These are to separate ideas. I was not sure if it would be more appropriate to write two posts or not, so i put them both in one. 1.) Flashlights - Basically, when a player is 'wielding' a torch [opt. redstone, just dimmer], it acts as if the torch was stuck to the player, or acting as a flashlight. Maybe commands could be used too, like /fl dim, or /fl off. i don't know, i just figured it would be neat, and i'm no programmer, something like this may be impossible (you tell me). 2.) Spawners -I look up spawners and i see sign spawners and spawner changers. I'm not so sure how the sign spawners work, would it be possible to make it like this: [Mob/Animal][How many to spawn][Range][Comment or ?] - Again, i'm not sure if its hard or not possible and whatnot. there's a mod for "vanilla servers" i guess, but i have it working for single player if it helps, and its craftable spawners, and that's all i want is a spawner for animals and mobs, for a self-restocking farm or monster quests or something like that.
For the first one, look at torchlight+ The second one probably exits too, try searching "spawner" on dev.bukkit.org
yeah, cos its marked as inactive, because of a change in minecraft 1.2.3 that messed up lighting. It still works, but tis glitchy. http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/torchlightplus/