SMP Silk Spawner
by derexXD
Silk Touch spawners, a Fabric mod for vanilla-style servers, lets a pickaxe with Silk Touch take a spawner intact, with the risk and penalties configurable.
What it does
Only a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch can remove a spawner without losing it. A mined spawner drops with a 50% chance. Breaking one with another tool has other consequences: the pickaxe loses a large share of its durability, and an explosion may follow, with a 70% chance of a small one, 40% of a large one and 10% of a massive one. The mod is configurable, so server owners can change what happens when a spawner is broken.
The design aims for a balanced, vanilla-friendly option instead of heavier plugins with custom items, GUIs and new mechanics. Because vanilla mob spawn radius only allows so many spawners in one area, the mod adds little load. It is built for Fabric, and it is also available as a plugin for Paper, Spigot, Bukkit and Purpur servers. The code is open source under the MIT License.
Key features
Silk Touch requirement
Spawners can be removed only with a Silk Touch pickaxe, so other tools cannot take them.
Drop chance
A mined spawner has a 50% chance to drop as an item.
Explosion on break
Breaking a spawner without Silk Touch can cause a small, large or massive explosion, with set chances for each.
Durability damage
Attempting to remove a spawner takes a large chunk of the pickaxe's durability.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Silk Spawners is a Fabric mod for 1.18.2 – 1.20.1, released under the MIT License and open source, so it covers an older version range. SilkSpawners is also a Fabric mod, under the MIT License and open source, and is published for 1.21.11 – 26.3, a range that overlaps with this mod's newest builds. Mineable Spawners is not open source, is published for 1.21.6 – 26.3, and works with the server required and the client optional, so either side may run it alone.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMP Silk Spawner | Fabric | 1.12.2 – 26.3 | Not published | 2026-09-17 |
| Silk Spawners | Fabric | 1.18.2 – 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2023-07-01 |
| SilkSpawners | Fabric | 1.21.11 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-07-15 |
| Mineable Spawners | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.6 – 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-10-01 |
Questions
Does the mod need to be installed on clients?
Which server platforms are supported besides Fabric?
Which game versions have Fabric files?
In the catalog
SMP Silk Spawner is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
This was created for use on my forever world, called "derex smp". Check it out in action, server ip: mc.longhorns.dev PSA: More changes are coming, i got busy with midterms at school
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/smp-silk-spawner
- Owner
- derexXD
- Published
- 2025-08-15
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-17
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15