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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 Aug 15, 2012In the admin shops when a player sells items they stay in the chest and when it is full we have to go empty them. Is there a way to automatically empty the chest?
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Posted Aug 15, 2012I was wondering is there a plugin you suggest for the money part of all this.. I go on and i can buy everything if i wanted. Im new sorry
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Posted Aug 15, 2012When item like sword or any tool is for sale and shop sells 2 or more items that are not supposed to stack, do stack, so players can have 64 potions on them and 64 Diamond swords stacked and there is a problem.
Pls fix or tell me how to fix if there is one(fix) already.
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Posted Aug 15, 2012@selfservice0 Should be removed when a player buys an item from the shop and the shop is now empty.
@ToddVee You're right, please post this on the "Tickets" section, so I won't forget.
@Hackett33 I agree, that's a nice function to have, but I believe there's a ticket like that already in the "Tickets" section - please upvote it.
@brianher67 Not yet, it will be a part of future release.
@Edisun Use the OddItem plugin.
@Gravemind2401 Well, just use an economy plugin that uses items.
@vanderfr You're right about the switching part - it should fix most of the issues. If they persist, change SHOP_INTERACT_INTERVAL (or something like that) in the config to, for example, 400.
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Posted Aug 14, 2012If you're creating an [restricted] sign, it would be good to get a message saying "successfully created". That helps avoiding mistakes like writing errors or so, just to be sure that the sign works. thanks!
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Posted Aug 14, 2012with "REMOVE_EMPTY_SHOPS: true" when does the sign get removed, right when the shop is empty or on server restart?
Doesn't seem to be happening for me. Chestshop version 3.46
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Posted Aug 14, 2012Hi, love the plugin been using it for a while on the Minecraft Monday server. Have a suggestion/request. I'm glad the chat spam was removed but I was thinking it would be great that when the sign is clicked it asks you how many items you want to buy/sell you type in a number then the purchase is processed. it would help having to click a sign over and over again.
Thanks again for your work!
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Posted Aug 14, 2012hey i was thinking, is there a way to make sure people dont use chest shops to keep theyr things safe? Like if i wanted to sell diamond, and then have my powerfull diamond armor is in the chest. Then people cant touch it :-/
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Posted Aug 13, 2012anyway to only allow to be able to make single chest shops ? not double chests shops
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Posted Aug 13, 2012I have a quick question, I am running a Tekkit server and using ChestShop, however when I try to make a shop for items like Sapphire and Emerald by using their ID's, they are not recognized. The ID's are:
Sapphire - x1257:2 / Emerald - x1257:1
Thanks for your help!
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Posted Aug 13, 2012On the 1st RB 1.3.1 with iconomy 7.0
Players can "time out" a server by spaming a sign to buy items too quickly and duging a long time. Look like the server is not able do to anything else .
I'am switching to BOSEconomy
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Posted Aug 13, 2012@tylermasterson
"Don't worry about your economy plugin - ChestShop supports all of them - iConomy, BOSEconomy, Essentials Eco and more!"
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Posted Aug 13, 2012can you make it take/give emeralds instead of using an economy plugin? or even specify an item ID to use?
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Posted Aug 12, 2012Cool. :D
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Posted Aug 12, 2012does it work with boseconomy
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Posted Aug 12, 2012working fine on 1.3.1 cb 2320+
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Posted Aug 12, 2012@vanderfr
June 12 was when he joined bukkit....not last seen
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Posted Aug 12, 2012@vanderfr
That is not correct, 3 messages below is ACrobot posting like "1 day ago".
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Posted Aug 12, 2012A message error (rare) : on 1.3.1
http://pastebin.com/EYHqL056
Oh oops, author last seen on Jun 12, 2011... Look like this plugin is abandonned ;)
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Posted Aug 12, 2012@bjornleijdstrom
If you actually read the error, you will see your mysql database user is denied access. i.E. incorrect database information supplied.