I stumbled upon a zombie dungeon that had a skeleton and a creeper in it. While trying to dispatch the mobs, the creeper went kablooey and the monster spawner dropped as an item. Of course, it's empty. It's neat to have it in survival mode, but other than putting it in an item frame as a trophey, is there anything that can be done with it?
You made me have to look this up, and I can't find anything where someone has placed a spawner they got, but a couple times where like you people got a spawner from a creeper explosion.
I think you should try to place it somewhere that it's likely to work, maybe try 3 blocks away from another spawner so it's in an existing spawn room, and see if it spawns items. If it does, this is a really great discovery, as you could then in theory go around and collect numerous spawners and make an awesome xp grinder or loot farm, and place it where ever you want potentially.
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The Monster Spawner item you picked up can technically be mined with a silk touch pick axe. However, there is no way in Survival that you can restart the spawner. Even in creative, you have to start the spawner with an spawn egg, which is not an item found in survival obviously. The fact that you could pick up the spawner via a creeper explosion is actually pretty cool! Hopefully in the future we can do more with these monster spawners.
I stumbled upon a zombie dungeon that had a skeleton and a creeper in it. While trying to dispatch the mobs, the creeper went kablooey and the monster spawner dropped as an item. Of course, it's empty. It's neat to have it in survival mode, but other than putting it in an item frame as a trophey, is there anything that can be done with it?
Hmm never heard of that. I'm assuming you can't place it again as a working spawner?
I don't believe you can without having a spawn egg. Also, once I place it, I cannot mine it back up.
Sounds like a bug. Never heard of creepers in a spawner before
You made me have to look this up, and I can't find anything where someone has placed a spawner they got, but a couple times where like you people got a spawner from a creeper explosion.
I think you should try to place it somewhere that it's likely to work, maybe try 3 blocks away from another spawner so it's in an existing spawn room, and see if it spawns items. If it does, this is a really great discovery, as you could then in theory go around and collect numerous spawners and make an awesome xp grinder or loot farm, and place it where ever you want potentially.
If you place it, let us know what happens.
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The creeper wasn't in the spawner, it was in the room with the skeleton, the mob spawner was filled with a zombie until the creeper exploded.
Ah sorry I misread. Like prowl says, if this is a real thing it could be a great discovery!
The Monster Spawner item you picked up can technically be mined with a silk touch pick axe. However, there is no way in Survival that you can restart the spawner. Even in creative, you have to start the spawner with an spawn egg, which is not an item found in survival obviously. The fact that you could pick up the spawner via a creeper explosion is actually pretty cool! Hopefully in the future we can do more with these monster spawners.
When you mine it, even with Silk Touch, it gets destroyed and drops experience orbs. For now, I'm just keeping it in my ender chest for brighter days.