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 Aug 7, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
ok, well i just tested it and it worked, thank you.
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Posted Aug 7, 2013@saxon564
It's vice versa ;)
off -> OP only
on -> permission based
@Bball_Star
I still haven't found any errors. Also the pets are not listed in /ss list for me
Side note. Explosion drop chance has been implemented, see build #123 for testing!
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Posted Aug 6, 2013Has he EchoPet conflict been resolved or still looking?
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Posted Aug 6, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
it is not true right now. when i looked at the more detailed description of the configs you have, it sounded like turning that to true meant it was only op.
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Posted Aug 6, 2013@saxon564
Have you switched usePermissions to true in the config?
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Posted Aug 6, 2013I am having some trouble with the permissions, I've tried setting it so one of the rank can change the spawners using eggs, but when I test it out it says, "You do not have permission to change spawners with spawn eggs." I copy and pasted the exact permission node that is on your permissions page and pasted it into my permissions.yml file. Is there something else I need to do?
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Posted Aug 5, 2013Since there will be no SpoutPlugin for 1.6.2 the Spout support will be dropped in the next version!
(See here for more information!)
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Posted Aug 5, 2013@Jeroendedoem
Thank you :)
@LukieTheBeast
Have you enabled "usePermissions"?
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Posted Aug 4, 2013My default class can use silk spawners how do i make it so the cant use it?
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Posted Aug 4, 2013@tim740
Please don't advertise other pluigins here.
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Posted Aug 2, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Heey, Plugin is very nice. So i was bored and translated the plugin in dutch: http://jeroenonline.biz/SilkSpawners_localization_dutch.yml This is the link. You may download it and upload it on your dropbox.
- Greetz!
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Posted Aug 2, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
I don't actually know. It works for some people, but when i type /spawner list, it shows CreeperPet, WolfPet, etc. PM me your skype and i'll discuss this over my server
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Posted Aug 1, 2013@Liquidew
Can you give me a more detailed instruction how to produce the error?
Worked fine for me!
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Posted Aug 1, 2013@tim740
Since you are unable to provide valid tickets or error reports and just tell me "not working. Help." without a pastebin stacktrace and switched over to an other plugin, I'll ignore your issue from now on.
@Liquidew
See ticket #28 please, I'm looking into it
@Bball_Star
I'm looking into the EchoPet issue
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Posted Aug 1, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Hey! Silkspawners is not working with EchoPet. Spawner entity is changed by EchoPet somehow. Example: Before: Creeper Spawner After: CreeperPet Spawner
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Posted Jul 30, 2013@tim740
Post it in pastebin and make a ticket you idiot.
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Posted Jul 30, 2013Hello on my server i run mainly essentials, PEX, Echopet and im seeming to have trouble getting them to spawn? Help.. Ok so i was testing and they say Pet after them is this because of echopets and if so can you update it to be compatible cause there both great plugins but id have to choose that one over this?
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Posted Jul 28, 2013@cuddyier
Depends :)
SS is supporting both, try to empty your hand or hold another item!
Maybe you were too far away?
@TheOnlyZaneboy
Hmm, not sure if this would fit. Since I normally won't track the spawners/blocks when the changed to the new one or listen to mob spawns
@GoldenPVP
I'm able to code again in the next days, not sure when exactly but hope this won't take so long ;)
(And it looks like they will keep 1.6.2 and won't update :D)
@austin101
I start believing this is a MC issue and not caused by SS.
Any chance you can check that this is not related to SS?
@ViscousSummer88
I won't remove the /spawner alias, sorry.
Since this /ss command is much more powerful than Essentials, normally it's wanted to be overriden ;)
You can checkout the "overriden-commands" section in the Essentials config.yml and add spawner to them!
@tim740
Any sort of feedback from the plugin like "no perms, mob disabled".
Otherwise I can't help you!
@tim740
I'm not controlling the spawners. This plugin just changes the type to a new mob like it should be - spawn algorithm is untouched [in other words, something else seems to lag?]
You can always prove me wrong with a NoLagg Examine report or a Spigot timing report
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Posted Jul 28, 2013I want to use the essentials /spawner cmd. User's can't it says they dont have perms, it's running through this plugin. How can I make it so silkspawners does NOT override the essentials /spawner cmd?
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Posted Jul 28, 2013@Crazdale
I have the same issue with loads of lag with only horse spawners