE: [WARNING] [SilkSpawners] Please notify the author of this error.
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Posted Jan 18, 2013Config page is online
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/silkspawners/pages/configuration/
Poll is opened, you can decide which version I should release
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Posted Jan 17, 20131.4.7 can be found HERE:
http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/22/
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Posted Jan 10, 2013The permission bug is fixed in the latest dev build #18.
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Posted Jan 9, 2013Extra page for permission is up!!
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/silkspawners/pages/permissions/
Explained detailed? Missing information? Any comments?
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Posted Jan 9, 2013@VerioHD
Are you using Beta 3? If yes, please use this build:
http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/18/
When a new build for 1.4.7 comes out, I will release full stable 3.0 :)
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Posted Jan 9, 20131.4.7 came out and I'm using the latest SilkSpawners BETA 3.0 for 1.4.6 with Craftbukkit 1.4.6-R.0-3 but the permissions do not seem to be working. I set "usePermissions: true" so only my server donators can break spawners with silk touch. I gave the donators silkspawners.silkdrop.* so they can silk touch drop any mob spawner but it seems that the spawner just breaks without dropping it for the players. It does not drop anything.
Please look into this! Thanks!
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Posted Jan 9, 2013@midnightfang22
+1.
As soon as a build for 1.4.7 is available, I will release 3.0 since my testings very were stable