Shopkeepers

Set up custom villager shopkeepers that sell exactly what you want them to sell and for what price. You can set up admin shops, which have infinite supply, and you can also set up player shops, which pull supply from a chest.
It will also prevent any other trades with non-shopkeeper villagers, if you want it to.
For those who are simply looking for a convenient way to modify the trades of vanilla villagers (as an alternative to using complex Minecraft commands), the plugin also includes a graphical editor for regular villagers and wandering traders.
Basic Features
- Easily create villager shopkeepers that trade the items you want them to trade.
- Admins shops with infinite supplies.
- Player shops which pull supplies from a chest.
- Different types of player shops: selling, buying, trading, and selling books.
- Various supported mob types to represent your shopkeeper, sign shops, and Citizens (NPC) shops.
- Editor for regular villagers and wandering traders.
- Many configuration options.
- Translatable messages.
- Open source (Source code on GitHub)
Supported server versions
Shopkeepers supports the latest versions of Bukkit / Spigot.
Note that this plugin is created to work with CraftBukkit (or alternatively Spigot). Bukkit does not have an API for some of the things necessary to make this plugin work. This means that other server software (Tekkit, Forge, Cauldron, etc.) will not work with this plugin.
Other CraftBukkit or Spigot derivatives/forks might work, but are not officially supported. So if you run into issues while using those, try to reproduce your issue on a fresh and up-to-date Spigot server first.
Getting started
All documentation can be found in the wiki:
- Downloads and changelogs for all files
- Installation
- Translations
- Configuration
- Permissions
- Creating shops
- Commands
- Frequently Asked Questions
Showcase
Admin shops:
Configure the trades via the in-game inventory menu:

Resulting trading menu:

Player shops (ex. selling items):
Fill the shop chest with supplies:

Configure the trades via the in-game inventory menu:

Resulting trading menu:

Video Tutorials
More video tutorials can be found in the wiki: https://github.com/Shopkeepers/Shopkeepers-Wiki/wiki/Video-Tutorials
Tutorial by Donnie, explaining the setup of the different shop types:
Tutorial by Fan Staaff showing the setup of the different shop types in detail:
Tutorial by LastKing2X,showing the setup of the different shop types:
Spanish tutorial by Ajneb97, also mentioning placeholder items and various config options:
Statistics
This plugin uses bStats to collect anonymous plugin usage statistics. This helps me to determine how many servers are using the plugin, which Minecraft versions it is used with the most, and to which degree the different features are used.
Here is a list of all currently tracked information:
- Common information: The number of servers using the plugin, the number of players on these servers, online mode, Minecraft version, plugin version, core count, system arch, operating system, server country, Java version.
- Shopkeepers specific information: Whether specific related plugins are used (Citizens, Towny, WorldGuard, Gringotts, other Vault economy plugins), number of shops, whether player shops are used, whether certain features are enabled in the config (ex. WorldGuard/Towny compatibility, Citizens shops, delayed saves, colored names, chest protection, removal of inactive shops, tax rate, strict item comparison, purchase logging, disabling of other villagers, ..), the number of worlds containing shops.
- All information can be publicly viewed here: https://bstats.org/plugin/bukkit/Shopkeepers/
If you want to disable bStats for all plugins on your server, edit the file plugins/bStats/config.yml, or alternatively disable it only for Shopkeepers by setting 'enable-metrics' to 'false' inside the Shopkeepers config.
Known potential issues
A list of known potential issues of the latest version of Shopkeepers can be found in the wiki: This documents differences between Minecraft/Spigot versions, and existing Minecraft/Spigot issues related to Shopkeepers.
If you run into an issue, check if this list already contains and maybe offers information on how to handle it.
Have issues or further questions?
If you have a pressing issue or simple question, you can join the discord server and ask other plugin users for help:
But submitting a ticket is the best way to get help or report a problem with the plugin.
Before submitting a ticket:
- Check if your question is already answered in:
- The documentation (wiki).
- The FAQ.
- The Known Issues.
- Check if there is already another ticket for your issue.
Before reporting an issue:
- Try to reproduce your issue when using:
- The latest versions of Spigot and Shopkeepers.
- No other plugins.
- No kinds of other server or client mods.
When reporting an issue:
- Provide the versions you are using of Minecraft, Spigot and Shopkeepers.
- Provide a detailed description of your problem and add as much information as possible which could help reproducing the issue.
- If possible, include step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce the issue on a fresh Spigot server.
Donations
If you like this plugin, consider supporting its developers by making a donation:
- To blablubbabc (current maintainer: Dec 2013 - today)
- To nisovin (former author: Aug 2012 - Dec 2013)
A big "thank you" to everybody who is keeping the motivation up through donations!
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Want to help?
Whether you are a programmer or not, there are many ways in which you can contribute! For example:
- Help users with issues and questions on Github, Discord, or the comment section.
- Create and update translations.
- Keep the documentation (the wiki) up-to-date with plugin updates.
- Write or maintain add-on plugins (see the open Github issues).
If you are interested or have other ideas on how you can contribute, feel free to contact me via PM.
Add-On Plugins
Sometimes, a feature is either to specific to include directly into the Shopkeepers plugin, or I did not yet have the time to add something similar myself. You can find a list of both official and third-party add-on plugins that extend the functionality of the Shopkeepers plugin in the wiki: https://github.com/Shopkeepers/Shopkeepers-Wiki/wiki/Add-On-Plugins
If you have also written an add-on plugin that you want to add to the list, let me know!

