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 23, 2015Can we make pull request? And is there any upcoming update any soon?
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Posted Sep 16, 2015@CloudeLecaw
Thanks for letting me know that you resolved your issue.
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Posted Sep 15, 2015@CloudeLecaw
Try without any other plugins, and also check the console.
For me shopkeepers runs fine on my test server, and I don't see any latest changes in spigot which would have changed anything related to shopkeepers.
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Posted Sep 7, 2015@blablubbabc
Well, if you do not set a build flag, and use the egg to right click a chest it doesn't have anything to do with building, there is also a flag called "chest-access" and "use" and "interact"
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Posted Sep 6, 2015@codiaz
I have created a ticket for this, so I don't forget to look into it.
From a first glance this sounds like it could be added without problems.
However, players will need to be able to access the chests in the affected region, otherwise shop setup will not work. So I am not sure right now if this would work,if you setup a protected region (ex. at the spawn area) with this 'allow-shop' flag, where players are not able to build (and by that possibly also not able to interact with chests..). I first have to check if this could be a problem and/or if it could be easily worked-around.
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Posted Sep 6, 2015Could the restriction of worldguard also inherit the worldguard flag "allow-shop"?
I want people to create shops but only where I allow them.
Kind regards, Runefist
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Posted Sep 3, 2015@linghun91
I have no clue about how (k)cauldron works, internally, and I don't plan to look into it either. So right now it's not supported.
However, shopkeepers is open-source: so if someone with knowledge about (k)cauldron knows what the issue here is and how it could be fixed on shopkeeper's end, get in contact with me.
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Posted Sep 3, 2015@blablubbabc
not support kcauldron 1.7.10
can you fix?
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Posted Sep 3, 2015@PhanaticD
Check the logs for possibly errors related to shopkeepers. Might be that some item cannot be properly saved. Ex. custom skull items will cause this (due to a spigot bug).
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Posted Sep 3, 2015using 1.63 shopkeepers file reset on server crash :/
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Posted Sep 3, 2015@CloudeLecaw
Looks like an issue of hideitemattributes to me.
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Posted Aug 29, 2015@K3nniii
I have no idea what you mean by that.
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Posted Aug 29, 2015Pls add JSON compatibility. thx
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Posted Aug 26, 2015@blablubbabc
ok thnx for the help but can you help me with making the trades cuz i don't know how to do it. ip: flanderscraft.us.to
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Posted Aug 26, 2015@Jerlag
You cannot use enchantments for the currency items. If you want to setup a player shopkeeper which accepts enchanted items from other players, you have to use the trading shopkeeper. You can toggle between the different types of shops by holding a villager egg and right clicking in the air.
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Posted Aug 26, 2015@blablubbabc
i have 1.8.8 and i'll check the config how do you enchant the currency item in the config? can you send an example of the format of you?
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Posted Aug 26, 2015@Jerlag
Are you using minecraft 1.8 or 1.7.x? In case you are using 1.7.x, make sure you have 'strict item coparison' enabled in the config.
I just tested it on 1.8 with admin shopkeepers, and it worked like any other item without problems.
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Posted Aug 26, 2015@blablubbabc
That's my problem i can't get the offers that the players need to give enchanted.
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Posted Aug 25, 2015@Jerlag
Just like any other item: if the items used for the trade-setup are enchanted, the trade is only allowed if the offered items are enchanted as well.
The only exception is the buying shopkeeper, which doesn't allow enchanted items (for reasons I don't know right now).
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Posted Aug 25, 2015how can i set it up like the items they need to use are enchanted?