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
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Posted Dec 3, 2013@marubal21
See my post in the forums:
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/what-plugin-can-i-use-to-give-different-types-of-spawners.193986/#post-1990177
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Posted Dec 3, 2013@marubal21
you can add [buy] if you use essentials and in the item id for sawners you use 52:50 52:51 ...when you hold a spawner in your hot bar it will display what type of spawner and what id it is in chat
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Posted Dec 2, 2013I'm trying to add [Buy] sign in my market to sell spawners, but i'm not sure what permission i need to add to players so that they can buy the spawner and actually place that correct type. Can this plugin support this? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Posted Dec 1, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
That was a lot quicker than I thought it would be! Thanks so much for your hard work on this plugin and keeping it up-to-date! :D
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Posted Dec 1, 2013@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
UPDATED for 1.7.2! Check dev builds or wait for official approval!
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Posted Dec 1, 2013I'm already busy updating the plugin for 1.7.2
Please give me some time and check this comment for updates.
Thank you!
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Posted Nov 30, 2013@WFloydBoy
Partially possible via console, I might implement this way for players, too
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Posted Nov 29, 2013Suggestion, make it so it's possible to give a player a spawner via a command. It's annoying having to give spawners to players through essentials give command which is very buggy with the spawners. The command could be /ss <spawner> <quantity> <player> If at all possible, that would be wonderful. Thank you!
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Posted Nov 25, 2013@Curtis4321
Sure? I tested this when I developed it for the first time.
I'll check this for the next update.
About 1.7.2, hints are below how to disable version checking.
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Posted Nov 20, 2013Hey Guys, its a very helpfull plugin (: Is the 1.7.2 version already available? And the Default players can only pick up and set the spawners?
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Posted Nov 19, 2013Help, it says i have no permission to place a mob spawner!!!!and is there a permission that limit the /spawner (mod) command because i only want donators to have one spawner each!! thanks
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Posted Nov 18, 2013Fixed it, fix your documents :3
pigzombie is the node instead of zombiepigman
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Posted Nov 17, 2013@deekondvg
Again it's not broken if you open your eyes as well you could actually look just below in the comments or maybe check your startup in your server.log to notice it will automatically disable if the Mc version is not found. You can change that though at the bottom of the config.yml in the plugin folder at the bottom change the setting to this "testMCVersion: false"
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Posted Nov 11, 2013Seems to be broke on 1.7 spigot, not sure if this will carry over to 1.7 craft bukkit as well, so just a heads up ^_^
Oops didn't really read the below comment sry!
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Posted Nov 11, 2013@sodafizzle
Look in the config,yml at the very bottom. Open your eyes :P
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Posted Nov 10, 2013Where is testmcversion? is it in the protocol hack config or silkspawner config ???
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Posted Nov 9, 2013@tibbpow
There is:
testMCVersion
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Posted Nov 9, 2013@deaddude22
There is no version checker in the config >.>
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Posted Nov 6, 2013@cuddyier
Just disable the MC version checker in the config it works perfect with spigot 1.7.2
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Posted Nov 6, 2013Can You do That only spawner's owners are able to break their spawner ?