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 Jun 7, 2014@pcchou
Ah, yeah, I know what you mean now: you can't have two trades for the same item type. I will keep this in mind and see if I can change it in a non-breaking way to support that as well. Maybe like being able to remove the items from the default first row and place items in there, similar like placing item in the second row.
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Posted Jun 7, 2014@blablubbabc
My problem is I can't have two same item in the first row. (I can only have one input for an output.)
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Posted Jun 7, 2014@pcchou
It is currently slightly unituitive, but it works like this:
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Posted Jun 6, 2014I am using the trade shopkeepers in my server, but my players can only have one type of "input" per one "output" per one shopkeepers.
(eg. You can't have log and plank both converting into gold.)
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Posted Jun 4, 2014Very good plugin. But not trade if item repair or rename on anvil. May be change configuration?
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Posted Jun 1, 2014when will the next update be??
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Posted Jun 1, 2014@CaptainRage21
You will have to take a look at each plugin individually and check if there are settings which dis-/enable entity interaction.
Also, I probably could try to bypass blocking of entity interaction in the next update.
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Posted Jun 1, 2014i have anti-cheat, worldgaurd, grief protection, skyblock do any of those disable it and if so how do i enable it?
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Posted Jun 1, 2014@CaptainRage21
Usually all kinds of regions protection plugins can block interaction with the shopkeeper entity.
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Posted Jun 1, 2014but it still dont work
what plugins make this not work
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Posted Jun 1, 2014i did /shopkeepers debug and it created one
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Posted Jun 1, 2014@blablubbabc ok does it have to be mcv 1.7.9?
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Posted Jun 1, 2014@CaptainRage21
MV version 1.7.9. You can turn on debug mode temporary via '/shopkeepers debug' or in the config.
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Posted Jun 1, 2014@blablubbabc what version of mc does it need? i cant find where it says debug mode
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Posted Jun 1, 2014@CaptainRage21
Maybe some other plugin is blocking interaction with the villager at that place. If you turn on debug mode it should give your further information in the server log.
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Posted Jun 1, 2014hey, on my server it don't work. idk why but i do /shopkeeper and the villager pops up and it tells me to right click while sneaking and i do and nothing happens and then i tried to left click and nothing happened. please help. Server : resistancecraft.mcph.co Skype: Faze_Snazzy Gmail: captainrage21@gmail.com
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Posted May 31, 2014Would it be uskyblock doing it
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Posted May 31, 2014@Koolzskillz
That message is not coming from Shopkeepers. Maybe some other plugin is blocking shop interaction.
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Posted May 31, 2014Help I can't use shops unless I am op it says
You can only use shops at your island
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Posted May 30, 2014There is a bug in 1.5.2 forced exchange. Please update again to 1.5.2 TT