ChestShop (iConomyChestShop)
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ChestShop
A simple, yet very powerful system for making physical shops using signs and chests.
It's never been that easy to create shops! With features like shop protection and anti-lag protection, you won't have to worry about your server's economy anymore!
"Just works"! ChestShop supports almost all economy plugins by using Vault!
(Versions above 3.9.2 also support economy plugins using the Reserve API)
Some known compatible and incompatible economy plugins.
Please check if there are newer development builds before reporting issues!
If you are upgrading from a previous version of ChestShop please make sure to always read the warnings in the file's changelog!
The plugin by default submits anonymous stats about your server (player count, plugin/server version and type) to a public statistics websites (mcstats.org and bstats.org) in order to provide the developers with usage information. If you wish to opt out, you can do so in the PluginMetrics/config.yml and bstats/config.yml files. It also features an auto-update feature, which can be turned off in the config.
Frequently Asked Questions
Permissions
User-made tutorials
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API for plugin developers
Source code on GitHub
Crowdin Localization Project
Thread on Bukkit forums
IRC chat (#chestshop on irc.esper.net)
Discord Channel Joining through that invite auto subscribes you to important update notifications, if you don't want that use this invite.
bStats metrics
Additional modules for ChestShop:
ChestShop LegacyIds - allows usage of numeric and old pre 1.13 string IDs on signs
Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)
Towny module - to use with Towny plugin
ChestShop Notifier - records all sales, even when the player is offline (Maintained by Phoenix616)
ChestShopTools - Enchantment info signs and empty shop notifier (Maintained by Phoenix616)
Adda - Item display icons above the chest, transaction limit, Discord alerts, per-player shop limit! (User-made)
ChestIcon - Icons for Chests, just like the Showcase plugin! (User-made, broken on newer versions)
Libelula Auto Shop - easy creation of admin shops, using Essentials (User-made)
ChestShopLimiter+ - limits the number of shops per player (User-made, abandoned)
ChestShopListing - Stores shops and transactions in SQL; adds related features including in-game search (User-made)
ChestShopConfirmation - confirmation screen before buying (User-made)
SearchChestShop - search for shops selling certain items (User-made)
BoltChestShop - Add support for Bolt container protections (Made by the Bolt author)
Using shops
It's easy! Just right-click the sign to buy, left-click to sell. (You can configure the buttons in the config file!)
How to create a shop
Player shop
Place a chest on the ground | |
Place a sign 1 block away from the chest (for example, above it) | |
On the sign, write: | ![]() |
Leave the first line empty. It will be automatically filled with your name by the plugin (if you have the permission ChestShop.admin then you can create shops with the names of other players) | |
Second line is the amount of items to buy or sell | |
Third line is a combination of buy and sell prices. You need to have a price indicator (like 'B' - price that will apply to items BOUGHT by PLAYERS - or 'S' - the SELL price) near the price - the prices are separated by a colon (:) |
Some of the possible price combinations: "B 5:5 S", "B 5", "S free" |
The forth line will hold the id/name of the item. Write ? on the sign and the item will be autofilled with the one from the chest or you can click on the sign with the item afterwards. Optionally you can put the actual name on it. You can find out the name of the item you're holding by doing /iteminfo |
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Resulting Shop | ![]() |
A person can buy 64 diamonds for 10 dollars and sell them back for 5 dollars from Phoenix616 |
If you want you can also take a look at this video tutorial.
Admin Shop - shop with unlimited items
Firstly, you've got to be sure that you've the ChestShop.admin permission or that you are an OP. To make an Admin Shop, simply put "Admin Shop" (configurable in config.yml) on the first line of the sign when creating the shop. Admin Shops do not require a chest!
