I Wanted Skeleton Monster Spawner Not Pigs!!!

[Zombiechris]

Hi Everyone.

Ive just set up my Tekkit server and so fair its working great!

Just a small problem. Every time I try to grab a monster spawner (like Creeper, Skeleton, or Enderman) from the Too Many Items GUI look alike it keeps turning in to a pig spawner in my inventory. I don't know if it is just me but I have tried looking on this forum and had no luck in finding a quick fix.

Failing that are there any good Bukkit plugins that might help out

Any help would be appreciated

Thank you for reading!

[sealingcat]

This isn't just you. This is a 'feature' of vanilla minecraft. Most times I've seen this done, the spawners have to be hacked in with MCEdit.

[mushroomhostage]

Hi Everyone.

Ive just set up my Tekkit server and so fair its working great!

Just a small problem. Every time I try to grab a monster spawner (like Creeper, Skeleton, or Enderman) from the Too Many Items GUI look alike it keeps turning in to a pig spawner in my inventory. I don't know if it is just me but I have tried looking on this forum and had no luck in finding a quick fix.

Failing that are there any good Bukkit plugins that might help out

Any help would be appreciated

Thank you for reading!

The problem, in case you're technically curious, is that the server filters the damage values on block items which are believed not to have durability or subtypes. This includes monster spawners, even though it would be very useful to store the creature type in the item damage value – as Not Enough Items does (and I imagine Too Many Items too). Bukkit used to allow this but the change was reverted in 1.0.1. Here's the bug: https://bukkit.atlassian.net/browse/BUKKIT-329

Fortunately it was fixed in 1.2.4, so future major versions of Tekkit are likely to not have this problem.

Until then, it is possible to workaround this problem in several different ways. You can use my Bukkit plugin, SilkSpawners. Unfortunately it isn't as convenient as using NEI/TMI, but you can acquire spawners using the /ss command (i.e., /ss skeleton), change their type, etc. I originally wrote this plugin to let you pickup mob spawners using Silk Touch tools, but it turns out to be very useful to manipulate spawners in general. It will even work with custom mobs added by other mods.