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 Mar 23, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
It's not working on the latest Spigot release (#1347). :-(
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Posted Mar 23, 2014DEV builds are updated!!
http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/172/
Release later today!
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Posted Mar 8, 2014@Curtis4321
Maybe when I'm done with my university block I can implement some new nice features :)
@Curtis4321
Please check for other conflicts first and try the command alias (eg /ss)
and make sure silkspawners.freeitem.* or silkspawners.freeitem.<creaturetype> is NOT granted to your users.
Generally SilkSpawners gives you only 1 spawner unless you explicitly set an amount
@anthony8_0
Try to disable the custom names (localization.yml -> first line)
What shop plugin are you using?
@WFloydBoy
Dev builds are working (very ugly), but no ETA (or if it will work again smoothly)
@MafiaPvP
Should work fine? Otherwise look 2 answers above
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Posted Mar 4, 2014Is there away to disable people doing /spawner from their hand? Because my players are doing /spawner zombie for example on a stack of 64 spawners :/
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Posted Mar 2, 2014I dont know if I just don't know what im doing but, I can not sell spawners. Does anyone know why? If you mine them with SilkTouch you cant sell them on the signs. But if you buy them from the signs then you can sell them. Thanks
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Posted Mar 1, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Do you know when it will be fixed and work fine? (The spawnersUnstackable option)
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Posted Feb 28, 2014@Curtis4321
Support. I would like this feature to be added to this plug-in.
What I want; 1. Player uses a silk touch pick-axe to get a spawner. 2. Permissions could be set for certain ranks to increase their chance of getting a spawner. 3. Player's chance of getting a spawner is calculated and it either results in breaking the spawner with no loot or giving the spawner.
Quote this if this is added.
Thanks :)
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Posted Feb 26, 2014Is there a way to sell spawners with essentials buy/sell features?
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Posted Feb 25, 2014Is there anyway we could maybe have a % chance of getting the spawner back?
Like a 90% chance of getting the spawner using a SilkTouch to prevent everybody with the access gaining a spawner?
Something requested on my server.
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Posted Feb 21, 2014@WFloydBoy
Is enabled in the dev builds but doesn't work fine.
@Stevensaurus
Yes, just use /silkspawners <name> <amount> with empty hands
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Posted Feb 19, 2014Is there a command to give a player a spawner?
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Posted Feb 16, 2014Figured out what was really causing that duping.... BukkitExtras... Which is weird because silk spawners isn't even part of the plugin feats. Possible conflict.
Sorry for troubling you to test out mcmmo and essentials.
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Posted Feb 16, 2014The spawnersUnstackable option doesn't seem to be working at all for me. I am using Spigot 1309 if you're wondering.
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Posted Feb 15, 2014@dotapurex1
Not really, of course WorldGuard listens to nearly anything but on my server I had no conflicts with major plugins like Essentials, AntiCheat or WorldGuard
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Posted Feb 13, 2014@deekondvg
That's part of McMMo idiot.
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Posted Feb 12, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Is there any common particular plugin that you can think of tracks these events?
Worldguard? Nocheatplus, etc..?
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Posted Feb 12, 2014No command "give" to the spawners?
thanks
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Posted Feb 12, 2014@deekondvg
I tested different setups and was unable to dupe via Essentials or mcMMO...
@dotapurex1
Must be a conflict with another plugin.
I'm not tracking the spawners, I change the type only on these events:
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Posted Feb 9, 2014Could you please take a look into why spawners are randomly changing to pig spawners when they are other types of spawners?
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Posted Feb 5, 2014@cookiemonsta41
silkspawners.silkdrop.mob