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 14, 2015@jessefjxm
This would be something spigot needs to add/fix.
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Posted Jul 13, 2015Hope the support for "Properties.textures" tag of heads can be added ;)
This tag saves the texture of a head, which allows head fully customizable.
Custom heads can generated at: http://heads.freshcoal.com/
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Posted Jul 6, 2015@TheBlackBeltPanda
Please create a ticket for your issues and let me know there which version of shopkeepers and which version of spigot you are using. And attach or upload your server log file containing this error line.
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Posted Jul 6, 2015Doesn't work in 1.8.3 =(
"java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/minecraft/server/v1_8_R1/World"
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Posted Jun 24, 2015@vanthoi
What would this plugin require MySQL for?
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Posted Jun 24, 2015please support mysql Thank!
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Posted Jun 23, 2015v1.61 for MC 1.6.2, 1.7.x, 1.8.x
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Posted Jun 22, 2015@bird0021
The save file can get lost for various reasons. Check your server logs if you find any errors when the save file gets loaded or saved. Without an error stacktrace it becomes near to impossible to find out what is happening.
Also check if you can reliable reproduce the issue: is the save file always gone after every reload or restart of the plugin? Does the save file even get generated at all when you create or edit a shopkeeper?
The common problems are:
In either case, please create a ticket for your issue and if you find an error stack trace in your logs upload it to pastebin.com and leave the link to it in the ticket.
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Posted Jun 21, 2015I have a question ,use the /shopkeepers reload command to reload the plugin, No save file..I do not know why
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Posted Jun 21, 2015@MineCraftMyph
How would this feature be used?
If it's only about running a command when a player clicks an entity (without any shopkeeper functionality needed in this case, like the shop menu being openend for the interacting player) then I don't see how this would make sense for being included in this plugin. You are probably looking for a different plugin then.
There seem to exist plugins specifically for this:
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Posted Jun 21, 2015@blablubbabc
When can we introduce run command on right click from player or console?
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Posted Jun 21, 2015@Bodyash
This doesn't seem to fit to this plugin.
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Posted Jun 21, 2015can u add new type of shopkeepers?
When u RightClick on it - it will use command from your name. For example i have GuIShop+ plugin. I Want to bind /shop command to NPC. There is any way to do that without installing anotther plugin?
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Posted Jun 18, 2015Plugin works great. just wish more items could be sold.
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Posted Jun 16, 2015@xXAmyLouiseXx
See the section 'Can I have more than eight trades on a shopkeeper? ' above. Short answer: nope, currently not easily possible / supported. And currently there are no plans to change the editor window layout to have more rows. I could think of maybe being able to scroll left and right through multiple pages of 3*8 recipe-rows, however I currently have no plan for working on that either.
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Posted Jun 16, 2015Hi agen is there a way the shop can hold more maybe 9 more? Like row1 items, row2 currency, row3 items, row4 currency.
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Posted Jun 14, 2015@xXAmyLouiseXx
Yep, that plugins seems to be the issue. It seems to try to create a new type of enchantment which doesn't exist in default minecraft, and which seems to not properly work currently with spigots way of serializing it. Best you report this to the author of ImOnAHorse then.
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Posted Jun 14, 2015@blablubbabc
yaay i found the problem its the plugin ImOnAHorse wean i add the Iron Horse Armor it wipes my save file
http://pastebin.com/qr9REDDJ
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Posted Jun 14, 2015@xXAmyLouiseXx
Try to track down some item with some wierd enchantment, which causes this error to pop up. Also maybe update to the latest spigot build.
The issue happens during the saving of some item (not during the loading). So did you edit any shop in the time between when you used you backup save.yml and when it was cleared out again? If not, could you also please upload that save.yml to pastebin.com?
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Posted Jun 14, 2015@blablubbabc
err wear to start i'm useing spigot 1.8.3 the plugins i'm useing that are unusual are Coins, MythicDrops, DrugMeUp, EasyJetpack, HorseProtect, ImOnAHorse and MiningMachine thay all have Edited names and lores P.S i tryed copying the save.yml to me desktop as a backup but wean i went to use it the backup file was clear as well