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 12, 2012Great Plugin, i just have one bugg. Villager keep duplicating, and if i kill them they respawn. Hopely u can fix it in 1.4 :)
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Posted Aug 11, 2012I love this plugin. I'm using it on my spawn and I'm trying to simulate a small economy by lowering and raising prices based on what I have seen been buying/bought. A nice feature would be to be able to track what is going in/out of a Admin shopkeepers inventory.
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Posted Aug 11, 2012@nisovin
Yeah, but there's a reason so many people use it. Almost every Bukkit plugin, that is version controled, uses GitHub. Would you consider switching? It would be much easier to fork / contribute or deal with issues.
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Posted Aug 11, 2012This plugin not only doesn't work for me, but it blocks villager trade throughout the entire server... there's no error messages, so what's going on?
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Posted Aug 11, 2012Hey
Can i change the limit for how many you can make per group? that would be nice feature
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Posted Aug 10, 2012Is it possible to name the Shopkeepers? Right now all Shopkeepers trade Window is called "Dorfbewohner" (German). It would be nice if this could be changed to distinguish from normal NPC.
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Posted Aug 10, 2012@silvinci
GitHub is not the only available code repository option.
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Posted Aug 10, 2012Y U NO use GitHub?
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Posted Aug 10, 2012Hey I have a few questions. For the config I have it set up so that players can only make 3 shops., is there anyway a op can bypass that? My other question is can you make a shop say the name of the player who owns it? Last question, will enchants be in player shops in 1.4.
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Posted Aug 10, 2012@MattSheridan
You should be able to use spell tomes from MagicSpells v2.9 with shopkeepers (which uses written books instead of BookWorm books).
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Posted Aug 10, 2012@nisovin: Your MagicSpells plugin is so excellent that this one is immediately of interest to me. Can shopkeepers sell spell tomes? I'd previously been hiding libraries with bookcase-type spellbooks around the world, but just buying spells from villagers would probably be preferable to most of my players.
I'm also really digging your thoughts on server economies, and I'm interested in what you think about this rebalancing scheme.
Anyway, thanks for all the great work! I'll be trying Shopkeepers out on my server soon!
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Posted Aug 10, 2012@Tobias2289
I'll add an option to set the max distance from the chest. Setting it to 0 will require the player to place the shopkeeper on the chest. However, I've noticed a minor bug where if the shopkeeper is bumped just right, he'll actually fall into the chest. It's not a huge deal, but it's kind of annoying, and one of the reasons I changed it.
@squeezer2k
Not directly. There is no "Worldguard Region" item. I'm sure you could come up with something clever though.
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Posted Aug 10, 2012There a way to maybe give us the option of choosing whether or not we want player shopkeepers to have to stand on a chest? I prefer it. But guess if I have to, I can deal.
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Posted Aug 10, 2012hi there,
little suggestion:
would it be possible to buy/sell worldguard regions with use of villagers?
regards
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Posted Aug 9, 2012I think you have just single-handed lay changed the economy on my server...Thanks
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Posted Aug 9, 2012@nejcneo
Turn on debug mode in the config:
debug: true
then tell me what the console shows when you right-click on a shopkeeper.
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Posted Aug 9, 2012@nejcneo
By default in the config file only the villagers you spawn with the "/shopkeeper #" command can be changed. Maybe that is the problem?
@nisovin
This plugin is just what my server needed. It adds a spark of life to my otherwise ghostly spawn town + makes way more awesome shops than Essentials' Buy/Sell signs. 9/10
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Posted Aug 9, 2012I don't know what is wrong but I have permission for admin + I am OP And while I am holding shift + Right Click on Villager It doesn't work :O Nothing happens :/
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Posted Aug 9, 2012@xH3LLRAIZ3Rx
This seems to be caused by not shutting down the server properly.
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Posted Aug 9, 2012The Villagers keep duplicating, thats a problem