Breaking Rules

Break management: who may break a spawner, with what, and what drops.

Who may break a spawner, with what, and whether they get it back, is modules/other.yml.

Drop chance

spawner-drop-chance:
  default: 100
  permissions:
    uxmspawners-drop1: 100
    uxmspawners-drop2: 100
  vanilla-permissions:
    uxmspawners-drop1: 100
    uxmspawners-drop2: 100

default is the chance for a player with no matching permission. The two permission lists are the tiers — one for uxmSpawners spawners, one for vanilla spawners when vanilla support is on. Keep them ascending; the highest match wins.

Requiring a tool

break-management:
  mode: DISABLED
  break-item:
    material: "DIAMOND_PICKAXE"
    name: "<dark_gray>• <aqua>Spawner Pickaxe <dark_gray>(<white>{uses} use(s)<dark_gray>)"
  exempt: uxmspawners.bypassbreak
  block: true
  claimless-spawners-breakable-by-everyone: false

Mode	Meaning
`DISABLED`	No requirement
`ONLY_FOR_VANILLA`	Vanilla spawners need the break item
`ONLY_FOR_VANILLA_SILK_TOUCH`	Vanilla spawners need silk touch
`ONLY_FOR_UXMSPAWNER`	uxmSpawners spawners need the break item
`ONLY_FOR_UXMSPAWNER_SILK_TOUCH`	uxmSpawners spawners need silk touch
`FOR_BOTH`	Both types need the break item
`FOR_BOTH_SILK_TOUCH`	Both types need silk touch

block: true refuses the break outright without the right tool. block: false allows the break but the spawner is lost — a harsher rule that reads as a bug to players, so prefer true unless you mean it.

The break item has a use counter: {uses} in its name is replaced with what is left. Hand it out with /uxmspawners givepickaxe.

claimless-spawners-breakable-by-everyone only applies with uxmClaims: a spawner outside any claim becomes fair game.

Breaking other people's spawners

break-spawners:
  permission: uxmspawners.breakallspawners

Staff node. Without it, ownership and your protection plugin decide.

Vanilla spawners

vanilla-spawner-support:
  enabled: true
  disable-vanilla-breaking: false
  enable-placing: true
  support-on-break: true
  drop-vanilla-on-break: true

With enabled, breaking a vanilla spawner tries to match its entity type against your configured spawner types, and hands the player a uxmSpawners spawner if one matches — which is how an existing world is migrated without touching it. The rest of the block decides whether vanilla spawners can be broken or placed at all, and whether the plain vanilla block drops.

Auto-pickup

auto-pickup:
  enabled: false
  permission: uxmspawners.autopickup

Sends a dropped spawner straight into the inventory.

Explosions

config.yml → protect-spawners-from-explosions keeps creepers and TNT from destroying spawners. Worth turning on the day you sell one.

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