Can You Use Silk Touch on a Spawner

A spawner (in Java Edition) or monster spawner (in Bedrock Edition), is a cage-similar cake that can spawn mobs. When configured, it contains a miniature, spinning version of the type of mob information technology spawns.

1 Obtaining
- one.i Breaking
- 1.two Natural generation
2 Usage
- 2.1 Mechanics
  - 2.1.1 Spawning requirements
- 2.2 Disabling
- 2.3 Custom spawners
- 2.4 Note blocks
- 2.five Piston interactivity
3 Sounds
4 Data values
- four.one ID
- iv.2 Cake data
5 Video
half-dozen History
vii Issues
8 Trivia
nine Notes
10 Gallery
11 Meet as well
12 References

Obtaining [ ]

Spawners cannot be obtained in Survival, even with Silk Bear on.

In Bedrock Edition, a monster spawner can be obtained in Creative mode past taking it from creative inventory, past using the /requite command, or by using option block. It is initially empty and inert, only can be configured to spawn a desired mob by using a spawn egg on the placed block.

In Java Edition, spawners are non found in the creative inventory^[1] and are the but block with an item grade that cannot be obtained by pick block. The only style to obtain 1 is by using the /give control, which gives a pig spawner by default; afterward the mob can exist changed by using a spawn egg on the placed block.

A /setblock, /clone or /fill command can also be used to obtain a spawner.

Breaking [ ]

If cleaved with a pickaxe, a spawner drops xv-43 experience. When mined with anything else, it drops aught.

Block	Spawner
Hardness	5
Tool
Breaking time^[A]
Default	25
Wooden	3.75
Stone	1.nine
Iron	1.25
Diamond	0.95
Netherite	0.85
Golden	0.65

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded past players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Natural generation [ ]

Spawners tin generate naturally in the following places:

Dungeons: One in the center of the dungeon spawning 1 of the post-obit mobs with the indicated frequency: zombie (50%), skeleton (25%), or spider (25%).
Mineshafts: Whatever number of cavern spider spawners, densely surrounded by cobwebs, scattered throughout.
Woodland mansions: Optionally one spider spawner, densely surrounded past cobwebs, in a rarely generated hole-and-corner room on the 2nd or 3rd floor. It is sometimes visible through the windows from outside.
Strongholds: One silverfish spawner in the end portal room.
Nether fortresses: 1 or two blaze spawners on fenced platforms with full-cake "stairs" leading up to them. Normally 2 are generated per fortress, only in that location can exist fewer.
Bastion remnants: I magma cube spawner hanging from a chain underneath a bridge in treasure rooms.

Usage [ ]

The spawner spawns mobs in a 9×3×9 volume (encounter § Mechanics) around it when the player is inside 16 blocks. Suitable spawning locations for the cake's mob type are provided in or effectually the spawning volume. The spawner attempts to spawn four mobs around information technology, so waits from 10 to 39.95 seconds earlier spawning more.

In Peaceful difficulty, spawners still activate only practice not spawn monsters in Boulder Edition. In Coffee Edition, zombified piglins, magma cubes, and ghasts practice not spawn at all and other hostile mobs disappear immediately after spawning.

Spawners are transparent, but they acquit like leaves in that they diffuse sky lite coming from directly above.

In Boulder Edition, they have a hitbox slightly smaller than a full block, and therefore, i tin walk on the border of a supporting full cake directly below the spawner.

Mechanics [ ]

A spawner activates when a player comes inside a spherical radius of 16 blocks from the center bespeak of the block; i.e. 15.5 blocks from the spawner itself. In Coffee Edition an agile spawner attempts to spawn mobs within a four-block horizontal and 1-block vertical range; that is, in a 9×iii×nine volume centered on the spawner. In Bedrock Edition, the horizontal spawning range is 4 blocks taxicab distance, creating spawning volume extending 4 blocks in each cardinal horizontal direction from the sides of the spawner; its horizontal cross-section is therefore diamond-shaped. Mobs tin can spawn anywhere in this range that is suitable, with mobs more probable to spawn closer to the spawner than further abroad.

While mobs are spawned at fractional x and z-coordinates (i.e. non aligned to blocks), they are spawned at an integer y-coordinate. Horizontally, a mob tin spawn with its center point anywhere within range, merely vertically, mobs spawn with their legs at either the same layer equally the spawner block, i cake above information technology, or ane block below it.

