Portable Spawners
by Flashh
Portable Spawners lets a player with a Silk Touch pickaxe carry a mob spawner from where it stands and set it down somewhere else.
What it does
The mod changes how mob spawners are broken. An iron pickaxe or better with Silk Touch removes the spawner as an item instead of leaving it in place, so it can be moved. A pickaxe without Silk Touch does not work: the spawner keeps breaking and nothing is recovered. The mod is aimed at the stage of play where players want to relocate a spawner they have found, rather than build a farm where it stands.
A spawner moved this way keeps the mob type it was generated with. A spider spawner can be carried to a new place, but it remains a spider spawner and cannot be switched to another mob. Portable Spawners runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. Files are published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, with 1.0.1 as the latest Fabric and Forge build and 1.0.0 as the latest NeoForge build, under All rights reserved.
Key features
Silk Touch spawner removal
Breaking a spawner with an iron pickaxe or better enchanted with Silk Touch collects it as an item.
Gated by the enchantment
A plain pickaxe without Silk Touch cannot retrieve a spawner, so early game progress is not skipped.
Mob type is preserved
A relocated spawner keeps the mob it was generated with, such as a spider or a zombie spawner.
Placement anywhere
A collected spawner can be set down in a new location and continues to spawn its mob there.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Relocating a found spawner
A player who finds a spawner in an inconvenient spot can move it to a base, a mob farm or a safer area.
Who it’s for: Players who want to move spawners they discover during survival play, and server owners who want spawner relocation available to every player.
How it compares
Mine Spawners is server-side only, open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, and published for Fabric and Forge across 1.18.2 – 1.21.11. Silk Spawners is server-side only, open source under the MIT License, and built for Fabric across 1.18.2 – 1.20.1. Spawner wrath is server-side only, not open source, and covers 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, the same range as Portable Spawners.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portable Spawners | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-05-08 |
| Mine Spawners | Fabric and Forge | 1.18.2 – 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2026-01-25 |
| Silk Spawners | Fabric | 1.18.2 – 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2023-07-01 |
| Spawner wrath | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2026-06-09 |
Questions
Does Portable Spawners need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Portable Spawners support?
Can a spawner be moved without Silk Touch?
In the catalog
Portable Spawners is one of 3,932 Transportation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,390 Transportation mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Have you ever wished that the spawner you found was in a more accessible place? For many players, moving a spawner from one place to another would be too OP, for others, it would be a great joy? With this mod we intend to make a middle ground, since at the beginning of the game we are sure that you will not be able…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/portable-spawners
- Owner
- Flashh
- Published
- 2025-05-08
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-05-08
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15