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 Sep 15, 2014OH MY GLOBICLES. this is one of the best plugins i've seen off the website just searching.
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Posted Sep 14, 2014@glasseater8576
You have to add the color character (&) to the name regex in the config first.
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Posted Sep 14, 2014Colored names don't work :/
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Posted Sep 14, 2014thanks you
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Posted Sep 14, 2014@Max633
Works fine for me: http://prntscr.com/4ms553
However, make sure that your config file is encoded in utf-8 and that your systems default file encoding is utf-8 as well:
You can do this with notepadplusplus for example: http://prntscr.com/4ms5pv
And you can define the encoding java shall use by default via the start command of your server if it doesn't work by default already: -Dfile.encoding=UTF8
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Posted Sep 14, 2014Do not work after /shopkeeper reload :/
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Posted Sep 14, 2014@Max633
Yes, but you have to allow it first by adding it to the name-regex in the config.
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Posted Sep 14, 2014Can we add a special character in the name of the NPC? such as ★
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Posted Sep 13, 2014@EEFDGOD
Sure. Create a ticket for it and attach your translation.
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Posted Sep 13, 2014Hi,Could I translation your plugin to Chinese?
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Posted Sep 5, 2014@mobilephone2003
/shopkeepers creeper|witch|any other supported shop object type
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Posted Sep 4, 2014You have creeper creation in permissions but no actual command to make one.
How do you make one?
Same with witches?
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Posted Sep 3, 2014@Illidan1601
There is a permission which was added in those latest alpha builds but wasn't yet documented anywhere: shopkeeper.trade
Would you mind telling me which permissions plugin you are using?
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Posted Sep 3, 2014Hi, if updatet on the new version of 1.7.10 and my users can´t use the shops... But there is no permission u need to use the shops, but if i give the user shopkeeper.* he can use the shopkeeper, can u say me what that bug is?
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Posted Sep 2, 2014@XCatfun
If you want to translate shopkeepers to chinese you have to modify and translate the messages in the config file.
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Posted Sep 2, 2014Hi,Could ltranslate your ShopKeepers to Chinese?我能將ShopKeepers翻譯成中文嗎??
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Posted Sep 1, 2014@XXLuigiMario
Which argument exactly? Because the commands seem to work fine for me.
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Posted Sep 1, 2014@blablubbabc
I'm trying to use /shopkeepers (insert-argument-here).
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Posted Aug 31, 2014Thank you very much
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Posted Aug 31, 2014@Truekenny00
Hm, to solve this I could either block shift clicking the result slot completely, block setting up trades for the same item type, or block shift clicking if there is another trade for the same item type.
However, at a closer look this seems like a bukkit or even minecraft bug to me. Because if you setup the same trades but as the second and third trade (and use some other trade (which doesn't use heads) in the first trade), then open the villager trading and switch to trade 2 and do the same (shift+click) it seems to work fine.
Without knowing much about the minecraft code I think the issue is this line in the minecraft server code (which craftbukkit uses): the 'i > 0' should probably have been 'i >= 0' ..
I have created a bukkit issue ticket for this, however the chances are probably not that good to see this fixed by them soon, as there is no official api available/supported by bukkit for modifying villager trades and Minecraft default trades probably don't have this issue as they don't seem to offer multiple trades for the same item as far as I can remember.. Also in the current unsure state regarding the future of bukkit no issues seem to be resolved/worked on..