Better Smart Spawners

Smart Spawners changes how natural mob spawners work. Instead of spawning creatures into the world, a supported spawner quietly fills itself with the loot and experience those mobs would normally drop. You can walk up, open it like a chest, and collect everything when you are ready.

Open any supported spawner to see a large storage menu. Use the buttons above to take all items, clear the storage, or claim the stored experience. Taking XP plays the familiar experience pickup sound. Above the spawner, a small floating label shows which mob it is tied to along with how many items and how much XP are waiting inside.

Basic drops still come from the normal mob loot. On top of that, each generation cycle has a small chance for rarer rewards, such as a bow with random durability from skeleton spawners, spider eyes from spiders, and similar rare finds from zombies.

Supported natural spawners include zombie, skeleton, spider, cave spider, silverfish, blaze, and magma cube spawners.

Smart Spawners is meant for players who want safer, cleaner farms without constant mob fights, while still getting the loot and XP those spawners are known for.

Update 1.1

This update adds spawner upgrading. Right click a placed spawner with another spawner of the same mob type to combine them. The spawner shows x2, x3, and higher next to its name in the menu and on the hologram, and production gets faster with each level. When you break an upgraded spawner, it keeps its level instead of resetting.

You can also control each spawner type in the config, set how far the hologram text can be seen, and holograms are cleaned up properly when a spawner is broken or the mod is removed. Taking XP now plays the normal experience pickup sound.