Selling with ChestShops#

A ChestShop is a chest with a sign on it that buys or sells items automatically. Once it's set up, other players trade with it on their own — you get paid (or stocked) even when you're offline.

What you need#

• A container — a chest (or a double chest, barrel, etc.).
• The items you want to sell, placed inside it.
• A sign, placed against the container.

The four sign lines#

A shop sign has exactly four lines, and the order matters:

Steve          ← line 1: your name (the shop owner)
64             ← line 2: how many items per trade
100 : 90       ← line 3: the price — buy and/or sell
DIAMOND        ← line 4: the item

Line	What goes here
1 — Owner	Your name. Leave it blank and it fills in automatically.
2 — Quantity	How many items change hands per trade (e.g. 64 for a stack).
3 — Price	What the shop charges and/or pays (see below).
4 — Item	The item's name, e.g. DIAMOND. Use ? to fill it from the item in your hand.

Setting the price (line 3)#

The B (buy) and S (sell) letters set the prices, from the customer's point of view:

You write	What it means
B 100	Players buy from you for 100 (your shop sells to them)
S 90	Players sell to you for 90 (your shop buys from them)
100 : 90	Both — the first number is the buy price (100), the second is the sell price (90)

A plain number with no letter (like 100) makes a buy-only shop. The letter can go before or after the number. Note that the sell price can't be set higher than the buy price.

You can shorten big numbers with K and M — 1.5K is 1,500 and 2M is 2,000,000.

Partial trades#

Your shop doesn't refuse a trade just because it can't cover the whole amount — it serves as much as it can and charges (or pays) only for that much:

• A customer tries to buy a 64-stack but the chest has only 12 left → they get 12, and pay for 12.
• A customer wants to buy 64 but only has enough money for 20 → they get 20.
• Someone tries to sell you 64 but the chest has room for only 30 → you take 30 and pay for 30.

A side stops completely only when it hits zero — nothing left to sell, no room or money to buy, or the customer can't afford even a single item.

Shopping at someone's shop#

To trade at a shop, click its sign:

• Right-click to inspect a purchase in an inventory menu. Hover over the items to inspect their name, lore, and other details, then confirm the displayed quantity and price to buy. Close the menu or choose Cancel to leave without buying.
• Left-click to sell to it.

The partial-trade rule works in your favour as a shopper too: if you can't afford a full stack, you'll still get as many as your money covers.

If stock, price, quantity, or access changes before confirmation, the purchase may be rejected. Click the sign again to review a fresh offer.

Sell several variations with one sign#

Use a literal prefix followed by * on the item line, for example carlton_dry*. It matches item codes beginning with that prefix, ignoring case. For Nexo items, matching uses the custom item ID rather than a display alias. Only one trailing * is supported; * alone is not accepted.

Place at least one matching item in the connected container before creating the sign. Keep sample items in the container for unlimited admin shops too. The sign's quantity and price apply to whichever variation the customer chooses.

Buying opens a menu of matching variations currently in the chest. Selling opens matching variations in the customer's inventory. Select one, inspect the exact items and price, then confirm. Different names, lore, and other metadata remain separate choices; a trade never automatically substitutes another variation.

In the preview, choose Change quantity to trade 1×, 2×, 4×, or 8× the sign quantity, or enter a custom item count. For example, a sign offering 2 items for $10 lets you choose 3 items for $15. Available shortcuts respect the server's maximum trade quantity. The refreshed preview shows the actual quantity and total price after stock, balance, and inventory limits; confirm it to complete the trade. This works for both buying and selling the selected variation.

The stock counter totals all matching variations. Wildcard shops are currently excluded from /find and market shop listings, which represent one exact item per shop; completed sales still appear in transaction history.

Check a shop#

Look at any shop sign and run:

/shopinfo

It tells you who owns it, the item, the quantity, and the prices. Not sure what an item is called for line 4? Hold it and run:

/iteminfo

Selling custom items#

Custom items from the server's item plugin (Nexo) trade just like vanilla ones — you don't need to do anything special. The easiest way is to let the sign fill the item in for you:

1. Hold the custom item you want to sell.
2. Build the sign as usual, and put ? on line 4 (the item line).

The ? reads whatever you're holding, so the correct name lands on the sign automatically. If you'd rather type it, hold the item and run /iteminfo — it prints the exact name to put on line 4 (custom items show a short id or nickname, e.g. ruby_gem, rather than a vanilla material name).

Steve
16
B 500
ruby_gem       ← a custom item's id, or just use ? while holding it

Want the shop to pay your company?#

A shop normally pays the player who built it. To send the money to a firm account instead, see ChestShops for your firm.

Where to go next#

• Route sales to a business: ChestShops for your firm.
• Every ChestShop command and the full sign format: the ChestShop reference.

The /find results dialog shows each shop's item preview above the selection buttons, including stored names, enchantments and other item details. Older or incomplete shop records fall back to the basic material icon; an unreadable icon does not prevent selecting the shop. Searches remain scoped to your current world.

SELL offers are hidden from /find when the paying account cannot afford the advertised batch. A shop offering both BUY and SELL still appears as BUY if it cannot afford SELL. Admin shops without a server economy account have unlimited funds; those with one use that account’s balance. A new search checks funds again.