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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 Mar 13, 2013@Niknox Hmm... And what happens if you do /iteminfo while holding the egg?
@jasonsaffle13 Sounds like LWC has some problems with SQLite library.
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Posted Mar 13, 2013@Acrobot
If I write 383:120 I can buy the Egg but it disappears by placing. If I write in hex, 383:78, the Egg is not a Villageregg, it's just an "uncategorized" egg which can't be placed or used.
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Posted Mar 13, 2013I keep getting this during my server start up. I can't figure out which other plug in (vault craftconomy3, mcjobs, essentials) is uppestting mysql!! Any pointers?
[STDERR] java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Native Library /home/minecraft/multicraft/servers/server494/plugins/LWC/lib/native/Linux/amd64/libsqlitejdbc.so already loaded in another classloader
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Posted Mar 13, 2013thanks ! i fix my problem !
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Posted Mar 12, 2013@karatepancake
im having this same problem does any one know if it is fixed in the latest update?
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Posted Mar 12, 2013@ccattell Hmm. Have you tried doing /iteminfo for the items repaired? Do they show any durability?
Also - please create a ticket for that :) I'll do what I can! (Also - there is no way to get the labels that are shown in the inventory - it's client-side. Minecraft supports a wide variety of languages, too. I can only get the name from Bukkit).
@Niknox Hey. Huh, I thought spawn eggs worked just fine. Mind giving me the item ID causing problems?
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Posted Mar 12, 2013Hey there,
if I buy Spawn Eggs through Admin-Shops they aren't usable. (If you right-click it disappears but no Monster spawns) I have v3.50 t0047. Is this fixed with an update?
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Posted Mar 12, 2013that the problem, it items ARE fully repaired,and it still says that...
also on the wood issue, Oak Wood Planks is just "Wood" Birch is 5:2 which converts to "Wood:2", Spruce is 5:1, which converts to "Redwood Wood" and Jungle wood is 5:3 which converts to Wood:3
Very inconsistent and confusing for people trying to buy/sell items There is bound to be a way to figure out where the label that gets displayed in the inventory is stored
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Posted Mar 12, 2013@oliverj102 I'm sorry, but it's an issue with your CraftBukkit/your server mod.
@ccattell Hmm... You can try doing /iteminfo, it'll tell you all available names - I'm unsure if Wood (as in - planks) can have name for now.
@zSwayz Not yet, sorry, but that could be a nice ticket - please submit it /\ up there.
@Cybou Hmm... You can get the sign's coords from the TransactionEvent, it all depends on what event do you want to listen to.
@karatepancake With latest ChestShop and CraftBukkit version?
@mineminemine147 "You can't buy here" - the sign is malformed. Look at the guide, it'll tell you how to form the prices. It's possible you have forgotten about the separator (colon - ':')
@ccattell Only fully-repaired items can be sold to shop at the moment.
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Posted Mar 12, 2013@karatepancake
Use one of the release candidate versions. v3.50.t0053 for instance.
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Posted Mar 12, 2013Ive been having an issue, my wife does a lot of fishing, and she has tried repairing the items she finds and selling them to my shop, but it keeps saying she does not have enough of the item, even though it is in her inventory
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Posted Mar 12, 2013hi i have [you cant buy here] problem for server. its bad. help me
im admin of server . server players have this error ! they have money but cant . then i have essential plugin and someother ...
thanks all
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Posted Mar 11, 2013There is an error. I saw a ticket posted but it was invalidated. You can sell named items to the shop infinitely and still get money.
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Posted Mar 11, 2013Can I know coords of a shop with the Api ? Thanks for your job !
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Posted Mar 11, 2013A lot of people are getting angry/confused because of the B:S for Buy/Sell. Is it possible to set these to show the full name E.g: Buy 10 Sell 6?
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Posted Mar 11, 2013HI, I was wondering if it is possible to fix the names of the wood and wool colors to display properly instead of Wood:1 its Spruce Wood etc.
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Posted Mar 11, 2013Hi there,
I am trying to install this plugin but it is refusing to work correctly. I can make a sign to sell diamonds and buy them, but anything else and I get the following error.
[WARNING] Failed to handle packet for OliverJ102/31.185.142.113: java.lang.NullPointerException 14:10:11 java.lang.NullPointerException 14:10:11 at iv.a(NetServerHandler.java:66) 14:10:11 at fc.a(SourceFile:46) 14:10:11 at cg.b(TcpConnection.java:458) 14:10:11 at iv.d(NetServerHandler.java:136) 14:10:11 at iw.b(NetworkListenThread.java:57) 14:10:11 at ht.b(SourceFile:30) 14:10:11 at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.r(MinecraftServer.java:703) 14:10:11 at ho.r(DedicatedServer.java:269) 14:10:11 at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.q(MinecraftServer.java:599) 14:10:11 at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer
Im no programmer but its almost like it cant read a database or something. Or the info is being stopped.
I am using iconomy as my economy plugin and have the latest Vault installed. is there a better plugin for economy you could recommend if its a compatibility issue?
Server is a FTB Mindcrack server
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Posted Mar 10, 2013ip:192.168.1.68
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Posted Mar 10, 2013@DodgeThemAll If you're using the latest ChestShop version, /iteminfo should yield you the correct item name.
@pkminer It's '500', as in - 500 msecs. There are 1000 msecs in 1 second.
@smallwaffels Neither of those works.
@Acrobot55 Thanks, though it seems like you have a name similar to mine :D
@AwsomeG2 If you're using the latest ChestShop version, there's no duping.
@shahiem99 Read the FAQ.
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Posted Mar 10, 2013Hi
How to turn of that players can make chestshop i want it Op only
-Shahiem99