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 2, 2021In reply to petyxbron:
Players can creating selling, buying, trading, and book shops. The selling, buying, and book shop use the currency item specified inside the config (emerald by default). You can change it to whatever you like.
Alternatively, players can also create 'trading' shops and then setup trades for arbitrary items. See the wiki on how these shops are setup: https://github.com/Shopkeepers/Shopkeepers-Wiki/wiki/Player-Shop-Setup
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Posted Sep 2, 2021In reply to blablubb:
Sorry, I didn't read the wiki properly. I will test it out, I was in a little rage. Sorry for that. I'm interested in your plugin so much and this just confused me. Hope I will fell love with this plugin. Let's try it again
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Posted Aug 28, 2021Can i somehow spawn a Shopkeeper at a specific <X> <Y> <Z> ? I tried to find for a whay but most of the links are just introduce of this plugin without any further answers
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Posted Aug 28, 2021In reply to rauden6969:
Nope, you cannot currently. Some types of shopkeepers additionally take into account both the direction towards the player creating the shopkeeper, and the block face that is clicked / targeted. Clicking or looking at a block is therefore the most convenient way to specify all of those things for players in-game.
If you want to automate the creation of shopkeepers of specific type, you can create shopkeepers at specific locations via the API by also providing the location's yaw and block face there. But there is no command interface for this yet.
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Posted Aug 24, 2021Just made a bukkit account to say that this plugin is AMAZING love it me and my friends just it all the time :)
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Posted Aug 24, 2021In reply to khipare:
That's nice to hear :)
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Posted Aug 20, 2021Hi im super new to this so im sorry if this sounds stupid
I have the plugin installed and its working very well
i just wanted to know how to allow non op-ed players can use the /shopkeeper give commands
Or do the op-s have to give people the shop egg everytime
Thank you for your help
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Posted Aug 21, 2021In reply to Pracind:
The "/shopkeeper give" command is not mean to be used by normal players. It is a utility command meant for admins, similar to Minecraft's own give command. It is up to you to setup some mechanism for your players to get access to the shop creation item. The recommended and easiest way is to create an admin shopkeeper, for example near your spawn region, that sells the shop creation item to your players for some resource that your players can obtain (such as for example emeralds or diamonds).
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Posted Aug 18, 2021Looks like the old issue with mythicmobs items, where the items in shops would switch their internals after certain events such as server restarts is back on 1.17+
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Posted Aug 18, 2021In reply to MithrandirMage:
I don't think this was ever gone, at least not on Paper servers.
See https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper/issues/4888
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Posted Aug 11, 2021hello, is there any way that when you trade with the villagers you get xp? like a normal villager
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Posted Aug 11, 2021In reply to bobpie12:
Nope
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Posted Jul 23, 2021Can this realize the functions of "transmitting", "information" and "giving goods"?
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Posted Jul 23, 2021In reply to x1759603258:
I don't know what you mean by that. You can setup predefined trades: 1 or 2 stacks of items provided by a player are exchanged for 1 item stack given to the player. Nothing more.
You can not setup trades that don't require at least one input item.
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Posted Jul 19, 2021Is there a way to teleport the shopkeeper with commands/command block or is it not possible yet?
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Posted Jul 19, 2021In reply to seser16:
Not possible yet.
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Posted Jul 8, 2021v2.13.3 for MC 1.17.1, 1.17, 1.16.5, 1.15.2, 1.14.4
Be sure to read the changelog of v2.13.0 first: https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/shopkeepers/files/3358020/
Known potential issues: See here.
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Posted Jul 7, 2021How do I enable a shopkeeper? I've tried and I've looked here but I can't find out how
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Posted Jul 7, 2021In reply to sorrynobodyishome:
What do you mean with 'enable'`? If the plugin was installed and was able to enable, you can create shopkeepers as described in the wiki: https://github.com/Shopkeepers/Shopkeepers-Wiki/wiki/Creating-Shops#shop-creation
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Posted Jul 8, 2021In reply to blablubb:
I tried to have a shulker as a shopkeeper and it said they weren't enabled, so how would I fix that? Thanks:)