Auction off your precious items! CraftBay is an auctioning system that allows players to trade their items by bidding for them. After a set amount of time, the highest bid wins. Payment is handled via Vault.
Links
- GitHub page (Source code)
- SpigotMC resource page (1.13+ downloads)
- BukkitDev plugin page (Current and legacy downloads)
- Configuration file (yaml)
- Language file (yaml)
Intended use
Despite the wide availability of shopping plugins, an auction is still the best way for auctioneers to achieve the maximum price for their goods by reaching a broad audience and having them duke it out. Experience shows that especially rare items such as enchanted tools and armor can make for a very intense and exciting fight for the highest bid. The winning bid may even exceed the price for the same item available in shops.
Features
- Players can auction off items from their inventory
- Bid for items with your in-game currency
- World blacklist
- Live notifications about auction activity (players can mute it)
- Spam protection: Suppress messages when people spam bids
- Fully customizable messages
- Admin commands to moderate auction activity
- Auction history for in-game review
- Auctions survive server restarts
- Informative display of item properties (damage, enchantments, etc)
- Auctions will survive a server restart.
- A cancelled auction or one that ends without any bids will return the item to the owner.
- If items are handed over to a player with a full inventory, they will be dropped where they are standing.
Commands
Auctions are managed with simple commands with an interactive on-line help.
/auction
This command will always direct you to an overview of your current options./auc
An alias for /auction that works with all of the below/auc ?
Get help/auc info
Display information about the current auction/auc preview
Preview the auctioned item in a chest interface/auc history [id]
Review past or queued future auctions/auc bid [amount]
Place a bid/bid [amount]
Shortcut for /auction bid/auc start [starting price]
Auction off an item/auc hand [starting price]
Auction off the item in your hand/auc end [delay]
End the current auction/auc cancel [id]
Cancel an auction/auc ignore
Ignore broadcasts/auc listen
Receive broadcasts
Admin Commands
Admins have additional commands to get more information than normal users, moderate the market activity, auction off spawned items or stimulate the economy by bidding for items on behalf of the bank.
/auc bank <item> <amount> [starting price]
Auction off a spawned item/auc fake <name> [starting price]
Auction off a fake item/auc bankhand
Auction off item in hand on behalf of the bank/auc bankbid [amount]
Place a bid on behalf of the bank/auc log [id]
Display the log of an auction/auc reload
Reload the configuration file
Permissions
The defaults are set up so anyone can query auction information and place bids. Permission to start auctions, however, is not granted by default. Administrative actions default to op.
auction.info
Query information about the current auctionauction.bid
Place bids for auctions. Implies auction.receiveauction.start
Start your own auctionauction.admin
Perform administrative commandsauction.receive
Receive items you won (since v1.2.1)auction.nofee
Player is exempted from the auction feeauction.notax
Player is exempted from the auction tax
How it works
Every player with the appropriate permission can start an auction for any amount of items in their inventory. To do so, they can simply type /auc hand to sell whatever they are holding in their hand, or /auc start to be presented with a chest interface to put their items in. If everything is alright, the auction will be publicly announced and the plugin will claim the item and start accepting bids.
Placing a bid means declaring the maximum amount you are willing to pay for the item. After the auction times out, the participant with the highest bid wins, but all he has to pay is just enough to beat the second highest bid. This is how many online auction houses function.
The result of this system is that sniping, that is overbidding by a small amount in the last second, becomes very difficult. Also players don't have to worry about placing an unnecessarily high bid when nobody else is interested in paying nearly as much. They can just declare the maximum amount right away and be guaranteed to pay up to that but no more, and only as much as is necessary to win. Also, nobody else will know about it unless they bid even more.
Language
All in-game chat output is configurable and CraftBay comes with several language files: English (en_US), German (de_DE), Simplified Chinese (zh_CN), and Russian (ru_RU). The preferred language can be chosen in the configuration file and adjusted via configuration files.
Love the plugin. Any chance to add an item dictionary to it so we can identify mod based items? (even if one has to manually configure what each itemid:data is as far as an item
@Rmarmorstein
I hope this is not too late, but with essentials you can make commands cost money to use so when someone does /auc end you can make them pay a certain fee. Also if they don't have enough they will not be able to end the auction.
Whats the best way to make it so that a normal player cannot end the auctions? I tried changing some methods, but it just broke the plugin... Some people are abusing the ability to /auc end.
Thanks for the help!
@StarTuxDev As I said, I have the latest version of - Java 7. It still isn't working. Any ideas?
Is there a way to do so that Auction announcement is only heard in a certain area? I wish to make an auction room so that everyone doesn't have to see all the announcements. Like selecting an area with WorldGuard and then setting the Auction announcements to only show in THAT selected area?
@merlin4life
@PlayMinefall
Won or returned items are put in player's inventories, unless they are full. Only in that case will it drop them on the ground.
@DuctTape534
You are running Java 5, whereas CraftBay only supports Java 6. Sadly, I can't support Java 5 as it would be too much work to compile for both versions. There are many other reasons to upgrade to Java version 6, or even 7, so I recommend looking into that. ;-)
Whoaa
Respect for the plugin. Keep on the good work.
Thank you :)
Is it possible to increase the auction time by X seconds/minutes if someone bids in the last 10 seconds of the auction? My people keep waiting until there are like 2 seconds left before bidding so they always win.
@merlin4life
same is happening on my server, i'm disabling until this is fixed.
Players lose their items with this plugin. If they put something in the auction and the auction fails with no bids, the item will be dropped onto the ground instead of their inventory.
Also if they try to auction something and there are too many auction queues, the item will be dropped when the auction fails.
I'm getting this error in my console: http://pastebin.com/XYAKwSUw
I have the Latest version of CraftBukkit and Java.
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Please help!
GREAT PLUGIN.
with newest version still getting spam to the console fail delievery
pls update
pls update
3:40:20 AM CraftBay: [10] DELIVER FAIL item='262:0 128' recipient='JadenWayne' reason='Player offline
any way to prevent this from being spammed?
Can we have the option to stop trying to send to offline players?
Cloud you upload lastest plugin's source?....
i downloaded this plugin but when i got on my server it didn't show up as a plugin so i tried to do /help craftbay but nothing popped up so i'm wondering what is wrong it also does this with other auction plugins
Would love to see a delay between auctions too, as players are moaning that their sniping is failing.
Also, is it possible we can automute the auction chats in blacklisted worlds? As the auctions don't apply to them.
Thanks
Can there be a delay between auctions?