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
Feel free to use this 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
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Posted Sep 8, 2014don't just give up on us.. theres plenty of server owners that use the plugin, just cos its not 1.8 who cares really, think of all the server still using 1.7.10 and use the plugins. :)
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Posted Sep 8, 2014@NobleStrike
There is no staff left to approve the plugins. Mojang betrayed us and as I said, my break might be permanent or temporary. I'll wait for the future. Maybe I'll port my plugins to Sponge.
And Mojang has nothing to do with the DMCA - I can understand Mr. Wolfe and his legal steps.
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Posted Sep 7, 2014Uh just because craftbukkit dies doesn't mean plugins do... There are new API's that use these plugins like Sponge. And isn't mojang still saving craftbukkit and removing the DMCA soon?
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Posted Sep 7, 2014If things do not change dramatically I'm gonna release one final 1.8 update and then stop developing this plugin!
Goodbye beloved community! :'(
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/310408/
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Posted Sep 4, 2014All development is halted!! Until the DCMA thing is sorted out and Bukkit (alongside with CraftBukkit) is still available...
@VillageRealms
Currently not - might be implemented, see statement above
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Posted Sep 3, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Is there a way to allow someone to bypass the set drop chance?
(this is armanisbeast, I got banned.)
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Posted Sep 1, 2014@XxGAM3RxFREAKxX
Did you manage to solve this issue yet?
@emenge
In the next version there will be a drop chance
@armanisbeast
Currently only in dev build and so far there is no option to configure drop chances for different groups
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Posted Aug 31, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Sorry to sound dumb, but where in config is the drop chance for when mined (not tnt)
Is there any way for multiple drop chances? Say for example I wanted default to have a 30% chance, donor 50, premium 75, so on
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Posted Aug 29, 2014Video Tutorial on the Plugin
http://youtu.be/gcV1IslyMZA
Credits Video: (AbsintoJ/SilkSpawners)
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Posted Aug 29, 2014Hi, i just have a feature request. It would have been nice if you could limit the percentage chance/ or just a custom limit on how many spawners a person can get. As i think, giving them the possiblility to mine a unlimited number, is a little bit too much. Anyway, awesome plugin :)
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Posted Aug 24, 2014Hi there! So when I place a pig spawner and only a pig spawner it tells me "Placing default spawner (either this spawner is invalid or disabled)" But the spawner works fine? How do I fix this? I have tried deleting the plugin and re-installing it, but it still gets the same message. I feel its from a plugin I have the limits the amount of mobs you can have in one chunk. But I looked into the config and there did not seem to be anything effecting it. Theres no errors or anything like that in the command prompt. So if you can help me out, I would surely appreciate it :)
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Posted Aug 22, 2014Next update will hit when 1.8 is out! :)
Additionally I've implemented the following:
@armanisbeast
That's a planned feature for the EcoAddon ;)
This feature depends on the update speed of Bukkit for 1.8
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Posted Aug 20, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Love this but the update be out. I really want drop chances for spawner mining.
Also i'd love it if you could make an option for mining spawners w/silk touch cost money either in this plugin or ecoaddon.
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Posted Aug 13, 2014A little sneak peak for the next version
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Posted Jul 31, 2014Hi, When I added the placing and mining permissions in Groupmanager's for my member it still says, You do not have the permissions to place a (spawner) spawner. Please Help @xGh0sTkiLLeRx
@mushroomhostage
@Archarin
Thank you :)!
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Posted Jul 29, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Turns out all I had to do was reinstall the plugin, thanks!
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Posted Jul 26, 2014@thor999929
This build worked fine for me - can you try to find any plugin conflict?
Are the permissions working?
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Posted Jul 24, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
I'm using build #1569, version 1.7.10. Using silk touch picks on spawners doesn't work - they are destroyed every time. Also, the /spawner command doesn't work - typing /spawner does bring up the normal prompt telling me what to type, but when I type in /spawner wolf (for example) the spawner doesn't change. The plugin worked fine before I switched to Spigot.
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Posted Jul 24, 2014@thor999929
Please be a lot more specific!
Latest is not a version - what exact version of Spigot are you using?
What Minecraft version?
What does not work?
Only "spawnersUnstackable"?
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Posted Jul 23, 2014This doesn't seem to be working with the latest build of spigot, even though I changed spawnersunstackable to true. Is there a way to make them compatible?