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
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API for plugin developers
Source code on GitHub
Crowdin Localization Project
Thread on Bukkit forums
IRC chat (#chestshop on irc.esper.net)
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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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 Mar 20, 2014@acrobot ty i am on a mac
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Posted Mar 20, 2014there are three of us on the server I am on and using pex. two of us can create shops but, one can't at all and doesn't even give "you cannot create shop" all are permisions are the same "*" added and checked the superperms and there all true aswell could it be because there on a different IP?
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Posted Mar 20, 2014@ccattell I'll try doing it. Could you create a ticket for it?
@Inaworld10 Are you possibly running a Mac? The default Java in Maverics has a bug that when you use the arrow keys on a sign, it inserts an invisible unicode character. Install the Oracle's one.
http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_mac.xml
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Posted Mar 20, 2014@Acrobot Everything is all set, the plugin is up to date and the versions are correct, just that whenever i make a shop it doesn't say shop created and my friend tried and it won't work
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Posted Mar 20, 2014@Acrobot
will you at least hook into OddItem for autonaming if it is on the server?
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Posted Mar 20, 2014@LordZach3778 Hmm, I have no idea, did you set the ADMIN_SHOP_NAME in the config to the same name? If so, please create a ticket for it and I'll try recreating it.
@ccattell This is true. However, I recently stopped adding features to ChestShop "just because", I implemented an API for that. You can create a plugin for ChestShop that does exactly that.
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Posted Mar 19, 2014@Acrobot
Ah but you see the scenario you pointed out is one good point in favor for adding in a built in custom naming config... if it was in the ChestShop plugin directly, there would be no chance of the signs breaking just because the third party plugin was removed....
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Posted Mar 19, 2014@Acrobot It looks like this:
TitanCraft 1 B 10 Diamond
It says shop created but then when I try to buy it using the sign, it doesn't do anything.
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Posted Mar 19, 2014@ccattell It would serve no point. Essentially, it would be the same as OddItem, except without additional features. That's not something I'd make. I'd rather implement OddItem better, however I would wonder whether just putting the OddItem name on the sign is fine, because once you uninstall OddItem, the signs by default would be broken.
@drikagamerbr Hmm, are you sure you've done everything correctly? If so, people wouldn't be able to neither sell nor buy. Make sure that you're not granting additional permissions through GroupManager.
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Posted Mar 19, 2014@drikraft: Go Ah, I've always disliked permission plugins for not implementing the standard properly :/ You can try editing the plugin.yml file inside ChestShop.jar (open it with WinRAR/7Zip) and disable default permissions - change "default: true" to "default: false". Then, you can only include ChestShop.shop.create.food in your permissions configuration and it should work.
Still doesn't work! =( Players can sell/buy all items ... I'm using Essentials GroupManager for permissions.
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Posted Mar 19, 2014@Acrobot
I understand that's the way bukkit names it, that's why I had suggested a custom names config.... similar to how OddItem does it... the problem with just using OddItem is that when you use the ? method to get the name, you use the bukkit names instead of the OddItem name
Surely it wouldn't be that difficult to set up a names.yml file that you check to see if there is a name entry there or not before you go to the bukkit name...
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Posted Mar 19, 2014@LordZach3778 How does your sign look like?
@ccattell Unfortunately, it's not that easy with potions due to the number of different combinations that can be formed, and its names often exceed the 15-character limit.
I cannot do anything about the wood, it's the way it's named in Bukkit.
About the last blank row - I'm afraid it could conflict with a lot of signs. The ChestShop sign format is already capturing a lot, due to the fact that it only needs an integer in the 2nd and 3rd line + item name/? in the last line. If we just allowed the last line to be blank, I'm afraid it could conflict with a lot of signs.
Still, due to the upcoming 1.8 update, which will break many, many plugins, I'm afraid that I will be forced to rewrite ChestShop from scratch - so all of this will be meaningless.
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Posted Mar 18, 2014Also it would be awesome if on the amount line, you could mimic the price line and do:
owner
2:64
B 5:80 S
Wool
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Posted Mar 18, 2014You should make it so that you can have a config for custom names for items, so that instead of Potion:16420 you can have "Poison II Splash" or instead of Redwood Wood it can be named properly as Spruce Wood, instead of Sulphur, Gunpowder, etc.....
Also, i like the new feature of the auto naming based on whats inside the nearest chest, but you should allow them to leave it totally blank on the last row, just like you leave it blank on the top row to set your name...
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Posted Mar 17, 2014It doesn't work for me either. I changed the admin shop to TitanCraft. When I set up the shop I can't buy anything. Help meh!
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Posted Mar 17, 2014@Inaworld10 What do you mean by "won't work"? Does any message appear in the chat? Do you get any errors on startup? Are you sure you are using an up-to-date ChestShop and CraftBukkit versions? Do you have Vault?
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Posted Mar 17, 2014It won't work, i have an economy plugin and everything, i set it up in all the ways possible and it won't work... i haz sad
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Posted Mar 15, 2014@Acrobot right on... that might be the only viable option, although not ideal. thanks for a great plugin anyhow :)
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Posted Mar 15, 2014@simsmode210 Not really, however you can do something like create an economy account and make a shop for that account?
@Max633 Use the OddItem plugin.
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Posted Mar 15, 2014Does anyone know if its possible to make an admin shop with finite stock? Thats right... finite, as opposed to infinite.