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 Apr 23, 2017In reply to kotarobo:
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Posted Apr 16, 2017Hi, i'm owner of server 1.8 rankup, i would like to use this plugin, but when modifying an NPC, the inventory gets stuck and I can not change anything, do you know how to fix it? I've already used 3 different versions. Sorry for my english, i'm brazilian. :v
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Posted Apr 17, 2017In reply to iFCzH:
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Posted Apr 17, 2017Em resposta a blablubbabc :
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Posted Apr 17, 2017In reply to iFCzH:
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Posted Apr 17, 2017Em resposta a blablubbabc :
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Posted Apr 16, 2017Possible bug: villager shopkeepers from plugin were abused by my players and I switched to sign shops only. They make shop near nether portal and with water flow shopkeeper travels thru portal and at the other side turns to random normal villager. The interesting thing is it can be done indefinitely from only one shopkeeper.
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Posted Apr 16, 2017In reply to Skeletino:
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Posted Apr 7, 2017I Downloaded shopkeepers on 1.11 and when i restart the server the vilegars go away what do i need to do
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Posted Apr 7, 2017In reply to DenizelGaming:
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Posted Mar 27, 2017Can you please add more pages for creating more trades because i have an RPG server and I have to make merchants like weapon merchant and.. I love this plugin but you can create only 9 trades :( Can you add more pages for those trades? It would be sooo nice!
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Posted Mar 20, 2017I can't set shopkeeper name. It's alaways say "That name is not valid!" could someone help?
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Posted Mar 21, 2017The name gets validated with the regular expression found in the config. This regular expression determines the allowed characters and the allowed length of the name. You will have to modify the default on if it doesn't fit your needs. You can find java's documentation on that here: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
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Posted Mar 11, 2017BookTradeModeBug?
https://i.gyazo.com/904be4dd1c22620aa8842c61379cff5e.gif
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Posted Mar 12, 2017The book shopkeeper requires book-and-quill items in the chest.
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Posted Mar 13, 2017ohhh!
Thx! XD
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Posted Mar 11, 2017Ok I have a problem. I get my villager egg and I point it to the sky. I right click - nothing happens. I sneak + right click - nothing happens. I have no idea how to fix it! Can you help me?
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Posted Mar 11, 2017Make sure you have the required permissions and that you are not in creative mode.
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Posted Mar 12, 2017Yes. Im OP and I was not in creative mode. Now what do I do?