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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 May 2, 2014Admin shops no longer works. I have the version (VERSION 3.7.11-DEV) DEV 1.7.8
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Posted May 2, 2014@Acrobot
Wait do i need to enable shops if im using it in a region ?
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Posted May 2, 2014@FPSUsername The item codes haven't changed yet in Bukkit, so I'm awaiting the changes.
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Posted May 2, 2014@Dyenx999
Check the permissions (if I remember I think there are permissions)
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Posted May 2, 2014Can we buy carpet, stained glass and stained clay in dev version? And what about all skulls (like creeper) and enchanted golden apple?
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Posted May 2, 2014@asgernohns Yup.
@Dyenx999 Well, that does not tell me much. Which CraftBukkit/Spigot version? Which ChestSHop version? What do you mean by "cannot sell"? Any errors in the console? Chat?
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Posted May 1, 2014@Acrobot
All the chest shops for my prison server isnt working they cannot sell or buy stuff from the shops.
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Posted May 1, 2014@Acrobot Was it the glitch with the 1EB10000000000000 price tag?
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Posted May 1, 2014@asgernohns The glitch has been fixed in 3.7.8 - and 3.7.9, which is a higher version (although retired now in favour of 3.7.11-DEV) also includes the fixes.
@Schneidertm Thanks :) Yes, unfortunately you will have to collect the UUIDs again, however this is not ChestShop's fault - certain CraftBukkit/Spigot versions had a bug which incorrectly saved UUIDs.
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Posted May 1, 2014@Acrobot What is the dupe glitch, that's fixed in 3.7.9?
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Posted May 1, 2014Nice support here Acrobot! So if the adminshop not work on the latest dev (3.7.11-DEV) I have to remove the user.db. But if'd do this I have to collect all uuids again?
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Posted May 1, 2014@Bronzeteufel It's definitely safer than 1.7.5, which was just a transition build. It will possibly break some plugins, though - the ones that don't use UUIDs.
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Posted May 1, 2014@Acrobot:
I want to update my server to bukkit 1.7.9. Is this dev build safe to use or should I wait for another build? Do you release a new build in time? :)
Thank you!
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Posted May 1, 2014@kdthehun Sorry, but that seems more like an issue with PEX than ChestShop. You should probably contact them.
@jet315 I'm sorry - no such way, unless you code an addon-plugin for ChestShop.
@LordKainzo Ah, sorry Kainzo :/ I'll be on IRC and we'll try to resolve this issue.
@tinyhacker The plugin is open-source. With such a username, you should be pretty much done in no time. (And seriously - otherwise, I'd have to map EVERY UUID to a username, which would end up with probably a 15 GB file, if not more).
@KevinEssence If you won't mind, I'll connect to your server and we'll try to resolve it.
@XicoBooM Update ChestShop.
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Posted May 1, 2014@erik1988 Hmm, you have to report it to the PEX developers, as it is a case of not properly handling the negative permissions.
@firefireman7009 Have you seen the rest of this error? It just means that the updater failed to connect to BukkitDev, you shouldn't worry about it.
@Rexwer Thank you! Exactly what one should do in such a case.
@FabioZumbi12 Nope, sorry. It's a ChestShop plugin, not a CommandShop one.
@EvandroCJ It already works with UTF-8. You just have to make sure that your local.yml file is encoded in UTF-8. You can, for example, do it via the NotepadPlusPlus plugin.
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Posted Apr 30, 2014@KevinEssence
Same issue for me.
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Posted Apr 30, 2014Hey guys i'm having an issue where players can make shops for "Infinity" by putting some line for sell/buy that I will find in a bit but I think this is an exploit in the plugin.
[19:23:21] [Craft Scheduler Thread - 5092/INFO]: [ChestShop] user2 created a shop - 256 Glowstone - 1E1B1000000 - at [map] 8796564, 73, 8130217
[19:24:08] [Craft Scheduler Thread - 5092/INFO]: [ChestShop] user1 bought 256 Glowstone for Infinity from user2 at [map] 8796564, 73, 8130217
I was monitoring this and neither of the users gain any money but the thing that caught my eye was the chest acting as the shop is empty but the user buying from it (user1) does recieve the items being sold.
[19:52:49 INFO]: ChestShop version 3.7.6
Edit: Forgot to add chestshop version.
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Posted Apr 29, 2014@tinyhacker
Learn Java, then you'll understand how easy it is to do that...
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Posted Apr 29, 2014All of the shops arnt working on my server for some reason. and the owners of the shops are online too. When they try to sell stuff by clicking the sign it doesnt work.
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Posted Apr 28, 2014@Acrobot
Still getting this issue Acrobot. Seems to be ignoring permissions I give players still, none can buy ect. I see similar cases below as well. Thank you and hope you have a nice vacation.