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
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Posted May 2, 2013Please update it to 1.5.2
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Posted Apr 30, 2013@great209
Upgrade to 1.5.1 and SilkSpawners 3.2.1
Latest spigot build is #830!
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Posted Apr 29, 2013All my spawners are pigs, and when people mine the spawners with a silk touch, it just breaks.
Could it be my bukkit build?
Here's my version: http://puu.sh/2JVaN.jpg
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Posted Apr 27, 2013@stephano013
This is currently a (known) bug from ChestShop.
To enable selling you need to disable the naming feature of SilkSpawners (localization.yml)
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Posted Apr 26, 2013How can I sell Zombie/Skeleton/Creeper/Enderman/Blaze/Wolf/Cow/Pig etc... spawners using the plugin ChestShop? Please help me ASAP!
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Posted Apr 26, 2013@nevin221
No one ever experienced these issues.
The plugin is working fine, I have similar plugins installed on my server.
Mining spawners is possible, it might just not drop something, if you have not configured the permissions or turned off SilkTouch requirement.
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Posted Apr 25, 2013I will try and look for a new plugin. With this plugin people also could not mine spawners? So if you add in the fact that as I said before monsters are not spawning in my server (see comment below) then you have a server destroyer. Hmm that sounds like a great plugin.
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Posted Apr 25, 2013Says nothing in the server log. When I take the plugin off the spawners work. No other plugin I have deals with spawners. Heres the list:
- BorderGuard - HideStream - Broadcaster - NoCheatPlus - WorldEdit - WorldGuard - HeadHunter - ClearLag - MobArena - PEX - Factions - ObsidianDestroyer - CombatLog - Essentials and Ess-Spawn - Your plugin - BuyCraft - NoFrameRotate
As you can see.
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Posted Apr 25, 2013@nevin221
Nearly impossible, since no spawn logic/algorithm is touched.
It just changes the mob of the spawner - not the way it spawns mobs ;)
I believe another plugin is causing this conflict?
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Posted Apr 25, 2013This plugin stopped all mobs from spawning from spawners in my server. Any way to fix this?
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Posted Apr 20, 2013@5gbrown
Currently not possible, since I can't determine whether this spawner was created naturally or placed by a spawner.
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Posted Apr 13, 2013How can i make it so players can only mine spawners that players place
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Posted Apr 13, 2013@ForgenGod
Sorry for the delay,
any news? I noticed some new Essentials builds came out - could you try them?
@RSGTechno
It's stated on the permissions page.
It's .zombiepigman
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Posted Apr 10, 2013For some reason the Pig Zombie permission node is not working, am I forgetting to do something?
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Posted Apr 8, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Using /ss and /silkspawners does the following: /ss [creature]:[creature]egg:all /silkspawners [creature]:[creature]egg:all
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Posted Apr 7, 2013@ForgenGod
Please try to use an alias like /ss or /silkspawners for example.
@stephano013
Ask @ChestShop please, you could try /iteminfo for the name ;)
@ThePlayingNoob
Just craft it like this, when configured like default:
X X X
X E X
X X X
X = iron bars, E = egg
@Slaand
This would a permission breaking change, maybe I won't promise it!
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Posted Apr 7, 2013Nice plugin, but can you make permission only to change spawners what u have in your hand? Its can be very useful in my 120 slot server :)
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Posted Apr 6, 2013I doesnt understand how to craft a spawner
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Posted Apr 6, 2013How can you sell these in shop using the plugin ChestShop?
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Posted Apr 5, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
I am using GroupManager, I am OP and have it added in the perm nodes. When I try use /spawner (mob) it comes up with the following
/spawner [creature]:[creature]egg:all
/spawner <mob>