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 Oct 17, 2016Can you add support for punctuation (apostrophes, commas, dashes) in NPC names?
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Posted Oct 5, 2016@sondia
No, I would prefer all downloads being available from this official source only.
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Posted Oct 5, 2016请问我可以把这个插件搬运到这个网站吗?www.mcbbs.net
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Posted Oct 3, 2016@MineRedFlitte
Create a ticket and attach your server log there.
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Posted Oct 3, 2016im OPEARATOR !
An internal error occurred while attempting tp perform this command....
pls help me
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Posted Sep 24, 2016Does anyone know why I cant get the traded item out with SHIFT+Rightclick? Only SHIFT+Leftclick and normal drag n drop works...
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Posted Sep 20, 2016@blablubbabc
Thank you for the quick answer, an auto-fill dispenser seems like a good suggestion, thank you!
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Posted Sep 20, 2016@vntqm
Nope. But there are already plugins out there you can use toi give players either certain items when they forst join, or setup some kind of auto-refilling dispenser at spawn.
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Posted Sep 20, 2016Would it be possible with an admin shopkeeper to "trade" away an item for free? - let's say golden shovels and a pre-written book?
Also, extremely good plugin, I can not recommend it enough!
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Posted Sep 16, 2016@l_Alchimista
They should disappear during the world save, and then reappear. If this is not the case, then make sure that no other plugin is preventing them from getting spawned.
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Posted Sep 16, 2016@blablubbabc
yeah, that was the problem. now i can create 'em, but when my server saves the world, all the traders desappear :(
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Posted Sep 14, 2016@l_Alchimista
You are probably creating a buying or selling shopkeeper. You will want to create a trading shopkeeper.
Regarding setup: You can read about that above as well.
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Posted Sep 14, 2016i have a problem : when i try to drag things from my inventory into the shopkeeper editor to decide what he can change for what, i can't drag nothing cause the item is deselected suddenly and i can't change the "money" system. i can use only the emeralds. i'm using it on a craftbukkit 1.9.2 server what should i do ?
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Posted Aug 24, 2016@blablubbabc
I know what you mean. I was just hoping you faced this issue and could help me solve the problem. I don't have time right now for making fresh server, I will look at it tomorrow and post here my results.
I hope this is a plugin issue (conflict) and not a spigot issue. Thanks.
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Posted Aug 24, 2016@Scratchy741
Well, I can only give suggestions on what steps might help to track down the 'actual' issue. On the way you will have to either find the mistake in what you are doing/expecting, or some other plugin which is causing the issue, or you have to end up with a step by step tutorial on how I can reproduce the issue on a fresh and empty spigot server. Only then I can look into fixing any issue which might be there.
A simple 'it doesn't work, no matter what' will not help tracking down the underlying issue :(
If you don't find the issue you might also want to test on the latest 1.10 spigot server version, to make sure that not some issue in your spigot server is causing this.
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Posted Aug 24, 2016@blablubbabc
I will try this on fresh server but I think I did it already like month ago. I've tried "use-strict-item-comparison" to set it to false but nothing has changed.
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Posted Aug 24, 2016@Scratchy741
Make sure to also try it on a fresh server without other plugins interfering. If nothing helps, you could also try setting 'use-strict-item-comparison' to false in the config. Though that shouldn't make any difference for fully similar items..
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Posted Aug 24, 2016@blablubbabc
I was testing it even with regular items with same result. Debug does not write anything to console nor chat. I was using your plugin on 1.7.X and it worked properly. Now I'm using 1.9.2. Edit: Not sure now but I've tried it on clean server like month ago,
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Posted Aug 24, 2016@Scratchy741
There have been plugins in the past which silently modify items on the fly. So no matter how you create your item, it might be a different one once your insert it into the trading slot.
Turn on debug mode and see if it prints anything useful. If the issue is indeed about a mismatch of the items, then you will have to debug your plugins to see what they are doing with the item. I would start with the plugin you use for creating any custom items. Maybe also try this on a local test server without other plugins interfering.
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Posted Aug 23, 2016Hello. I'm having problem with exchanging. When I give shopkeeper proper item (I even duplicated that item to make sure it is identical), the reward from him appears but I can't take it from it. I have all permissions and even others can't take the item off. Any help? Config: http://pastebin.com/1zQLrcrE