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 Sep 16, 2012Only problem I'm having, is that my villagers turn into normal villagers upon after a random given amount of time. Maybe a reload caused it, but yeah. Love to see this fixed. Thanks. :D
For anyone who needs to keep reloading this plugin, without wanting to reload their entire server, use this plugin until the dev of this one, fixes the problem.
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/plugman/
It works on 1.3+
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Posted Sep 16, 2012Wait when i try place items inside shopkeeper it just blocks me placing them? it just removed my item in hand and place it back where it was.
Also i cant remove the items that inside the villager they just reload back to where they were.
Oh wait we can only set the price with emeralds or slimeballs? Players cant set tehir own currency?
Can you pleace add a config to disable only use 1 currency? What if players want to sell a cobble for 1 pickaxe?
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Posted Sep 16, 2012Several issues:
1. If using a trade villager, if I have (for example) three health potions and one damage potion in the chest, selling for two iron ingots each, if a person opens the window and buys four health potions without closing the window the fourth potion which is not a health potion will be removed from the chest, and given to the player. The potion that leaves the chest is a damage potion but the player receives four health potions. This is causing an issue where I want a vendor to sell five or six different kinds of potions for varied amounts in emeralds and other currencies.
2. I want to be able to mix currencies with seller shops. A user should be able to charge 1 emerald and 2 iron ingots for an item, but the currencies keep converting between each other?
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Posted Sep 15, 2012@nisovin
Same issue as the others, they keep reverting to normal villagers. Only way to fix it is to reload the Shopkeeper plugin. Not sure if it's conflicting with another plugin, but no console errors. Seems to happen randomly. If you would like a list of plugins let me know.
Great plugin btw
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Posted Sep 15, 2012How 'bout a feature where there's an owner-adjustable markup/markdown (like 5% or 1 emerald or something) based on frequency of use? It could be limited to Admin NPCs, so that anything trading in emeralds will have a potential for discount if players buy from that trader a whole lot.
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Posted Sep 13, 2012Is anyone else having an issue where shopkeepers will be registered on creation, but won't appear until a server reload? Even then, only random ones will actually appear for me. It's been driving me crazy for a while now.
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Posted Sep 13, 2012If anyone, or the plugin maker would like to see the kind of economy I've set up with this plugin, come take a look. It's perfectly balanced. (At least, I think it's a good example) >.>
mc.kronoscraft.beastnode.net:25601
(Before it's said, I'm not using this as advertising. If people want to jump on, take a look and never come back, it's fine. Lol. Just showing examples of complete emerald economies at work.)
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Posted Sep 13, 2012@Faldonboy
xBladeM6x mentioned GriefPrevention, which is a great plugin to have. There is also VillageProtection, which can prevent a villager from being damaged/killed by any means.
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Posted Sep 12, 2012Any news on that block shopkeeper ticket? Is it even possible, or not without a client mod?
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Posted Sep 11, 2012I restarted the server when my shopkeepers were becoming normal villagers and that fixed it...
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Posted Sep 11, 2012Anyone know how to get rid of the bug where shopkeepers turn to normal villagers? ITS HAPPENING TO ME!!!!
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Posted Sep 11, 2012This plugin is amazing. Please don't ever let this die. <3
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Posted Sep 11, 2012@fuzyfeet
Thanks! I can stop losing my everloving mind now! :D
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Posted Sep 10, 2012@Oryon007
When you shift (sneak) click the villager, click the fire, that is the delete button.
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Posted Sep 10, 2012@Faldonboy
Download a plugin called "GriefPrevention". The area they're in when you protect it, makes mobs impossible to be killed by anyone other than the person who placed the claim.
Just an alternative for if this plugin dev can't make them invincible.
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Posted Sep 10, 2012I have a quick question that I haven't yet seen on the FAQ or postings: how can you remove a shopkeeper once it's been placed? I ended up building a new area for my shops and now want to remove the old ones.
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Posted Sep 8, 2012Any chance you can make shopkeepers invincible? Certain spells from your MagicSpells plugin are able to hurt/kill them.
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Posted Sep 5, 20121. Sometimes I can't interact with them, relog and it works again. 2. How can a player create trading shops? 3. What does the save button do? Basicly it's not necessary, because the plugin could simply save automatically after a shop was created/modified.
dynmap support? :)
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Posted Sep 4, 2012really good plugin, i've added support to your plugin in EmeraldEconLink they work great together now.
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Posted Sep 4, 2012Can you add a special shopkeeper with the ability to repair items/weapons/armors?