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!
Minecraft-Servers-Listing.com | TRS Game Servers | terminalserver.us |
Minewind | mercurialmusic | timitimitimi |
FatherWh0 (merchantvillages.com) | lukeeexd (tws-mc.com) | PapaJuan |
EmeraldHaze (Ninjalette) | Espen | kbtalkin |
Dimo (Beyond Vanilla) | RefugiaCraft | Frilioth |
Tabletopcheese | Observant Minecraft Server | Ren Binden |
Want to help?
The less I have to do myself, the more time I have to write plugins. Therefore I am looking for someone who would be willing to get involved in the project. That could for example mean:
- Keeping the documentation (the wiki) up-to-date with plugin updates.
- Improving the existing documentation.
- Creating and maintaining translations.
- Help managing issues and answering questions of users.
If you are a programmer with experience in writing bukkit plugins, or have ideas on how you can contribute to the project beyond that, let me know as well! If you are interested, feel free to contact me via PM.
Beyond that, everybody is invited to help others with issues and questions in the issue tracker, comment section, and the discord channel! Also consider contributing translations!
Third-Party Add-On Plugins
Sometimes a feature is either to specific to include it directly into the Shopkeepers plugin, or I did not yet have the time to add something similar myself. The plugins listed here extend the functionality of the Shopkeepers plugin.
These plugins are maintained by other community members. If you run into issues while using any of these add-ons, try to first reproduce your problem without any add-ons before you report it.
ShopkeepersNavAddon(abandoned): Adds inventory-based GUIs that allow you to browse all player shops, all admin shops, and to find shops that trade a specific type of item. You can teleport to a particular shopkeeper by clicking a button inside the GUI.
This plugin also integrates support for trading with Vault-based currency, but does so by replacing Shopkeepers' normal trade handling.
If you have also written an add-on plugin and want it listed here, let me know!
Why normal players can't create shops?
My villagers keep disappearing. Then when I restart the server, they come back. Help?
broken on latest spigot version 1.5.1
VERY GOOD PLUGIN!! One on the best PLugins!
@TheR3ktor
/shopkeeper reload and /shopkeeper
Can you make a command list instead?
Not working on my 1.5.1 build :(
@nisovin
The lag issue that I was experiencing was fixed after I removed 950 of the villager shops, I believe task 6000 is for loading chunks for the villager or something similar. I tried negating the permissions, but some people still seem to be able to spawn them. =(
After selling Villager spawn egg to user with Admin Shopkeeper. If user right clicks on Egg, It will spawn default Villager. Is it possible to disable spawning them as normal Villager but only as Shopkeeper?
Edit: I can just give them default Spawnegg which appears as white and doesn't spawn anything :)
Thanks for providing such a great plugin, in the latest version however items can not be shift clicked from the shopkeepers, would be great if this was fixed for next version.
many thanks :)
@nisovin My items are unnamed. The player can not buy anything. Please fix
v1.12 says that it should work for Minecraft v1.4.7 as well, but when I try running it with v.1.4.7, I get this:
18:21:41 [SEVERE] [Shopkeepers] Incompatible server version: Shopkeepers plugin cannot be enabled.
Now, I can run the latest version specifically made for v1.4.7, but there were things added for the newest version that I wanted to use.
It says it can be used with 1.4.7, but is this incorrect, or am I missing something?
Regardless of the answer, thanks so much for this wonderful plugin. I've been looking for a way of doing actual GUI based player shops based on item trading or hard currency, and this is just what I needed.
@flyingtacoz
I have no way of knowing what task 6000 is. Have you set enable-spawn-verifier to true or save-instantly to false? If not, there's only one other major task, and it isn't one that can be disabled, as it's pretty important. Do you have a large number of shopkeepers loaded all the time (meaning they are in always-loaded chunks)?
There are permissions you can negate to remove players' abilities to create shops. They are listed above.
@Ghostwarrior3
You may also want to set the file-encoding option to "UTF-8" in the config.
@nisovin
<3!!!
FIXED! On my linux box I needed to convert the save.yml and config.yml to Unix ANSI
Runs fine on my local machine, but when I try to run on a Linux server I get this:
I never knew default players could create a shop.. I went to the config file and there's around a 1000 villager shops. o_O Why is the creation of shops set to everyone? How can I remove this?
@nisovin
The villagers work just fine, great plugin :) But, they seem to multiply. Any suggestions?
Task 6000 working really hard and causing my server to lag, anyway to disable?
Ermmmm, I renamed my bedrock to &4&bDonator Tokens in my donator shop, and my players cannot buy them? I tried a unnamed item and that works fine, please fix this!
@Zholty
You have a plugin preventing them from spawning.
@diannetea
Try setting the file-encoding option to UTF-8.