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 Apr 13, 2014stops working on 1.7.7 servers
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Posted Apr 13, 2014@Lepoty
What exactly doesn't work in your opinion or needs to be optimized?
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Posted Apr 13, 2014Add compatibility with http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/custom-enchantments/ Please
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Posted Apr 12, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Thanks xGhostkillerx for the trouble shooting ideas! I've been doing too much troubleshooting for the server and forgot to check the log, because SS had just been working and I assumed it was still.
Turns out it was being disabled due to the MC version and deaddude22's idea was a simple fix. Thanks!
Looks like we'll stay away from 1.7.8 stuff until things have had more time to work themselves out.
Thanks again!
Misty
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Posted Apr 12, 2014Guys it's the easiest fix as explained before, it's a protocol update meaning all your plugins is going to think it's a different minecraft version.
Change the config value TestMcVersion to false for the plugin to work as it automatically disables it during startup for safety measures.
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Posted Apr 12, 2014@CloudKidZ
Can you try turning off permissions in the config?
And what's about if you run only SilkSpawners as the only plugin?
Does the console work?
Do you give wildcard permissions or per mob permissions?
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Posted Apr 12, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Sorry, still not working for me with the 1.7.8 spigot build #1388. The commands don't work - no error, just type them in and it keeps repeating the help message /silkspawner [creature]:[creature] egg|mob. . . srry can't remember exactly. There is no info when spawner is in my hand, as there normally would be, and spawners are destroyed instead of dropped using silk touch pick.
However, the 3.3.5 silkspawner still works with spigot build #1379, MC 1.7.5 (The dev SS doesn't work with this).
Thanks for being so on top of all this and keeping things up to date. It is a great added feature for our server.
Misty
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Posted Apr 12, 2014Dev build 178 is updated for CB 1.7.8
http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/178/
An official update will be released tomorrow, when I've implemented a feature completely
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Posted Apr 12, 2014Latest dev build doesn't seem to be working. (spigot)
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Posted Apr 9, 2014Hello. I am sorry if this is mentioned somewhere, but I could not find it. Is there a way to make players only able to, for example, destroy 1 spawner each day? This would be necessary for me to add it on my server.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Posted Apr 8, 2014Please get the 1.7.5 patch out asap! Btw your bitcoin address didnt work for me :c
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Posted Apr 6, 2014@NoahWL1
I had that problem too, I mentioned it, but I logged on my server to day after cnfigurating all my plugins, did a /reload. I thought it wouldn't work but I thought I'd just try it, and I just did /spawner pig and it worked. I suggest just using a custom jar for your craftbukkit. That's all I have done. If not wait a few days, that's all I did XD
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Posted Apr 6, 2014I can confirm that this plugin does not work with the silkspawner version 3.3.5 agains CB 1.7.5. The spawner gets destroyed.
The plugin is just great, it has come with alot of happiness to our players! And im sure the our silkspawner developer will come with a good solution really soon! =)
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Posted Apr 5, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
what do u mean Spawning algorithm isn't touched.
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Posted Apr 5, 2014@EvilWosby
That doest even make sense...
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Posted Apr 5, 2014@NoahWL1
Ahh, someone that understands what the hell this plugin now does!
USETO: Be great, lovely NOW: Horrible, doesnt do what it says.
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Posted Apr 5, 2014Running the latest craftbukkit 1.7.5 and it doesn't work. Just drops exp and /spawner doesn't change the spawner, just re-tells me what to do.
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Posted Apr 5, 2014mine doesn't seem to work i have the perms setup and the plugin installed and updated and it just drops exp are there any known plugins that interfere
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Posted Apr 4, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Getting the exact same error on the 1.6.4, 1.7.2 versions as well. Using the 1.7.2 CB build as well..
All commands just send the help message; so none of them actually work. Mining spawners doesn't give me the spawner; not a permission issue since I'm OP; not a config issue either since the default silk touch requirement is 1; and I have 1.. Suggestions?