The spawner attempts to spawn 4 mobs at randomly chosen points within the spawning volume, so expect anywhere from 200 to 799 ticks (10 to 39.95 seconds) before spawning again. As it waits, the mob inside the block spins faster and faster. Except for spawning on a solid block, all of the usual requirements for spawning must exist met (non in a solid block, correct calorie-free level, etc.), then the spawner often produces fewer than 4 mobs. When it does spawn, it emits a "poof", and more flame particles temporarily appear around it. If the spawner fails to spawn any mobs because information technology did not option whatsoever suitable locations, it repeats this procedure every tick until it succeeds. Information technology starts waiting for the next cycle after information technology spawns at least ane mob. If, at the time of spawning, 6 or more mobs of the spawner'south type are present within a ix×9×9 volume centered on the spawner block (in Coffee Edition) or a 16×10×16 volume centered on the lower northwest corner of the spawner cake (in Bedrock Edition), the spawner "poofs" without creating any mobs so waits for the next cycle.

Spawning requirements [ ]

The spawner performs a relaxed version of the ordinary spawning check: the general solid cake requirement is removed, but the volume (hitbox of the mob), the light level, and other checks are kept. As a result, for some types of mobs to spawn in the outer planes of the spawning volume, some planes outside the volume may also need to be free of opaque blocks to conform with the mobs' height, width, or other rules governing their individual spawn volumes. For case, for mobs that are two or more blocks tall such every bit zombies, skeletons, or blazes to spawn in the top y-layer, the layer to a higher place that must contain but air.

Summary of maximum spawn volumes for mutual spawners

Mob blazon

Required Volume

Failure rate from 8×4×eight volume^{[note 1]}

Vertical
alignment

Pig ^{[note 2]}

viii.nine × ii.9 × 8.ix

2.531252%

Cave Spider

8.vii × 2.5 × 8.seven

1.531252%

Silverfish

8.iii × two.vii × 8.three

0.28125%

Zombie
Skeleton
Blaze

8.6 × 3.8 × 8.half dozen

1.125%

Spider

ix.four × ii.9 × 9.4

6.125%

Magma Cube

10.05× 4.09 × 10.05

↑ 8×3×viii is the actual volume beyond which spawners spawn entities, only this volume contains simply the entity's center. The failure rate assumes 8×4×8 because it is a popular misconception that viii×iv×eight is the maximum efficiency volume of empty space for mob spawners - information technology actually depends on the size of the entities themselves. Note that x×4×10 is guaranteed to accommodate all of the above mobs. Also annotation that this failure rate accounts merely for failures due to attempting to spawn a mob at the edges of the spawn range, not other causes of failure such as mobs attempting to spawn intersecting the spawner cake itself.
↑ Pig spawners practice not appear naturally in vanilla Minecraft.

For all of the volumes listed in the tabular array, the horizontal plane is centered on the center of the spawner block. While the spawning volume for pigs is 8.ix×ii.nine×8.nine, the requirement of grass blocks that are necessary for pigs to spawn reduces the actual book in which they successfully spawn to viii.9×1.0×8.9. Other mobs can spawn in mid-air, ignoring general rules about spawning on solid basis.

The spawn weather practise non include biomes for most mobs. Equally such, spawners can place mobs where they usually wouldn't generate. For example, a mooshroom spawner tin can operate in a plains biome as long every bit in that location are mycelium blocks within the spawn surface area because the mooshroom's spawning code checks just for mycelium. The reason mooshrooms are non really spawned elsewhere is that the game does non normally try to spawn them in other biomes: only the mushroom field biome has mooshroom on the list of things to spawn.

Disabling [ ]

Blaze spawner disabled past four Jack o'Lanterns. This works only in Bedrock Edition in small-scale rooms.

With the clever placement of nine solid blocks, a magma cube spawner can be completely disabled. Only the asphalt is needed, glass is just for altitude marking.

The manner a spawner can be disabled depends on the entity information technology tries to spawn.

For a spawner that generates mobs that spawn just in dark conditions (lite level = 0), a torch placed on whatever side or top of the spawner is sufficient to disable it for the whole 9×ix×iii volume.

For a blaze or silverfish spawner, a light level of 12 is required to prevent spawning. This can exist achieved by:

Laying 9 blocks in the pattern shown on the correct using blocks having a luminance value of 15
Laying a dense 7×7 grid of torches on the spawner'southward Y level
In Bedrock Edition, placing a light source of level 15 on four surfaces

A spawner is besides disabled by filling the spawning volume with solid blocks. This is often used to disable magma cube spawners, as magma cubes can spawn in whatever light level. However, since all magma cubes require the space of a big magma cube in order to spawn, a clever placement of as piffling equally 9 solid blocks a layer above the spawner (see right epitome) can completely disable it.

