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 Mar 19, 2013Here's another, hopefully final, test version before I push the release. As before, it's a test build, please back up your save.yml file. This file is not approved by BukkitDev staff, use it at your own risk.
http://nisovin.com/shopkeepers/Shopkeepers-1.12-Test3.jar
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Posted Mar 18, 2013@nisovin
Edit : Ok, the anvil button do not work if you do not Close/Reopen the editor before , cause the anvil button do not save recipes
Keep that work ,
Best regard,
Xephi
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Posted Mar 18, 2013@DreamCastNetwork
I believe you can sell/buy custom items? And Enchanted books with the new TestBuild, atleast I can :P
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Posted Mar 18, 2013GREAT PLUGIN, YOU CAN EVEN SET A NAME ABOVE THE HEAD OF THE VILLAGER! Btw there are no bugs in 1.5 I guess. And PLEASE FIX THE ENCHANTED BOOKS, CUSTOM POTIONS! IF YOU FIX IT, I WILL DONATE A AMOUNT OF 10 DOLLARS!
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Posted Mar 18, 2013@nisovin
Thank you, I will report back if I find any errors.
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Posted Mar 17, 2013How do you get rid of their name in the test2 version?
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Posted Mar 17, 2013Good plugin. RP ++
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Posted Mar 17, 2013@nisovin
The test build seems to only be accepting the item with exactly the correct name and lore!!
I LOVE IT!! Thank you very much !! :DD
EDIT: However, you can't right and shiftclick to get the rewards/output faster. Like you can in a craftingtable and such :)
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Posted Mar 17, 2013And here is the next test version, much sooner than I had originally planned. This version should fully support item names and lore, and all items that have custom meta data attached (potions, fireworks, enchanted books, etc).
This build is a test version, and it has had very minimal testing. It has not been approved by BukkitDev staff. Use it at your own risk. I highly recommend you BACK UP your save.yml file in the Shopkeepers folder, as this version changes the way certain data is stored, and I could have easily made a mistake.
http://nisovin.com/shopkeepers/Shopkeepers-1.12-Test2.jar
I believe this version should bring Shopkeepers up-to-date with all the latest and greatest Minecraft features.
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Posted Mar 17, 2013Are you going to add support for Named/Lore Items? Because I'm making quests on my server, and would like to have a quest dropping an Apple with a specific lore on it. Then the players would have to turn that special apple into something of more value at a shopkeeper? But that would require that they would only be able to turn in the exact same apple as is put into the inventory of the ShopKeeper, and not just any apple?
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Posted Mar 17, 2013Solved the problem: Worldguard remove the mob-spawning flag
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Posted Mar 17, 2013@nisovin
ooooh, this is weird, at 1.4.7 villagers could spawn into safezone, and now in 1.5 they couldn't. Thats weird lol
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Posted Mar 17, 2013@nisovin
Nope
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Posted Mar 17, 2013@nisovin
Thank you so much for the update :) We understand that you're busy and we wish you the best in your endeavors
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Posted Mar 17, 2013@DreamCastNetwork
Do you have a plugin active that might be preventing your villagers from spawning?
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Posted Mar 17, 2013@nisovin
I get this error when I put my saves in. http://pastie.org/6585335
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Posted Mar 17, 2013Okay, I apologize for not being around much. I've been busy lately and haven't had as much time for Bukkit development. However, I've been working on a new version, so do not worry!
Here is the test version for the current development build of CraftBukkit for Minecraft 1.5. Please note that this is a TEST build, it has not been thoroughly tested, it has not been approved by BukkitDev staff, etc, etc. Use it at your own risk.
http://nisovin.com/shopkeepers/Shopkeepers-1.12-Test1.jar
Here is a brief overview of the changes:
My next project will be to work on support for all of the new items with meta data (potions, enchanted books, named items, etc).
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Posted Mar 17, 2013@Slay1
Of course, especially since it's got its bugs (it was an emergency patch done in about 45 minutes, lol).
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Posted Mar 17, 2013Please update, not working latest Spigot build.
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Posted Mar 17, 2013Hey I've been using Vitamin's version for a while, and i was just wondering if you were going to make an "official" 1.5 version? (@vitamin your version's great, but you can understand why i want a slightly more "legit" one)