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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Statistics (from bStats)
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 Nov 5, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Would you be able to make a compatible version for the Spigot 1.7.2 Protocol Hack?
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Posted Nov 4, 2013Update will be available hopefully soon after official Bukkit 1.7.2 release
Be patient, thx!
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Posted Nov 3, 2013Please update! This is a must have plugin on some servers!
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Posted Nov 2, 2013I need this plugin fast, Please hurry or I will be forced to get a new plugin.
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Posted Oct 31, 2013I need this plugin updated. Could you give us an estimate on how soon there could be an update?
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Posted Oct 30, 2013Please update. this plugins is very important to many servers and many of us need it haha
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Posted Oct 30, 2013hey, I saw that when people find aspawner in the wild they can type the command /spawner (mob) and it will give them the (mob) to theyr hands and not change the spawner on the ground this is very bad because my donators started to duplicate them
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Posted Oct 27, 2013Fix for 1.7.2 or just make the plugin not break on new updates please :D
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Posted Oct 26, 2013Hi i am experiencing a problem with pig men spawners when they are mined using silktouch then replaced they instantly turn to zombie spawners, have i overlooked a setting or is this a bug?
Thanks for the awesome plugin.
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Posted Oct 24, 2013@EliteDesign
Well I looked at the code and I'm not sure if there is a bug, I'll check this
@nasapc12
Nope, new feature :)
explosionDropChance: 30
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Posted Oct 23, 2013It appears that in the latest build, Creeper explosions trigger spawner items to drop, regardless of permissions assigned to a player. In my server a certain rank 'Elite' has the ability to mine spawners, and any rank may lure a creeper to the vicinity of such a spawner, have it explode and the spawner will drop (usually).
I assume this is a bug as I deem this undesirable behaviour, I have tested this and when the plugin is unloaded, this does not occur.
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Posted Oct 16, 2013Hey what is the permission node for players to change egg types by typing /egg? I don't want them receiving a free egg, I just want them to be able to change egg types (only certain ranks) Thanks!
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Posted Oct 13, 2013@AstralInflux
Try /ss instead of /spawner.
Are you using SilkSpawnersEcoAddon?
@chopstick121
No perm for that - must be your eco plugin then!
@DfieldMark
Currently I 'm not available for detailed support via Skype, sorry :/
@LilDevil2000
You can achieve this with multi world feature of your permissions plugin, simply deny the nodes of silkspawners.<whatever> in the specific world ;)
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Posted Oct 12, 2013Would it be possible to add multiworld support to this plugin?
It would be very usefull if we could disable silkspawner in certain worlds (like a mining world). Reason that i dont want them to be able to silktouch spawners in a certain world is that we use catacombs plugin for dungeons. This plugin spawns spawners to make it harder to explore the whole thing.
I would really like such feature to disable silkspawners in certain worlds (:
Peace out :P
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Posted Sep 30, 2013Hi there, I am a Mod on a server and we are having trouble installing this plugin within our server due to some technical problems and seems like it's just not compatible. Can one of the developers of this Plugin message me their Skype details and we'll get into contact to try and solve this problem?
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Posted Sep 28, 2013whats the permsmsion to buy spawners?
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Posted Sep 25, 2013Im having an issue- not sure what is wrong exactly. The /spawner commands arent working and the spawners only drop 1/25. I have essentials, too, which has a few /spawner commands, but just mob changing. could this be the problem, or does anyone have any other ideas?
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Posted Sep 23, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Haha alright hoping to at least see it for 1.7 then ;)
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Posted Sep 23, 2013@deaddude22
I might extend the feature with a permission check with a range basis, this is the basic implementation though...
I didn't plan to release the update originally since not all promised features are included (but a new MC version came out) ;)
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Posted Sep 22, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Could you add a permission so that a player with the set permission has to be within a configurable radius of the spawner blown up by the creeper/TNT to be dropped?