ChestShop (iConomyChestShop)
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ChestShop
A simple, yet very powerful system for making physical shops using signs and chests.
It's never been that easy to create shops! With features like shop protection and anti-lag protection, you won't have to worry about your server's economy anymore!
"Just works"! ChestShop supports almost all economy plugins by using Vault!
(Versions above 3.9.2 also support economy plugins using the Reserve API)
Some known compatible and incompatible economy plugins.
Please check if there are newer development builds before reporting issues!
If you are upgrading from a previous version of ChestShop please make sure to always read the warnings in the file's changelog!
The plugin by default submits anonymous stats about your server (player count, plugin/server version and type) to a public statistics websites (mcstats.org and bstats.org) in order to provide the developers with usage information. If you wish to opt out, you can do so in the PluginMetrics/config.yml and bstats/config.yml files. It also features an auto-update feature, which can be turned off in the config.
Frequently Asked Questions
Permissions
User-made tutorials
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API for plugin developers
Source code on GitHub
Crowdin Localization Project
Thread on Bukkit forums
IRC chat (#chestshop on irc.esper.net)
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bStats metrics
Additional modules for ChestShop:
ChestShop LegacyIds - allows usage of numeric and old pre 1.13 string IDs on signs
Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)
Towny module - to use with Towny plugin
ChestShop Notifier - records all sales, even when the player is offline (Maintained by Phoenix616)
ChestShopTools - Enchantment info signs and empty shop notifier (Maintained by Phoenix616)
Adda - Item display icons above the chest, transaction limit, Discord alerts, per-player shop limit! (User-made)
ChestIcon - Icons for Chests, just like the Showcase plugin! (User-made, broken on newer versions)
Libelula Auto Shop - easy creation of admin shops, using Essentials (User-made)
ChestShopLimiter+ - limits the number of shops per player (User-made, abandoned)
ChestShopListing - Stores shops and transactions in SQL; adds related features including in-game search (User-made)
ChestShopConfirmation - confirmation screen before buying (User-made)
SearchChestShop - search for shops selling certain items (User-made)
BoltChestShop - Add support for Bolt container protections (Made by the Bolt author)
Using shops
It's easy! Just right-click the sign to buy, left-click to sell. (You can configure the buttons in the config file!)
How to create a shop
Player shop
| Place a chest on the ground | |
| Place a sign 1 block away from the chest (for example, above it) | |
| On the sign, write: | ![]() |
| Leave the first line empty. It will be automatically filled with your name by the plugin (if you have the permission ChestShop.admin then you can create shops with the names of other players) | |
| Second line is the amount of items to buy or sell | |
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Third line is a combination of buy and sell prices. You need to have a price indicator (like 'B' - price that will apply to items BOUGHT by PLAYERS - or 'S' - the SELL price) near the price - the prices are separated by a colon (:) |
Some of the possible price combinations: "B 5:5 S", "B 5", "S free" |
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The forth line will hold the id/name of the item. Write ? on the sign and the item will be autofilled with the one from the chest or you can click on the sign with the item afterwards. Optionally you can put the actual name on it. You can find out the name of the item you're holding by doing /iteminfo |
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| Resulting Shop | ![]() |
| A person can buy 64 diamonds for 10 dollars and sell them back for 5 dollars from Phoenix616 |
If you want you can also take a look at this video tutorial.
Admin Shop - shop with unlimited items
Firstly, you've got to be sure that you've the ChestShop.admin permission or that you are an OP. To make an Admin Shop, simply put "Admin Shop" (configurable in config.yml) on the first line of the sign when creating the shop. Admin Shops do not require a chest!
Translations
- /iteminfo - Get information about the item in your hand
- /iteminfo <id/name> - Get information about the item with the given id or name
- /shopinfo - Get information about the looked-at shop
- /csgive <itemcode> [<amount>] [<player>] - Give item with a unique ChestShop code to a player
- /cstoggle - Toggle buy and sell notificiation messages
- /chestshop version - Display the ChestShop version
- /chestshop reload - Reload the ChestShop config and translation messages. (This might not reload some features)
- /csaccess - Toggles ability to buy/sell on shops while having admin/access permissions and normally being ignored
Permission nodes
| Description | ||
|---|---|---|
| ChestShop.shop.* | shop creation and buying/selling - it contains: | |
| ChestShop.shop.create.* |
create all types of shops |
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| ChestShop.shop.buy | buy any item from shop | |
| ChestShop.shop.sell | sell any item to shop | |
| ChestShop.mod | open any shop chest | |
| ChestShop.admin | open any shop chest, destroy stores, create (admin) shops |
A full list of permission nodes
Configurations
Useful tips by players
| How not to get bankrupt | A customisable price table |
| Alternative price table |
Compatibility
ChestShop directly hooks into the following plugins to provide additional functionality:
- AuthMe (and forks like AuthMe Reloaded)
- WorldGuard
- Residence
- LWC (and forks like LWCX and Modern-LWC)
- Lockette
- LockettePro
- Deadbolt
- SimpleChestLock
- OddItem
- Heroes
- ShowItem
Metrics
This resource sends metrics data to McStats and bStats. You can opt-out of metrics for all plugins on your server by changing the settings in the PluginMetrics/config.yml and the bStats/config.yml file if you don't want any data to be send.
More info
Even more information can be found in the old plugin thread on the forums.
Got an error or suggestion?
Simply submit a ticket here!
If you have a Github account and have coding knowledge you can also directly open an issue on Github. (You can also fund them via IssueHunt!)
