Silk Touch Harvest
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Silk Touch Harvest lets players collect spawners, trial spawners, cakes and other fragile blocks with a Silk Touch tool, as the mod's rules define them.
What it does
Normally a spawner or a cake breaks into nothing when mined. With Silk Touch Harvest, a Silk Touch tool recovers the block itself, and the list of blocks that qualify is set in the mod's config file, where entries can be added or removed. The default list covers vanilla spawners, trial spawners, vaults, budding amethyst, cake, turtle eggs, sniffer eggs and frogspawn, and the config can also change what each block yields.
Harvesting a spawner with Silk Touch drops an empty spawner that still carries experience, and a spawn egg can be pulled out of a spawner by clicking it with the matching item in hand. Reinforced Deepslate also has an editable config entry.
The mod requires Fabric API on Fabric. Silk Touch Harvest is server required and client optional: the server must run it, while players may leave it out. Files are published for 11 release versions, 1.21.1 – 1.21.11, with 2.7.0 for 1.21.11 as the latest build, and the mod is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.
Key features
Silk Touch harvesting
A Silk Touch tool collects spawners, trial spawners, vaults, cake and other fragile blocks in their original form.
Empty spawner drops
Harvesting a spawner with Silk Touch drops an empty spawner that keeps the experience value.
Spawn egg extraction
Clicking a spawner with the matching item in hand extracts a spawn egg from it.
Editable block list
The config file adds or removes block IDs from the extraction list and sets their drops, so server owners choose which blocks qualify.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x11 of 11 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners running Fabric who want Silk Touch to work on spawners, trial spawners and other blocks. Players only need the server-side setup, since the client may run without the mod.
How it compares
Silk Spawners is server-side only, open source under the MIT License, and covers 1.18.2 – 1.20.1. No Xp Spawner is server-side only, not open source, and built for 1.21.1 alone. SilkSpawners is server-side only, open source under the MIT License, and covers 1.21.11 – 26.3, the range that overlaps this mod's newest builds.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silk Touch Harvest | Fabric | 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 | Server required, client optional | 2026-06-08 |
| Silk Spawners | Fabric | 1.18.2 – 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2023-07-01 |
| No Xp Spawner | Fabric | 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2026-04-25 |
| SilkSpawners | Fabric | 1.21.11 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-07-15 |
Questions
Does Silk Touch Harvest require Fabric API?
Does a player need the mod installed to join a server that runs it?
Can the list of harvestable blocks be changed?
In the catalog
Silk Touch Harvest is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
A lightweight, config-driven Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21.1 that lets you harvest blocks that normally drop nothing in vanilla — spawners, trial spawners, vaults, cake, and more — using Silk Touch. Spawner, Trial Spawner, Vault, Budding Amethyst, Cake, Turtle Egg, Sniffer Egg, Frogspawn, Reinforced Deepslate — all…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/silk-touch-harvest
- Owner
- Icon
- Published
- 2026-06-05
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-06-08
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15