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 Jul 13, 2014@ChiTownSounds
Because the file wasn't approved yet by bukkit staff. It usually takes at max. 2 days for approval.
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Posted Jul 13, 2014I see the "v1.21 Alpha for MC 1.7.8+" In the comments, but when you look at recent files... it's only 1.20
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Posted Jul 12, 2014@ShawnDaGeek
@ChiTownSounds
Try out v1.21, which is currently waiting for approval.
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Posted Jul 12, 2014I don't see 1.21 HELP!
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Posted Jul 12, 2014@petsy88
I have the same issue, none of my users can use the admin shops we created.
bukkit 1.7.9 r0-3 Shopkeeper 1.2
From debugger: 7/12/2014 6:19:53 PM [INFO] [Shopkeepers] Player HmongLee1 is interacting with entity at Location\{world=CraftWorld\{name=Endurance\},x=210.06471324807066,y=67.0,z=13.37124719415885,pitch=-20.0,yaw=-0.81759644\}\par 7/12/2014 6:19:53 PM [INFO] [Shopkeepers] Non-shopkeeper\par 7/12/2014 6:20:03 PM [INFO] [Shopkeepers] Player foxylov is interacting with entity at Location\{world=CraftWorld\{name=Endurance\},x=135.5,y=68.0,z=242.5,pitch=-1.4034362,yaw=0.0\}\par 7/12/2014 6:20:03 PM [INFO] [Shopkeepers] Cannot open trading window for 'foxylov': missing permissions?}
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Posted Jul 12, 2014v1.21 Alpha for MC 1.7.8+
This is an alpha version:
While this version seems to work quite well already, there might be some new bugs being introduced due to some internal changes.
Also there are some issues which still needs to be resolved (hopefully no breaking issues though..) and some new features to test out.
Also please see the changelog of the previously version! http:dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/shopkeepers/files/47-v1-20/
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Posted Jul 12, 2014@petsy88
Yep, you are right. That's a bug. I will try to upload a fix for this later.
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Posted Jul 12, 2014So i recently updated this Plugin and now members can not use any of the admin villagers is there a permission you have added or something i have bypass-shop-interaction-blocking: true and still not working
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Posted Jul 11, 2014@blablubbabc
Thank you! :)
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Posted Jul 9, 2014v1.20 Alpha for MC 1.7.8+
This is an alpha version:
While this version seems to work quite well already, there might be some new bugs being introduced due to some internal changes.
Also there are some issues which still needs to be resolved (hopefully no breaking issues though..) and some new features to test out.
Old permission nodes for creepers, villagers and witches should still work, but might be removed in a future update.
Note that there are very likely still some issues left, mainly regarding cleanup of Citizens npc's or shopkeeper data, especially in situations where either Citizens or Shopkeepers is not running.
Better documentation will very likely follow once this leaves 'alpha' state.
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Posted Jul 9, 2014@suliman101
Hm, I wasn't able to reproduce this on the latest version I am currently testing with (the version of the next update.. though I don't rememeber having anything changed about the villager respawning part).
In my test I removed the shopkeeper entities via WorldEdit's butcher command, and they shortly afterwards respawned with the correct appeareance applied.
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Posted Jul 9, 2014Found a bug where, upon killing a shopkeeper, they dont respawn with the chosen skin bur rather the default one (first one upon creation). I was able to kill the shopkeeper with a mod weapon but i dont think that matters, as it appears the respawn function is there just in case the shopkeeper dies somehow.
love the plugin, hope you can fix this soon.
EDIT: Soon after posting this comment i discovered that this bug disappeared after editing a few things in the config file. I enabled nameplates to always show and to log all transactions.
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Posted Jul 8, 2014@QuestRealms
There is a setting for this: name-plate-always-visible
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Posted Jul 7, 2014@nisovin When I create a shopkeeper the nametag is only visible when I look at it. Is there any way to fix this issue?
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Posted Jul 2, 2014@Joakim1398
You probably have to enable creeper shopkeepers in the config first. They are turned off by default.
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Posted Jul 2, 2014/shopkeeper witch works but not /shopkeeper creeper..
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Posted Jul 1, 2014We use this on our server Its exactly what we needed. It works great with Axel's "Minie" plugin or any plugin that uses physical currency which is what we want tired of /bal and /money. Its a breeze setting up shop for custom things like renamed food and special weapons. Our only hope is that when we prepare for moving into the new updates that you keep going with this plugin its AMAZING.
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Using our currency in exchange for Coins
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Posted Jun 30, 2014@blablubbabc
nvm fixed I guess
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Posted Jun 30, 2014@CraftCoderr
What do you mean by 'compatibility'? They should work fine together, without interfering.
In the next version you will even be able to create citizens shopkeepers.
And what do you mean by 'api for open shop gui'? I think in the current version there is a public method in the main plugin class for opening shopkeeper guis. In the next version you will be able to open the different types of guis via the Shopkeeper class.
See the source code for more info on that: https://github.com/nisovin/Shopkeepers/blob/master/src/main/java/com/nisovin/shopkeepers/Shopkeeper.java#L324
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Posted Jun 30, 2014Can you add compatibility with Citizens or api for open shop gui?