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 Jun 7, 2015Now regardless of what I do, they never change when I buy them from the sign.
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Posted Jun 7, 2015No matter what i do i can't sell the spawners with essentials or any other economy with a sign. If I place the spawner I bought from the sign, it says it's been turned off and switches to pigs. How do I fix this? I've looked on all the forums that has this topic and they can't fix it.
I'm using buckket 1.85 with your latest version (1.86). I turned legacy names to on.
How do i fix it?
I even tried it with the EconAddon
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Posted Jun 6, 2015New version will be submitted to approval soon :)
In the meantime you can use "testMCVersion" to false
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Posted Jun 6, 2015Hello. For the past year my server has been running SIlkSpawners. It is essential to my server considering we are mostly Factions, however, when I logged in today I noticed the plugin was red. I am running the latest version and we have not had any problems with the plugin until the mine craft update that just came out hours ago. I do not know what else I should do, any advice is appreciated. I desperately need this plugin to work again.
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Posted Jun 6, 2015@erdrickk
Just set
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Posted Jun 6, 2015is there going to be an update for 1.8.7 it seems to have broke again since 1.8.6
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Posted Jun 2, 2015@twitchie123
Fixed in https://ci.drtshock.net/job/EssentialsX/90/
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Posted Jun 1, 2015When ever I get one of the spawner's If I put it anywhere in my inventory it will just disappear
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Posted Jun 1, 2015@Syrianen
Update your Spigot build. The error is fixed then. I also closed your ticket, since it's not valid at all.
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Posted Jun 1, 2015help please [21:07:17 ERROR]: Unhandled exception executing command 'spawner' in plugin SilkSpawners v3.6.5 org.bukkit.command.CommandException: Unhandled exception executing command 'spawner' in plugin SilkSpawners v3.6.5 at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:46) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at com.earth2me.essentials.Essentials.onCommandEssentials(Essentials.java:417) [Essentials-2.x-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at com.earth2me.essentials.Essentials.onCommand(Essentials.java:402) [Essentials-2.x-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:44) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:141) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_8_R1.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServer.java:646) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.PlayerConnection.handleCommand(PlayerConnection.java:1115) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java:950) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.PacketPlayInChat.a(PacketPlayInChat.java:26) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.PacketPlayInChat.a(PacketPlayInChat.java:53) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.PacketHandleTask.run(SourceFile:13) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_25] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_25] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.MinecraftServer.z(MinecraftServer.java:685) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.DedicatedServer.z(DedicatedServer.java:316) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.MinecraftServer.y(MinecraftServer.java:623) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R1.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:526) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.8.0_25] Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.bukkit.entity.Player.getTargetBlock(Ljava/util/Set;I)Lorg/bukkit/block/Block; at de.dustplanet.silkspawners.compat.v1_8_R1.NMSHandler.getSpawnerFacing(NMSHandler.java:217) [?:?] at de.dustplanet.silkspawners.commands.SpawnerCommand.onCommand(SpawnerCommand.java:116) [?:?] at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:44) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-952179b-0cf233d] ... 17 more
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Posted May 31, 2015@DjSmeXhy
@VizionMc
I see no reason to do this. Curse offers me complimentary premium and CursForge Authors points I can trade into Amazon gift cards. Two perks that Spigot's resource system can't offer ;)
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Posted May 31, 2015@DjSmeXhy
He is right
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Posted May 31, 2015Move on spigot bro.
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Posted May 30, 2015@AlecKyle
Essentials does not support Silkspawners 1.8 http:www.spigotmc.org/threads/essentials-does-not-support-silkspawners-1-8.69040/
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Posted May 30, 2015@VizionMc
@AlecKyle
Your sign/shop plugin needs to be fixed/updated for 1.8 spawners. I cannot fix these issues.
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Posted May 30, 2015@AlecKyle
This is happening to me to how do I fix it everyone on the server is mad at me right now lol.
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Posted May 27, 2015Everything on the plugin works great! Except whenever i buy a spawner from the shop and place it it says "placing default spawner (either this spawner is invalid or disabled)" how can i fix this?
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Posted May 26, 2015@travja
Interesting, I will check that. The code for left/right click is the same though...
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Posted May 25, 2015@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
I'm not sure if this plugin is causing this, but when I right click on a spawner with a spawn egg, it says it changes the spawner type and consumes the egg. When mobs spawn, they have the AI of a pig and will follow carrots. This also occurs when a mob is spawned with a spawn egg. If I left click on the spawner, it is changed successfully, so only right click breaks it.
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Posted May 25, 2015@danielfr789
I'll release a small compatibility update tomorrow, in the meanwhile switch testMCVersion to false and enjoy it on 1.8.6 :)