Spawners
Spawners on Bucketry can be picked up, moved to your base and stacked, so one block does the work of many. Stacks are limited by capacity: a new stack holds one spawner, and you buy more room for it. You still have to find every spawner that goes in.
Getting spawners
Section titled “Getting spawners”- Mine them with Silk Touch. Any pickaxe with Silk Touch picks up a spawner every time. Without Silk Touch the spawner will not break.
- Grinder quests in
/questsand Mystical Spawner Stones can also give spawners.
Stacking
Section titled “Stacking”- Place a spawner.
- Right-click it with another spawner of the same mob to add it to the stack. Sneak while doing it to add the whole stack in your hand.
- Shift-right-click the spawner with an empty hand to open its menu: stack size, capacity, spawn info and the capacity upgrade.
A stack can never hold more than 32 spawners. Each spawner in the stack adds about 4 mobs per spawn, and spawns happen every 10 to 40 seconds while a player is within 16 blocks.
Mobs that come out of spawners also stack into a single mob with a counter (up to 128), which keeps grinders from lagging. Kill the stack one mob at a time and the drops are the same as killing them separately.
Buying capacity
Section titled “Buying capacity”In the spawner menu, the capacity button reads Raise capacity to x2 (then x3, and so on) with its price. Every extra slot for a mob type costs the same:
| Mob | Per slot | Mob | Per slot | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cod | $150,000 | Bee, Goat, Mooshroom, Turtle | $600,000 | |
| Salmon | $187,500 | Horse | $750,000 | |
| Squid, Tropical Fish | $225,000 | Zombie, Skeleton, Spider, Cave Spider, Husk, Stray, Drowned | $900,000 | |
| Pufferfish | $262,500 | Slime | $1,050,000 | |
| Rabbit | $300,000 | Creeper, Witch | $1,200,000 | |
| Chicken | $337,500 | Guardian, Hoglin, Piglin, Zombified Piglin | $1,500,000 | |
| Glow Squid | $375,000 | Blaze, Enderman, Magma Cube | $1,800,000 | |
| Cow | $412,500 | Ghast, Wither Skeleton | $2,250,000 | |
| Pig, Silverfish | $450,000 | |||
| Sheep | $487,500 |
So a full 32-stack of zombie spawners needs 31 bought slots ($27.9 million) plus 32 zombie spawners you found yourself.
Breaking stacks
Section titled “Breaking stacks”- Break normally (with Silk Touch) to take one spawner off the stack. The bought capacity stays with the block.
- Sneak while breaking to take the whole stack. When you break a whole stack, you get back what you paid for its capacity.
- Explosions cannot destroy spawners.