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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 Dec 30, 2012@Acrobot
No, I was using 00038, which is why I was asking if it was fixed in the latest one.
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Posted Dec 30, 2012@megge208
No problem :)
@luigi_vampa
Exactly :)
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Posted Dec 30, 2012@phlegacy
Bonemeal is a dye like cocoa beans and lapis. they are all ink sacs on the shop sign.
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Posted Dec 30, 2012@Acrobot
haha lol, my bad. I changed the value to an integer but restarted the server afterwards so the loaded value overwrote my changed one. Sorry to bother you.
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Posted Dec 30, 2012My admins were setting up admin shops and when one of them put the ID for bonemeal, the 4th line said "Ink Sac:15". But you purchase bonemeal... I'm not sure what the deal is with that lol but it's not right.
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Posted Dec 30, 2012@megge208
TAX_AMOUNT should be an integer.
@strontkever
Not really.
@FireZtreaM
Hmm, that's weird - please report it as a ticket in the "Tickets" section :D
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Posted Dec 30, 2012is there a way to block having multiple shops on a single(double) chest? empty shops dont get removed if theres multiple shops on the same chest
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Posted Dec 30, 2012@Acrobot: I get this error message on 1.4.6-R0.1 and R0.2 with both t0039 and t0038 :/
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Posted Dec 30, 2012@muggerfugger
You need to update ChestShop to the latest TEST VERSION, however you won't be able to sell named items.
@xeNiumw0w
Just delete %amount from the file - it's now all in %item, because ChestShop's 3.50 core allows for multi-item transactions.
@Slipswhitley
Yeah, I thought of doing that. Mind creating a ticket for it?
@BBFChaser
Put the template files in plugins/ChestShop/HTML/ folder, turn on stats generation.
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Posted Dec 30, 2012How can i set up a statistics website?
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Posted Dec 30, 2012Hey can you please add a PreShopCreationEvent. I have a plugin that gives people the ability to buy different MobSpawners and I want to add Blaze Spawner as a possible shop item.
Methods
getLine() - returns the string of a line on the shop sign
isCancelled() - Returns true if the shop is cancelled either by a incorrect item ID etc. . .
setCancelled() - Set whether or not the event is cancelled
setMessage() - Set the message sent to the player when making the shop
getPlayer() - Self Explainatory
getMessage() - Get the message sent to the player after making the shop
And any more you can think of
I am happy to donate if you add this,
Thanks Slips.
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Posted Dec 30, 2012(You'll have to edit your local.yml file - %amount was removed!)
What did you mean? Change %amount to ?. You did not tell us what we must do with that.
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Posted Dec 29, 2012seems to be a problem when players use the anvil to rename items. chestshop gives money for item they are selling, but it never takes the item from them.
I was able to resolve this for now using http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/anvil-block/
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Posted Dec 29, 2012@Durand1w
Exactly, you can't unfortunately sell fireworks yet.
@xLoGiiKzZo
Are you using the latest test version? I highly doubt it.
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Posted Dec 29, 2012Just wondering if anyone else has experienced an issue selling fireworks via chest shop. I'm not sure if it is an issue with the Bukkit Beta or Chest Shop, but the individual fireworks types do not have an item id and using the generic 'firework' allows the selling of fireworks, but they become generic and do not actually fire the original contents (shooting duds).
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Posted Dec 29, 2012Yes there is a duplication glitch. It only seems to work with enchanted items. You put the enchanted item in the chest, then create the Shop sign (place the sign infront of the chest) and then when someone buys the item, it never gets removed from the Chest but the player who bought it receives the item.
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Posted Dec 29, 2012@denden216
There is no duplication glitch. There is one, in Bukkit - https://bukkit.atlassian.net/browse/BUKKIT-3021 - however you can just turn off a setting in the config.
@Niknox
It uses the stacking information provided by Bukkit.
@BoyDerAmBlockChillt
I believe so, because ChestShop only uses Bukkit's API.
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Posted Dec 29, 2012WARNING: Do not use this plugin there is a duplication glitch... I removed it asap.
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Posted Dec 29, 2012I've got a bug I think: If you buy Pistons or Sticky Pistons they don't get stacked on each other.
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Posted Dec 29, 2012Is ChestShop compatible with Libigot? I always getting an error when using CHestShop...