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 May 24, 2014It's possible, with a hire shopkeeper, to do an other item in "money" instead of emerald (or emerald block) , but directly in game ? To allow player to choose the item to sale, and the required item for buy... :-)
(Contact me if you don't understand my perfect english)
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Posted May 24, 2014@EpicDinosaurz
Strange, it works fine on my testserver. Do you have any error log for me? If so, please create a ticket for that.
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Posted May 24, 2014@blablubbabc
The plugin also is not working with me on 1.7.9, an update would be nice :)
(using CB 1.7.9 R01)
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Posted May 24, 2014@to175
Hm? Could you clarify what you mean to say? Shopkeepers v 1.18 runs fine for me on Craftbukkit 1.7.9R0.1
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Posted May 24, 2014Hi, it disable in 1.7.9 :( can't use the plugin :'(
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Posted May 24, 2014@Spiky2006
Which villager did you right click? A shopkeeper villager or a normal one?
@Alfatossa
Do you have shopkeeper duplication with the latest version? Or could the duplication have been happening in the past already? Make sure that it really is caused by the latest version by killing the duplicated villagers and waiting to see if the same shopkeeper again duplicates in the future.
If that should be the case then please create a ticket and attach a list of plugins you are using. Especially plugins which could affect chunk un/loading, world saves or backups. Also let me know then if you have autosaving enabled or disabled in the bukkit.yml.
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Posted May 23, 2014i have shopkeepr duplication and cant trade em
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Posted May 23, 2014This does not work on my server when i right clic kthe villager it just says i have selected villager, please help me :(
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Posted May 21, 2014@TheNo1Yeti
It supports item lore. It does not support custom nbt data, besides of Attributes (which have some other issues though).
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Posted May 21, 2014Does this support NBT or Lore data in the Trades. Like if I have an Emerald named Strange Gem will it allow me to set trades only for Strange Gems, or will it just use all Emeralds.
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Posted May 21, 2014@Almathy
For player shopkeepers you/should use the spawn creation item (villager egg by default).
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Posted May 21, 2014@blablubbabc
Only permissions of shopkeepers doesn't work... Whem I add a perm to a player, with command /manuaddp (exemple : /manuaddp almathy shopkeeper.villager), I can't create a Villager. I've do many tests and, only in OP we can execute /shopkeeper to summon a Villager...
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Posted May 20, 2014@Almathy
There is no 'shopkeeper.*' permission. However, if you have issues with every permission node I keep assuming that it's an issue with your setup..
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Posted May 20, 2014@blablubbabc
All permissions, and shopkeeper.*.
Information : my server run on Spigot 1.7.5
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Posted May 20, 2014@Almathy
Which permission in particular are you currently testing?
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Posted May 20, 2014@blablubbabc
I don't understand why permissions does'nt work... Same on a debug server...
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Posted May 18, 2014@Almathy
I assume the issue lies in your permissions setup of GroupManager, not in the Shopkeepers plugin, nor in a possibly incompatiblity with GroupManager.
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Posted May 18, 2014@blablubbabc
Thanks, now I understand.
But, (sorry, again) permissions dosen't works on my serv.. GroupManager compatibility maybe ??
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Posted May 17, 2014@Almathy
You have to select the sign shop type via the creation item and then click a block or sign to place the shop there.
For an admin sign shop you have to use the command '/shopkeeper sign' while looking at a block/sign.
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Posted May 17, 2014Thanks you !
Your plugin is perfect for a my server !
But.. i don't understand hox create a shop sign.. [SHOP] on the first line, don't works...