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 3, 2013Hey, so this needs to go straight to development. Basically, The issue I've been searching this forum for, for the past several hours: where an attempt to trade an item with a shopkeeper fails to finish, is being caused by "shopkeeper owner" rights.
ISSUE: So let me explain the actual issue. If i set up a trade with a buying shopkeeper so that i hand him 1 gold, and he offers me 5 emeralds, I will then click on the emeralds to move them into my inventory. However, when i click the emeralds (aka the end product of the trade), instead of that item attaching to my cursor so i can move it into my inventory, it jumps back into the trade box like as if i never clicked it.
SETTING: I'm running CB 1.4.7.R1.0, with essentials(all plugins + groupmanager in use), and Vault. I removed all plugins except vault and shopkeeper. Even so, the trades still fail.
WHAT WORKS: In order to get the trades to work 100% of the time, I have to go in and change the shop owner inside the save.yml with notepad
SOLUTION: So what it looks like to me is that there seems to be a problem with ownership of shopkeepers. I want to thank you for reviewing this if you actually do. And i hope this helps you solve this issue once and for all, as it has gotten a lot of voice recently but no real answers.
FOR READERS: If anyone on the forums is also having this problem. I would suggest you have your owners go into the plugin files and make the alterations i outlined above. Once again, to fix this problem, go into the save.yml inside the Shopkeepers plugin and edit the owners of the shopkeepers who are having issues. Any name works for a new owner, even someone who doesnt exist.
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Posted Jan 31, 2013Is it possible to edit text for save and delete buttons ?
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Posted Jan 31, 2013@diannetea
If you are in creative mode when you use the villager egg it will spawn a normal NPC and not a shopkeeper. I am not sure if this is the indented functionality but personally I like it that way.
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Posted Jan 31, 2013I take taht back it was workign its not anymore for some reason :(
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Posted Jan 28, 2013I keep forgetting to post this. But the new update seems to have fixed my issue with trading not sticking. dont have as much time to play as i ust to but it sure will my users to get back into it.
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Posted Jan 28, 2013@diannetea
I'm not having this issue. Are you sure you have the item ID for villager creation and the option for create with eggs turned on/set correctly in the config file?
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Posted Jan 28, 2013Aaaand they're creating normal villagers if you do not click the chest directly to spawn on top of it with the egg
1.4.7 R0.2
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Posted Jan 28, 2013So if you have a player shopkeeper, for some reason clicking chests with emeralds now gives the message "You must select a chest you have recently placed"
I have emeralds set to my high-value currency item if that has to do with it as well.
A little annoying is all :)
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Posted Jan 28, 2013Well I would consider this a bug, if you have quite a few Shopkeepers close to each other they can breed and make regular villagers which stand around and get in the way.
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Posted Jan 27, 2013@WickedDoodleNo1
I agree with this. Even enchanted books that have been renamed show as only "Enchanted Book". This is making it impossible for my users to sell these books to each other or for any of the administrative shops to sell them. It's really quite frustrating =(
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Posted Jan 27, 2013Can you please disable shift-clicking in the trades, you can dupe items if you use custom names, plus can you add support for enchanted books and custom potion data and fireworks.
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Posted Jan 27, 2013Love the plugin but I have one request: Can you please make the villagers support custom potion data because I'm trying to make them sell custom potions but whenever the server reloads it wipes the potions and resets them to what they used to be. Thanks
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Posted Jan 27, 2013I like this plugins! but I find one bug,If you set 64 and 32 [A] items to change 1 [B] item,then you put 32[A] on 64 [A] items place , and put 64 [A] items on 32 [A] items place, then you can get 1 [B] item and 32 [A] items. hope can fix this bug like this:

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Posted Jan 26, 2013Make compatibility for trade custom heads please

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Posted Jan 26, 2013Is there any way to configure the Admin shops so a player can only use the trade X times per day? I have a few shops that will allow people to make some Emeralds but I am worried about farming and inflation.
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Posted Jan 25, 2013Is it possible to add support to citizens ? So those shopkeepers can talk like real! :)
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Posted Jan 23, 2013What does the statement lore works on admin shops mean? How can I add a lore to an admin shop?
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Posted Jan 20, 2013Thank you for the update please keep it up!
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Posted Jan 20, 2013How do you Make it so only ops can make the shops
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Posted Jan 20, 2013@nisovin Thanks very much !