SpawnersPlus

Pick monster spawners up with a Silk Touch pickaxe and change what they spawn with a spawn egg. The spawner keeps its mob through the whole trip: break it, carry it, place it again, and it still spawns the same thing.

Version 2.1.0 · Paper/Purpur 26.3 · Java 25

Features

• Silk Touch pickup — breaking a spawner with a Silk Touch pickaxe drops a spawner item that remembers its mob. The mob is stored in the item itself, so it survives chests, trades and restarts.
• Placement restores the mob — vanilla refuses to apply spawner data for a normal player, so the plugin writes the stored mob back when the item is placed.
• Spawn egg conversion — right-click a spawner with a spawn egg to convert it. The egg is consumed once, and never in Creative.
• Mob blacklist — mobs listed in egg-blacklist can never be put into a spawner. Blocked attempts consume nothing.
• Two languages included — English and Portuguese, and you can drop your own file into lang/.
• Protection-aware — the plugin runs after land-claim and region plugins have had their say. A break or an interaction they veto is never turned into a spawner item or a spawner change.
• Trial spawners untouched — trial and ominous trial spawners are a different block and are left entirely to vanilla.

Permissions

The plugin adds no commands.

Configuration

# Which language file to load from /lang/.
locale: "en-US"

# true  -> a Silk Touch pickaxe is needed to pick a spawner up
# false -> any pickaxe is enough (not recommended)
require-silktouch: true

# true -> players in Creative also get a spawner item when they break one.
# Keep this false: in Creative the block costs nothing, so the pickup would
# let a player produce spawner items without limit.
allow-creative-pickup: false

# Mobs that can never be put into a spawner with an egg.
egg-blacklist:
  - "ENDER_DRAGON"

Messages

lang/en-US.yml and lang/pt-PT.yml are written to the data folder on first start. Colours use the & codes. %mob% is replaced with the mob name.

prefix: "&d[SpawnersPlus] "
spawner-changed: "&aSpawner changed to &f%mob%&a!"
egg-blacklisted: "&cYou cannot change a spawner to a &f%mob%&c."
egg-error: "&cThat egg cannot be used in a spawner."
no-permission: "&cYou are not allowed to change spawners."
spawner-item-name: "&dSpawner: &f%mob%"
spawner-item-lore: "&7Type: &f%mob%"

To add a language, copy en-US.yml to lang/es-ES.yml, translate it, and set locale: "es-ES".

Installation

1. Paper or Purpur 26.3, Java 25 (2.0.0 runs on 26.2).
2. Drop spawnersplus.jar into plugins/ and start the server.
3. config.yml and the two language files are created on first start.

No dependencies.

Upgrading from 1.0

Drop-in. config.yml gains one key, allow-creative-pickup, which defaults to false; the language files gain no-permission, spawner-item-name and spawner-item-lore. Existing files are not overwritten, and any key you are missing falls back to the bundled English default.

One behaviour change worth knowing: 1.0 accepted any Silk Touch tool, so a Silk Touch shovel or pair of shears could pick a spawner up. 2.0.0 requires a pickaxe, which is what config.yml always described.

License

MIT.