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 11, 2016Hello, Can you add a "more than 64 items for a stack support". I explain myself, my server has a system where the items can be stacked by 100 instead of 64, but when I put 100 items in the shop it displays 64 and it's impossible to trade. Thanks, Lemrigue
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Posted Jul 2, 2016Hello, I'm having trouble with players being able to move my shopkeeper Villagers. I am aware that they tp back to their spawn place, but my players can still move them pretty far away. Is there away to disable that in the config or something? Please reply if anyone know how to do so. Thanks, ExplosionsHD!
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Posted Jun 30, 2016@Almathy
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Posted Jun 30, 2016@blablubbabc
Nop
Even with permission, players cant' make shopkeeper entity.
Event if I add...
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Posted Jun 30, 2016@Almathy
So the problem is solved? You simply missed adding some mobs to the enabled ones?
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Posted Jun 30, 2016@blablubbabc
I find why players can't :
"enabled-living-shops : A list of mob types which can be used for shopkeepers. Adding new mob types to the defaults here is unsupported, as some mob types might not properly work and can cause all kinds of issues."
Any type works with me ^^
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Posted Jun 30, 2016@Almathy
Could you create a ticket and attach your (minimal) GroupManager permissions setup, with which I can try to reproduce this?
Personally I have only used PEX so far and never had problems with it. But I know that some people had strange permissions issues recently as well, though I was never able to reproduce them so far. Or they fixed themselves after a few restarts for those people.
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Posted Jun 30, 2016Hi !
I have a problem, players can't place ShopKeeper (with item) since ShopKeeper 1.76 and Spigot 1.10 are used on my server. I have a message which said they haven't permission but they have it...
Problem with GroupManager do you think ?
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Posted Jun 23, 2016@Kdielol
There is a setting in the config for disabling natural villager trading, which is enabled by default for some reason. It has been this way for a long time, but I think I might disabled it by default to cause less confusion in the future.
You can still use the villager egg to spawn normal villagers: If the shop cannot be created for some reason, it will trigger the normal villager creation instead. As player shopkeepers can only be created on chests, try clicking somewhere else than chest.
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Posted Jun 23, 2016Greetings. Any idea why naturally spawned villagers such as those in naturally generated villages can't be traded with? Also, is there a way to be able to use villager eggs to spawn a "natural villager" as well as being able to spawn shopkeepers at the same time? Thanks! (The only other plugin I think that could possibly affect the natural villagers is Citizens but I don't think it's that).
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Posted Jun 20, 2016@poiNt3D
Right now I am not planning anything in this regards. But I don't rule it out either.
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Posted Jun 19, 2016Hello. Do you plan to port it for Sponge?
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Posted Jun 18, 2016@huangzong
The latest version is already updated for 1.10. I just couldn't mark it as '1.10 compatible' yet, because dbo has to first manually add the new version tags every time.
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Posted Jun 18, 2016Update to 1.10 pls~~ Thanks very much!
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Posted Jun 17, 2016@FreddyGB
Check your console log for errors.Also turn on debug mode and see if that prints anything useful when the shop gets saved after you edited it, or when the shopkeepers get loaded.
Also, is the shop as a whole removed? If so, make sure that nothing is preventing shopkeepers from writing to the save file. And if it is a citizens npc, make sure that the npc got saved correctly (citziens does have a save command).
Are you by chance trying to setup trades which involve player head items?
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Posted Jun 17, 2016@blablubbabc One of my shopkeepers, no matter if it is a citizen (npc) or not once my server gets restarted, it deleted every item in his inventory, or shop. What do i do???
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Posted Jun 12, 2016@franticTech
Please don't post stack traces into the comment section. The are too spammy for that. Instead create a ticket and attach it there in the future.
Anyways, the issue should already have been fixed in v1.76. So update shopkeepers.
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Posted Jun 11, 2016@ez4ence
Thanks for letting me know.
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Posted Jun 11, 2016@blablubbabc
The problem was AttributeHider. Thanks for your help. The plugin works perfectly now. :)
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Posted Jun 11, 2016@blablubbabc
I appreciate your help and how quickly you responded to me. I'm trying to figure out which one of my plugins is causing this issue, but to no avail. The 2 items I put in a trade were taken directly from the Creative Inventory, so If the issue is related to another plugin, it probably sets some kind of internal metadata as soon as the item is equipped. I'm not sure, but I think the issue is related to the "Unbreakable" plugin. I'll come back with the results ASAP. Here's my plugin list, in case you notice anything that might be messing around with Shopkeepers: http://i.imgur.com/sPdzUyX.png
I'll try deleting Unbreakable for now.