If you just need general help feel free to ask in the comments or join the #chestshop channel on Spigot's IRC network (irc.spi.gt, webchat)
Has ChestShop helped you or your server?
If you want to thank the team in a more materialistic way, feel free to donate or buy Phoeni616 a beer! :)
A shout-out to Acrobot's friend:
We believe that the music he makes is really stunning - you can decide it for yourself!
If you have an issue then please open a ticket on GitHub or post on SpigotMC.org for faster replies to questions!


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Posted Jun 17, 2012@rasnyderiii Our current PermissionEX permissions for the shop world is setup as such:
I'm sure that this works as intended as players are unable to use the "regionforsale.*" permissions outside of the shop world.
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Posted Jun 17, 2012@CubeNation Yeah, unfortunately I don't post non-recommended code on github - yeah, I should probably do that, sorry!
@WarButter Hmm, I'll look into it.
@Mayhem777 Yep
@hessel797 Just do /iteminfo while you're holding the item.
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Posted Jun 17, 2012@rasnyderiii
That's fixed as Acrobot commented on my ticket regarding this problem: http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/chestshop/tickets/199-wrong-material/
But I can't really see that in the github project/source. So there's no binary yet and no chance to compile it myself :-(
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Posted Jun 16, 201298, 98:1, 98:2 all seem to give - 98:3 from an Admin Shop chest shop.
latest CS - CB 2203
@catjjc - sounds like a incorrect perm file - I'd check that.
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Posted Jun 16, 2012Hey, we're having issues with players being able to make chest shops outside of our chest world. We're only allowing the:
Permissions in our shop world, but when we try and enable "worldguard integration", or "chestshop flag" options within the config the players are unable to create the chestshops completely, even within the shop world.
Here is my config: http://pastebin.com/9vVEjguN
Thanks, love the plugin :)
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Posted Jun 16, 2012Question: is it possible in the next update (with written books) to buy/sell written books? For example: to make a sort of mailbox with this plugin, so people can sell their written books with a message in it to me Like it was a letter in the mailbox.
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Posted Jun 16, 2012still workson r4? :D
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Posted Jun 16, 2012@sepukacheekray
It can usually, for some things it would add the name like Ink_Sack:3 .
I have been using Log:1 , Log:2, ... ever since, but i have no idea when/how it can fail.
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Posted Jun 15, 2012Can chest shop buy and sell things with "damage values" as I believe they are called? Like colored wool, or jungle logs? I tired the item value 17:1 for a different kind of log, but it did not work.
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Posted Jun 15, 2012@Acrobot
Sorry for the late response, but yes, the message is:
[ChestShop] np98765 bought 1 SMOOTH_BRICK for 5.0 from The Market at [world] 0, 0, 0
Or something.
It won't stop spamming the Console...
I'm leaving for a few days, and I don't want this to lag the server out if the log file becomes too large.
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Posted Jun 15, 2012Can someone please help me! I have the weed plugin, but I want to sell it with ChestShop. And he always say: 'This shop is out of stock.' Which means I can't find the long grass item ID! Can someone please HELP ME!
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Posted Jun 15, 2012At the moment I use PermissionsEX and by giving myself literally zero permissions it still allows me to buy and sell from shops. Is there a fix for this?
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Posted Jun 15, 2012@Multitallented At the moment, it's not possible, but I can add an event for it :P
When exactly should it fire?
@josip1 Well, it's a problem with iConomy, but asofold is right.
@whatshiywl Well, as you said - you have towny integration turned on. The people need to place shops in THEIR SHOP PLOTS ("commercial" plots)
@MineCraftMyph
I'll try it, but again - this is bad, because it takes 2 characters out of possible characters on sign...
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Posted Jun 15, 2012@josip1
Im not official, but one simple way to reduce load is to adjust the allowed number of transactions per second per player in the configuration.
Another step could be, if you use a lot of logging for the ChestShop transactions (console, database), to leave out either if it is not absolutely necessary, but limiting the number of transactions can bring a lot. Also if you use a remote database for logging it can be a problem.
You might also check if your economy plugin does use something like caching or delayed/accumulative saving, but i am not sure what the standard plugins do there. (Mine would save delayed and/or only save directly if the difference of balance is greater than a certain value).
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Posted Jun 15, 2012If people buy like crazy from the shop it lags out the server...is there a way to fix it?
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Posted Jun 14, 2012hey so my players are not being able to set up shops. I can set them cuz i have global wildcard ('*') but i set them with "- ChestShop.shop.*" and they still can't build... I have v3.42, using 1.2.5-R3.0 and i use PEX. i even tried to set ChestShop.shop.create alone but also doesn't work. All y players get is a sign back and a message: "[Shop] You can't create shop here!". i'm also using towny and i think i have it set so they can only place shops on towny shop plots but that also doesn't work :S any ideas?
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Posted Jun 14, 2012@Acrobot:
What would be the best way to cancel a chestshop transaction? I'm working on my PartialCreative plugin and would like players not to be able to sell their free items.
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Posted Jun 14, 2012[SUGGESTION]
Allow *, >, <, |, \ to be used in the Shop Name... Example
> Buy Here <
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B 2:1 S
Diamond
Adding Color Sign Support... Example:
&e> &4Buy Here &e<
&22
&bB 2:&41 S
&1Diamond
Color Signs Here:
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/signcolours/
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Posted Jun 14, 2012@np98765 Hmm, ok, I'll check what I can do.
You mean the "xxx bought 5 xx" messages, right?
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Posted Jun 14, 2012@Acrobot
... That's odd, I thought I included it in my last post..
Anyways, Im running the latest 3.42