Translations
- /iteminfo - Get information about the item in your hand
- /iteminfo <id/name> - Get information about the item with the given id or name
- /shopinfo - Get information about the looked-at shop
- /csgive <itemcode> [<amount>] [<player>] - Give item with a unique ChestShop code to a player
- /cstoggle - Toggle buy and sell notificiation messages
- /chestshop version - Display the ChestShop version
- /chestshop reload - Reload the ChestShop config and translation messages. (This might not reload some features)
- /csaccess - Toggles ability to buy/sell on shops while having admin/access permissions and normally being ignored
Permission nodes
Description | ||
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ChestShop.shop.* | shop creation and buying/selling - it contains: | |
ChestShop.shop.create.* |
create all types of shops |
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ChestShop.shop.buy | buy any item from shop | |
ChestShop.shop.sell | sell any item to shop | |
ChestShop.mod | open any shop chest | |
ChestShop.admin | open any shop chest, destroy stores, create (admin) shops |
A full list of permission nodes
Configurations
Useful tips by players
How not to get bankrupt | A customisable price table |
Alternative price table |
Compatibility
ChestShop directly hooks into the following plugins to provide additional functionality:
- AuthMe (and forks like AuthMe Reloaded)
- WorldGuard
- Residence
- LWC (and forks like LWCX and Modern-LWC)
- Lockette
- LockettePro
- Deadbolt
- SimpleChestLock
- OddItem
- Heroes
- ShowItem
Metrics
This resource sends metrics data to McStats and bStats. You can opt-out of metrics for all plugins on your server by changing the settings in the PluginMetrics/config.yml and the bStats/config.yml file if you don't want any data to be send.
More info
Even more information can be found in the old plugin thread on the forums.
Got an error or suggestion?
Simply submit a ticket here!
If you have a Github account and have coding knowledge you can also directly open an issue on Github. (You can also fund them via IssueHunt!)
If you just need general help feel free to ask in the comments or join the #chestshop channel on Spigot's IRC network (irc.spi.gt, webchat)
Has ChestShop helped you or your server?
If you want to thank the team in a more materialistic way, feel free to donate or buy Phoeni616 a beer! :)
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If you have an issue then please open a ticket on GitHub or post on SpigotMC.org for faster replies to questions!
I've created an admin shop for selling a book that uses a click event to open a document with recipes for the brewery plugin. The book i generated with commands functions properly, but those bought from the shop do not. Is there a way to fix this?
You can try selling it via a chest (admin shops will search for one too) but beyond that it isn't possible without fixing the bug directly in your server software. ChestShop only uses the (de)serialization API to store the item data so that would be an issue there.
Okay I love the idea and im going to use it in my server but I want to know, Once you buy something where does the money go? (example: If I bought 64 cobblestone for 5 iron, Where does the iron go, In their inventory?) Also my second question is could you post a video of how to use the sign thing. Anyway AWESOME plugin imma ad it to my server now.
This plugin requires an economy plugin (which is interacted with Vault) and most economy plugins use a purely virtual currency. If you have an economy plugin which relies on real items then it's up to that one to manage where the items go while the player is offline. I imagine that transactions will either be blocked or held until the player joins and the items can be added to their inventory.
Hello! I would like to leave a few suggestions. First of all I believe you should add support for different types of containers to be used with the plugin. Also I would like to see multiplayer access. Thank you! Hope to see these suggestions in an update!
All containers can be configured in the config file of the plugin. (By default they are set to chests)
Access for multiple players is a bit hard to do as the plugin relies on the concept of managing everything via the sign and writing multiple names there isn't really possible. It's possible though to use LWC instead of the internal protection for the container and manage access to the shop that way.
Hi,
does this plugin work with essentials?
Yes, if you install Vault as well it can interact with Essentials' economy.
Hey, so I am trying to sell a full diamond armor set and also some enchanted books but I can't sell the books and chest plate, and there are also a lot more items that you can't sell because there is not enough space on the sign, what do I do?
You can sell all the items, simply use the autofill functionality by typing a question mark
?
on the last line or by using the name that/iteminfo
shows for the sign.1.16 support?
The plugin should already work on 1.16 (especially the latest development builds!), do you have any issues? If so please post them in the issue tracker or the github repo after making sure they aren't fixed in the latest development builds already :)
Hey,
I got a problem : As soon as my shop is succesfully created, everyone can't buy anything (they are in survival) . If they click the sign, they open the chest. What could I do?
Only people with access to the shop can open the chest by clicking on the sign. You could disable the chest opening from the sign in the config but you should really disable that they have permission to access the shop to begin with.
In reply to Phoenix616:
Ah thank you very much :)
In reply to Phoenix616:
In reply to Phoenix616:
I also got the problem, that if you create a shop, it says "the shop owner doesn't exist" or something like this
Simply don't put any name on the first line (it will autofill it for you) or make sure that you have typed the name exactly right.
Hey
Players can't buy from shops in claims from the Grief Prevention plugin. How can I fix that?
You'll need to make sure that interaction events with signs are allowed in GriefPrevention, I suggest taking a look at their help pages/wikis or ask in their support.
In reply to Phoenix616:
It's fixed :)
The problem was that I was in creative and you can't use shops in creative.
Thanks!