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
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Posted Jul 26, 2013Really excited for the planned features, TNT/explosion drop chance support Other features and compatibility (Factions, ...)
Not trying to be rude, but when can we expect them :) ?
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Posted Jul 26, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
I think @TanveerGT5 meant, and I was thinking the same thing, that you can have a permission that creates a limit on the number of spawners, I think having a daily limit would be great, so that all spawners won't be mined up by those with the permission to do so.
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Posted Jul 25, 2013Why when I type /spawner [mob] it spawns a spawner of that mob type in my hand when it's meant to change the spawner I'm pointing my mouse at?
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Posted Jul 22, 2013@Gunnerrrrr
You have the crafting of spawner enabled for nearly every modded mob?
enableCraftingSpawner: true means you can craft this spawner.
If you set this to false or remove it, it will become un-craftable.
Can you give an example of which mob spawner you can craft but you normally don't want to craft?
@Crazdale
Then I guess it's MC/Bukkit when another plugin has issues with it. Going on research anyways
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Posted Jul 22, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
http://pastebin.com/MFmagxiR
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Posted Jul 22, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Not sure Ghost, but another spawner plugin I've used does the exact same thing... just some weird lag when spawning stuff. I swear that they broke the mob spawner code in 1.6. ;p
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Posted Jul 22, 2013@Gunnerrrrr
Can you please post your mobs.yml?
Thx.
@velcerick
Seems like you are not using an MPCP+ build for 1.6.2.
The MCPC+ build is important for me, not the Forge build :/
You should switch to http://ci.md-5.net/job/MCPC-Plus/33/ with SS 3.3.2 :)
@Crazdale
Well, I can check this, but I only call the Minecraft/Bukkit function to change the mob like I do with every mob, too.
Although the second time I heard this.
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Posted Jul 22, 2013@deaddude22
I don't and I'm using bPermissions.
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Posted Jul 21, 2013@Gunnerrrrr
If you are using perms you probably have the '*' permission enabled which gives you every permission.
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Posted Jul 21, 2013Whenever I use a Horse spawner on the server, it creates a lot and lot of lag on the server. My FPS will eventually drop down to 0. Not sure if this is with the plugin, or just Minecraft/Bukkit's code in general, but it's only on horses.
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Posted Jul 20, 2013I'm using MCPC+, Forge Build 789, and SilkSpawners 3.3.2 and am getting the following console error which seems to prevent SilkSpawners from doing anything.
8:48:26 PM [SEVERE] Error occurred while enabling SilkSpawners v3.3.2 (Is it up to date?) java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/minecraft/server/v1_6_R2/EntityTypes at de.dustplanet.util.SilkUtil.scanEntityMap(SilkUtil.java:456) at de.dustplanet.silkspawners.SilkSpawners.loadConfigs(SilkSpawners.java:242) at de.dustplanet.silkspawners.SilkSpawners.onEnable(SilkSpawners.java:72) at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:217) at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:396) at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:383) at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_6_R2.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:312) at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_6_R2.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:294) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.func_71243_i(MinecraftServer.java:492) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.func_71222_d(MinecraftServer.java:456) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.func_71247_a(MinecraftServer.java:408) at net.minecraft.server.dedicated.DedicatedServer.func_71197_b(DedicatedServer.java:212) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:601) at net.minecraft.server.ThreadMinecraftServer.run(ThreadMinecraftServer.java:16) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.minecraft.server.v1_6_R2.EntityTypes at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:340) at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:332) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) ... 14 more
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Posted Jul 20, 2013For some mobs I disabled crafting and the mob itself, reloaded the plugin, deop'd myself, but I can still craft the spawners.
SilkSpawners: 3.3.2
Spigot 1.6.2
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Posted Jul 18, 2013@colouredfruit
Well, use eg GroupManager or bperms and negate the specific permission in these worlds ;)
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Posted Jul 17, 2013How do i disable placing spawners in the nether? or end
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Posted Jul 15, 2013@lecraeman
@Splazeing
See reply on Ticker 24 and 21 please
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Posted Jul 15, 2013When i do a SilkSpawners command, it show the /ss [creature]:[etc],[etc] and when i do like /ss horse it says the same message, and people with the mine permission cant mine them.
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Posted Jul 14, 2013Whenever I use the command it says something like this:
/ss [creature]:[creature],[egg]
Or something along that lines...Basically the command syntax. I reloaded the server, I updated, and reloaded again. I even deleted the folder because I thought it might need to regenerate. It refuses to work whatsoever...what do I do?
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Posted Jul 13, 2013I'm afraid updating to 1.5.2 or higher is not an option for a while, as there are a few forge mods I use that haven't migrated to 1.5.2 and some that are even planning on skipping it altogether and go for 1.6.x.
Is there a wiki for this plugin with the exact procedure for adding mod mobs manually like you're suggesting? I don't want to bug you about it if it already exists. I sometimes miss wiki pages that plugins have. xD
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Posted Jul 13, 2013@JorgeFuentes
Yes, you will need the at least dev build #110 to have the latest features active...
You can turn the debug output on and then add all the mobs manually, that's the only way at the moment.
If you can update at least to 1.5.2 and use the dev build #110
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Posted Jul 12, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
I am using the following build for my server: mcpc-plus-151compat-1.5.2-R1.1-forge738-C598 If the number is any indication, I am above 556.
However, I'm not seeing any additions to the mobs when I type /ss list...
Do I require 1.5.2 or higher to use the plugins' higher numbered versions (that is, the ones with the changes)?