Custom spawners [ ]

A spawner in a dungeon that produces spiders.

Using commands, spawners can be customized:

They tin can be made to spawn whatever kind of entity.
A single spawner can spawn multiple dissimilar entities, chosen at random from a list.
Properties tin be ready on the spawned entities.
Diverse range and timing properties of the spawner tin exist changed.

Detailed technical information nigh custom spawners tin can exist establish below.

Note blocks [ ]

Spawner can exist placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

Piston interactivity [ ]

Spawners cannot be pushed by pistons. They also cannot exist pushed nor pulled past gluey pistons.

Sounds [ ]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`cake.metal.interruption`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	1.2	16
None ^{[audio 1]}	Blocks	Falling on the block with autumn damage	`block.metal.autumn`	None ^{[sound 1]}	0.5	one.25	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of beingness broken	`block.metal.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hitting`	0.25	0.75	16
Cake placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`cake.metal.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.identify`	one.0	i.2	16
Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	`cake.metal.pace`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.v	sixteen

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition: ^{[ needs in-game testing ]}

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
?	?	Once the cake has broken	`dig.metallic`	?	i.2
?	?	Falling on the block with fall harm	`fall.metal`	?	?
?	?	While the cake is in the process of being broken	`hit.metal`	?	0.75
?	?	Jumping from the block	`jump.metal`	?	?
?	?	Falling on the block without autumn damage	`land.metal`	?	?
?	?	Walking on the block	`step.metal`	?	?
?	?	When the block is placed	`use.metal`	?	1.2

Information values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Resource location	Grade	Translation fundamental
Spawner	`spawner`	Block & Item	`cake.minecraft.spawner`

Proper name	Resource location
Block entity	`mob_spawner`

Bedrock Edition:

Proper noun	Resources location	Numeric ID (Exist)	Form	Translation key
Monster Spawner	`mob_spawner`	`52`	Cake & Valid Item	`tile.mob_spawner.name`

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	`MobSpawner`

Block data [ ]

A spawner has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

Block entity information

Boulder Edition:

Come across Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Video [ ]

History [ ]

Coffee Edition Infdev

20100625-two Added mob spawners.

Mob spawners can be picked up and when placed, spawn pigs.

20100627 Mob spawners take been given a unique ID, reducing crashes.

Java Edition Alpha

v1.0.1 Mob spawners can't be picked up anymore.

v1.i.0 Removed rotating model inside of the mob spawner due to some multiplayer bug with it.

Java Edition Beta

1.2 "Mob Spawner" has been renamed to "Monster Spawner".

Monster spawners over again testify a rotating model within of what they spawn in singleplayer after being missing for several versions.

Java Edition

1.0.0 Beta 1.nine Prerelease The texture of monster spawners has been at present changed to a darker color.

Beta 1.ix Prerelease iii Monster spawners now drop when mined using a tool enchanted with the new Silk Touch enchantment, despite this enchantment not existing until the next snapshot.

Added natural silverfish spawners.

Beta one.9 Prerelease five Squid spawners at present work only in a narrow top range, from 46 to 62.

Monster spawners no longer driblet when cleaved using a tool enchanted with Silk Touch.

Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 Monster spawners now have much shorter to destroy, and the breaking time is tier dependent.

1.2.one 12w06a Monster spawners now show the mob they are spawning in multiplayer; previously they would e'er show a hog.

1.iii.ane 12w21a Pick cake no longer works on monster spawners.

12w22a Monster spawners now drop experience when destroyed.

12w26a Monster spawners now back up extra data pertaining to what they spawn.

1.8 14w18a Spawners with numerical metadata variants 1 through 15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have no model rather than appearing identical to spawners.

14w26a

Cake metadata has been completely removed from this snapshot onwards with the introduction of block states. As this block never used block metadata at all prior to this version, fifteen unused, inaccessible metadata variants of it take been completely removed from the game:

	DV	Description
	0	Spawner
	1-15	Inaccessible "slow" variants of spawners

14w26c The horizontal spawning range of monster spawners is now calculated from the center of the cake rather than the northwest corner.

The exclusion zone of monster spawners has been reduced: for a default spawner, the 6 mobs must be in a 9×9×9 region rather than 17×9×17 to prevent spawning.

14w28b The blazon of mob spawned from a monster spawner can now be changed by using a spawn egg on it.

