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!
How do you change a normal shopkeeper into a witch?
So I have to use the 1.5.2 version since I am running a Feed The Beast modpack. Prior to adding the plugin I could trade with villagers, after I could not. I am fully able to create a shop and add/remove items from it and name it. However, I cannot right-click it to view the shop, neither can anyone that is not op'd. Ive used the debug, ran over the config a few times now and cannot figure out what would cause it. Hopefully you could give me a tip?
Hello! why can't i longer create a shopkeeper with color code? &c e.t.c...
o_o when i install the plugin the first day it still work but when i try the second day with the spawn shopkeepers command it just a regular villager :<
I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a sign shop, help anyone?
Awesome Plugin ;)
I copied to the jar file and its folder data to another server but all the old shopkeepers are gone. Any idea how to fix this? There where no errors in the logs.
I have the same worlds on the server too.
Just a thought... you could move the change villager color, rename, and delete from the GUI to commands and have an extra shop option. Also, lessens the chance (completely removes) of accidental clicks.
And also, allow renaming by naming the Villager egg and through the new Name Tag.
player shops dont work in plotme worlds (plotme is a plot creating plugin)
Please add an option to remove those annoying villager sounds! Also, villagers fail to spawn if inside a WorldGuard mob-spawning:deny flagged region. Can you fix this please?
@deceptical
lol somehow today it just started working all fine people can't use diamond normal diamond to buy things that u buy with my custom diamond anymore ! YAYAYAY
@shadvalentine
Thank you for the reply i will jjust unload the plugin untill the author updates? .. :( Thank you again.
Hey. I'm loving this plugin and the hire-feature. I made a video to explain my players how to hire and set up their shop. Figured it might be useful for others too, so I'm posting it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qelM_5ZCYXU
If you want me to remove this comment, just message me and I will. I'm not trying to advertise anything.
@nisovin
No it doesnt. I have tested this and my server had this for a long time. I got tired to the duplicated villagers (original shop stayed but there was random villagers named after the shop running around sometimes), color codes are not working either which made my economy kind a useless since i needed a bold, green text "$$$" for my books (they were the money) but as the color codes wont be supported after 1.6.2 in this plugin, my plugins had to be changed into white normal "$$$" letters which in the other hand turned out to be a bad idea since players were able to use anvil to re-name books and abuse the issue. Also when I removed this plugin, my server RAM went up a lot and I only had placed max. 10 shops. Wonder why this happened? :D And the last but not least, slow answering at the dev page (here). It is frustrating to leave a question and you get answer to it (if you get) in 2 - 3 weeks.
But ya, i'm checking this page still for future updates and hopefully some day i'll take this back.
@deceptical
I used to do this all the time by adding enchantments to them ... however this recently stopped working.
hello there can you make the plugin make the diference betwen a custom item and a normal one like i have on my server diamonds normal diamonds and a diamond of maniak wich is a diamond but with the /setname diamond of maniak I want players to use those custom diamonds for villager trades.. Would that be posible? Please?
well .. I put in a ticket being nobody will even respond to my problem here ..
does anybody know of another plugin that works that is like this one?
So .. anybody have any idea why this is ignoring enchantments now?
Can you add an option where shopkeepers don't make villager sounds?
@Alfatossa
@semirotta
The latest version, 1.15.1, works fine in 1.6.2. It's been available for nearly a month now.