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 Jun 5, 2014How does one give spawner types to players? I would like to add this as a cool buy feature?
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Posted Jun 3, 2014@Lakers5824
Obviously you did not read...
You'll find your answers in the "Features" section ;)
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Posted Jun 2, 2014Can you make changing spawners cost money?
For instance, making it so /spawner creeper will cost $8000?
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Posted May 30, 2014@Bobcat00
Currently there is no difference between a TNT explosion and a Creeper explosion - they all use the explosionDropChance
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Posted May 29, 2014@Bobcat00
I thought it was when creepers explode...I have this enabled and have never seen anything drop from any explosion....Hope you get an answer.
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Posted May 29, 2014Can you explain a bit more about explosionDropChance? If I explode TNT there's a 30% chance of getting a spawner? What kind, a TNT spawner? How do I turn this off?
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Posted May 28, 2014Agree! this is one of the best maintained plugins out there...Thank you!
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Posted May 27, 2014@sakura_blades
Glad you solved it ;)
@matagin
Thank you VERY much! :)
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Posted May 26, 2014Thank you for making SilkSpawners! It is an awesome plugin and I thank you for your hard work. Donation sent! :)
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Posted May 24, 2014On the permissions page, it says that silkspawners.craft.<creaturetype> (true)And it says (true) for a lot of the nodes. Does this mean that by default these nodes are set to true unless they are negated in the permissions plugin? Even if I have [usepermissions: true] set?EDIT: Nevermind, I'm a doofus x.x I was awful this time and didn't read everything... *is ashamed*
"Permission support is optional, but ON by default.
When turned off, the settings shown in parentheses below are used, intended to allow for easy setup with minimal configuration.
For more advanced setup, set "usePermissions: true" in config.yml and all permission nodes will be set to false, allowing for flexible configuration through your permission plugin as desired."
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Posted May 20, 2014@sketcherskt
@supersama2010
Use 3.5 and your problems will be solved
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Posted May 18, 2014Iron golems wont spawn. I have them enables and in a well lighted room. Any ideas? Same with XPorbs
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Posted May 18, 2014Can you PLEASE make a 1.7.5 version im looking for it cant find it anywhere
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Posted May 17, 2014please update or make this compatible with a more later release.
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Posted May 17, 2014@ebear123
Use pastebin next time. And please update to the latest major version 3.5
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Posted May 17, 2014I have a problem:
[15:30:55 INFO]: [SilkSpawners] Enabling SilkSpawners v3.3.4 [15:30:55 ERROR]: Error occurred while enabling SilkSpawners v3.3.4 (Is it up to date?) java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/minecraft/server/v1_7_R1/EntityTypes at de.dustplanet.util.SilkUtil.scanEntityMap(SilkUtil.java:459) [?:?] at de.dustplanet.silkspawners.SilkSpawners.loadConfigs(SilkSpawners.java:241) [?:?] at de.dustplanet.silkspawners.SilkSpawners.onEnable(SilkSpawners.java:79) [?:?] at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:250) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:324) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:405) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R2.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:462) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R2.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:380) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R2.CraftServer.reload(CraftServer.java:809) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at org.bukkit.Bukkit.reload(Bukkit.java:286) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at org.bukkit.command.defaults.ReloadCommand.execute(ReloadCommand.java:24) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:180) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R2.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServer.java:719) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.PlayerConnection.handleCommand(PlayerConnection.java:984) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java:829) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.PacketPlayInChat.a(PacketPlayInChat.java:28) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.PacketPlayInChat.handle(PacketPlayInChat.java:65) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.NetworkManager.a(NetworkManager.java:148) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.ServerConnection.c(ServerConnection.java:77) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.MinecraftServer.v(MinecraftServer.java:705) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.DedicatedServer.v(DedicatedServer.java:273) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.MinecraftServer.u(MinecraftServer.java:568) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:474) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R2.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:618) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.EntityTypes at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:67) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at org.bukkit.plugin.java.PluginClassLoader.findClass(PluginClassLoader.java:62) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1383] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423) [?:1.7.0_21] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356) [?:1.7.0_21] ... 24 more
I'm using 1.7.9 and have set useTestMCVersion or something like that to false.
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Posted May 16, 2014@TheIronSquirel
Released :)
Version 3.5
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Posted May 15, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
What's coming with this new release?
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Posted May 15, 2014Release of 3.5 is scheduled for tomorrow!
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Posted May 11, 2014The new dev build fixed everything, thank you so much for this awesome plugin!