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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 Feb 9, 2013ignore this.
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Posted Feb 9, 2013I have a problem i use v3.50 and i cant set AdminShop (im Op)it says it is no chest finded or i must add items to adminshop :(
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Posted Feb 9, 2013@Acrobot
But what is the chance of disappearing that flags?
Is it often?
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Posted Feb 9, 2013I am using ChestShop 3.46, and it just came a new Uptade and I have been made signs and that, Will everything go away, or will everything work as it should be plain that now?
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Posted Feb 8, 2013In build T0045 my creative players are able to open chests with a chestshop sign above it. They can't open normal chests though due to the AntiShare plugin which seperates Creative and Survival. So for some reason ChestShop's chests are different than a regular chest.
Can you make it so that : IGNORE_CREATIVE_MODE: true
Blocks Creative players from opening up chestshops as well?
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Posted Feb 8, 2013Nvm. I got it to work.
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Posted Feb 8, 2013@navbarry Uh... I have no idea. Are you using Tekkit or any other kind of mods like that? Have you tried shutting the server off and then turning it back on again? Finally, how does your sign look like?
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Posted Feb 8, 2013I'm using bukkit version 1.4.7 R1
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Posted Feb 8, 2013@navbarry If you click the little green arrow next to your name, it will show the post I was replying to.
@baseball8610 Please read before posting. It's not working if you're using updated ChestShop and CraftBukkit.
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Posted Feb 8, 2013I am here to report an economy glitch with your plugin. Now that anvils are out, you can rename your item. Which is cool. But, lets say if you can sell iron ingots at shop for 600$, and you go into your anvil, rename it anything you want, then you go back to shop. Now since it isn't named iron ingot anymore, they can sell the ingot unlimited times, basically getting unlimited money. Please help/fix!
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Posted Feb 8, 2013Which response should I be looking at.....
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Posted Feb 8, 2013@navbarry Yup. Although I just submitted a "RELEASE CANDIDATE" version, which should be approved in hours.
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/chestshop/files/43-v3-50-t0045-release-candidate/
@wrecktify80 Well, that's how it should work. Which ChestShop version are you using?
@navbarry That means your CraftBukkit build is out of date.
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Posted Feb 8, 2013I updated to the latest test version of chestshop and the dupe glitch still works. I updated to v3.50 t0041.
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Posted Feb 8, 2013Is there anyway to limit chestshops to a worldguard region AND towny plots? It seems if one or the other is enabled then it prevents you from making shops in the other. It would be nice to be able to restrict shops to a worldguard region as well as towny shop plots.
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Posted Feb 8, 2013@Dustinduse Yup. I know. It's a bug in Bukkit, however I implemented a fix for it in a new ChestShop version, which should be out soon. Use ALLOW_SIGN_CHEST_OPENING: false in the config for now.
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Posted Feb 8, 2013Players use wool:17 and fill it full of diamonds and have a players tp them somewhere and it duplicates everything they had put in the chest.
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Posted Feb 8, 2013@Typhome I see. Unfortunately, there is no way to check the durability validity from code. Are you sure it's not just the timed teleportation bug in Bukkit?
Try turning off SIGN_CHEST_OPENING.
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Posted Feb 8, 2013Yep, this v3.50 t0041 have bug. Some my members had 100 stacks of dia blocks in chests. They said they used chestshop bug. About invalid ID like 13:17 and they can bought infinite items. Please fix ASAP! Im talking about same that bob7l
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Posted Feb 8, 2013@ShadowKillerx Yup, flags can disappear after reboot. Unfortunately, that's nothing wrong on my side - it's just WorldGuard, whose devs still haven't added any custom flag API.
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Posted Feb 8, 2013WORLDGUARD_INTEGRATION works fine acctualy?
Cuz i was reading about problems with flags reseting after server reboot.