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 14, 2014@deceptical
right
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Posted Jan 14, 2014it still recognise custom item names as diferent items? for ex a nnromal diamond will not be the same as a diamond named diamond2 right?
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Posted Jan 13, 2014@frol1
yes
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Posted Jan 13, 2014Does teh 1.7.4 version work with 1.7.2?
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Posted Jan 13, 2014@chrisbruijnes
Well, that's not a bug, that's minecraft.
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Posted Jan 13, 2014There is a bug that when you stand in the Shopkeeper you can't get hit :(
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Posted Jan 12, 2014@dotapurex1
Well, then please create a ticket with a step by step instrcution how I can reproduce this error on a fresh craftbukkit server, with as less other plugins as possible.
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Posted Jan 12, 2014@blablubbabc
I've tried with spigot / crarftbukkit, the error still persists.
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Posted Jan 11, 2014@dotapurex1
Please don't spam the comment section with your error. Upload it for example on pastebin and leave a link here, or better, create a ticket and attach it there.
Your error looks like a problem with spigot for me. Try again with craftbukkit, and if it work there try again with some different spigot builds..
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Posted Jan 10, 2014I would love to see additional shopkeeper types! (other mobs like animals?)
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Posted Jan 7, 2014@blablubbabc
Thanks, I looked but I must have missed it :(
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Posted Jan 7, 2014@diannetea
shopkeeper.maxshops. + number
Info on that can be found on the configuration page.
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Posted Jan 7, 2014What are the permissions for this?
max-shops-perm-options: 5,15,25
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Posted Jan 7, 2014@ZwingGX
Well.. seems like this is default minecraft behavior.. If you test this with similar naturally spawned villager, their trades act the same.. (additionally they don't even care in which order you put the items in there).
Shopkeepers (especially for adminshopkeepers) is basicly only modifiyng the villager's trades. They actual trades are still (mostly) handled by minecraft itself..
Though, I will create a ticket for it to keep this in mind and will see if this change (to additional compare the actual item amounts ourselves) would be beneficial / appreciated behavior.
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Posted Jan 7, 2014@blablubbabc
Trading Bug http://i.imgur.com/3AZxFDj.png
http://i.imgur.com/rkJRja6.png
Please fix it :(
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Posted Jan 5, 2014@BlackFing85
Is it broken for you in 1.7.2? Works fine here.
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Posted Jan 5, 2014@blablubbabc
Can you please update this to 1.7.2 bukkit?
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Posted Jan 5, 2014@blablubbabc
I'm glad you were able to diagnose/fix this. It was very weird being able to create a Creeper shop, but not interact with it.
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Posted Jan 4, 2014@der_Kernschatten
Are you talking about the 'enableCreeperShops' setting? You shouldn't be able to select the creeper shop type / create creeper shops, if this setting is disable in the first place..
But you are right: this setting has to be enabled in order for previously created creeper shops to react to interaction.
Edit: hm, I just checked and it seems that you can indeed create a creeper shop even though they are disable in the config.. I will have to check the code for this again I guess..
Edit2: okay, checked it: in the next version you will no longer be able to create creeper shops if they aren't enabled. This was already fixed but not yet included in the latest files..
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Posted Jan 4, 2014@Klausar
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@blablubbabc
I had the same problem after creating a Creeper with /shopkeeper creeper. I turned Debug on and nothing. The problem, and I'm not sure why blablubbabc didn't suggest this, is that even though we can create the Creeper shop, we can't interact with it because the new config defaults to false.
Set this to true in the config and it will work again. Good luck!