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 Feb 23, 2013@mclightcraftproduction
It supports written books, it has almost from the beginning. As for enchanted books, I don't really know.
Custom potions, though, I really would love support for that, too.
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Posted Feb 22, 2013Does this plugin ever going to upport written books, enchanted books, and custom potions? I am waiting really long for this, and I am not receiving replies. so tell me?
Thanks.
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Posted Feb 21, 2013This plugin wont enable on BukkitForge, here's my log:
Is there a way to force load the plugin?
EDIT: Also with the latest version (1.11) will this error appear.
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Posted Feb 19, 2013I have a question about the permissions as set by only one of the rank Administartor (not op) can create shops?
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Posted Feb 18, 2013Got an error :( Normal?
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Posted Feb 16, 2013@draccydragon
STFU
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Posted Feb 14, 2013ATTNETION DUMB PEOPLE: Please read the documentation before asking questions about what the plugin does or does not do! It's' all clearly explained in the plugin description and wiki! There are videos demonstrating how it works! Why are you all asking these obvious things?!
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Posted Feb 14, 2013can you please make it so that you can change the npc type instead of just the normal npc
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Posted Feb 13, 2013May I PLEASE suggest a feature? Can you make this work with npcs, like trading with npcs?
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Posted Feb 12, 2013Any chance you could update for a later version? I'm running MCPC+ and the earliest version it supports is R0.2
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Posted Feb 12, 2013Do you think you could make shopkeepers work with custom potion effects?
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Posted Feb 12, 2013@NeverSeenBefore
i'm not using MCPC
i'm using BukkitForge http://build.technicpack.net:8080/job/BukkitForge/?
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Posted Feb 12, 2013@CoffeeNutz
It works perfectly with MCPC. Do not care of the errors in the log.
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Posted Feb 11, 2013Are you going to be supporting enchanted books eventually?
Thanks, Virek
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Posted Feb 11, 2013i love and miss this plugin but it doesnt work for bukkitforge and i really really really would love to have this again on my voltz and tekkit servers.
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Posted Feb 10, 2013If a player opens up a shop, does he get that let's say the trade was a gold ingot for a bow if the other player trades that, does the owner of the shop get that gold ingot?
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Posted Feb 10, 2013@Vitaminous
every other plugin that has something to do with items chat or something else can handle the color codes so it's the fault off shopkeepers
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Posted Feb 9, 2013@Vitaminous
No need to be a sarcastic asshole. I was trying to help you out :/
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Posted Feb 9, 2013I'm having someone look into potential plugin conflicts along with your source code, but so far, I haven't done anything wrong except tell you GM/Essentials was to blame, as it works fine on a test server running exclusively the Essentials set.
However, we can't sell shit with the bookseller.
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Posted Feb 9, 2013I'm having issues with Player Villagers, specifically the book seller. I have no idea what color the villager has to be or if the chest is set up wrong and I can't seem to find any documentation.