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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 Jul 3, 2012@Mildew82 I've been using it with 1.2.5 R4.0 with no problems at all.
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Posted Jul 3, 2012wait... if iconomy is inactive how can this be working?
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Posted Jul 3, 2012@Mayhem777 Yes, it is.
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Posted Jul 3, 2012Can someone tell me if still working on R4? thanks!
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Posted Jul 2, 2012@GokouZWAR No problem, sorry - I've sounded a bit harsh.
Well, I thought that integrating a plugin that does exactly that (and works with different plugins too) is better than making this by myself :)
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Posted Jul 2, 2012@Acrobot
Looks like I overlooked that part of the main thread. Sorry. I figured it would be built into the plugin by default. I'll check out odditems.
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Posted Jul 2, 2012@GokouZWAR ...
Read the main thread.
For other item names use the OddItems plugin.
Also, I can't change the default item names - these are the Bukkit ones, not mine - blame Bukkit devs/Notch.
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Posted Jul 2, 2012Still seeing "ink sac" for lapis "dust" type ID as i call it. (ID 351:4 - Shows Ink Sack:4)
Also, is there anyway to add names to the database or alter what is there for specific IDs? I'm running tekkit on my server and I'd like to add the names of the various machines instead of seeing for instance "x181" for a crystal chest. If there's already a tekkit version available that'd be real nice too...
Thanks
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Posted Jul 1, 2012@tappestry Yep.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11388037/Bukkit/ChestShop_heroes.jar
(I think it works, if not - just tell me)
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Posted Jul 1, 2012Are there any development builds that may be working with the latest Heroes dev builds?
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Posted Jul 1, 2012@Me4502 Seems like the issue is your economy plugin. Try looking in ChestShop's config and increasing the INTERACT_INTERVAL_RATE (or something like that)...
@BenSiraphob Ehh... There are a lot of guides out there :/
Well, anyway - click on the v3.42 link on the right, then click "download" in the upper left. Save the file to your /plugins folder.
@Spidiweb7 That's awesome! :)
@Cosx Well again, I'm sorry, but I can't do anything about it at the moment :/
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Posted Jul 1, 2012Hi...
When I players buy from my shops, if they buy a lot my server lags and eventually kicks off all the players with "Read Timed Out".
Is there a way to fix this?
thanks
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Posted Jun 30, 2012How to install this? (I'm new to servers) Please help.
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Posted Jun 30, 2012@Spidiweb7 Nice, I am using WordPress as well, haha. Although I am going for the same thing you have going, except I would like to also display a relative location (such as this chest is located in this town) using mySQL alone. Hence why I asked if coordinates could be tracked, because then it would just take a query to find out.
edit: actually thanks for the JSON stuff, I think I may be able to work something out.
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Posted Jun 30, 2012@Cosx i started creating something similar and this is what i ended up with http://mc.midgardrealm.net/chestshop/
This used the JSONAPI plugin quite heavily though.
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Posted Jun 29, 2012Acrobot are you even considering to add an option for limiting the number of Chest Shops per player?
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Posted Jun 29, 2012@Acrobot
I'll have to look into the custom events when I get home from work. I haven't really tried to write any plugins for minecraft yet, but I'll see what I can muster. Being able to store the coordinates would definitely help my server, as I could create a web interface that showed general locations so my members could easily find where to buy/sell items.
But alas if it is to difficult, I guess I am stuck for now.
Thanks anyway,
Cosx
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Posted Jun 29, 2012@np98765 Read the FAQ...
@Cosx File logging, in fact, has coordinates. Unfortunately, the framework which I use and is built-in bukkit prevents from changing this... Well, I'll try, but it will be really hard :/
You can write your own plugin, though, because the new ChestShop has custom events (the first version you can use them is ChestShop 3.45 TEST VERSION found in the main thread)
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Posted Jun 29, 2012Uhh... Emergency here:
I can create a shop even if I have no permissions. I create the sign, and it says
[Shop] Successfully created!
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Posted Jun 29, 2012Would it be possible to log the coordinates of transactions in mySQL logs? Or the town the ChestShop is in?
I know in the file logging it has coordinates (so I'm hoping this isn't to much to ask), but in mySQL it does not! Would be really cool if I could get either the world coordinates or the town the chest shop is in, as I want to do some web stuff with the information (players can see where certain chestshops are in game).