Minecraft plugin ChestShop

🔌 About ChestShop

ChestShop is a Minecraft plugin for creating player-run shops using chests and signs. It connects shop actions to a server economy (via Vault or Reserve) so players can buy and sell items using the server's currency. The project is maintained on GitHub and distributes builds through common plugin platforms.

🎯 Purpose

Provide a simple, persistent in-world marketplace where players create shops by placing a sign on a chest. ChestShop handles transactions between player inventories and the server economy and includes protections and compatibility hooks to reduce griefing and integration effort.

⚙️ Features

• Create buy/sell shops by placing a formatted sign on a chest.
• Integration with Vault or Reserve and other compatible economy plugins for money handling.
• Shop protection and compatibility options to respect common chest protection plugins.
• Anti-lag / transaction-safety measures documented by the authors.
• Extensible with community add-ons and compatibility plugins (add-ons list maintained by the project).
• Admin and informational commands were added in recent releases (examples: /shopinfo, /iteminfo).

🧩 Who It Is For

• Survival and SMP servers that use a currency-based economy.
• Servers that want simple, sign-based player shops rather than GUI storefronts.
• Admins who prefer shops that keep items in vanilla chests (no mandatory database for basic shop storage).

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Players place a chest, fill the item to sell, and create a sign to set buy/sell prices; other players click the sign to trade.
• Server administrators create admin shops for server-run item sales.
• A community adds a compatibility plugin to integrate ChestShop with a protection or display addon.

⌨️ Commands

(Commands listed are taken from the project's release notes and documentation. Only commands explicitly documented by the project are shown.)

🔐 Permissions

(Permission nodes are included only where they appear in official project resources and release notes.)

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official ChestShop .jar and place it in the server plugins/ folder.
• Install Vault or Reserve and a compatible economy plugin that provides a money API.
• Restart the server and check the server console to confirm ChestShop enabled successfully.

📦 Dependencies

• Vault (integration supported) or Reserve (integration supported)
• A compatible economy plugin that exposes a money API (installed alongside Vault/Reserve)

🧾 Configuration

The plugin generates configuration/yml files on first run; configuration options and compatibility toggles are available in those files and via the project documentation.

🧠 Technical Notes

• Source code and issue tracking are hosted on GitHub under an LGPL-2.1 license.
• The project lists builds and release artifacts on common plugin sites; maintainers also publish development builds on a CI server.
• ChestShop is designed for Bukkit/Spigot/Paper server types (project documentation and repository state this explicitly).

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you want a straightforward, in-world marketplace where items remain in plain chests and transactions use your server currency, ChestShop provides a mature, extensible chest-and-sign shop system with economy integration and addon compatibility.