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 Jan 19, 2013@nisovin
Thanks nisovin!
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Posted Jan 19, 2013Version for 1.4.7:
http://dev.bukkit.org/media/files/666/277/Shopkeepers.jar
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Posted Jan 19, 2013Please!!! Update this to 1.4.7 i really need it for my RPG server
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Posted Jan 19, 2013Update <3
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Posted Jan 19, 2013Update would be very appreciated <3
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Posted Jan 19, 2013I've updated this plugin to 1.4.7 (Disabled world edit and towny support).
Please remember to update to the official version of this plugin when it will be available.
PS : I thought I could share the updated version cause some people don't know how to code and so they can't update their server! I hope it helps
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Posted Jan 19, 2013Pls update as soon as possible, really need this!
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Posted Jan 19, 2013update to 1.4.7 please
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Posted Jan 19, 2013Same here, Update would be nice.
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Posted Jan 19, 2013on 1.4.7
no other code output.
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Posted Jan 19, 2013Shopkeepers broken :/ update to 1.4.7 please ?
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Posted Jan 18, 2013Needs to be updated to 1.4.7 if you could do this it would be awesome
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Posted Jan 18, 2013Hi, is there anyway to block certain groups from being able to use this plugin, COMPLETELY? I have given the groups I don't want using it -shopkeeper.player permission, but they can still use it, just not edit the shopkeeper o.e. People use this to troll, becouse it locks the chests for another person that might want to use the storage area in my server. @iAdam Sorry if this sounds stupid, but did you remove the fire from the villager? (after right-clicking the villager while sneaking)
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Posted Jan 18, 2013we currently can't set prices for certain items on shopkeepers, such as: swords, bows, boots and picks.
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Posted Jan 17, 2013I can't seem to find a way to remove ShopKeepers. I have to reset the files when ever I mess up :/
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Posted Jan 17, 2013Seems like Bukkit's new safeguarding in the 1.4.7 beta release has broken Shopkeepers. :(
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Posted Jan 15, 2013I trying to setup that players can only create shops in one specific world but not the others, while preserving the admins shops in other worlds, anyone have any idea how to set this up? I've got worldguard and permissionex but I've tried using /pex group player add shopkeepers.player market and seems like they can still create shops in any world. Thanks ahead =)
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Posted Jan 14, 2013Does this use NMS or CB code? That would explain the annoying errors on incorrect versions.
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Posted Jan 13, 2013Please add a tutorial or something alike with the command "/shopkeeper help", so that I wont have to explain every time when someone wants to set up a shop, please :)
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Posted Jan 11, 2013Is there a way to remove the cost configuration from this plugin?