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 31, 2014@RobKill14
Try out v1.23 once it becomes available.
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Posted Jul 31, 2014When you are reloading or restarting the server: The adminshop villagers dont keep the items in the editor, it means I must every restart or reload set up the items in the villagers... this is very annoying. could you please update it that they keep the items?
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Posted Jul 30, 2014@Max633
What do you mean? If you mean if you can provide more items pf some type in the chest of some player shopkeepers: yes that should work.
More than 64 as item-stack size: not sure if and how that would even be possible in minecraft..
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Posted Jul 30, 2014Can be put in the Shopkeeper items that exceed the stack of 64? To 200 for example?
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Posted Jul 27, 2014@Yandols
None that I know of.. It has been this way in the past so it was kept this way.
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Posted Jul 27, 2014@blablubbabc
I see! Thanks. Is there a reason why that setting is enabled by default?
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Posted Jul 27, 2014@Yandols
There is a setting for this in the config (disabling normal villagers) which by default is turned on.
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Posted Jul 27, 2014Does this affect vanilla villagers? I can't seem to interact with vanilla villagers from villages anymore after installing this.
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Posted Jul 27, 2014@Canibaz
I wasn't able to reproduce this: for me all enchantments were saved fine.
However, during my tests I was able to find a bug in the latest alpha versions which caused shopkeepers to not being saved at all after editing. Maybe this is what you meant.
I uploaded v1.23 with a fix for that.
v1.23 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 need to be resolved (hopefully no breaking issues though..) and some new features to test out.
Also please see the changelog of these previously versions!
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Posted Jul 27, 2014When i close up my server all enchanted item lost their enchant pls help me
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Posted Jul 25, 2014@Supersting
Your are right: seems like an bug with the alpha version. I uploaded a fix for it, which is now waiting for approval.
v1.22 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 versions! http:dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/shopkeepers/files/47-v1-20/
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Posted Jul 25, 2014I can't seem to get player shopkeepers working. Players are unable to take out the item on the right even though the chest is adequately stocked. (trading with your own shops is also enabled in the config).
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Posted Jul 24, 2014@Kazeebo
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Posted Jul 24, 2014@blablubbabc
Hey blablubbabc, is there anyway to allow default members to be able use the command to create a normal player shop? I've tried everything and I can't seem to figure it out.
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Posted Jul 24, 2014@blablubbabc
Oh ye, Thanks a lot mate! I never tried taking it out it seemed.. thanks again!
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Posted Jul 24, 2014@Rulerish
If you mean that it displays the item in the slot at the right: that's nothing I can change, because of default minecraft behavior. However you should not be able to actually get the diamond blocks for the invalid item.
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Posted Jul 23, 2014@blablubbabc
Hey,
I use the latest version also, and type ? I guess the answer here is admin =d . What I do is just do /shopkeeper ( while being op ) and I guess it makes it an admin type automaticly, here is a screeny http://imgur.com/K9RyHQZ
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Posted Jul 23, 2014@Rulerish
I just tested it on the latest version with an admin shopkeeper: it's still working like intended.
What type of shopkeeper did you test with?
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Posted Jul 23, 2014@blablubbabc
Hey, erm .. I don't think its working, for example:
I have a stick called Epic Stick, with the lore Epic Stick. You can trade 1 Epic Stick for 10 diamonds, but whenever I put a vanilla stick it accepts it, and gives me the diamonds. so I dont think it works.
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Posted Jul 22, 2014@DeathTom1990
This seems like a bug. The next update will probably fix this.
There is a setting to always show the villager name above their heads.