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 Jan 4, 2018im making a shop for my server and i already have 1 villager but when i put something into the next villager that i wanna sell and the price for it it just puts it back into my invetory please help
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Posted Jan 6, 2018In reply to Cute_Baby_Ducky:
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Posted Dec 28, 2017Hello
how can I set that the player can not kill villagers
MC: 1.8
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Posted Dec 28, 2017In reply to Mateox8:
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Posted Dec 24, 2017So.. Can you add an option for another page of trades? That would be awesome. I know it takes time, but it would be absolutely awesome! ;)
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Posted Dec 16, 2017Great plugin! thanks alot! All your plugins are awesome :)
You should put all your plugins on spigot so more people will see them! <3
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Posted Dec 11, 2017Hi, i am using Shopkeeper for version 1.5.2 but if i click on him righ-click he don't do anythink, can you help me please?
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Posted Dec 11, 2017In reply to Forge_User_91905680:
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Posted Dec 9, 2017Hello,
I really love this plugin and I want to use it for my RPG server. But I can create only 8 trades per villager and I need more. Is there any way to create more than 8 trades? Or can you add this on new update?
Thanks
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Posted Dec 11, 2017In reply to Dee_Earth:
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Posted Dec 7, 2017is there anyway to have shops use an actual currency instead of trades only?
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Posted Dec 7, 2017In reply to saintdevin:
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Posted Dec 1, 2017Any idea how random player could destroy shopkeeper signs and chests with LWC protection? I can't destroy shopkeeper sign even with op permision.
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Posted Dec 1, 2017In reply to Skeletino:
Are your players by chance able to somehow trigger 'block explosions' (plugin caused explosions, not tnt explosions or the like)?
Also, any plugin/minecraft feature which can modify the world and which the player has somehow access to could cause the sign/chest to get removed.
Server crashes or other reasons which would prevent the world to be properly saved could also get blocks removed.
Shopkeepers sign protection reacts to: Interactions, block break, block physics and entity explode.
If you have disabled sign shops or disabled the shopkeepers plugin at some point and still running the server, players would be able to break the signs as well.
There might be more reasons, but I can't think of more right now.
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Posted Dec 1, 2017In reply to blablubbabc:
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Posted Dec 1, 2017In reply to Skeletino:
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Posted Dec 1, 2017In reply to blablubbabc:
I checked those commands and it seems none of them could possibly work.
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Posted Dec 1, 2017In reply to Skeletino:
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Posted Dec 1, 2017In reply to blablubbabc:
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Posted Nov 12, 2017Thanks for your plugin! I find a bug recently, I set a shopkeeper with two same item, but different lore. When I trade with it by using more items with lore, put those items in a contrast position, and the shop will ignore the lore!