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
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Posted Jan 1, 2015Hello,
Since essentials buy signs don't work with spawners, perhaps you guys could implement a new buy sign into silk spawners. This would be hugely beneficial for factions servers who need this for their economy.
It can hook into vault. Thanks, frosty.
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Posted Dec 31, 2014Are there specific Id's for these? Like, Eg. What would I need to put on a chestshop sign too be able to sell a Spawner?
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Posted Dec 31, 2014@VoxaDub
As said Essentials signs can't be fixed on my end
@Crystalcraft23
How does your mobs.yml look like? Have you tried to delete it?
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Posted Dec 30, 2014when i type ss zombie i get a error message 'unrecognized creature zombie'
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Posted Dec 29, 2014I legacymode enabled and I'm using essentials buy signs but it still wont work. It just places a pig spawner.
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Posted Dec 27, 2014@Treeo72
Older SilkSpawners version won't work with Minecraft 1.8
The issue was introduced by a change in Minecraft 1.8.
To answer this question: no. Only SilkSpawners v3.6 is supporting Minecraft 1.8, too.
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Posted Dec 27, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Would it work if I go back a couple versions of silkspawners?
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Posted Dec 27, 2014@xgh0stkillerx uh it's not a big red notice but, thanks for the smart ass answer :)
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Posted Dec 27, 2014@Treeo72
I can't fix Essentials signs and I won't - that's an issue on their end.
I offer 5(!) different ways to store the entityID (mob type)
That should be more than enough ways and there are workarounds for e.g. kit signs instead :)
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Posted Dec 27, 2014Waiting for the Essentials sign fix.
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Posted Dec 27, 2014@MrsWiccan
Did you read the big red notice? Have you enabled useLegacyName?
@ThornsOfire
Currently not, sorry
@danielfr789
Was already requested and I may take a look at it.
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Posted Dec 26, 2014So here is the deal, I had this plugin previously on 1.7 and updated it for my 1.8, NOW all the spawners are defaulting to the pig! My players would like to have their original spawners back. How do I stop this form happening? Did you add something to the configuration? should I remove the folder and let it load a new one?
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Posted Dec 26, 2014Is there any way to disable the retain spawner creature type, or set it so when you break it, it defaults to one particular mob? Thanks!
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Posted Dec 24, 2014In vanilla 1.8 minecraft you can now change spawners with a spawn egg. Can you add an option to disable this?
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Posted Dec 24, 2014@Maeso
what do you mean its bugged? my server is 1.7/1.8 so does dat mean it cant be in the factions shop?
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Posted Dec 24, 2014@Bobcat00
Thanks
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Posted Dec 24, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx:
Is it possible to sell/Buy these in Essentials sign shop?
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Posted Dec 22, 2014@Maeso
You could do:
[Kit]
wolf
Everyone
$90000
See http://ess.khhq.net/wiki/Sign_Tutorial#Kit_Sign
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Posted Dec 22, 2014@Bobcat00
That's the format you need to make Vanilla mob spawners with the right mob type. See e.g. here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woAEDqlIe0w
@Maeso
That's because (I assume) the mob name is NOT in the displayname. useLegacyName only works if the item is named like "XYZ Spawner"
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Posted Dec 21, 2014@Bobcat00
How I have to write this in the sign?