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 30, 2014What's the permission just to just shops I just want them to use it skyblock
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Posted May 29, 2014It's good ... I clicked right instead of left with the mouse...
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Posted May 29, 2014Okay thank you. Another thing, my players can not do exchange with shopkeepers admin ...
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Posted May 29, 2014@Max633
There is a setting for this in the config: nameplate-prefix
If you want to allow player's to color the names themselves, you will have to add the color code to the shop name regex in the config.
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Posted May 29, 2014Hi, How to customize the colors of the names of store??
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Posted May 28, 2014Nevermind this...
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Posted May 27, 2014@EpicDinosaurz
It IS updated to 1.7.9. Make sure you are using the latest version (v1.18).
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Posted May 26, 2014@blablubbabc
Can you please update to CB 1.7.9? It obviously isn't working on 1.7.9 for a lot of people. Its very odd :/
I really need this plugin working, thanks
- EpicDinosaurz
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Posted May 26, 2014@vhista
Sorry, I've never said that I'm not very strong in english si I did not understand ..
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Posted May 26, 2014@vhista
There is the trading shop type for players which does exactly that. Players can cycle through the different shoptypes by right and left clicking with the shop creation item in hand.
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Posted May 26, 2014@Almathy
Either I'm being dumb or there isn't a config option for this feature.
What I'm asking is:
Admin shopkeepers can trade 64 cobble for 64 stone, what I would like to do is enable this for player shopkeepers. so they are not limited to just receiving emeralds for their items
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Posted May 26, 2014@vhistaYou can change that in configs... But I would let players choose, it will be better I think.
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Posted May 26, 2014Hello Is there anyway to have custom trades for players? rather than only asking for emeralds.
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Posted May 26, 2014@monstercat101
You are not using the latest version of shopkeepers (v1.18).
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Posted May 25, 2014Shopkeepers works for 1.7.9, thnx :)
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Posted May 25, 2014@blablubbabc When a player hire a shopkeeper, (with that I've seen), he can't choose other "money" than what is configured in the configs. And, I haven't see if when we trade with a hired shopkeeper our "money" is send in the chest ?
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Posted May 25, 2014@Almathy
What I meant to say is that your player could use the player trading shop type for that. However, I didn't see that you are talking about hiring of shopkeepers:
isn't it already possible to specify the hiring cost, as shopkeepers uses the item you hold in your hand when you set up a shopkeeper for hire ?
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Posted May 25, 2014@blablubbabc
You have understand. It will be nice ! Because, for example, on my server we use an item renamed for money, not emerald :-)
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Posted May 25, 2014@Almathy
So, like the trading shop basicly?
@monstercat101
I just tested on spigot build 1482 and it runs fine for me on that version as well. Maybe you can provide me more info on 'it doesn't work'? Does it print something to your log? Any errors etc.? If so, please create a ticket for that.
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Posted May 24, 2014Also doesnt work for me 1.7.9, using spigot version 1481