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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 Jun 11, 2015@meytroCURSE When sand/gravel falls down, any signs that are connected to the block get destroyed.
@roracle Infinite shops? What do you mean by that?
@TheMattVid Have you read the FAQ?
@GamerSynchro Thanks :)
@Pablo_M98 Something wrong with database logging, I will be investigating it.
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Posted Jun 10, 2015Was that error where infinite shops would error out still there or was that eventually fixed? I haven't used ChestShop in ages because of that, as my economy relies on infinite transfer of gold>cash or cash>gold. Having an unlimited gold supplied from the server bank is essential but would ALWAYS break in the past, requiring a server restart, and it then it would only work for maybe an hour at most then stop working again. I had a bug report on it last year, maybe longer ago. But since others had this same error, and I saw the error in another plugin, then that plugin fixed it, I started realizing it was a plugin issue with ChestShop, though the writer told me it wasn't a problem with ChestShop. It's just the entire time it was ONLY ChestShop not working as it should have (even users with proper perms couldn't seem to set up their own shop, it was very strange).
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Posted Jun 9, 2015Can somebody explain me why ChestShop calls the SignBreak::onSign(BlockPhysicsEvent) event if ChestShop already uses SignBreak::onSignBreak(BlockBreakEvent)?` Which problem is covered by BlockPhysicsEvent?
On my server chestshops goes through 2k BlockPhysicsEvents every tick with 50 players what uses a lot of performance :/
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Posted Jun 7, 2015I have an issue. Players can't buy from admin shops, despite having the permission node to do so. They do not get any sort of error message. One click says you can't sell here and the other doesn't do anything. When I go into survival mode, I am able to interact with these shops as intended. The same glitch occasionally happens with some player buy shops, but far less often. I followed the suggestion that you gave someone to delete one of the db files, but that did not fix the issue.
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Posted Jun 7, 2015Great plugin, me and my players really like using this plugin for daily use.
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Posted Jun 6, 2015http://pastebin.com/uU2QErqG
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Posted Jun 6, 2015How is the information of the transaction list accessed?
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Posted Jun 4, 2015Thanks for update, works great for me :)
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Posted Jun 3, 2015@Pablo_M98
I have the same problem when somebody joins the server.
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Posted Jun 3, 2015Why occurs this? It appears when a player joins the server. (ChestShop 3.8.9) http://pastebin.com/sKqBfWSS
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Posted May 31, 2015@MCTylerPVP Supports, however Mob Head item support is buggy in Bukkit/Spigot and unfortunately the NBT tags for the items change. This should be fixed in the server software.
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Posted May 31, 2015Putting 397:3#1 as Sell item but says I do not have that item when I do. Does it not Support NBT Tags?
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Posted May 30, 2015@1337Zero Unfortunately you are wrong, this IS the fault of the plugin which provides sign colours. Since ChestShop does not read signs which look like the ones before the plugin colours them, it cannot be said that ChestShop is the source of the problem. It is skipping the essential stage of the SignChangedEvent, in which the signs are recognised - and since the signs will be valid after the re-colour, ChestShop still reads them.
Nevertheless, I will be trying to fix it.
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Posted May 29, 2015@1337Zero
This issue should be addressed ASAP.
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Posted May 27, 2015@1337Zero
Thanks for the heads up :)
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Posted May 26, 2015Just posted a ticked with a bad bug for all server owners...
if your users got permission to create Colored Signs, they can create Servershops...
Works with essentials and some other Sign color plugins...
Acrobot closed my first ticket (its not the Sign color plugins fault)... but this needs to be fixed
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Posted May 26, 2015@hutt132
Yes! this has to be fixed. When players change their mc name. The sign on the chest still has their old name resulting in them having no access to the chest they created before changing their name
Please add UUID support!
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Posted May 25, 2015With v3.8.8, people who had changed their username do not have access to their shops.
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Posted May 24, 2015While its not worth opening a ticket over. There is a massive cpu spike on player join. Which has been brought up a few times by others. http://timings.aikar.co/?url=11332078
running version 3.8.7 atm
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Posted May 23, 2015