ChestShop (iConomyChestShop)
Acrobot released his first Android game, would you mind giving it a go?
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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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 | |
|
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" |
|
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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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!


-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 17, 2012@falsevacuum I know, but I don't think that you can cause a block update in bukkit.
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 17, 2012@Acrobot
There are some modules called block update detectors (BUD, for short), which detect when a block adjacent to it is updated. These have detector block(s) which are in a glitched state. For example, a piston powered diagonally acts as a BUD. The detector reverts to its proper state, and that can be harnessed to create redstone energy.
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 17, 2012@darkcloud784 It's on the TO-DO list.
@falsevacuum I'll look into it, but I think that block.update() in bukkit won't trigger redstone.
@wesley4220336 Not yet, I didn't have time to test it :/
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 16, 2012Support for selling xp?
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 16, 2012hey Acrobot, any quick fix for the RedStoneChip fix?
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 16, 2012Could you make it so that buying causes a block update? This way, you can use redstone to register that someone has bought something, and thus run some kind of redstone service like a gambling machine or a minecart ride.
And you can't just sell them a minecart, because then they will bring their own carts.
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 16, 2012@rodier Hmm... No clue, I just check if the player hasn't reached the protection limit, however I'll look into that. Thanks.
@saldarine Well, I use Register, so I'll probably just modify the function to get the account so it will be treated as a normal player account.
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 16, 2012hm when I as admin create chest shop I see You have reached LWC protection limit! Tvuj obchod byl uspesne vytvoren (my cz translation) so NOT_ENOUGH_LWC_PROTECTIONS: "You have reached the LWC protections limit!" seems is problem?
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 16, 2012You still plan on adding support to the Bank/Group ranks so you could put a Bankname or a Groupname on a sign allowing for everybody in that group/bank to access the store? This is with regards to BOSEconomy
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 16, 2012@generilisk Yeah - I already do that - it shouldn't really affect anything.
@rodier Well, it's ChestShop (with capital C and S), and you can use HTML files to make a statistics webpage (there isn't any http server though)
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 15, 2012During a reload, I got this: Nag author: 'Acrobot' of 'ChestShop' about the following: This plugin is not properly shutting down its async tasks when it is being reloaded. This may cause conflicts with the newly loaded version of the plugin Bukkit 1597 ChestShop 3.33
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 15, 2012@Acrobot
as I said I didnt changed anything on server for 2-3 weeks :( im using GroupManager (essentials) this plugin ver 3.30. i dont know why, seems like chestshop.shop.create node stop working :-D because admin can make shop, but admin have .admin node..
05:52:10 [INFO] [ChestShop] Permissions version 3.1.6 loaded.
05:52:10 [INFO] [ChestShop] LWC version 3.58 loaded.
05:52:10 [INFO] [ChestShop] version 3.3 initialized!
05:52:10 [INFO] [ChestShop] iConomy 6 loaded.
I try update to latest version and I will tell you :) btw how to use that HTML files inside? does chestshop have some http server?
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 15, 2012@rodier No clue o.0 Maybe you are using another permission plugin?
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 15, 2012hmm people now dont have permission to make them. I dont know why. I didnt changed anything.. Admin can - ChestShop.admin
Players cant (thats ok) - -ChestShop.shop.create
but VIP cants too (which is bad) - ChestShop.shop.create im using Groupmanager. i didnt touched anything in weeks...
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 15, 2012@MCBuncey You can also just increase the shop creation price.
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 15, 2012@Acrobot
I have a raiding server and I want tnt to be useful a bit more i notice alot of them use chestshop to protect the blocks around them. Rather than removing completely the protection :/ but anyway thanks for the replay :D and keep up the good work
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 15, 2012@Swords761 Nope, sorry -> BOSEconomy handles banks different to other plugins :/
@C031H0 Well, I plan on using Vault. Register will still be in code, because many of the players who have Register.jar have problems with it. I'll probably just load Register when Vault isn't found.
@Shooty_ Aren't they working? Just do /iteminfo to find out their id.
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 14, 2012Is it possible to get ChestShop to work with BOSEconomy banks? I know and have had success with it working for individual accounts, but a 2-person shop is something I'd also be interested in getting to work. I understand that it could be a limitation on BOSEconomy's side, but just wondering if there's a way to "trick" ChestShop/BOSEconomy into thinking a bank is a player or something, or just in other words getting the two to play nice with the bank system. Thanks.
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 14, 2012Can you change this plugin's economy method to Vault instead of Register? (or load the actual plugin "Register" instead of implementing it directly from your source code).
-
View User Profile
-
Send Message
Posted Jan 14, 2012@Acrobot
Can you add The NEW eggs plz :D ?