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 Nov 28, 2013Anyone Interested in getting a version that runs on 1.6.4 and has itemMeta support(like for EpicBoss, written books, LegendaryItems, DiabloDrops, MythicDrops, etc) pm me. We're not allowed to post links on the comments page for external files. Source here :
https://github.com/DrkMatr1984/Shopkeepers-DrkMatr
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Posted Nov 26, 2013@Jocke166
same problem here...
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Posted Nov 24, 2013@Jocke166
Are you in a worldguard region that blocks mob-spawning? And where are you looking at when excuting the command? The shopkeeper is made at where you looking at. So I suggest looking down when excuting the command :)
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Posted Nov 24, 2013Wait wut :o when i use /shopkeeper the villager doesn't appear :/ it has worked well before.
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Posted Nov 24, 2013I use the version CubeNation posted a while ago in comments on page 3. But a mod removed the link. Send him a pm to ask for it. But it still has bugs though, villagers can still duplicate
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Posted Nov 23, 2013@CollinDesigns
what version of shopkeeper are you using?
I'm having same problem as rotebay and risen32.
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Posted Nov 23, 2013@risen32
It doesn't for me. For me they consider the lores and custom names and won't allow normal items. Can you tell me or show me what you doing?
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Posted Nov 22, 2013I have the same problem as risen32. Is new dev already dealing with this plugin? It has great potential.
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Posted Nov 20, 2013Can you make it so that shopkeepers recognize lore, I'm trying to use special items that have custom names, lore, etc- but the shopkeepers allow the normal item to be traded as well?
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Posted Nov 20, 2013I'm Trying to run this on a FTB server using the 1.5.2 versions i am unable to click on a shopkeeper to open the interface But when shift clicking it allows me to edit trades Any idea what wrong any help would be great
Edit: I know its a mod pack and unsupported but will make me really happy if you could help :)
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Posted Nov 19, 2013@nisovin
Can you please make a up to date plugin for 1.6.4 or 1.7.2 that is compatible with 1.6.4 ? Since current version has bugs in 1.6.4, villagers randomly dissapear until i do /reload even with: enable-spawn-verifier turned to true inside my config Shopkeeper don't support color codes anymore. By default the have lime green color name (&a) but after a restart their name is white again.
So please fix these bugs :( Also if possible add option to make the villager a permanent baby villager? So I can name it hobbit, or a kid name ,etc.
If you can manage this that would be epic!
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Posted Nov 18, 2013If anyone is interested in maintaining this project, please send me a PM. I will probably do some work on it once 1.7.2 comes out, but I just don't have a lot of time to mess with this plugin. I'd prefer to find someone who can do some proper work on it.
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Posted Nov 18, 2013@DrkMatr1984
Sorry, it's against the BukkitDev rules to post plugin links that aren't hosted on BukkitDev.
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Posted Nov 18, 2013@jure56
Not the way the Plugin is currently programmed. That might be an option the Developer writes in the future.
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Posted Nov 18, 2013@Rotebay
Inbox me about your PhatLoots/Shopkeepers problem.
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Posted Nov 17, 2013Even with enable-spawn-verifier turned to true inside my config my shopkeepers randomly dissapear from the world until i reboot....
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Posted Nov 17, 2013Since there is no database or flatfile i think it's impossible.
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Posted Nov 16, 2013Can villager store the items he gets?Like if he gets payed 1-gold for 5-iron right? Can he store the gold so i can go pick it up later?
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Posted Nov 16, 2013Can you make Villager store the stuff that he gets? Like if someone pays 1 gold for 5 iron....can you make villager store the gold so i can get it?
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Posted Nov 14, 2013@rodeyseijkens @levisn1
JAR is in the target dir of the workspace.
@CubeNation
Thx for the fork!