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 May 11, 2019hi, can you tell me when did it work for 1.14 please?
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Posted May 11, 2019In reply to Forge_User_51218933:
Spigot 1.14 isn't ready yet. There are chunk loading related issues which prevent Shopkeepers from functioning currently.
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Posted May 10, 2019Can this work with the coins plugin? :D
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Posted May 10, 2019In reply to MrRayhonda:
I don't know the coins plugin. But if it uses items for its currency, then probably yes.
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Posted May 9, 2019What is that how to fix???
the shop object type 'citizen' is disabled.
the shop object type 'citizen' is disabled.
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Posted May 9, 2019In reply to koonsavetg:
Make sure citizens is installed and running, and then make sure that citizens shops are actually enabled in the config.
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Posted May 5, 2019How do you configure this plugin with the Citizens plugin?
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Posted May 5, 2019In reply to legotech15:
https://github.com/Shopkeepers/Shopkeepers-Wiki/wiki/Citizen-Shopkeepers
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Posted May 5, 2019Is there an ETA of the 1.14 version?
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Posted May 5, 2019In reply to Forge_User_12569058:
Nope. Spigot is still having some chunk related issue which needs to be resolved before Shopkeepers can work.
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Posted Apr 24, 2019Are you planning to update to 1.14?
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Posted Apr 24, 2019In reply to promorrom46923:
Yes.
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Posted Apr 22, 2019Hey,
Not sure if its possible so gona ask anyway.
Is it possible to sell more than a stack of an item? This is currently whats holding my server back, people who want to sell more than a stack of an item dont use the the villagers because they cant.
Any idea if you can add this?
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Posted Apr 22, 2019In reply to Forge_User_23917930:
I assume you mean a trading result of more than one stack per trade? The trading interface only supports 1 output item, so this is not possible with this plugin. You will have to trade multiple times to achieve that.
If the issue is that the items being sold are not of much worth: You can setup a low and a high currency. Maybe tweak the values of those so that your players are always able to represent the value of a single stack of any item in your low currency.
Alternatively, they can also create trading shopkeepers and trade (a single stack of) items for arbitrary (less valuable) items of their liking.
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Posted Apr 13, 2019Hey there! Love the plugin. Two quick questions that I didn't see in the FAQ...
Is there a way to set Items to a cost of FREE? For instance, books with instructional information that I'd like everyone to have access to?
Is there a way to link multiple chests to a single Player Shop? Or is it best to link one chest and just expand it when possible?
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Posted Apr 13, 2019In reply to immattslater:
"Is there a way to set Items to a cost of FREE?"
Nope, the minecraft trading interface always requires at least 1 input item before it even displays the trade's result item.
Maybe something like an infinite dispenser (ex. https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/infinitedispenserx-1-12-1-13.61840/) or somehting that hands out the instruction book to new players automatically might work better.
"Is there a way to link multiple chests to a single Player Shop? Or is it best to link one chest and just expand it when possible?"
You can only link one chest. You can however extend it to a double chest.
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Posted Apr 2, 2019How can I have more than 8 slots for trading? I have the latest version on my server, and the new editor doesn't show up.
EDIT: Just wanted to say that I have used your plugin for years. It's great :) but I really want that new editor.
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Posted Apr 2, 2019In reply to dekel1203:
You will have to install the (currently) 'beta' version 2.6.0 for this (and other) new features.
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Posted Apr 2, 2019In reply to blablubbabc:
Thats what I did. I installed 2.6.0 into my server, and I still get the old editor with 8 slots. Maybe its because the server is on 1.12.2?
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Posted Apr 2, 2019In reply to dekel1203:
v2.6.0 should not even be able to enable on 1.12.2. You might be running it alongside an older version of shopkeepers, which gets enabled instead. v2.6.0 only supports the latest builds of 1.13.2