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 1, 2017The plugin nor the vanilla villagers should have any problem with those items. From past experience my guess is that some plugin on your server is modifying the items at some point, without you or the players noticing it. This could be small changes like adding some custom internal data to the item which players cannot see. Or the plugin is actively disguising the changes to the items from the players by modifying the outgoing item data (dtltraders did that in the past).
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Posted Dec 21, 2016Oh wise Nisovin, you did so much, why not add an api???
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Posted Dec 21, 2016You can find the source code on github. It's not officially supported (don't report issues if you have a plugin doing this), but a bunch of methods are public, so you can access them from other plugins.
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Posted Dec 22, 2016I meant an api, like you know, a simple api
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Posted Dec 22, 2016I am not sure what exactly you are looking for, but there is for example this as starting point: https://github.com/nisovin/Shopkeepers/blob/master/src/main/java/com/nisovin/shopkeepers/ShopkeepersAPI.java
An many of the public methods have javadoc comments as well.
Though, like I already said, not yet supported. But you can already experiment around with it and create pull requests if something you need is missing.
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Posted Dec 9, 2016well you just made my life 1000X easier
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Posted Dec 5, 2016@blablubbabc
Thank you ! I searched for documents about the regex with Chinese and I solved the problem with regex [\u4e00-\u9fa5A-Za-z0-9 ]{3,25} . I have tested and that works.
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Posted Dec 4, 2016@blablubbabc I created the ticket and i provided the log. I also tried updating everything but issues seems to remain the same.
https://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/shopkeepers/tickets/448-shopkeepers-not-showing-custom-items/
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Posted Dec 9, 2016Hi, sorry to keep asking for help regarding the same problem but i have already updated my server to the latest Craftbukkit and it keeps not working. is there maybe a file i need to erase from the folder that might be tricking it to not see the latest version ?
by the way i pay for the server to be hosted by GGservers idk if that might help in any way.
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Posted Dec 9, 2016You need a version which was built from the official spigot sources the 22.11.2016 or later. If you run the command '/version' it should display you how many versions you are behind the latest version.
The server host shouldn't matter as long as you are able to upload the latest server binary.
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Posted Dec 4, 2016@IXinXuan
It is possible. You will have to edit the naming regex in the config: This value limits the set of allowed characters. I haven't tested it, but googling 'java regex chinese' suggests adding '\p{Han}' to the regex.
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Posted Dec 4, 2016Great Plugin !!! But I am wondering if the plugin can support Chinese as the shop name? Thx!
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Posted Dec 4, 2016@Skabroon
Create a ticket and attach the log file there. However, I highly assume you have the same 'issue' as in this ticket: https://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/shopkeepers/tickets/447-bug-on-shop-keeper/#comments
Solution: Update to a newer version of spigot / bukkit 1.11.
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Posted Dec 4, 2016@blablubbabc
Hi, i have it on the latest version available and running it on bukkit.
i have the log from the console, how do i provide that here ?
it seems like pasting the entire is too much and long text.
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Posted Dec 3, 2016@blablubbabc Ticking has been a problem with older spigot and older version of citizens.
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Posted Dec 3, 2016@DerpingGreen
Works fine fo me on 1.11
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Posted Dec 3, 2016I run my server on bukkit 1.11 is that the problem? because it worked on bukkit 1.10
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Posted Dec 2, 2016@LillyAnna87
There are updated versions of spigot 1.11 available each day. Make sure that you are not using an early 1.11 version, but a freshly built one, with all the very latest changes.
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Posted Dec 2, 2016@blablubbabc
Thanks for answer. Looks like it's problem with Spigot, not your plugin.
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Posted Dec 2, 2016I am running the latest spigot on my host. spigot-1.11. I cant find a newer one?