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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 14, 2012@stargateanubis14 Sorry - that's probably Towny's anti-grief protection kicking in. Even if I destroyed the sign by code (which is a bit unnecessary), Towny would still recover it.
@litleinmc Yeah, it was not in a different thread, use this version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11388037/Bukkit/ForAnachen/ChestShop.jar
@imaxorz Well, I think it's a Falsebook's issue :/ Thanks for reporting :)
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Posted Feb 14, 2012I've also got a bug...It involves towny, but i'm sure it could be replicated other ways.
When a player is a part of a town, and creates a shop inside the town, and then leaves the town, they can destroy the shop (getting the shop's refund). However, the sign is protected via towny, thus the shop is recreated, and they still get the refund.
I'm not using 'towny integration' because i want users to be able to build shops wherever they want... but this appears to be an issue for anywhere that a user creates a shop inside an area that they were once a member/had build rights, and then lost build rights...
Right now, im going to have to disable refunds, but thats sort of a perk for shops at the moment... It would be nice to have a fix for this :/ (such as the sign being deleted by the ChestShop plugin as OP if the owner of a shop destroys the sign).
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Posted Feb 14, 2012I think it is not in a different thread. It takes 3 minutes to make the submitting of statistics fail. The server does not start up during this time.
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Posted Feb 14, 2012Found a bug, not sure if it's known.
Basically you can use FalseBooks door function to break into chests.
Steps: 1: Place a sign [door up] below the block with chest shop sign 2: Place a sign with [door down] above the block with chest shop sign 3: Toggle the door, which makes the shop sign fall off, and now the chest with goodies can be accessed.
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Posted Feb 12, 2012@LordKainzo I think I did - I've put it in an asynch task that runs 20 ticks after ChestShop's startup. You can also use the dev version, it should work fine.
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Posted Feb 12, 2012@Acrobot
Did you fix the long pause on startup times? If you're using stats/metrics you're going to have to put the checks on a different thread i think.
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Posted Feb 12, 2012@Acrobot
Thank you :)
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Posted Feb 12, 2012@INSAN3CLANFTW Do you get any errors? Are you in creative mode?
@imaxorz Yep, I already fixed that bug, it's in the newest dev version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11388037/Bukkit/ForAnachen/ChestShop.jar
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Posted Feb 12, 2012hello there i have an problem with chestshop i can create an shop i says ''shop successful created'' but i can't buy or sell any things i have the latest version but does it work with 1.1-R3?
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Posted Feb 11, 2012It looks like with 3.34 people with names longer than 15 characters can make shops that can buy items to no end. Meaning you can keep selling to the shop and they don't lose any money.
A few players used this glitch to get really rich really fast.
Anyway around this? Maybe add option to not allow players with names longer than 15 characters make shops?
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Posted Feb 11, 2012@darkcloud784 Hmm... Try running this version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11388037/Bukkit/ChestShop.jar
It's a newest dev version and should tell you if there are no files detected.
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Posted Feb 11, 2012@Acrobot
Sorry for the late response. Heres the screenshot.
1 monitor my website.html in my browser, the other my chestshop folder. Let me know if you need any more info!
www.thehissingcreeper.com/bleh.png
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Posted Feb 10, 2012@InsaneMCS Just do /iteminfo and it will tell you the exact id to put on the sign.
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Posted Feb 10, 2012How do I sell enchanted items? I can I have all the information please.
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Posted Feb 10, 2012@Acrobot
Thanks removing superpermsbridge fixed any issues!
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Posted Feb 10, 2012@aciidic Hmm, downgrade PEX to 1.17 or delete the PEX bridge - somehow PEX broke in 1.18
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Posted Feb 10, 2012It seems chestshop is ignoring PEX and only working for players on the OP list?
Any setting I have missed? Can't quite figure it out :s
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Posted Feb 10, 2012@kamakarzy Can you also post the contents of your bukkit.yml file? And for the stats error - nothing to be worried about :P Maybe the server was down for a while.
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Posted Feb 10, 2012i just seen an error in console all it said was there was an error submitting statistics
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Posted Feb 10, 2012@Acrobot: yea mate iv not changed all my links yet as its not been working but ill give you the link im using now
here