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 Sep 22, 2012Is it normal when I click the spawner in my inv and then click outside to drop it on the ground it just disappears?
Edit: Something weird with stacking going on too. Sometimes I can't stack the same type of spawner. Also sometimes in a previous version they would disappear and occasionally stack on top of each other and I don't know if that's related or if you have fixed that yet. Something strange is going on still anyway.
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Posted Sep 17, 2012@MrMime22
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26476995/SilkSpawners.jar
I updated the build again and this issue should hopefully be fixed!
If not let me know!
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Posted Sep 17, 20122012-09-17 01:02:59 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners org.bukkit.event.EventException at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader$1.execute(JavaPluginLoader.java:332) at org.bukkit.plugin.RegisteredListener.callEvent(RegisteredListener.java:62) at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.fireEvent(SimplePluginManager.java:477) at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.callEvent(SimplePluginManager.java:462) at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.a(NetServerHandler.java:1108) at net.minecraft.server.Packet102WindowClick.handle(SourceFile:29) at net.minecraft.server.NetworkManager.b(NetworkManager.java:276) at net.minecraft.server.NetServerHandler.d(NetServerHandler.java:109) at net.minecraft.server.ServerConnection.b(SourceFile:35) at net.minecraft.server.DedicatedServerConnection.b(SourceFile:30) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.q(MinecraftServer.java:578) at net.minecraft.server.DedicatedServer.q(DedicatedServer.java:213) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.p(MinecraftServer.java:474) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:406) at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:539) Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
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Posted Sep 16, 2012PPlease update, crasnhing me server
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Posted Sep 13, 2012@skyline3r
As soon as I've got enough time to work on this - the dev build works just fine for the moment.
@arriej
I'll look into issues, with perms for example, later.
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Posted Sep 11, 2012@xGh0sTkiLLeRx what I said below just getting ur attention by using name
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Posted Sep 11, 2012Dude Plz update we really really need this for the server please man
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Posted Sep 9, 2012For some reason it keeps saying i don't have permission even when i give the permissions and i have put them on true
Using bpermissions
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Posted Sep 2, 2012@erdrickk
At least I found out where the error appears - something is null the first time.
Somehow I'm still not sure why this error appears. Any detailed instruction is very helpful...
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Posted Sep 2, 2012@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
The inventory click error happens to me but I have more information than posted by MrMime
Hope this helps
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Posted Aug 31, 2012@MrMime22
This error is already known.
Can you explain exactly what caused it?
@Gunnerrrrr
Thanks!
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Posted Aug 30, 2012Here is the error log found related to the plugin SilkSpawners.
----2012-08-24 19:04:46 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:46 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:46 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:46 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:46 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:46 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:46 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:47 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:47 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:47 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:47 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:47 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:47 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:54 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:54 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners 2012-08-24 19:04:54 [SEVERE] Could not pass event InventoryClickEvent to SilkSpawners-
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Posted Aug 28, 2012@xSh0sTkiLLeRx
I Checked the server log, and no one did any commands before the errors ( it spammed about 30 of those btw ) but im thinking someone broke/clicked the spawner, next time it shows up il try to ask the player what they did.
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Posted Aug 27, 2012@xSh0sTkiLLeRx
I am not using spoutcraft, but i will try my hardest to figure this out since this is a major plugin on my server.
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Posted Aug 27, 2012@Gunnerrrrr
It's really weird, since I'm not having a line where the error happens in the stack trace. Just some additional questions:
Can you explain exactly what happened? (maybe inv full or disconnecting, ...)
Are you using spout and/or spoutcraft?
Thx in advance
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Posted Aug 26, 2012@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
No i am not, although a plugin that could possiby (although i dought it) be conflicting is iSafe, since it has a mob spawn blacklist section.
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Posted Aug 26, 2012@Gunnerrrrr
Thank you.
Weird that this stacktrace doesn't contain a line...
Are you using a modded craftbukkit/any custom mobs?
If yes, please tell me the mods :)
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Posted Aug 25, 2012http://pastebin.com/bKL7mV7y
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Posted Aug 23, 2012@idiotonastic
Yes, I updated the temp link above!
Needs RB 2.0!
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Posted Aug 22, 2012@xGh0sTkiLLeRx
Did you patch the Exp dupe glitch?
if so wheres the download link for the patched version?
Thanks