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 Dec 24, 2012@InvisiCraftOfficial
Same issue with me. You must be OP to get a spawner dropped. Message displayed is 'Spawner dropped!' (e.g Zombie spawner dropped!) then, nothing is dropped.
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Posted Dec 24, 2012Not working on 1.4.6! Drops for OPS only - checked the permissions also.
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Posted Dec 23, 2012PLEASE TRY BUILD 13 FROM JENKINS!!
http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/13/
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Posted Dec 22, 2012@midnightfang22
The build just slightly changed...
@metalhedd
Will be fixed in the next dev build, sorry for messing them up...
@Curtis4321
Known problem, see here:
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/silkspawners/tickets/8-silk-spawners-server-crash/
@midnightfang22
Will be fixed in the next dev build!
(Github is down atm :/)
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Posted Dec 22, 2012@metalhedd
I am getting that too, going to try and mess with them. Using PEX 1.19.5 at the moment.
Also, the /spawner command for some reason is causing errors after the server is on for a while. Not sure why...
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Posted Dec 22, 2012Error
Using Build #11 from jenkins.
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Posted Dec 22, 2012@metalhedd
After further testing this only happens with spawners collected with an older version (and possibly only because they were purchased from a shop which may not be compatible)
However, there IS a permissions issue. whether usingPermissions or not, players with silkspawners.silkdrop still cannot pick up spawners. they just break. only an op is able to pick them up.
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Posted Dec 22, 2012when I try to place a spawner it disappears and is lost forever. no messages in the logs about it. using the 1.4.6 beta build
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Posted Dec 22, 2012Hello, when do u plan on adding per.perm node for setting spawners.
Like /spawner zombie would be like silkspawners.set.zombie
ect ect
I NEED THIS <3
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Posted Dec 21, 2012@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Tried the BETA 3 just now and it seems to work fine. I don't know what happened then o.o?
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Posted Dec 21, 2012@MMazaii2
http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/8/
This build is tested and worked good
@midnightfang22
Yeah, worked for me, empty hand, looking & mob spawner in hand.
If you believe there is an issue, please provide more details!
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Posted Dec 21, 2012This does not seem to be working with 1.4.6
An update would be appreciated. :)
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Posted Dec 21, 2012On the untested build the /spawner command only tells me how to use it when you enter it and I can't see to get the spawners to drop...Using recommended build and no errors popping up at least.
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Posted Dec 20, 2012Please add my permission nodes suggestion, then i will add it to CurseCraftPVP ;)
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Posted Dec 20, 2012@optimus_Skillz
Man this update isn't 24 hrs old!
I'm no machine!
Anyway, UNTESTED:
http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners/7/
@Curtis4321
Will add it if I can :)
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Posted Dec 20, 2012Update for 1.4.6 please, it's broken
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Posted Dec 19, 2012Does this support
Setting spawner per.permission.
Example
silkspawners.changetype.zombie
silkspawners.changetype.skeleton
ect
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Posted Dec 18, 2012@Mortalsinn
Yeah, thanks for the report, could reproduce it, let me check what's wrong
Edit Fixed! See http://ci.dustplanet.de/job/SilkSpawners for dev builds, build #5 is recommend for now ;)
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Posted Dec 18, 2012@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
The latest :P lol I live on the edge <3
Just look at it this way. I am scouting ahead for yah with builds and bugs haha <3
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Posted Dec 18, 2012@Mortalsinn
On which build are you?