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 May 11, 2014To all those with startup problems Please try the latest dev build #200 (http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/200/)
@cbn2000
Here: http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/200/
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Posted May 11, 2014were do i find build #200 ? ? ? :(
thx -=- Cbn
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Posted May 10, 2014Thanks Guys!! Latest build #200 Works great on my 1.7.8 server.
I am still working on it and will keep you posted on any issues.
Thanks again!!
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Posted May 8, 2014@MCTylerPVP
No SilkSpawners is not modifying the spawning algorithm, sorry.
The spawning of slimes is described here: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Slime#Spawning
You will need another plugin which changes the spawning algorithm unfortunately.
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Posted May 8, 2014Proabably nothing to do with this plugin, but slime will not spawn from a slime spawner. Is there a way to force it to to override Notch's mind boggling slime chunk settings?
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Posted May 4, 2014@ergenta
Again, like I said before, try dev build #200
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Posted May 3, 2014I'm running: CraftBukkit version git-Spigot-1387 (mc: 1.7.8) (Implementing API version 1.7.5-R0.1-SNAPSHOT)
I have tried every version of silkspawners and every time I type any thing with /spawner in it I always get "/spawner [creature]:creature]egg:all:reload /spawner <mob> [delay]"
Even when i type /spawner list i get the same thing.
i moved my server to 1.7.2 bukkit and tried your version 1.7.2 and it worked flawlessly. There is no server version 1.7.5 for my host or i would of chose it.
My question is: What can i do to fix this, as i can't leave my server at 1.7.2?
Thank you for your time
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Posted May 2, 2014@bubblefatOnTheForums
There is no CraftBukkit version for MC 1.7.4 and therefore I can't support it ;)
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Posted May 2, 2014How can you get the 1.7.4 version?
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Posted May 2, 2014To all those with startup problems Please try the latest dev build #200 (http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/200/)
@Basketkings22
Than you have conflict with another plugin. This command usage is NOT from SilkSpawners.
Nail down the conflict and in the meantime use an alias like /ss
@xion87
Glad to hear :)
@GhastLegion
Version 1.9.0?? What type of server are you using?
Like everyone else, I'd like to point to the latest dev build that handles multi Minecraft versions support. Please try the latest dev build #200 (http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/200/)
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Posted May 2, 2014Hello we got a problem With the plugin our server version is 1.9.0 we changed testMCVersion to FALSE Plugin works but creeper never spawns creeper egg doesnt work and also the spawner not other mobs works perfectly +
when i type the command /spawnmob creeper 1 it works that command come`s from essentials with the older version of silkspawner it also didnt work
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Posted May 2, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
This version working fine now! Thank you!
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Posted May 1, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
It seems as if it still sais for me when i do anything Reffering to silkspawners /spawner [mob] [delay]
PLEASE FIX THE PROBLEM!
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Posted May 1, 2014Latest dev build 200 offers support from MC 1.6.1 to 1.7.9
Any reports if works fine or not would be great! :)
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Posted Apr 29, 2014Neither I nor any of my players can figure out how to change a spawner to a certain mob since new update and syntax. Could anyone give me an example such as with a skeleton? Thanks in advance.
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Posted Apr 29, 2014To all those with startup problems
Please try the latest dev build #194 (http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/194/)
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Posted Apr 29, 2014@xion87
@Wdrussell1
Reports seem to increase.
I'm currently working on a version that support all 1.7 versions of Minecraft to hopefully fix some issues.
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Posted Apr 28, 2014@Wdrussell1
I having the same issue and the author say upgrade to 1.7.9 , i dont want upgrade! (the version that i am using is CraftBukkit version git-Spigot-1387 (MC: 1.7.8) (Implementing API version 1.7.5-R0.1-SNAPSHOT)
Tried both 3.3.4 - 3.5 of silkspawner no one it worked...
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Posted Apr 28, 2014I have an issue with any versions of spigot i try to use that are 1.7.8/9 compatible. Just want to know if your seeing alot of reports of this?
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Posted Apr 28, 2014@ergenta
Your EXACT string when you issue /version is? And what SilkSpawners version are you using?