How do I spawn mobs in SMP?

I'm trying to setup a Minecraft server so I can play with fluffy dragons.

As the server admin how can I spawn mobs in SMP? Can I do it in the vanilla server? Do I have to use bukkit or a plugin?

PS: Eggs are fun!

7 Answers

As of release 1.1, you can enter Creative mode and use the new "Spawn Eggs" item to produce monsters, even in vanilla.

You can do it in bukkit with the /mob command.

1

I spawn eggs on my server (it's vanilla, not Bukkit!) with /give (name) 385 (mob id)

There is a command and it is /spawn [id] [quantity] in 1.2.3 only

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Use the /summon command:

/summon <type of mob> X Y Z

Confirmed for 1.5

/give [player] [item] [quanity] [type]

So to give 4 Zombie Spawn Eggs to Joe:

/give joe 383 4 54

Use WorldGuard Plugin! This spawns 3 ghasts:

/mob ghast 3

By default the max amount of mobs spawnable with one command is 10. You can spawn any mob using this.