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
- Plugin version of bStats-supported plugins


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Posted Nov 21, 2014Is it possible to add a feature that permit to limit the number a spawner in the same chunk ?
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Posted Nov 15, 2014Every spawner seems to work except for blaze. Are you sure the correct node is silkspawners.place.blaze ?
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Posted Nov 2, 2014when a player buys a spawner and place it its a pig spawner please help (in my case its a wolf spawner ID)
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Posted Nov 2, 2014Is there any way to turn off the coloring of the spawner names in the inventory? This seems to be tripping a bug in Multiverse-Inventories which corrupts the name and ultimately crashes the server.
EDIT: Found it. The coloring is specified in the first line of localization.yml
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Posted Oct 22, 2014@KevinEssence
I think you need to meet the criteria listed here: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Slime#Spawning
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Posted Oct 17, 2014How does one get a "slime" spawner to work?
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Posted Oct 15, 2014Thanks
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Posted Oct 11, 2014is there any reason why sometimes when you spawn in a custom spawner say with commandbook ( give player 52:54) and then he puts it down, breaks it with a silk touch pickaxe it turns in to a pig spawner? and then any spawner placed in that chunk automatically turn in to pig spawners
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Posted Oct 11, 2014Hello! I am looking to disable the spawner placing and destroying messages.
In localization.yml I set
spawnerBroken: '' spawnerPlaced: '' placingDefault: ''
But this makes it say a blank message in chat.
How can I disable this?
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Posted Oct 1, 2014Please add a way to limit how many spawners players can silk. Maybe with a database, where a player cant place or break spawners if they already had x amount of spawners placed.
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Posted Sep 20, 2014Is there any way that I can limit the amount of spawns a spawner has? For example set it so each spawner only spawns a mob every 30 seconds or so? Or do I need a different plugin for that? Thanks
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Posted Sep 18, 2014How would I allow all mob spawners to be placed in the nether except for skeleton spawners?
Edit: Nevermind got it!
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Posted Sep 17, 2014Be sure to keep updated to spigots api they are working on (they have rumors that they are trying to update to 1.8) If not I understand sponge, but right now they are unstable.
Also that was a very short break xGh0sTkiLLeRx :P glad to know your still with us.
Also can you add a spawner tracker? Like I can find all the spawners placed by players or limit it so they need a perm to place a spawner in the first place?
Its going to be weird seeing plugins ported over to different API's.... Hopefully they will support multiple API's
On a sidenote... Plugin devs need a new website just for them since this one was blown off the face of the earth.
@Dillzzzzz
Have you not heard of the EULA yet? It is illegal to give out rank perks from donations now.
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Posted Sep 15, 2014My plans are to port this plugin to Sponge :)
http://forums.spongepowered.org/t/plugins-to-be-ported/828/223?u=xghostkillerx
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Posted Sep 12, 2014Has anyone managed to get this to work?
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Posted Sep 11, 2014Hi, im wondering if its possible to add an option to only allow mining of spawners that allows just the player that placed the spawner to mine it back up. For Ex. My donators get spawners in certain donations ranks but I only want that amount of spawners to be used, because otherwise mining up other naturaly generated spawners would make it overpowered which is the reason i got rid of the plugin. If you added this as a feature I would be happy to use the plugin again and im sure others would like the feature as well.
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Posted Sep 11, 2014So: silkspawners.silkdrop.zombie allows the person to only silk zombie spawners? Someone answer? I might make it a donor perk to silk certain spawners.
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Posted Sep 9, 2014@MCTylerPVP
From what I understand spigot has been DMCA served too?
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Posted Sep 9, 2014You guys are forgetiing about Spigot...Still going strong!
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Posted Sep 8, 2014@NobleStrike
Sponge stated that they wont be supporting bukkit plugins. They will have to be rewritten with the new API if they go ahead with it.