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 Jan 4, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Is the plugin "SpawnerGUI" compatible with this?
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Posted Dec 29, 2013@LucaDiv
If you can PM me some examples I could look into NBT support.
Thanks in advance
@sabrington
Your shop plugin needs to adjust that, although SS offers the ability to rename the spawner on pickup
@exiledgooru
This is due to the MC spawning logic and not on my end...
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Posted Dec 26, 2013is there ever going to be support for mining custom spawners created through nbtediting?
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Posted Dec 25, 2013Is there any way to make it so that when you buy a creeper spawner for example the name of the spawner is no "Monster Spawner", but "Creeper Spawner"?
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Posted Dec 24, 2013does this plugin have basic issues with enderdragon spawners or is that just me. i cant get a enderdragon spawner to spawn anything.
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Posted Dec 22, 2013@CraftPimp
Must be an issue on your side because SilkSpawners does NOT alter the spawning algorithm.
Make sure you have enough light and grass under the spawner.
@RaesWolf
Nope, and I doubt I'll implement this
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Posted Dec 22, 2013I am having the problem where peaceful mobs are nto spawning from spawner, the hostile mobs are, but not the peaceful mobs. I have the latest craftbukkit dev build and the latest silkspawners dev build installed. I dont know if any1 has reported this to you but wanted u to know! thx
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Posted Dec 16, 2013is there a way to disable spawners with like a redstone signal of some sorts?
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Posted Dec 14, 2013@Maroseliss
Thanks i completely forgot about the use of negative permissions!
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Posted Dec 13, 2013@cookiemonsta41
Just remove permissions for the mining of cave spider spawners.
Permissions: Mining spawners
silkspawners.silkdrop.* or silkspawners.silkdrop.<creaturetype> (true) - Allows you to use silk touch to acquire mob spawner items
So negate it like this in your permissions (if you use PermissionsEX):
- -silkspawners.silkdrop.cavespider
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Posted Dec 13, 2013how do i disable mining of a cave spider spawner?
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Posted Dec 12, 2013Is there a way to add a percent chance of the spawner actually dropping with silk touch? For example, I have Silk Touch, I break it, and I would have maybe a 30% chance to get the spawner. I feel that a 100% chance might be a little much on my server.
Seems like a great plugin, always wanted to try it out :)
Thanks!
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Posted Dec 10, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
i have the pluing in all instaled and what not but i cant get it to work with the shop or in my hand or anything
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Posted Dec 8, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
oh okay, thanks for replying, hope you get it fixed soon.
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Posted Dec 8, 2013@cookiemonsta41
The feature is working again in dev build #139
Although reallllly ugly. Even updating the inventory doesn't update the inventory the way I need it.
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Posted Dec 8, 2013@cookiemonsta41
That's because the update broke that function - I'm trying to get this feature working again
@marubal21
This plugin has no economy permissions, you need to lookup the Essentals permissions then...
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Posted Dec 7, 2013i want to make spawners unstackable what am i doing wrong its not working?
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Posted Dec 7, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
I have tried just using the [buy] signs but the only pigs me a defulat pig spawner regardless of mod id used. i think it has to do with a permission needed for it to work. when i hit the sign with my admin char it works just fine since he has access to all permissions, but when i try with an alt account i only get the pig spawner. is there a certain permission required just to be able to buy spawners and place, nut not allow players to sliktouch them?
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Posted Dec 4, 2013@marubal21
http://ess.khhq.net/wiki/Sign_Tutorial#Buy_Sign
with <id>:<mob id>
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Posted Dec 3, 2013@Bobcat00
is using chest shops the only way you know how to sell them? we only have essentials and silkspawners installed, and i would like to simply sell the spawners using the essentials [buy] signs.