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Chest Shops

Chest shops let any player run a storefront out of a chest or barrel. Customers walk up, buy from or sell to your stock, and the money and items move automatically. There is no creation fee and no cap on how many shops you can run.

Creating a shop

  1. Stock a chest or barrel with the item you want to trade.
  2. Hold one of that item in your main hand.
  3. Look at the container from within 6 blocks.
  4. Run /ecs create <buyPrice> <sellPrice>.

/ecs also answers to /chestshop and /cshop.

  • The buy price is what a customer pays to buy one unit from you. The sell price is what a customer receives for selling one unit to you.
  • Set either price to 0 to disable that side (a buy-only or sell-only shop). At least one price must be above 0.
  • The sell price cannot exceed the buy price (an arbitrage guard).
  • Prices are per unit, whole numbers only.

The item must match exactly, so a renamed or damaged item will not trade against a plain one. Chests, trapped chests, and barrels all qualify; shulker boxes do not.

You can only create a shop where you are allowed to build. Other players' claims, rented units, and admin claims all deny it, and chest shops are banned outright in the sealed-economy worlds (Skyblock, Prison, and the dungeons). See Claims for build permissions.

Holograms

Every shop shows a floating hologram, rendered just for you as you approach (nothing is added to the world):

  • The item floats above the shop for anyone within 20 blocks.
  • The full text panel, showing the item name and buy/sell prices, appears when you look directly at the shop.
  • Sneak while looking to see item detail lines such as enchantments.
  • If you own the shop and it is out of stock, the panel reminds you to restock.

You can add up to 4 custom hologram lines in the shop's settings, plus set the hologram's rotation.

Managing your shops

  • /csmenu (alias /chestshopmenu) browses and manages all of your shops from one screen.
  • /ecs settings, run while looking at a shop, edits its prices, hologram lines, rotation, and shop admins (co-managers who can also restock and adjust it).
  • /checkprofits shows what your shops have earned; /checkprofits clear wipes the history.
  • /ecs remove, run while looking at your shop, removes the shop record and leaves the chest and its contents completely untouched.

You can also block specific players from buying from or selling to all of your shops with /ecs buyblock, /ecs sellblock, and their unblock counterparts. Staff and your own shop admins cannot be blocked.

Protection

Chest shops are protected once created:

  • Only the owner (or staff) can break a shop block, and never while someone is using it.
  • Explosions cannot destroy shop blocks, and pistons cannot move them.
  • Another player cannot attach a chest to your shop to form a double chest.
  • A shop chest is never treated as a lootable Found Chest.
  • Shops and Selling: server shops, sell commands, and token shops.
  • Grand Exchange: the server-wide player market for items and Pokemon.
  • Claims: the land protection that governs where you can build a shop.