1.nine 16w02a A monster spawner containing a large mob now scales downwardly the mob to fit inside the spawner block.

1.eleven 16w32a The cake entity ID has been changed from MobSpawner to mob_spawner.

16w39a Spider monster spawners now generate in woodland mansions.

1.13 17w47a "Monster Spawner" has been renamed to merely "Spawner".

Prior to The Flattening, this cake's numeral ID was 52.

pre5 The ID of spawners has been changed to spawner.

one.14 18w43a The texture of spawners has been inverse.

i.16 20w16a Magma cube spawners now generate in bastion remnants.

one.18 experimental snapshot 2 Zombie, skeleton, spider, and cave spider spawners now crave a light level of 12 to prevent spawning.

21w37a The low-cal level changes in experimental snapshot 2 have been reverted.

Pocket Edition Blastoff

v0.9.0 build 1 Added monster spawners.

build 2 Added monster spawners to the creative inventory.

The type of mob spawned can at present be changed using a spawn egg.

build 9 Monster spawners at present emit lite.

v0.12.1 build ane Blaze spawners now generate in nether fortresses.

Monster spawners now drop experience when mined using a pickaxe.

Pocket Edition

1.1.0 alpha 1.1.0.0 Spider monster spawners now generate in woodland mansions.

Boulder Edition

i.10.0 beta 1.10.0.iii The texture of monster spawners has been changed.

1.sixteen.0 beta one.16.0.59 Magma cube spawners now generate in breastwork remnants.

i.17.xxx beta one.17.thirty.21 Spawners no longer emit light.

Legacy Console Edition

TU1 CU1 1.0 Patch 1 i.0.1 Added monster spawners.

TU5 The texture of monster spawners has been changed.

TU31 CU19 ane.22 Patch 3 The blazon of mob spawned from a monster spawner can now be changed past using a spawn egg.

TU69 1.76 Patch 38 Monster spawners are at present available in the creative inventory, and tin exist obtained with pick block.

1.90 The texture of monster spawners has been changed.

Problems [ ]

Issues relating to "Spawner" are maintained on the bug tracker. Written report issues there.

Trivia [ ]

Whatsoever spawner placed in Java Edition defaults as a sus scrofa spawner.
A player-created spawner containing zombies tin never spawn a Zombie Villager.^{[ more information needed ]}
In Coffee Edition, spawners containing zombies accept a small run a risk to spawn a chicken jockey.
There are no such thing as fe golem spawners or snowfall golem spawners.
Spawners containing zombies or skeletons have a hazard for the mob spinning within to accept armor.
Spawners containing spiders have a minor run a risk to spawn a spider jockey.
Spawners containing Pillagers have a small chance for the mob spinning inside to be a Raid captain in Java Edition.
Spawners in mushroom fields, mushroom field shore, or the Void biome can role unremarkably, despite those biomes having no hostile mobs spawn naturally.
Spawners are the just block that can exist legitimately obtained every bit an item, but not obtainable from either Creative mode or option cake.‌^{[ Coffee Edition only ]}
It is possible for a pig spawner to generate naturally. If a newer globe is loaded in an older version of minecraft, the spawner can lose its metadata, causing it to enter its default state, which is pig. Alternatively, if a buried treasure chest generates next to a spawner, it duplicates the spawner without duplicating the NBT tag, resulting in a natural sus scrofa spawner. The chest as well gets invalid block(spawner)information, making information technology unopenable.
If a dungeon spawner overwrites a dungeon chest during world generation, the spawner does not spawn any mobs. Information technology appears equally a pig spawner, merely placing a hopper underneath it reveals the contents of the breast that should have been there.

Notes [ ]

↑ Like leaves, this block diffuses heaven lite only from directly to a higher place.

Gallery [ ]

A dungeon, connected to another dungeon, with two spawners.
A spawner edited to spawn zombies wearing enchanted diamond armor.
Lite required to disable a blaze spawner.
A spider spawner that generated on the surface. The spawner is located roughly in the middle of the picture show, underneath a cobweb.
Chickens spawning from multiple spawners.
A spawner in an older version of Minecraft.
Cave spider spawner seen from a sleeping accommodation.
Sus scrofa spawners generating when a buried treasure chest spawns inside a spawner (Fixed in one.17 pre1).
Amethyst geode with mineshaft and two cavern spider spawners. Check the prototype for more details, including seed and coordinates.
two cave spider spawners adjacent to each other.
Spider spawner generated right next to the hamlet.
Mineshaft and skeleton spawner generated at the very bottom of the globe.