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
- Plugin version of bStats-supported plugins


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Posted Jul 23, 2014@MCTylerPVP
Well. Java 8 is capable of running .jar file made (tech term: compiled) with Java 6 or Java 7 (and below as well). Java 7 can run Java 6 and below.
But Java 6 *can't* run Java 7+ files!
It seems you have at least Java 7+ installed so this doesn't matter.
Java 6 reached it's end of life in Feb 2013 and is not longer updated by Oracle.
With the help of McStats I'm able to monitor the percentage of people using Java 6.
Currently it's <1% so a switch to Java 7 is okay for me - it's more or less the time to update to Java 7.
Hope this is enough explanation.
Oh you can find your Java version by typing "java -version"
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Posted Jul 23, 2014Switched to Java 7? (Your latest update) I never had Java 6 installed or Java 7 and it works fine....or did it?
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Posted Jul 20, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
It is, indeed a cauldron bug. I posted an issue on their github.
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Posted Jul 20, 2014@Skyjer
That's on my ToDo :)
@CmdrSocks
@andor1995
Does this problem relate to Cauldron? Or can you re-produce this issue with (vanilla) CraftBukkit, too?
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Posted Jul 20, 2014@andor1995
I'm using cauldron too. And I have the same issue.
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Posted Jul 19, 2014I also have the pig problem, using the latest Cauldron server. Breaks OK, Item in hand says zombie spawner, place it, get pigs. Now I love bacon as much as the next person, but it doesn't make for a very effective mob grinder :-)
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Posted Jul 19, 2014I tired to set up the plugin on 1.7.10. When I pick up the spawner with silk touch, In the inventory it shows as blaze spawner. But when I place it down, it turns into a pig spawner.
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Posted Jul 16, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Thank you for reply and your time, but you don't understand my request (and I dont knew speak rsrs) .. I requested for you put a "Drop chance" with SilkTouch.
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Posted Jul 16, 2014@Skyjer
explosionDropChances are already enabled with explosionDropChance (general or per mob type), see: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/silkspawners/pages/configuration/
And about the logging I'm not sure if I'm gonna implement this or not.
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Posted Jul 16, 2014Please can you add option to chance of spawner explode when broken? And log the owner of spawner, when he places on the floor? It's very good for survival servers and the explosion is funny and a method for difficult the player hehehe.
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Posted Jul 9, 2014A version with additional support for 1.7.10 is awaiting approval! :)
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Posted Jul 9, 2014@falangel4
Well there is no official CraftBukkit 1.7.10 yet ;)
GitHub was updated and Spigot, too.
Anyways, #222 offers 1.7.10 support
http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/222/
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Posted Jul 9, 2014Hey this plugin does not currently work with 1.7.10 - A CraftBukkit for 1.7.10 has been released if anyone would be willing to update! Thank you!
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Posted Jul 1, 2014@Vifury
See configuraiton page for this
@Exo17
Clients with 1.7.10 can still connect to 1.7.9 servers and currently there is no CraftBukkit for 1.7.10. If a new version is released, I'll update ASAP to the new 1.7.10 builds :)
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Posted Jun 30, 2014Is your new version working with 1.7.10?
And if it isn't how long do you think it will be until you put out a updated version.
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Posted Jun 26, 2014Whats the recipe for making a spawner?
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Posted Jun 6, 2014@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Thanks!
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Posted Jun 6, 2014@KevinEssence
/silkspawners [creature][amount] [name]
(usage console)
Buy feature: SilkSpawnersEcoAddon?!
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Posted Jun 5, 2014@TheIronSquirel
I take that as a no.
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Posted Jun 5, 2014@KevinEssence
Read the section about permissions?