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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 Sep 6, 2014How to allow a farm caretaker open a CS he doesn't own ? There's also WorldGuard and LWC.
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Posted Sep 6, 2014@Scattyboy
A selfwritten economy plugin which should work fine with vault. It seemed that the bug was fixed in 3.7.17 but after updating my server to 1.7.10/1.8 Chestshop has new bugs like saying I haven't got enough money to buy something.
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Posted Sep 6, 2014@StarlessMiner
What kind of economy plugin are you using?
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Posted Sep 6, 2014@tarixNUVA1
Try it like this:
6 | B 2.30 | Apple
That should work.
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Posted Sep 6, 2014I tried to right click on a shop, and nothing happened :/ could someone please help?
I do my shop like this:
6
2.30
apple
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Posted Sep 5, 2014Please, Acrobot, update to 1.7.10
We need this plugin!
Everytime I try to buy something it says I haven't got enough money (but I do have).
It also seems this plugin has often bugs, like adding money to players instead of withdrawing in past builds.
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Posted Sep 5, 2014Anyway to make it so that players have to pay a certain price to make a shop?
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Posted Sep 5, 2014Any way off adding a feature to restrict income from chestshop to a specific world or exclude from a world? We have separate economies in multiverse and chestshop bypasses these, ie if someone buys from a players shop, who is in prison world, the income is deposited in that current world.
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Posted Sep 4, 2014It seems the priceLimits doesnt work or i make something wrong. Someone can explain that please ?
What is wrong ? :(
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Posted Sep 4, 2014@Durand1w This might sometimes affect the server shop account, in the sense that some people (using an older version of ChestShop) could not use admin shops until they regenerated (deleted) the plugins/ChestShop/users.db file.
@XxFigmentxX I have no idea. I am waiting for Bukkit...
@ndastrup Well, I will update it. Bukkit is not ready yet.
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Posted Sep 2, 2014So is it updated for 1.8? I am getting and errors that i have to update it and i see other people can use it on 1.8 i am pretty sure.
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Posted Sep 2, 2014I have a quick question regarding the 1.8 update. They mention they're changing from Item ID numbers to Item ID names. (i.e. instead of stone being 1, it'll be minecraft:stone).
How is this going to effect the plugin? Our server relies GREATLY on this awesome plugin.
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Posted Sep 2, 2014Just a quick question. The latest version 3.1.17 has this item in the change log:
WARNING: Shops will be unusable until their owner connects at least once to the server!
Does this impact the server shop account? I have not yet had a chance to attempt a 1.7.10 upgrade but will be working on one in the near future.
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Posted Sep 2, 2014@dutchrastacraft Well, you have a lot of SignBreak events, nothing unusual about the timings. Have you used WorldEdit a lot on areas with a lot of ChestShops recently?
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Posted Sep 1, 2014@Acrobot Hi,
I'm getting a pretty high number on SignBreak (http://puu.sh/bh04w/5341db76ef.png) Could that be because my users.db is 3mb? If so, is there a possibility to run mysql and would that resolve the issue?
Thanks in advance for your answer, Kind regards, DRC
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Posted Aug 31, 2014People can break the signs on the chest help me or fix it
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Posted Aug 30, 2014@thequestingbeast If the shop works fine, it might be your economy plugin. Which one of them are you using?
@FriendsCraft Do you have Vault installed?
@Adomas05 Thank you for the kind words :D
@Superior_Slime Thanks!
@honyihon I do not mean to sound rude, however have you actually tried checking if you are running the latest ChestShop version? Because the version that fixes this bug is from the 1st of April ._.
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Posted Aug 29, 2014Really such big bug
we can type 1EB1000000000 in the first line and sell something you really want clean the all money now you can infinite buy something without money !!!!
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Posted Aug 29, 2014@Dyllaann
Before any of you guys comment your errors, you should check if your Vault is updated!
I had this - but I fixed it by updating Vault. I had an outdated version of it.
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Posted Aug 29, 2014Thanks for this awesome plugin!