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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 9, 2013@gmcgabriel Huh, that might be a bug. Could I see your ChestShop's version and which economy plugin you are running (with Vault or without?).
@santocraft1 Hey. It works as best as it can. You SHOULDN'T run dev builds of CraftBukkit on a public server.
@Dr_Bunsen Thanks for telling me that :) Unfortunately, it's all up to Bukkit team to fix that.
@Drapernp Well, since CraftBukkit builds for 1.7 are experimental, I can't really comment on it - try updating CraftBukkit...
@santocraft1 As @ThoLav says, is your hand empty when you are trying to buy?
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Posted Dec 9, 2013@santocraft1
Is your hand empty, when you try to buy?
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Posted Dec 9, 2013No, for me is not working, when I try to buy something doesn't appear nothing! Is like a normal sign! Just update it! Cause does not work in 1.7.2!!!
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Posted Dec 9, 2013@Acrobot
Yes it is a 1.7 server, I am running the latest build. Any ideas?
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Posted Dec 9, 2013Is their a version for tekkit..?
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Posted Dec 9, 2013It is working with the latest bukkit release (that was #2945) but the only issue I found was buying redstone lamps. Buying it takes money, the message pops, but no lamps are added to the inventory ;)
Cheers
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Posted Dec 8, 2013Hey! Please update it to 1.7.2!!! Because for now with the lastest version of craftbukkit doesn't works! This plugin is too important for the survival servers!!
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Posted Dec 8, 2013I put everything right, so I put B FREE and when I tried to buy appears you have no money, but as it is free Help?
Observation: This plugin is perfect :)
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Posted Dec 8, 2013@Babibab Nope, it was prevented as soon as hoppers existed - there is no need to configure anything.
@nicholosophy Huh. That is weird. As for the debug mode - yeah, it would be possible, however there's no debug mode at the moment. Are you sure that it doesn't detect the sign? Can the shop be used even if the message is not shown?
@Kierokeh Outdated ChestShop version + outdated Heroes version? Well... nope.
@Mixon87 You've got a special character in your local.yml file and you didn't encode the file as UTF-8.
@nooo123678459 LWC is a chest locking plugin. You don't have to use it.
@Drapernp Huh. Is it a 1.7 server? Are you running the latest ChestShop version?
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Posted Dec 8, 2013Hi,
First of all, great plugin. Thanks for your hard work.
I'm wondering if the hopper glitch, the one that allowed hoppers and minecart hoppers to steal from the chestshop is still active?
If not, is there a flag we must trigger to correctly protect the chestshop or the LWC?
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Posted Dec 7, 2013We have some players who can create them and some who can't.
The players who can't create them have the same permissions etc as those who can, so we are stumped. It doesn't error or log anything. It just doesn't detect the sign for some people
The ability to set a debug mode in config might help.
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Posted Dec 7, 2013Update Notice! Chestshop + Heroes = Chest shop no loadie. Not sure if it might be Heroes, as it too is out of date. Just letting you know in case.
Here's the Log
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Posted Dec 7, 2013Multicraft serverlog:
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO [20:08:29 INFO]: [ChestShop] Vault loaded! Found an economy plugin!
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO [20:08:29 INFO]: [ChestShop] LWC version 4.4.0 (b881) (July 11, 2013) loaded.
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO ... 16 more
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadFromString(YamlConfiguration.java:53) ~[craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml.load(Yaml.java:399) ~[craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.yaml.snakeyaml.reader.StreamReader.<init>(StreamReader.java:50) ~[craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.yaml.snakeyaml.reader.StreamReader.checkPrintable(StreamReader.java:70) ~[craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO Caused by: org.yaml.snakeyaml.reader.ReaderException special characters are not allowed
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:617) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:420) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.DedicatedServer.init(DedicatedServer.java:175) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.a(MinecraftServer.java:275) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.g(MinecraftServer.java:315) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R1.MinecraftServer.m(MinecraftServer.java:338) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R1.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:280) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_7_R1.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:298) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:381) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:457) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:217) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at com.Acrobot.ChestShop.ChestShop.onEnable(ChestShop.java:83) [ChestShop.jar]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at com.Acrobot.Breeze.Configuration.Configuration.pairFileAndClass(Configuration.java:26) [ChestShop.jar]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadConfiguration(YamlConfiguration.java:175) [craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.configuration.file.FileConfiguration.load(FileConfiguration.java:105) ~[craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.configuration.file.FileConfiguration.load(FileConfiguration.java:138) ~[craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadFromString(YamlConfiguration.java:55) ~[craftbukkit-1.7.2-R0.1.jar:git-Bukkit-1.6.4-R2.0-26-g31d7c5f-b2943jnks]
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO in "<string>", position 9
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO org.bukkit.configuration.InvalidConfigurationException unacceptable character '�' (0xFFFD) special characters are not allowed
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO [20:08:29 ERROR]: Cannot load plugins/ChestShop/local.yml
07.12 20:08:29 [Server] INFO [20:08:29 INFO]: [ChestShop] Enabling ChestShop v3.7.0
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Posted Dec 7, 2013what is lwc
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Posted Dec 7, 2013Hey I am having an issue where I go to sell an item to an adminshop and the player gets no money and looses their item when using the shop. Would you be able to help. http://i.imgur.com/UwATOFw.png
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Posted Dec 7, 2013@NobleStrike
Use SignEdit, wonderful plugin to manage chestshops. ;)
@Acrobot
You should bundle those two plugins :D
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Posted Dec 7, 2013@NobleStrike Huh, that's a weird bug. PM me your server's IP and we'll try to fix it.
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Posted Dec 7, 2013@vittek ChestShop by default should support LWC, are you using the latest version of both ChestShop and LWC?
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Posted Dec 7, 2013@eprimex As for the "Shop was removed" - it is a result of a user request who requested this to be shown, but I'll make it configurable.
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Posted Dec 7, 2013@Puremin0rez Oooops!