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 22, 2014@blablubbabc
Okay, that worked, but then when I right click the shop (The trade GUI) , it literally says &2Emeralds Merchant. Is there a fix to this? If there isn't it doesn't really matter.
EDIT: Also, is there a way to make the name show all the time?
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Posted Jul 22, 2014@DeathTom1990
The names are validated with the regex defined in the config (which determines the allowed characters and min and max name length). By default only the characters 0-9 A-Z and a-z are allowed. So you have to allow the color codes as well.
So change the regex in the config to: [&A-Za-z0-9 ]{3,25}
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Posted Jul 22, 2014When I try to give the shopkeeper a colored name, (ex. &2Emeralds Merchant) it says the name is not valid. Help here, please. :x
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Posted Jul 21, 2014@Intangir
You can take a look at the commits at github for the specific code changes (many of the recent ones are only moving things around or change how things internally work, in the hope that those changes make it easier to add similar stuff (like new guis) in the future).
You get an overview about new features by taking a look at the latest changelog(s) of the uploaded files here.
@madtomic
It should, yes.
@Rulerish
The trade type shopkeepers (and admin shopkeepers) already check item name and lore.
The only things not currently checking item name and lore are the currency items you specified in the config which are used by the buying/selling player shopkeepers.
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Posted Jul 21, 2014Hey,
I've been looking for such plugin for ages, and I got a request.
Is it possible, to make it so the items you need to require shouldnt be based on their ID, what I mean by that is, that many of the owners using this plugin may need it for Custom items, and Custom items have different names and Lores. Is it possible the plugin to check if the Name and Lore are the same as the required item, since I can put a normal stick, and a '' Magic '' Stick with some lore, and both get accepted?
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Posted Jul 19, 2014Is there any info on what all of the hundreds of changes your making on git are doing?
i mean there are so many commits and some of them are restructuring large amounts of code.. the comments don't seem terrible informative..
i can't figure out what the latest versions are adding.. it looks like there is stuff in there for making any kind of a shopkeeper entity? stuff to do with citizens? new guis? etc..
is there info on what all of these new features are and how to use them?
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Posted Jul 19, 2014It took me a minute to figure it out as the shopkeeper appears slightly above the block you have targetted, which meant he popped upwards through the wall. After aiming a little better I got him to appear and sneak-click to setup the trades is working great.
This one gets a major "thumbs up"
The only issue is that it disables trading with normal NPC villagers by default but I've found the config file to resolve that. I haven't noticed any breeding issues yet but I keep the shopkeepers away from doors so they probably didn't register as a village in the game mechanics.
To answer some earlier questions: check the saves.yml and config.yml files in the plugins\shopkeeper directory.
If you delete saves.yml it will wipe all of your shopkeepers.
There are lines in the config.yml file for:
disable-other-villagers: true
enable-purchase-logging: false
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Posted Jul 18, 2014Can this plugin work with cb1.7.2-r0.3?
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Posted Jul 17, 2014@Brisk568
Don't use the alpha builds then?
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Posted Jul 17, 2014@MeLikeChoco
Therr already is a setting for this.
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Posted Jul 17, 2014@blablubbabc
It still hasn't been approved. Can you link us to a jenkins link or something similar? My players really want it to work and i am loosing voters.
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Posted Jul 17, 2014Can you allow options to allow the name of the villager to always display instead of only when they are looked at?
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Posted Jul 14, 2014@chrisbruijnes
See the comments below. This is fixed in v1.21. The file will be visible once it has been approved by bukkit staff.
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Posted Jul 14, 2014I got a bug.
With spigot 1.7.10 version as NON op you cant use the shopkeepers, when I am OP I can. Really strange.
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Posted Jul 13, 2014@LeePlayer
The big probelm, did yu have updated to v1.21? :P I don't have any problem with it
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Posted Jul 13, 2014@petsy88
You probably forgot to stop the server/the plugin before removing the save-yml ('setting back all shopkeepers'). The plugins saves the currently loaded shopkeepers back to file when it is disable/reloaded/the server shuts down/restarts.
@LeePlayer
Turn on debug mode and see what it is printing in the log. I just tested the v1.21 version and it let me open the shops for trading, even without being op or having any permissions plugin installed. So I cannot reproduce this from your description.
@Almathy
Maybe it will be changed one day to something like "/shopkeeper create [type]" and added the "/shopkeepers help" command. But besides of that I currently don't see this as a big problem. The commands are mostly used by the admins, and "/help Shopkeepers" should get you an overview about all commands anyways.
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Posted Jul 13, 2014Like I've already said : I love this plugin.
But, now, after one month of use, I think you should change the commands syntax.
Example : /shopkeeper create (to create un shopkeep)
/shopkeeper type <type> (to choose the type (villager, creeper, witch, wolf...))
/shopkeeper help
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This would be cool, better organized, easier... maybe this is planned, I don't know !
Else, keep it up ! You do a verry good job :)
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Posted Jul 13, 2014Please Help
My users still can't trade with admin shop villagers even through i gave them the permission shopkeeper.trade and enabled bypass-shop-interaction-blocking to true. I am using the permissions you get inside of the essentials.config. I am using the latest version v1.21 Alpha for MC 1.7.8+
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Posted Jul 13, 2014Ok so have come across another pretty big bug so we set back up all of the villagers waiting for the update to become available and once the server restarted there are villagers everywhere selling all sorts of stuff to players which has caused multiple issues.
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Posted Jul 13, 2014@ChiTownSounds take it dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/shopkeepers/files/48-v1-21/ i aleardy do :P