Chest Shops
What are Chest Shops?
Chest Shops use chests and signs to allow any user to sell or buy any item in exchange for money at any given time. Simply set up the chest shop by following the step by step tutorial further down, stock it with the item you’re selling, and anybody can buy/sell items from your shop by interacting with the sign. You can decide both buy and sell prices when setting up the chest shop, and you can also set the shop to sell or buy mode only.
The cost to make a Chest Shop is free, however you are taxed at 1% of the total price whenever someone buys or sells an item.
You can also hold shift while interacting with another players shop, to buy/sell items in at a time.
The shop in the image above is set up so that you may purchase 1x diamond from the player SteveStan for $10 each by right clicking, or alternatively sell them for $5 each by left clicking.
How to set up
Place a chest.
Place a sign on a block adjacent to the chest, or on the chest directly like in the image.
Now you have to write things on the sign.
Leave the first row blank - it will have your name on it when you are done setting up the shop. On the second row, write how much of the item you are selling or buying per purchase. On the third row you will be writing the buy and/or sell prices. If you want to offer something for people to buy, write B followed by how much each purchase will cost. If you also want to buy things from people, you can write a colon followed by S and how much you will pay. For example: B 10 : S 5
People can buy for $10, or sell for $5. If you only want to sell/buy you can simply write one or the other, without a colon. (Note: the order you put the letters and the numbers do not matter, so long as the correct number is together with the correct letter. If you accidentally put the sell price higher than the buy price, chest shop will automatically prevent the shop from being created.)
The fourth row will state what item you are selling. Here you can pick in between writing the name of the item, you can use the command /iteminfo to see what the correct name for each individual item would be, but the easiest way of writing this line, and especially useful if you are selling an item with , simply stock the chest with the item in question in beforehand, and then put a "?" on the last row. This will automatically put whichever item is in the chest as the item on the final row. You can also hold shift and right click with the item on the sign afterward if you did not stock it in beforehand.
Player Business
You may also instead of writing your name on the first row, write the name of your player business, in the following format: B:Company. So for example if your company is called VulpesCO, you would put B:VulpesCO instead of your own name. All the earnt revenue from the chest shop directly goes to the company.
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