Mob Spawner that was blown up by a creeper is no longer working
Recently I was working on a tunnel near a skeleton spawner I found, when suddenly a creeper came and blew up next to me. The strange thing is, that the spawner dropped as an item, which I later placed somewhere else, but now it doesn't spawn anything. Anyone know how to make it spawn mobs again, without mods?
Best Answer
That sounds like a bug. Check to see if it's reported on https://bugs.mojang.com already and if not, report it.
About your question: Since the data in the spawner was deleted, there's no easy way to restore it. You could get a spawn egg out of the Creative mode inventory and apply it to the spawner to make it spawn that entity, but it would likely still not be the same spawner as the one that was originally generated, for example the activation range, the spawn speed and other aspects will likely not be the same.
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What happens if a creeper blows up a spawner?
Yes, (non-charged) creepers have a maximum blast strength of 56 (at point blank range) and monster spawners have a blast resistance of 25, so the explosion can destroy them.How do you fix a broken spawner?
The broken Spawner can be combined with a Soul Vial in a Soul Binder to change the type of spawner or combined with a Powered Spawner to repair it.How do you creeper proof a mob farm?
Make a 2 block wall and the roof has to be trapdoors. Place cats in boats in the end of the farm to scare the creepers away and it will direct the creepers to the other end in which you will have a water stream guiding the creepers to a kill mechanism which can be manual, with campfires, magma blocks....Can creepers spawn in mob spawners?
If you want a mob spawner block (that spawns creepers), just type /give @p mob_spawner , then place and right-click with a creeper egg.How to Fix Mob Farms on Servers | Minecraft 1.18 Suggestion
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Answer 2
Since your spawner has been deactivated after being placed, you need a way to actually put a spawn egg inside, and you can't do that in vanilla survival.
So it's better having cheats on to put back the skeleton inside, but if you really want to keep it vanilla (for some reason, mine would be for achievements), then this isn't possible.
Answer 3
There is a more simple answer.
In BE spawners will likely drop as an item from creeper explosions. When this happens however, it deletes the previous mob egg within it. This explains why there is no action happening inside the spawner, thus rendering the spawner inactive.
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