Is it possible to get monster spawners in minecraft

I was wondering if it was possible to get mob spawners in vanilla minecraft in creative mode. I'm playing on version 1.12.2.

2 Answers

Try using the command /give @s mob_spawner. This will only work if your world has cheats enabled; there's no other way to get a mob spawner in your inventory. (Using a tool enchanted with silk touch doesn't work, for example.)

The mob spawner will have a pig in it by default, but you can right click the block with a spawn egg (which you can find in the "Miscellaneous" section of the creative inventory) to change the mob that spawns in it.

Yes but only with cheats

If you use the cheat /give (playername) (itemid) (amount)

You can then use to find the item ID of the item you want. (sorry if this site goes down I don't know of any other way to find the item ID without going into the code)

For spawners the code is "52:" then a number defining what type of mob the spawner spawns.

Item IDs for all spawners

52:50 = Creeper
52:51 = Skeleton
52:52 = Spider
52:53 = Giant
52:54 = Zombie
52:55 = Slime
52:56 = Ghast
52:57 = PigZombie
52:58 = Enderman
52:59 = CaveSpider
52:60 = Silverfish
52:61 = Blaze
52:62 = Lavaslime (magma cube)
52:63 = EnderDragon
52:64 = WitherBoss
52:65 = Bat
52:66 = Witch
52:90 = Pig
52:91 = Sheep
52:92 = Cow
52:93 = Chicken
52:94 = Squid
52:95 = Wolf
52:96 = MushroomCow
52:97 = SnowMan
52:98 = Ozelot
52:99 = VillagerGolem
52:100 = Horse