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 Feb 13, 2021In reply to tiejay:
1.) I can spawn shopkeepers just fine in the nether and the end. Maybe some other plugin is blocking the spawning. If you turn on debug mode in the config, it should log to your console when it tries to spawn the shopkeeper but some other plugin prevents it.
2.) Only other admins are able to edit your shop by default. So make sure that you didn't mess up your permissions setup (i.e. gave them the 'shopkeeper.bypass' permission), and that these players are not ops.
3.) See the wiki on how to create player shops: https://github.com/Shopkeepers/Shopkeepers-Wiki/wiki/Creating-Shops#player-shops
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Posted Feb 13, 2021In reply to blablubb:
Thx 😁
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Posted Feb 10, 2021I've recently a problem. The gui of the shopkeeper doesn't open. Help pls
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Posted Feb 10, 2021In reply to gamerxmatti:
Which GUI? The trading GUI or the editor GUI? Could be a plugin conflict (eg. if some other plugin blocks or prevents it). Turn on debug mode and check the output in the server log when you attempt to open the shopkeeper.
If you are using GriefPrevention, also restart the server and check if it works then.
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Posted Jan 28, 2021Sürüm kaç ???
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Posted Jan 28, 2021In reply to selami1881:
https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/shopkeepers/files
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Posted Jan 25, 2021Is there a way to enable AI for my shopkeepers?
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Posted Jan 25, 2021In reply to shaylavi15:
Nope, not directly. There is support for Citizens shopkeepers. Citizens allows you to configure the NPCs with additional behavior. See https://github.com/Shopkeepers/Shopkeepers-Wiki/wiki/Citizens-Shopkeepers
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Posted Jan 21, 2021This might be weird, but does this plugin give you the ability to disable certain enchants from vanilla villagers? For example, in the server I'm making I'm trying to disable all ability to get diamond gear, and that means I'd have to disable the Weaponsmith's Diamond sword and axe, the Toolsmith's diamond hoe, axe, shovel and pickaxe, and the Armorer's enchanted diamond armor trades.
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Posted Jan 21, 2021In reply to TaterTot_GG:
Nope. You cannot reconfigure the vanilla Minecraft trades with this plugin.
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Posted Jan 21, 2021In reply to blablubb:
dang, thank you anyway!
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Posted Jan 14, 2021How can i do that villager wont move?
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Posted Jan 14, 2021In reply to N3ssek_:
They should not move by default (they are given the NoAI tag). WHich Minecraft and plugin versions are you using?
Also, make sure that you have actually created a shopkeeper and not a regular villager. If you are using the villager egg to create a shopkeeper, not that this will create re regular villager if you are in creative mode, or if the villager egg does not have the correct name (i.e. create the egg via '/shopkeeper give' instead).
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Posted Jan 13, 2021Hi, on my 1.16.4 server all the shopkeepers are facing south, is there a simple fix for this?
Thanks
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Posted Jan 13, 2021In reply to bindo1298:
Yeah, update the plugin.
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Posted Jan 13, 2021In reply to blablubb:
Awsome thank you, just to check that that wont affect any existing shopkeepers?
(4 mins to respond.. damnnn)
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Posted Jan 13, 2021In reply to bindo1298:
Depends on how old your current version is. If there are too many versions in between, you might have to first update to the intermediate versions.
And as always make backups of your plugin data, just in case something unexpected goes wrong.
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Posted Jan 5, 2021Found a annoying bug I hope it's something I can fix... Custom enchanted items doesn't work when the server restarts. Ex. I have enchanted bread that a player can trade for coins but when the server restarts the bread doesn't work. Tried to remove the enchant and only have lore on the item and that also didn't work after I restarted the server. Any help?
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Posted Jan 5, 2021In reply to sillfisk:
If by "custom enchantments" you mean non-vanilla enchantments: Those are not supported by Spigot and therefore problematic. The server does not know about them until after the plugin that adds them has been loaded. So when some plugin (such as Shopkeepers) loads an item, the server also has to load these enchantments, which fails if it doesn't not know about them yet. Since plugin load order is random, and you can also manually reload plugins, these enchantments may get lost after server starts or plugin reloads.
Regarding items with custom lore: In the past it depended on how you create the item, whether or not it will work after reloads. The issue was that Spigot expected the text data of items to be in a very specific format (which it often is not if you manually create these items, or if some plugin manually sets the text data instead of using Spigot's API to do that). However, this has been resolved a few days ago. So if you are having issues with items with custom display name or lore, make sure that you are using the very latest version of Spigot and then freshly setup your trades that involve these items.
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Posted Jan 5, 2021In reply to blablubb:
That explains it... Im not really in to spigot so I don't really know how its made but that explains alot. I will try to update my PaperMC and see if it works and if it doesn't I at least know that it's not the plugins fault. Thx for the help!