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
Download the latest stable version
Download the latest development version
Download 1.12.2 version
Download 1.8.8 version
Download older versions
API for plugin developers
Source code on GitHub
Crowdin Localization Project
Thread on Bukkit forums
IRC chat (#chestshop on irc.esper.net)
Discord Channel Joining through that invite auto subscribes you to important update notifications, if you don't want that use this invite.
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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 21, 2012@Acrobot
That's not a problem, I knew that, I was just asking everyone else if they had some suggestions with dealing with it. Maybe switching to another money management plugin?
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Posted Jun 21, 2012I have to post how much I have loved your plugin over the last year! I tried a new setup recently, MCPortCentral vanilla mods to bukkit with the bukkit server. I was worried I would have to find a new store plugin to handle the vanilla mods' added items.
I don't! We can enter the custom item's ID number and no errors are thrown. We love you! About the only side effect was X189 instead of 189:2 being shown in the "You bought" messages. I can live with it. Would be nice to have a txt or yml file to fill in custom items names with IDs :
189:2=Detector-Empty
8569=Stone Gear
or 8569='Stone Gear'
Since I have already had to do this for the server wouldn't be hard to export the spreadsheet to text file. I'm happy it works at all with those items, though. Thank you. This is with the test version off the main thread, too.
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Posted Jun 21, 2012ok i use iConemy with mysql db i try it out
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Posted Jun 21, 2012@ArtemuMG Please report all the feature requests in the "tickets" section.
@GrandmaSeller As @Robert107 said, your economy plugin is the problem.
@imaxorz Sorry - I can't help it, it's iConomy's issue.
You can sell to non-existing account so when an admin makes a pseudo-admin shop (infinite money, limited stock), it will work fine.
@Zombica09 Read the FAQ please.
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Posted Jun 20, 2012@GrandmaSeller
Your economy plugin its using MySQL? If so, try using H2SQL, or plain data.
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Posted Jun 20, 2012I got an issue if anyone can suggest something.
For some reason iConomy accounts of old players are getting deleted. (I don't use the purge accounts command) and when this happens players can sell infinite amount of stuff to players that had created an account and don't have iConomy account anymore.
Has anyone else run into this? How did you combat the problem? Any suggestions?
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Posted Jun 20, 2012Hi i got a little problem... what is wrong? it´s with all items and it laggs so hard the adminshops got all the itemsize 1280 but i cant say all users do your shops with 1280
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Posted Jun 20, 2012Hey um... i need help really fast. The lower ranks in my server are able to set up Chest Shops even though they do not have the permission node to make them. I made sure that they didn't have them.
So can you please tell me why this is going on? I would greatly appreciate it.
Also, i was reading further down and i saw someone that had the same problem. So if you help me you help them.
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Posted Jun 20, 2012Would it be possible to include a permissions check when someone buys something; that the owner of the chestshop still has permission to have Chest Shops.
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Posted Jun 20, 2012@Acrobot
K, thanks for the info!
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Posted Jun 20, 2012@Robert107 Yeah - that's a bug in CraftBukkit, I already submitted a pull request fixing that.
https://github.com/Bukkit/CraftBukkit/pull/799
@Gizmoholm I have no idea why WorldGuard does that, but it's EXPERIMENTAL - so you know, it can do that.
@Multitallented I mean, some kind of event like "TransactionPreparationEvent" or something.
And OK, fixing that error with Heroes.
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Posted Jun 19, 2012@Acrobot
Hey there acro, the players in my server are able to stack harming potions by buying it from another player at 1 (they do this to stack them).
Any ideas how to solve this?
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Posted Jun 19, 2012when i do /region flag shop1 chestshop allow , it works and everything , but once the server resets , it clears the flags, so id have to do /region flag shop1 chestshop allow from 1 to 50 everytime i restart :/ im despert for help !!
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Posted Jun 19, 2012Oh and also this: http://pastebin.com/4UV0T2VZ
You can find the latest dev build of Heroes on http://ci.herocraftonline.com/job/Heroes/
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Posted Jun 19, 2012@Acrobot
If you could add that event so that it's possible to cancel a shop transaction, I suppose it should be onPlayerInteract. When else would it happen?
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Posted Jun 18, 2012How the hell a guy without permissions and OP can create shops?
I though the permissions ware there for something...
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Posted Jun 18, 2012That fixed it. Thank you.
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Posted Jun 18, 2012@CubeNation Oh, but there is a test version on the main plugin thread :P
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11388037/Bukkit/ChestShop.jar
@bizzig Sorry, but the problem DOESN'T EXIST with smooth brick anymore. Test the "test version" maybe?
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11388037/Bukkit/ChestShop.jar
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Posted Jun 18, 2012@CubeNation
I can confirm that the problem still exists with the smooth brick. Ive updated the plugin and it will still only sell the circle brick.
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Posted Jun 17, 2012@catjjc Did you read the FAQ?
You need to negate your permissions in other worlds. You need to give your players
"-ChestShop.shop.create.*" permission.