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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Download 1.12.2 version
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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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 25, 2012Can you add a permission to allow players to destroy chestshop signs fomr other players? Im using simpleregionmarket and world guard will protect the signs and chests and i want player to be able to break signs from old rental player no longer renting the region.
Or add another setting to disable sign protection like you have for chest protection.
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Posted Jun 25, 2012Any chance of getting a special chest called "AutoSell" where anything placed in it (I am specifically thinking BuildCraft\IC2\RP pipes feeding the chest) and executing a /sell command type effect. Since your group is thee Chest gurus for Bukkit would this be a substantial request? Ultimately I want to try and get http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/t2k/pages/general-design-documentation/ up and running but in the mean time an auto-selling chest would make economic PvP light up pretty quick for people.
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Posted Jun 25, 2012@Master_Zangetsu Not at the moment, but please post this as a ticket.
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Posted Jun 25, 2012is it possible to have the admin shop transactions come out of one account, but the taxes go into another?
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Posted Jun 25, 2012@Waterworth12 Please search before you post. It's not ChestShop's issue, your economy plugin can't handle that many transactions. Try increasing the SHOP_INTERVAL_RATE in ChestShop's config.
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Posted Jun 25, 2012Hey,
We have found an awful bug on our server, if you were to sell 1 block of dirt to a shop (mass) it would hang the server, seems the server struggles to keep up with the data sent. We have no other issues with any other plugin, could you please check this bug out.
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Posted Jun 25, 2012@FuRiouSOne Firstly - 3.40 is really, really old.
Secondly - STACK_UNSTACKABLES option is discontinued in new ChestShop versions.
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Posted Jun 24, 2012version 3.40
STACK_UNSTACKABLES: true
potions still wont stack when placing inside chest.
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Posted Jun 24, 2012@Gizmoholm It's experimental. I can't do anything about it.
@uberevan Nope, not possible.
@MineCraftMyph Yes, I'm sure there isn't any solution NOW.
"it's not possible at the moment."
The "at the moment" is the key word. The problem is in the way how ChestShop handles transaction at the moment. Only one kind of item can be sold, and items with different durabilities are different items. It will be possible when I change that behaviour.
Also, to make ChestShop only possible to use for certain groups - create a sign like:
[Restricted]
someGroup
someOtherGroup
And just give your groups permissions:
ChestShop.group.someGroup
etc.
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Posted Jun 23, 2012@Acrobot
when 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 23, 2012@Timkat1994
My argument remains true, if two people were to PVP with Full Durability Diamond Armor, Player 1 Wins and takes Player 2's Armor with 99% Durability, he wouldn't be able to sell it.
@Timkat1994
Are you sure there isn't a solution?
And another Suggestion.
- Enchantment Prices
Items with Enchantments will be defined to sell for more.
Example In Config.......
Enchantment Prices:
Smite: 100
Sharpness: 200
Normal Diamond Sword would sell for 100
Enchanted Diamond Sword with Smite II would sell for 300 (+100 from Smite I x2)
Enchanted Diamond Sword with Smite I and Sharpness I sells for 400
(+100 from Smite I and +200 from Sharpness I)
I am also having trouble with a certain permission as it is not displayed.
How would I make a shop only allowed to sell/buy from a certain group?
Would It be ChestShop.name.buy.Admin ?
And the players in group Admin would now be able to buy from....
Admin
1
B 2:3 S
Wood
And no one else?
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Posted Jun 22, 2012Can you make it to were you can have a shop that buys all enchants for the same price
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Posted Jun 22, 2012@Timkat1994 Haha, that was genius :P
But yeah - that would kinda miss the point. Also, it's not possible at the moment.
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Posted Jun 22, 2012@Timkat1994:
LOLOLOL
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Posted Jun 22, 2012@MineCraftMyph
That doesn't seem like a bug at all. Pretty sure it's intentionally like that. Your solution is like buying a loaf of bread, taking a piece, and then trying to return it.
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Posted Jun 22, 2012@Acrobot
[BUG]
You cant sell items with damaged durability.
Example: Buy a Bow, Shoot an arrow, can't sell Bow - 'You don't have a Bow'
[SOLUTION/SUGGESTION]
Adding to the config:
Sell-Damaged: True
This allows you to sell an item to the shop if the item is Damaged.
So now: Buy a Bow, Shoot Arrows, and you can still sell the Bow.
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Posted Jun 22, 2012I am having a problem with the plugin, it is only allowing players to lose money, not gain, when a player buys an item, the money is taken from their account, but not transferred into the player's account who is selling the item, also selling items will remove the item from a person but not put the money into their account
im using the latest essentials, vault and the latest RB of craftbukkit
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Posted Jun 22, 2012@Acrobot
Hey, since you're a CB developer (i saw that you did some commits), there's a very annoying bug that bothers me.
If you change the view distance to below 10, for ie 5, and use the command "save-off", the chunks stop unloading from the memory, making the server a total disaster after a couple of hours of uptime.
Any ideas?
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Posted Jun 22, 2012@Acrobot
when 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 22, 2012@Xordaii Haha, no problem :P
Also - you can use the OddItem plugin for that. It works with ChestShop :)