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 Nov 12, 2012@BoomerBR
How do you even respawn lost villagers? A bunch of mine dissapeared, and that would be super handy to use.
Information on commands seems to be a bit lacking, unless im just blind.
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Posted Nov 12, 2012Great Plugin! Its quickly changing how the economy works on our server. I have a couple suggestions. :D
Bugs CB 1.4.2 R0.2, SK 1.9-test:
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Posted Nov 12, 2012@aledrobt
I also would very much like this feature, the ability for players to create admin style trade item for item shops instead of for emeralds :)
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Posted Nov 12, 2012Respawn of lost shopkeepers are too slow in the latest test version.
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Posted Nov 11, 2012@HTksos
That restriction only applies to player shops, not admin shops.
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Posted Nov 11, 2012I can understand players not buying from their own shops, but we should be able to make an exception to this rule for admins buying from admin shops?
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Posted Nov 11, 2012When I right click nothing happens.... I didn't change config in anyway
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Posted Nov 11, 2012@draccydragon
Just take away permissions on that world.
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Posted Nov 11, 2012I have multiple worlds, including one that is 'vanilla' style gameplay with mods disabled. I have no way to enable normal villager trading in these worlds since your plugin currently is globally-effective. Is there a way to add multi-world support?
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Posted Nov 11, 2012Can you add the feature of the Admin Shops (X material for X material) for the normal shops of the users?
thanks
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Posted Nov 9, 2012@nisovin
Actually lets you buy it
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Posted Nov 9, 2012@Faldonboy
Does it actually let you purchase the item incorrectly, or does it just show up but then not work?
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Posted Nov 9, 2012Having a bit of a problem, We have a shop that uses ID 383 and 383:3-6(blank spawn eggs) as currency. Just made it last night and I thought it was working fine until one of our admins discovered that it isn't obeying the data values. Any of the eggs regardless of their DV can be used to purchase anything yet If I take one of the eggs to another shop that uses them they work fine.
Any ideas why this would happen? Using 1.9 test version
EDIT: Found the issue but I'm not sure how to explain it. Basically it was because I had multiple currencies in one shop that were all the same item just with different data values, once I separated each item into its own shop it worked fine and they stopped accepting spawn eggs that they shouldn't have. This requires having a lot of extra npcs though. If you could fix this itd be great.
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Posted Nov 8, 2012Is there a way to make each player able to purchase the item just once? After they have bought the item they cannot buy it again.
Is this possible?
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Posted Nov 7, 2012Please fix this! Error This plugin is so crucial to our server right now and this keeps causing all of the shops to despawn if they have items with an nbt tag.
EDIT: Lawl..I didn't realize I was on 1.8 still, 1.9 works fine :P
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Posted Nov 7, 2012Could anyone please give a manual on how to set up a sign based shop?
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Posted Nov 7, 2012players on my server crash when they have zombe installed and try to use villagers
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Posted Nov 6, 2012Hi! I really like this plugin but i have found a very annoying bug for 1.4. When i will give the shopkeeper item with NBT tag "lore" he will be fine, but after server restart your plugin shopkeepers will be broken. To repair this issue i need to go to save.yml and delete the "lore" tag.(funny fact: after next server restart item will still have lore, but problem will appear again) I hope you will check it and eventually fix.
Sorry for bad english
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Posted Nov 5, 2012Please add in the logging option with the csv file, that it show if u vend something, what it is, cause in the csv file there is only "EMERALD".
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Posted Nov 4, 2012@calldeath1
It's the zombe which throws the error in ZER.b (which is a zombe file). Some of our users had the same *g*