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 18, 2014@adw123
Yes, I use it for just that all the time.
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Posted Mar 17, 2014Does this mod support setting up shops that sell items with metadata? I've been looking for a mod that will allow me to sell customized items with Lore and Option values in them but most only support standard Minecraft ID's.
Thanks.
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Posted Mar 15, 2014will it ever be possible to have more than 8 items in the shop at once?
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Posted Mar 14, 2014@altair123ezio
By turning the sound value down or using a ressource pack to deactivate them (?) All villager sounds are caused by minecraft directly, and not by this plugin.
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Posted Mar 14, 2014How can i disable villager sounds??????
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Posted Mar 11, 2014Easily customisable villager shops - perfect, thank you. :)
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Posted Mar 5, 2014I've looked everywhere, but I can't figure out how to make a sign shopkeeper or what that even is.
HELP?
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Posted Mar 1, 2014@blablubbabc
Now it works, i change the name of the item in the envil. Thanks for the help
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Posted Feb 28, 2014@MinecraftGamerYTP
This happens, if the trade got cancelled, for example if the money item doesn't match the needed item.
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Posted Feb 28, 2014It keeps disappearing after i buy the item and the money doesn't disappear to i just get it back
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Posted Feb 23, 2014@OutCraft
Well, you have to select the trading shop type (if you didn't setup the economy item to be iron):
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Posted Feb 23, 2014making a player shop is the most annoying thing ever annoying, stressing,upsetting I wanted to make a 32 bread for 1 iron for a user but i cant, theres some stupid slimeballs
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Posted Feb 21, 2014@AnThraxan
No, most certainly not.
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Posted Feb 21, 2014May I ask is this an intensive plugin? Would it take a lot of memory to use?
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Posted Feb 21, 2014Please recheck this Ticket: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/shopkeepers/tickets/204-sign-shopkeepers-are-broken/#comments
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Posted Feb 20, 2014@blablubbabc
I've not modified it before I checked into it yesterday, I set everything back to the symbols they should be. It was in utf-8 without BOM.
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Posted Feb 19, 2014@adam_is_awesome
Well '?' is something else than '&': Check that your save file is encoded in utf-8, I assume it is not (therefore the § characters are lost). Did you maybe manually edit the file in your editor or did you change the file encoding setting in the config? An editor like NotepapPlusPlus let's you easily check (and modify) the files encoding.
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Posted Feb 19, 2014@blablubbabc
The save file shows them all as "?" marks. Which is what it translates into game as well.
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Posted Feb 19, 2014@adam_is_awesome
The shopkeeper items did change?
I will take a look at it, but it would be good if you can see if there is something which triggers this 100% accurately, and if you can identify some concrete other plugin which seems to be related to this behavior. Because if this isn't happening on each reload/restart, but only under certain, yet unknown conditions it gets difficulty to find the issue.. Also check your save file that it is saving the colorcodes correctly (it should save them as '§').
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Posted Feb 19, 2014@blablubbabc
Alright, so I've tried to recreate this on a 0 plugins server, and it worked fine. I deleted the plugin/server, and then recreated all the same environments on my server, deleted all previous data and uploaded a new Shopkeepers.jar, it all seemed to work for a while, but now all of the items have been changed and color codes aren't working. It'll read "&3Item Name Here" with lore "&7(Purple Text)Test Test Test". Any ideas?