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 Apr 19, 2013thanks for the update :3
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Posted Apr 19, 2013I have enable-spawn-verifier set to true, but they still do that spawn.
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Posted Apr 19, 2013I have the Shopkeeper but every time i tried to spawn one It won't say any thing and it won't spawn any shopkeeper or villager help
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Posted Apr 18, 2013How can i fix the "Failed to spawn shopkeeper at..." I don't have plugin that block villager-spawn , please help me :(
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Posted Apr 17, 2013This error has started spamming several times every second. Started sometime last night
Shopkeepers 1.13 and Bukkit version #2735 1.5.1-R0.1 Beta Build
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Posted Apr 17, 2013@PhanaticD
I am not blocking villagers from spawning. That has not changed. Or rather, it's a config option which has been there (and hasn't changed) since version 1.6.
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Posted Apr 17, 2013is there any way you can go back to the old method of just not allowing trading with vanilla shopkeepers instead of blocking them from spawning completely
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Posted Apr 16, 2013@John__B
CraftBukkit version?
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Posted Apr 16, 2013I updated craftbukkit and the plugin works for now. But i still have one problem: The adminshopkeepers are not shown when i join my server: i have to /reload to make them appears. Any fix?
(also tested with "enable-spawn-verifier" set to true but still have the problem.)
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Posted Apr 15, 20132013-04-16 00:37:42 [INFO] [Shopkeepers] Enabling Shopkeepers v1.13
2013-04-16 00:37:42 [SEVERE] [Shopkeepers] Plugin Shopkeepers v1.13 has failed to register events for class com.nisovin.shopkeepers.ChestProtectListener because org/bukkit/event/inventory/InventoryMoveItemEvent does not exist.
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Posted Apr 15, 2013@Cilrael
The plugin is not broken (it works fine for me and many others). It's hard to say exactly what your problem could be though. Are you using the default config, and just using a regular villager egg? Do you have an unusual permissions setup? Do you have any plugins that may be interfering? Every server is different, so it's hard to debug these kinds of things. You'll probably just have to mess around with it until you figure out what is wrong. Have you tried turning on debug mode?
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Posted Apr 15, 2013Your plugin could be the better i've ever seen... But we got a big problem:
No problems about creating admin shop, it's really simple and well made. But when a plyer wanna create his own shop, it's just not working.
When he put a chest then sneak and right click to it (just right cliccking opens the chest), it don't say "chest selected" or anything like this. It simply spawns a villager... If i try to change the shop creater item, the plugin doesn't work anymore. We found no way to create a shop while not being op and using the command.
Did we do anything wrong, or is the plugin broken ?
PS: i have WorldEdit, WorldGuard,Wolrdborder, terrainControl as main plugins (other are portecoulissante, retractable bridges, echopet and smoketrail. The console doesn't show any error.
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Posted Apr 11, 2013are you sure its set to only delete villagers that the owner has not been on for 30 days? it seems like all villagers that are more than a month old got deleted on my server..
player-shopkeeper-inactive-days: 30
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Posted Apr 10, 2013I have a Question.... How can i make that if a item cost is renamed like ice block is named Ice, that you cant use a normal IceBlock for trade, just a renamed Block? Or is this a Admin bypasser, and normal users can just used the renamed block? Because i'm able to trade a iceblock instead of a renamend one! Edit: Okay, thanks i got it <3 Love this Plugin so much!
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Posted Apr 9, 2013On the 1.4.7 version, deleting the shopkeeper while having a full stuff make the npc disapear without giving the egg back
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Posted Apr 9, 2013im the first downloader of the v1.13 :)
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Posted Apr 8, 2013From a memory standpoint, do certain shopkeepers get unloaded if the chunk is unloaded to save RAM, or are they always on regardless of what is happening?
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Posted Apr 8, 2013My all NPC change items for trade ! and shift + click doesnt work ;( please fix it
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Posted Apr 7, 2013Please ! SHIFT + CLICK doesn't work !
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Posted Apr 7, 2013Not working with latest Spigot.