Features ✨

Here is an overview of everything SmartSpawner brings to your Minecraft server.

🎮 Spawner Types

SmartSpawner introduces three distinct spawner types you can give to players.

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Smart Spawner

The main spawner type. Generates drops and XP from a mob without actually spawning it. Fully stackable and GUI-controlled.

Right-click to open the spawner GUI
No mobs are ever spawned. Zero entity lag.
Supports stacking up to your configured limit
Stores drops in internal paged storage

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Item Spawner

Generates raw items (e.g. diamonds, emeralds, netherite ingots) instead of mob drops. The spinning entity inside is replaced with a floating item model.

Configured in item_spawners_settings.yml
Same GUI and stacking system as Smart Spawners
Use /ss give item_spawner <player> <MATERIAL>

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Vanilla Spawner

A normal Minecraft spawner given via the plugin command. Spawns actual mobs with standard behavior.

No GUI, no stacking
Use /ss give vanilla_spawner <player> <type>
Useful for hybrid setups

📦 Stacking System

Reduce server clutter with seamless spawner stacking. Multiple spawners can be combined into a single block.

🖱️

Stack by Hand

Right-click a placed spawner while holding a spawner of the same type to add one to the stack. Shift + Right-click to bulk-stack all of them at once. Stacking a Spawner

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Stacker GUI

Open the dedicated stacker GUI from the main spawner interface to precisely control how many spawners to add or remove.

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Proportional Scaling

Drop rates and XP scale proportionally with stack size. A stack of 100 spawners generates 100× the drops of a single spawner.

🖥️ GUI System

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Main Spawner GUI

View spawner stats, configure range and delay, claim XP, and access storage or the stacker from a single interface. Main GUI

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Storage GUI

Browse and manage items stored by the spawner across multiple pages. Sort items, filter specific drops, sell everything at once, or take items directly. Storage GUI

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Custom GUI Layouts

Choose from built-in layouts (`default`, `DonutSMP`, `DonutSMP_v2`) or create your own in `gui_layouts/`. Fully configurable button slots, materials, custom heads, sounds, and cooldowns.

⛏️ Mineable Spawners

Players can break and collect spawners using the correct tools and enchantments. Every aspect is configurable:

yaml

spawner_break:
  enabled: true
  direct_to_inventory: false
  required_tools:
    - IRON_PICKAXE
    - GOLDEN_PICKAXE
    - DIAMOND_PICKAXE
    - NETHERITE_PICKAXE
  durability_loss: 1
  sneak_break: true
  silk_touch:
    required: true
    level: 1

sneak_break: Sneak while breaking to remove up to 64 spawners from a stack at once
silk_touch.required: Require Silk Touch to collect the spawner item
drop_chance: Optional per-mob chance that a spawner item drops when broken (configured per entity in spawners_settings.yml)

🛒 Shop Integration

Sell items directly from the spawner storage GUI with full economy support.

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Economy Backends

Vault: Universal economy API
ExcellentEconomy: Multi-currency support

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Shop Plugins

EconomyShopGUI / EconomyShopGUI Premium
ShopGUI+
zShop

Prices can also be defined manually in item_prices.yml.

🌐 Plugin Compatibility

🛡️

Protections

WorldGuard
GriefPrevention
Lands
Towny Advanced
SimpleClaimSystem
MinePlots

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World Management

Multiverse-Core
Multiworld
SuperiorSkyblock2
BentoBox (requires setup, see BentoBox docs)
IridiumSkyblock

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RPG & Mobs

AuraSkills: XP from spawners counts toward skills
MythicMobs: Custom mob drop tables

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Bedrock Support

Floodgate/Geyser players see a mobile-friendly form UI instead of chest GUIs when bedrock_support.enable_formui is true.

✨ Visual Effects

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Holograms

Floating text displays above spawners showing their type and stack size. Toggle with `/ss hologram`. Fully configurable offset, alignment, and shadow.

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Particles

Optional particle effects when spawners are stacked, activated, or generate loot. Each effect can be toggled independently.

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Nearby Scanner

Use `/ss near [radius]` to scan and highlight all nearby spawners through walls using glowing BlockDisplay outlines, visible only to the player who ran the command.

🗄️ Database Support

Choose your storage backend based on your server setup:

Mode	Use Case
`YAML`	Single server, simple setup
`SQLite`	Single server, better performance than YAML
`MySQL`	Multi-server or high-traffic environments

Cross-server spawner listing is available in MYSQL mode via /ss list.

📋 Action Logging

Every important spawner action can be logged to rotating log files (human-readable or JSON). Configurable per-event with console output option.

Features ✨ ​

🎮 Spawner Types ​