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 Dec 27, 2015@Congress12
I don't think this is possible. Shopkeepers is limited by what is possible with minecraft's vanilla trades.
You can setup 2 fixed trades: One which accepts only iron and one which accepts only gold.
You can also setup up to 8 trades (I think) with different combinations of gold and iron requirements. But you cannot set it up so that players can provide dynamic amounts of gold and iron..
However: You could also set up 2 additional trades so players can exchange gold for iron and iron for gold.
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Posted Dec 27, 2015Hi guys really like this plugin for my RPG server but I'm trying to set up the shopkeepers in this specific way but don't know if its possible by changing the settings.
Slot: x15 GOLD Slot2: x30 IRON Item for Sale: DIRT
I would like for a player to be able to purchase dirt with either Gold or Iron but not both. This way if a player is short by 2 gold ingots they can instead buy with Iron Ingots. is this possible by making changes in the setup file? Thank you!
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Posted Dec 26, 2015@maxlehot1234
You would have to allow the japanese letters it uses via the name regex you can find in the shopkeeper config, and then you would need to paste those japanese letters into chat when renaming the shopkeeper. Without being able to check I assume that the {icon-code} tags probably won't work here.
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Posted Dec 25, 2015Any way to allow this in villager name: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/pl3xicons.5577/
It would be amazing and looks PRETTY good on servers if you can add this ;)
Thank you
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Posted Dec 21, 2015@blablubbabc
Thanks ! Good job !
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Posted Dec 21, 2015v1.68 for MC 1.7.x, 1.8.x
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Posted Dec 19, 2015@MrMaleficus
I created a ticket for it here, so I remember to look into this for the next update.
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Posted Dec 19, 2015Hi blablubbabc ! :) When i use Citizen NPC ShopKeepers on a chest the NPC is not centered on the block clicked. He is placed on the corner.
Can you help me or fix this ? :) MM
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Posted Dec 17, 2015@Roxxy_Blunderblast
They don't make any noise for me. Maybe you have a normal, non-shopkeeper villager nearby?
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Posted Dec 17, 2015@Chris_GSPvP
Well, item dragging when editing a shopkeeper should work as long as no other plugin is interfering.
I don't know what your custom plugin does, and if it's meant to affect the gui's of other plugins, but it's certainly this custom plugin to blame.
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Posted Dec 17, 2015I can't drag items when I am editting an admin villager.
This is because a custom plugin who has a GUI aswell, any idea why this is breaking each other?
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Posted Dec 15, 2015For some reason, Shopkeepers won't stop making the villager sound, despite having the silence of living entities set to "true."
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Posted Dec 14, 2015oh ye ... im stupid xD
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Posted Dec 14, 2015@AlexStevenson10
You are probably holding the shift key, or you are not using the left mouse key when trying to get the result items from the trade.
Shopkeepers is preventing these 'special clicks' due to possible item duplication issues which would arise otherwise.
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Posted Dec 14, 2015i think its world guard
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Posted Dec 14, 2015it said Prevented special click in trading window by Alex_Stevenson10 at world,-653,12,-581.
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Posted Dec 14, 2015@AlexStevenson10
Turn on debug mode (/shopkeepers debug) and check the console log output when you try to trade.
Also a list of your other plugins might be usful, in case that some other plugin is preventing the trading.
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Posted Dec 14, 2015@blablubbabc
i am using bukkit 1.8.8 and i am putting the trades in the trade slot and trying to take the item, but i take it for a split second and it dissapears, which ever villager i use it does that thanks for replying so fast!
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Posted Dec 13, 2015@AlexStevenson10
You need to be more precise in order for me to be able to help you. What steps are you performing, what are you seeing, which minecraft version are you running, which settings are you using?
Best you create a ticket for your issue.
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Posted Dec 13, 2015Hi When i put the emeralds in it wont let me trade for the item help please