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 Jun 3, 2016Hi,
Not sure what I'm doing wrong now, as I have tried the 3 latest versions (2 with 1.9.4 and the last one with 1.9.2) and it worked perfectly for my players until now. I have up until now used villagers for player shops (the villagers spawn on top of the chest that they're linked to) and now I can only do sign shops. I tried disabling sign shops and that gives them no permission to create a shopkeeper.
The config option "create-player-shop-with-command" is set to true.
So how do I enable it so that only villagers are used when creating a player shop?
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Posted Jun 3, 2016@PhanaticD
I am using PEX on my testing server and I cannot reproduce your issue. When having the shopkeeper.* permission I can create admin and player shops just fine. What permissions plugin are you using and could you paste an example permissions setup for that which is not working?
I also have checked all occurences of the no-permission-message, and they should all be guarded by a debug-print printing the corresponding failing permission check if you are a player executing the command/action.
Aren't most defaults already at op'? I am not completely sure what you changed.
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Posted Jun 3, 2016no matter what I did I could not fix the issue until I went into the plugin.yml file in the jar and changed all the default to be OP and then give permissions. I suggest looking into how you have that set up :/
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Posted Jun 3, 2016i give myself shopkeeper.* but it says "You dont' have permission to do that" when trying to create a shop. with shopkeeper debug it doesnt even say im missing any thing either
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Posted May 31, 2016@grosse01
I am not sure if you are really using the latest version. The latest version for me is 'git-Spigot-8a048fe-5ff377a' currently. What is the output if you execute /version in your server?
Also, the logs and configs are of little use here, if the issue is a faulty server version, which is my current guess.
All shops get automatically despawned and respawned when your world is being saved.
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Posted May 31, 2016Oh, I forgot: I ment that the Shopkeepers despawn all the time. They are all within the spawnchunk, so they shouldn't actually do that. That's why I don't get it.
Ahm, yes, I just updated to 1.9.4 yesterday.
07:00:10] [Server thread/INFO]: Starting minecraft server version 1.9.4
[07:00:10] [Server thread/INFO]: Loading properties
[07:00:10] [Server thread/INFO]: Default game type: SURVIVAL
[07:00:10] [Server thread/INFO]: This server is running CraftBukkit version git-Spigot-8a048fe-106ced0 (MC: 1.9.4) (Implementing API version 1.9.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT)
You can find all the logs and configs in the link I posted about 5 hours ago.
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Posted May 31, 2016@grosse01
Have you already tried updating your spigot server?
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Posted May 31, 2016Hello :) I post my Problem on this Site with many logs and config of my server. Please looking this. Thanks :) ENG/GER
LINK: https://board.nitrado.net/support-de-german-only/support-gameserver/minecraft/bukkit-spigot/111507/shopkeepers-1-9-4-problem-despawn/
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Posted May 31, 2016@grosse01
I think I don't fully understand your problem: Do you get the below message even though the shopkeepers are spawned just fine? Or do they actually not get spawned?
In the first case: Update your spigot server. I remember a bug in spigot 1.9 which might cause shopkeepers to think the the shop entities were not correctly spawned even though they were. This bug has been fixed in newer versions.
In the later case: Usually some other plugin might be interfering and preventing the spawning. Make sure that 'bypass-spawn-blocking' is enabled in the config, and if nothing helps, try it on a local test server without any other plugins running, to verify that it really is caused by another plugin.
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Posted May 30, 2016Hello. Version 1.9.4 Spigot git-Spigot-8a048fe-106ced0 (MC: 1.9.4) (Implementing API version 1.9.4-R0.1-SNAPSHOT).
I have the problem that the Shopkeeper always spawn even though they are in the chunk from Spawn. I do not know how to continue. I have tried many things.
Problem:
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-76,-76,-76
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-76,-76,-76
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-76,-76,-76
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-76,-76,-76
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-78,-78,-78
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-76,-76,-76
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-74,-74,-74
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-72,-72,-72
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-70,-70,-70
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-66,-66,-66
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-76,-76,-76
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-76,-76,-76
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-76,-76,-76
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-76,-76,-76
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-76,-76,-76
[22:05:35] [Server thread/WARN]: [Shopkeepers] Failed to spawn shopkeeper at world,-70,-70,-70,,,,,,
and many more.
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Posted May 26, 2016@Marrarus
Players have a few permissions by default (those are listed above), allowing them to create player shops. However, normal players should not be able to edit your admin shopkeepers. Only other admins should be able to do so.
I am not aware of any problems with that. So if you are sure that there is some permissions related bug in shopkeepers, create a ticket, attach your permissions file, and explain step by step what which player with which permissions is doing. So that I can try to reproduce your issue.
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Posted May 26, 2016my problem is simple: no group has permissions for this plugin at my server(only the admins does have it) but every palyer is still able to create shopkeepers and to edit even the admin shopkeepers. i fixed it with givving groups - shopkeeper.trade - -shopkeeper.*
like this comment if u ahve the same problem. if more have it u should maybe check again the permissions config :)
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Posted May 26, 2016@blablubbabc
It's tough for me to understand what to do. But still.. thanks for your reply. :)
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Posted May 25, 2016@Filipdk
There is a ticket were I collected a few possible solutions in the past, here: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/shopkeepers/tickets/369-setting-to-make-shop-entities-unpushable/
None seems ideal to me. Maybe the entity-riding might work. I will probably test this out some day.
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Posted May 25, 2016Can you do anything about players moving the villager around? I know that the villager will respawn after it has been moved some blocks, but can you do anything about the players moving the them overall? :)
- Great plugin :)
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Posted May 22, 2016@Ergail
Well, it could be anything. I would first check if you really have your permissions setup correctly, and then make sure that no other plugins is interfering: Make sure that this 'No permission' message is actually coming from shopkeepers (Check if it perfectly matches the message in the config).
And if nothing helps, turn on debug mode and try again and then check the console output: It should print the results of all permission checks shopkeepers performs.
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Posted May 22, 2016Hi !
When my players are trying to create a trade they have the following error messge : No permissions When I try to do the same thing I have the same message with all permissions ...
I'm in 1.9.4 with the latest version of ShopKeepers Help please ?
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Posted May 18, 2016Thx Update! paypal is unfortunately does not support a donation from Japan X3
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Posted May 15, 2016v1.74 for MC 1.9.x, 1.8.x, 1.7.10
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Posted May 14, 2016@DaDMaR
You should be able to trade head items just fine with shopkeepers.
There was one 'issue' with 'custom' player heads (player heads with custom texture attribute and invalid owner/player uuid or name) in the past: Those custom players heads could not be saved in the past due to a spigot bug. Trying to save them would result in an error. However, spigot fixed that in newer versions. There is a setting in the config 'skip-custom-head-saving': Set that to false if you are on a newer version of spigot, to re-enable saving of those custom player heads.