MobSpawnerRange

A plugin that allows increasing the activation distance for mob spawning from spawners.

🧩 Version Compatibility

📋 Description

The standard activation distance for spawners in Minecraft is 16 blocks. This plugin allows increasing this distance, which is especially useful for creating efficient farm mob farms and mob arenas.

⚡ Features

• Increasing the activation radius of mob spawners
• Automatic application of settings to new spawners
• Commands for managing settings in real-time
• Support for configuration reload without server restart

⚙️ Configuration

# MobSpawnerRange Configuration

# Base activation distance for spawners in Minecraft - 16 blocks
activation-range: 32
debug-mode: false

messages:
  # General messages
  no-permission: "<red>You don't have permission for this command!"
  invalid-number: "<red>Please enter a valid number!"

  # Reload command
  reload-success: "<green>MobSpawnerRange configuration reloaded!"

  # Info command
  info: |
    <gold>=== MobSpawnerRange ===
    <yellow>Current activation distance: <green>{range}</green> blocks
  info-debug-enabled: "<yellow>Debug mode: <green>enabled"
  info-debug-disabled: "<yellow>Debug mode: <red>disabled"

  # Setrange command
  setrange-usage: "<red>Usage: /spawnerrange setrange <distance>"
  setrange-invalid: "<red>Distance must be a number!"
  setrange-success: "<green>Activation distance set to {range} blocks!"
  setrange-updated: "<green>All spawners updated!"

  # Updateall command
  updateall-success: "<green>All spawners updated with current settings!"

  # Help command
  help-header: "<gold>=== MobSpawnerRange Help ==="
  help-info: "<yellow>/spawnerrange info <white>- Plugin information"
  help-reload: "<yellow>/spawnerrange reload <white>- Reload config"
  help-setrange: "<yellow>/spawnerrange setrange <distance> <white>- Set distance"
  help-updateall: "<yellow>/spawnerrange updateall <white>- Update all spawners"

  # Errors
  unknown-command: "<red>Unknown command. Use /spawnerrange help"

📝 Commands

• /spawnerrange info - information about current settings
• /spawnerrange reload - reload configuration
• /spawnerrange setrange <distance> - set new activation radius (applied immediately)
• /spawnerrange updateall - update activation radius for active spawners according to config

🔐 Permissions

• mobspawnerrange.info - view information (default: op)
• mobspawnerrange.reload - reload configuration (default: op)
• mobspawnerrange.setrange - change distance (default: op)
• mobspawnerrange.updateall - all administrative rights (default: op)

🎯 Usage

After installing the plugin, all new spawners will automatically use the increased activation radius. To apply settings to existing spawners, use the /spawnerrange updateall command.

Installation

1. Download the latest release from the Releases section
2. Place it in the /plugins folder
3. Restart the server
4. Configure config.yml if needed
5. Use /mobspawner reload to apply changes without restart