Respawning Shulkers (Legacy Fabric)
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.16–1.17. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
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Requires the library mod Collective (Fabric) and the Fabric API.
This mod is part of The Vanilla Experience.
Respawning Shulkers is a mod which makes the process of farming shulker boxes sustainable. Shulkers can quickly become difficult to find in a world, because of the usefulness of shulker boxes. Normally you'd have to find new shulker spawns after your first farming trip, or create an intricate farm to duplicate shulkers with shulker bullets. With this mod, you'll be able to stay in the same place and farm shulker shells infinitely. Shulkers can still teleport, leaving it balanced.
By default a shulker will respawn in its death location after 60 seconds, although this can be changed in the config. When a server (or singleplayer world) shuts down, all pending shulker spawns will process immediately.
Shulkers that originate from a mob spawner by default won't respawn.
Configurable: ( how do I configure? )
timeInTicksToRespawn (default = 1200, min 1, max 72000): The amount of time in ticks it takes for a shulker to respawn after it died. 20 ticks = 1 second. By default 60 seconds.
shulkersFromSpawnersDoNotRespawn (default = true): If enabled, shulkers which spawn from (modded) spawners will not be respawned after a death.
Some GIFs:
With the respawn timer set low for the example.
The two shulkers at the entrance respawning:

A shulker teleporting after being damaged. The shulker will respawn at its death location, not at the initial spawn. This makes farming them still somewhat difficult but balanced:

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- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.16.5, 1.17.1, 1.17
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as respawningshulkers-fabric_1.16.5-2.3.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 37 KB
- Download link checked 15 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.
