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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 | ||
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| 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 Sep 10, 2012I use ChestShop as a donor perk on my servers.
I was wondering if you could make a perm or implement a way to give users, say, for example, 3 ChestShops, but once they try to make a fourth one, the plugin won't let them.
This would give players the incentive to donate to the server so they can receive an unlimited amount of ChestShops.
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Posted Sep 10, 2012@aphilosopher Please post that in the tickets section. BTW, it's not possible to do the timeouts at the moment - ChestShop doesn't use any DB.
@hallowhead1 Lol what? No, you won't get ram leakage. Yes, it is "completely" compatible with 1.3
@Gameguykiler Unfortunately, not at the moment - ChestShop doesn't use any DB. I really got to implement a proper database system....
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Posted Sep 10, 2012@Acrobot
i like this feature, have been using it on our server, but i notice it only works if the item being sold is the only thing in the chest, if there are other items in the chest then it will only give the "out of stock" msg and the sign will remain in place, can this be fixed in a new dev update?
also, it'd be realy handy if you could add a configurable option that allows a delay before it removes the sign, so for example, chestshop is out of stock for 3 days THEN it removes the sign and places it in the chest, 3 days or 3 hours or whatever the admin wishes to configure it for.
hard to blame the players for running out of stock for a moment but we have a rule in our mall not to go out of stock for more then two weeks or the shop is removed, so i personaly would set it for two weeks, would make my life much easier to be able to tell at a glance which shops have not been stocked for two weeks.
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Posted Sep 9, 2012Is this completely compatible with 1.3? will i get ram leakage? through this?
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Posted Sep 9, 2012Would it be possible to create a command to see what purchases happened with your shops while you were offline? For example, If i was offline and player x bought 5 cobblestone from me for 1 dollar, I could do /chestshop report (or something) and it would say
1 transaction has occurred while you were offline.
Player x bought 5 cobblestone from you for 1 dollar
Something like that would greatly be appreciated.
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Posted Sep 9, 2012@Arton123 I honestly don't know. If tekkit is based on 1.2.5 or higher CraftBukkit build then yes. However some people say that the Tekkit items have strange names, like X256 etc, so you might want to use OddItem plugin for this.
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Posted Sep 9, 2012Does this works with tekkit?.
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Posted Sep 9, 2012@dipsnark Are you clicking with an empty hand? If not, try it. Minecraft 1.3 doesn't send packets when a block can't be placed, that's why the click is not recognised.
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Posted Sep 9, 2012Hey, i put the sign and things to shop, but when i click to buy/sell nothing happens. Any idea?
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Posted Sep 8, 2012@Benas1 Not at the moment, but there is an option in my development ChestShop build to auto-delete empty shops (only sign or sign + chest)
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Posted Sep 8, 2012@Acrobot
Is it possible to remove all inactive or empty chests automaticaly? Thank you.
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Posted Sep 7, 2012@hallowhead1 Why should it? It works just fine with 1.3.2
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Posted Sep 7, 2012is this going to be upgraded to 1.3.2 release?
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Posted Sep 7, 2012@Bjornar97 Yes, I'm aware of that bug.
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Posted Sep 7, 2012When i create a shop with written books they get a empty book, instead of the finished book.
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Posted Sep 6, 2012@Ta6akus3 If there were bugs, I'd fix them right away. Noone reported any bugs to me.
@definitelymaybe Yes, item with 5th ID.
@CraftyMcloving You can get sample HTML files from the "Files" section.
@NyanCraftDe Sorry, there is no database for shops.
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Posted Sep 5, 2012hi where can i get the chestshop statistics.html from? or some samples?
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Posted Sep 5, 2012I have a problem: We used to have the DynamicEconomy Plugin, which was exploited by many Players, some of them had millions of Dollars. Then we deleted DynamicEconomy and installed ChestShops. People made really expensive signs. We emptied the iConomy Database so that everyone has 50$ again. The old Shops are still there and so these shops sell 64 dirt blocks for like 200$ which is a perfect way to earn fast many from those old shops.
Is there a way to delete all ChestShop signs or make them useless? So that users need to put up new signs? I want to empty the database, but i cant find one. :/
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Posted Sep 4, 2012in relation to setting max prices...
does 'max-buy-price-5: 14' mean item id 5?
thanks
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Posted Sep 4, 2012@chickenputty You have to put the example files, found in the "Files" section, to the folder.
@Faitho76 This was reported like... 50 times, and it's been fixed - look for the 3.50 TEST BUILD in the main plugin thread.
@Gaz492 Unfortunately, there's no api for that yet.