# Spawners: your collection and your farms

On ScandiCraft, a spawner belongs to your account. You place it anywhere in your territory, take it back whenever you want, and nobody else can steal it.

![Two player spawners in the Wilderness, recognisable by their red cage and the ScandiCraft S: on the left, the animal spawner has just spawned a chicken; on the right, the monster spawner shows its zombie.](/gameplay/media/progression-spawners.webp)

- A spawner is never an item: it is either in your collection or placed in the world.
- You place it in the Wilderness or in your faction's claims, and only you can take it back.
- No explosion destroys a spawner, even during a raid.

## Your spawner collection

- **/scandispawner** — opens your collection with the type, ID, dimension and coordinates of each spawner. Left-click chooses placement or requests retrieval. Retrieval always asks for confirmation: Retrieve or Cancel. Right-click opens mob details and their spawn chances
- A spawner cannot be dropped, traded, sold at the auction house or stored in a chest
- You can own up to 10 spawners, placed or in your collection, all types combined. This limit may still change
- Spawners cannot be crafted: there is no recipe

![The /scandispawner collection: each spawner shows its type, position and available actions. Mob details show the mobs and their chances.](/gameplay/media/progression-spawners-collection.webp)

## Two spawner types

- **Monster spawner** — zombie, skeleton, spider, zombified piglin and creeper
- **Animal spawner** — pig, chicken, sheep and cow
- On each spawn, the spawner picks a mob of its type. A monster spawner mostly spawns zombies, then skeletons, spiders, creepers and, more rarely, zombified piglins. Every animal has the same chance
- You recognise a player spawner by its red cage marked with a small ScandiCraft S on its sides. It always shows a zombie (monsters) or a pig (animals)
- A spawn egg does not change a player spawner's type

## Placing a spawner

- Click a spawner in your collection, then aim at a block and use the Use action within 30 seconds: the spawner goes against the face you aim at
- You can only place it in the Wilderness or in your faction's claims. The Safezone, the Warzone and other factions' claims, allies included, are refused
- The spot must be empty: a spawner never replaces a block and cannot be placed on a player, a mob or a vehicle
- You also need permission to build there
- A spawner cannot touch bedrock, obsidian or a siege block on any face. You cannot place one of those blocks against a player spawner either
- A chunk holds at most 2 player spawners, all owners combined. Beyond that, the chat tells you to place yours in another chunk

## Taking a spawner back

- Break your spawner or click it in your collection: it goes straight back there. The collection reopens so you can take back another one
- Nothing drops, neither an item nor experience
- From your collection you can take it back from anywhere, even if your claim was lost or taken, or if you left your faction

## Protection

- Only its owner can break a player spawner: not an enemy during a raid, not even a member of your own faction
- No explosion destroys a spawner, natural dungeon spawners included
- If your claim is lost or taken by another faction, your spawner stays in place and remains yours
- Aim at a ScandiSpawner while holding the Stoneward Scepter: its owner appears on screen without clicking. The Attack action also shows its owner in chat

## Keeping a spawner running

- A spawner works as in vanilla: it activates when a player is within 16 blocks
- Monsters spawn in the dark; animals need grass on the ground and light
- Mobs appear within 4 blocks of the spawner: leave free space
- A spawner waits while 6 or more mobs of the same type surround it. Clear them out or space your spawners at least 9 blocks apart
- A new wave comes roughly every 20 to 80 seconds
- Mobs drop their usual loot and experience

## Getting a spawner

Ways to obtain spawners will be announced. A spawner you receive goes straight into your collection, with no item to pick up.

## Frequently asked

**Can an enemy break my spawner during a raid?**

No. Only its owner can break a player spawner, and no explosion destroys it.

**What happens to my spawner if I lose my claim?**

It stays in place and still belongs to you. Open /scandispawner and click it and confirm retrieval, wherever you are.

**Why does my spawner no longer spawn anything?**

Check that a player is within 16 blocks, that its mobs' conditions are met (darkness for monsters, grass and light for animals), that there is free space around it and that fewer than 6 mobs of the same type surround it.

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Last updated on 15.10.2026

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