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Notification module - to use with Notifications plugin (outdated)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! :)
A shout-out to Acrobot's friend:
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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!
Hey! so im OP on the server and found that I cannot use chest shops as I have admin given. Whenever I try to change my permission level it doesn't work, any solutions?
With the default config people who are able to access a shop cannot trade with it. You can permanently disable that by either removing the access permission or disabling the config setting IGNORE_ACCESS_PERMS. To allow temporary trading use /csaccess
Hey I was just wondering why my players can't use the ? trick for long names
That's hard to say without any information about your setup like the plugin version and what is written on the sign exactly and what happens if it's written on the sign. I suggest opening an issue and provide the requested information.
I put sign and even can't buy or sell anything...
No support, I don't know what to do..
If it's your own shop you are trying to trade with then you need to disable the block of that with /csaccess.
Otherwise please open an issue and provide the requested information.
Hi, I am having an issue selling enchanted books with this plugin. I have opened a forum here: https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/chestshop/issues/1330.
Any help from devs or community would be appreciated.
Thanks
When I put a sign on a chest of enchanted books, like say a chest full of Aqua Affinity, the sign just says "Enchanted Book #4" or "Enchanted Book #5" or whatever. Is it possible to have it put the name of the Enchantment on the sign?
Unfortunately that is currently not possible with the plugin itself, mainly due to the length limitations of signs. It's possible for an addon to change that though and display it in some way, e.g. on the shop sign directly by using the Item and Material parse events or via holograms or addition signs (like my ChestShopTools addon)
How do you gain money every day so that way there's always money to go around?
You'll need a separate plugin for that. Some economy plugins have that function built in but if yours doesn't then I suggest looking for ones called something like "time is money" or similar.
Hey there,
thank you for the wonderful plugin! I have a question: Is it possible, that players can only pay with diamonds? I don't want any currency or bank account with money, i would like to use dias to buy/sell things. Is there an option? Thanks in advance!
You would need a Vault/Reserve-compatible economy plugin which uses items as money for that (E.g. Gringotts). ChestShop itself does not support item trading. (Mainly because the goal is to be used with an economy plugin and because the sign can hardly fit the current information content)
In reply to Phoenix616:
Thank you! I will have a look :)
I have a problem running your plugin on my server. If you help, it will be great.
Well, what's the problem?
Hi, i have a problem with ChestShop. When i create a shop i get the message that i succesfully created the shop and i can sell items there too but i cant buy items and i dont get a message or something please help.
Make sure that the shop isn't inside the spawn protection radius or that another region protection plugin isn't blocking the interaction with the sign. Also make sure that the player in question isn't in adventure mode and that there are no errors in the log.
In reply to Phoenix616:
Sorry, won’t let me comment for some reason as I keep getting hit with a error code so replying instead ):
Hey, is it possible to set it up so you pay using diamonds rather than Dollars? I could make an economy system where you buy and sell diamonds for $1 each but that’s harder and if it were possible that would be super useful. If not that’s fine
Thanks
Hi, is it possible to allow other players to access your chest shops? As in allow other players to open and move items inside the chest. If so then What command is it? And also, Can you link hoppers to Sell chests?