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Posted Aug 8, 2013If you're receiving a problem after updating, or just your first install, make sure to head to "Recent Files" on the right -hand sidebar and select the newest version available. For me, the common "Download" link took me to a version of Shopkeepers compiled for 1.5.2. Probably just an error.
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Posted Aug 7, 2013Must be some sort of miracle xD:
I updated my server to 1.6.2, updated Shopkeepers plugin and It stopped working, after a few tryes at reuploading the plugin to make sure, it finally kicked in ._.'
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Posted Aug 7, 2013How to adjust that only "Trade" is available? If I give the players only the permisson "shopkeeper.player.trade" It does not work! :/
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Posted Aug 7, 2013@ChaoticFox9900
14.2 works in 1.6.2
theres a few small bugs like the villagers walk off on their own.. (they get teleported back though)
nothing game breaking that i can tell. runs on my 1.6.2 server
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Posted Aug 6, 2013Removed this plugin since it has no updates obviously coming to fix this nor the devs have said anything. I consider this "dead" plugin. Also my RAM usage went low after removing this plugin, obviously it does eat shitloads of RAM.
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Posted Aug 5, 2013@ChaoticFox9900
My friend had this same issue, the plugin somehow did not load. I have it working on my server, using 1.6.2. Only issue is color codes not working and the cloning shops (creates villagers and spawns the shop again)
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Posted Aug 5, 2013Plugin doesn't seem to work in 1.6.2. I'm using the beta build for Craft Bukkit, (craftbukkit-1.6.2-R0.1) and when I check loaded plugins, Shopkeepers comes up in red. Server.log says:
[SEVERE] [Shopkeepers] Incompatible server version: Shopkeepers plugin cannot be enabled.
Any ideas?
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Posted Aug 5, 2013is there any way to log all transactions instead of only purchases ?
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Posted Aug 4, 2013@iunderdogs
Stare at the ground and do /shopkeepers
Anything happening?
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Posted Aug 3, 2013@semirotta
well it seem that i when i install the plugin it say it was install but the is no file a does not work
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Posted Aug 3, 2013@DarkSharkZX
the whole plugin needs to be re-written to be fixed please do that while youre at it..
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Posted Aug 3, 2013Can we have the source? I need it for translating your plugin correctly :c
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Posted Aug 1, 2013Ever since the update with Nameplates, i havent gotten this plugin to work on a MCPCPlus server. :/ Any chance it could be fixed? I always used this for broken item recipes in mods
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Posted Aug 1, 2013Anyone know what development Build this version is for?
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Posted Jul 31, 2013For some reason ShopKeepers is causing major lag on my server. I only have about 10 shopkeepers made but they are using a lot of CPU Here is the usage for a 12 period on my server.
For some reason the InventoryMoveItemEvent Time is really high!!
http://pastebin.com/kT9Dfzik
I put shopkeepers as the top, and you can compare it to all my other plugins. Once again this is over a 12 hour period.
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Posted Jul 31, 2013Dear nisovin, I have a feature suggestion. If player try to hire Villager, It checks permission shopkeeper.maxshops.X before hire.
It's important for me, because any player can hire any count of ShopKeepers.. Or make new config called "max-hired-shopkeepers"
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Posted Jul 31, 2013@Rachetodom
Exactly, this plugin works perfectly in 1.5.* but in 1.6.* it fucks up, dev please fix the plugin!
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Posted Jul 30, 2013Are there anyone know that how to set the non English character rename the npc name? i am using the latest build! Many thanks
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Posted Jul 30, 2013Cool! it works great on my 1.5 server!
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Posted Jul 30, 2013Could you make a version which implements a way to make an AdminShop that stores the emeralds in a chest? like a mixture between normal shops and AdminShops. I want a closed economy system with some kind of "public money" to pay things like public buildings and so, and selling odd items with AdminShops is a good way to earn the "public money", but there is no plugin to do that.
Thank you for this wonderful plugin :)