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 Jun 26, 2020In reply to FTChristmas:
It's not that easily possible to change the max stack size of items. There is some other plugin trying to attempt something like this, but as far as I am aware it is plagued by issues..
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Posted Jun 27, 2020In reply to FTChristmas:
This is NOT possible. the max amount if 64 because what u see it a item stack,
If you higher the amount to over 64 then this can create problems with the whole server.
Like blablablubb already noted highering the stacksize to over 64 just creates many issues on other more important site
Its not important to have 100
Create a Shop where u can exchance 64+36 of the older value for one of our value
this is a clear solution
out have irons nuggst and gold nuggest..
one gold nuggest worth 100 silver nuggest..
now simply creat a seller that gives you 1 gold gold nuggest for 64 + 34 silver nuggest. and its done?
So what you doing now to get 100 silver nuggests aggain?
well money has taxes and fees and also is getting more worthless if you trade it from side to side each time. so make clear your place should not trade back to silver nuggest or just with a lost of 34% in exchange..
Also in real life noone wants 100 pennies for his dollors but if you collectec 100 pennies u exchange them for a dollor... u know what i mean?
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Posted Jun 26, 2020v2.10.0 for MC 1.16.1, 1.15.2, 1.14.4
Update for MC 1.16.1:
Other migration notes:
Other changes:
Internal changes:
Added messages:
Changed messages (you will have to manually update those!):
Known potential issues: See here.
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Thanks!
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Posted Jun 26, 2020Hi, when will be 1.16 support on? There's error with zombie pigman.
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Posted Jun 26, 2020In reply to mcreunioneu:
v2.10.0 should be available any moment now and provide support for MC 1.16.1
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Posted Jun 26, 2020Plugin is fantastic in my opinion, but I would like that Shopkeepers could interact with economy (Vault). Could you add in future versions please?
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Posted Jun 26, 2020In reply to Forge_User_35611682:
There is already a related feature request ticket for this over at Github. Maybe you can elaborate there how you would expect a feature like this to work in detail.
However, Shopkeepers is an item-based trading plugin and there are no plans to change that. If you don't want that you will have to use one of the plenty other available shop plugins that support interfacing with the Vault economy directly.
One idea for partial Vault support could be to provide some type of item that players can easily exchange for vault money. And these items could maybe get instantly converted to vault money whenever they are used in Shopkeeper trades (eg. player buys this special 'cheque' item, and when picking up the item it either instantly disapears and the player received the value in balance. Or the player is able to manually redeem this item in some way afterwards.
However, I think there are already plugins which provide variations of this. You could check out Gringotts and MoneyNote as two well known examples.
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Posted Jun 13, 2020Plugin is great. Thanks for your good work! ;)
Small request. Is it possible to get shopkeepers to store custom NBT in future versions? I have a villager wearing a custom player head but it keeps clearing whenever the villager updates. It'd also be nice so CustomNameVisible:1 would always keep the nametags visible. Workaround is to update it every so often, but would be easier if the shopkeeper had the ability to store some nbt (I know it's annoying with spigot but a thing to think about in future).
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Posted Jun 14, 2020In reply to StrangeOne101_:
Consider posting suggestions over at github so that they don't get lost. Also try to clarify how you would expect this to work and be setup (config, in-game, etc.).
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Posted Jun 12, 2020Hi can you fix this.
My mob drop vanilla custom item with § color codes.
I put it in shopkeeper gui, it works. But when i restart server and reload. It doesn't.
It looks like the plugin stores item color codes in &.
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Posted Jun 12, 2020In reply to JunSteed:
How do you specify these item drops? If you are using minecraft's snbt item data format with text components with formatting sections ("color: ..", "bold: ..", etc.), then this is caused by Spigot not properly serializing/deserializing these items inside Shopkeepers save.yml file. See https://github.com/Shopkeepers/Shopkeepers/issues/578
The workaround is then to either use a plugin to create those items (preferred) or use legacy color codes as shown here: https://github.com/Shopkeepers/Shopkeepers/issues/578#issuecomment-528980231
If this is not the case, and your items names or lore start with black or purple color codes, then this is also caused by an issue of Spigot treating these colors as defaults and therefore omitting them. Updating to the latest version of Spigot might help (there has been a recent commit which is supposed to fix this).
If neither of these apply, then I need to know how you exactly create/specify these item drops. I need step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce this issue on my test server so that I can further investigate.
The plugin (actually Spigot to be precise, because the Shopkeepers plugin uses a piece of Spigot API to store and load the items inside the save.yml file) storing the color codes with '&' instead of '§' is normal and intended. The color codes get converted back to § again when these items are loaded from the save.yml file.
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Posted Jun 11, 2020how do I make the shopkeeper turn around?
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Posted Jun 11, 2020In reply to lucymackin:
I'm using 1.15.2 and I have the latest version installed
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Posted Jun 11, 2020In reply to lucymackin:
They should automatically turn towards nearby players. Make sure that you are using the latest version of Spigot and are not invisible or similar.
If nothing helps, try to reproduce your issue on a fresh server with default configs.
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Posted Jun 12, 2020In reply to blablubb:
https://imgur.com/a/TQdW8Xb
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Posted Jul 7, 2020In reply to lucymackin:
did you ever figure out how? I'm having the same problem
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Posted Jul 8, 2020In reply to christianmaskevich:
Make sure that you are using both the latest versions of Spigot and the latest version of Shopkeeper
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Posted Jun 7, 2020would it be possible to add the option of selecting a chest, where the emerald obtained from the sale would be?
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Posted Jun 7, 2020In reply to winchester_hots:
You select the chest on shop creation. There are plans to allow selecting additional chests afterwards, in order to connect more than one chest to the shop. This probably require a way to unlink a chest again, so this may cover your usecase as well then. But there is no ETA on that yet
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Posted Jun 1, 2020How to block players from creating shop and allowing them to use villager spawn egg?