VillagerShop

Turn villagers into real merchants: create fully configurable multiplayer shops.

VillagerShop adds a Merchant Counter: a job-site block you place and configure, which a villager claims to serve your customers — exactly like a villager binding to a lectern or a cartography table.

You define what you sell and what you buy, and the goods come from (and payments go into) the counter's own storage. No more trust chests: the shop manages stock and payments on its own.

✨ Features

• Configurable Merchant Counter — a tabbed interface (Shop / Trade / Stock / Upgrades) reserved for the owner.
• A villager as the seller — it binds to the counter like a real job-site block and opens a vanilla-style trading screen for customers.
• Any item as currency — not just emeralds: trade anything for anything.
• Real physical stock — goods sold leave the counter, payments are deposited into it. No stock = the offer is unavailable.
• Modular upgrades (Upgrades tab):
  • Immortality (Nether Star) → the seller becomes invincible.
  • Movement (Prismarine Shard = stays within 3 blocks; Amethyst Shard = stands still in front of the counter).
  • Storage (Chests) → +27 slots per chest, up to 216.
  • More offers (Emerald Blocks) → each block unlocks an extra trade, up to 8 offers.
  • Communication (Lightning Rod) → notifies owners when a sale is blocked (out of goods, or storage full) and when the merchant dies — instantly if online, otherwise on their next login. Adds a "Locate merchant" button. Also required for the Sales Ledger to track the shop.
  • Access (Block of Gold) → unlocks co-owner management.
  • Memory (Bookshelf) → save module: export the shop config into a signed book (copyable in a crafting table) and import it into another counter.
  • Blast protection (Obsidian) → the counter resists explosions.
  • Admin (Command Block, hidden) → see Admin shops below.
• Sales Ledger — a bookkeeping lectern you can place anywhere. Right-click it to browse the sales of every shop you own or co-own (equipped with the Communication upgrade): global totals, per-item and per-shop breakdowns, items sold and payments received. Shops that were removed are kept in the ledger so no history is lost.
• Co-owners — share configuration with other players (via the Access upgrade).
• Built-in guide — a Patchouli book explains everything, available in English and French.

Each upgrade unlocks a feature; remove the item and the feature turns off — but your settings are kept.

🛡️ Admin shops

Made for server admins and creative players. The Admin upgrade slot is hidden: it only shows up in the Upgrades tab while you hold a Command Block, or once one is installed.

With the upgrade in place, every offer in the Trade tab gets an ∞ toggle. Switch it on and the item sold by that offer becomes unlimited: it is never taken from the storage, so the shop never runs out. Payments are still collected into the storage like a regular shop (the trade blocks if the storage is full). Toggles are saved per offer and survive editing the trade items.

Ideal for spawn shops, server currency exchanges or event vendors.

🏹 PillagerControl integration

With PillagerControl installed (1.21.1 NeoForge), a pacified pillager can run your counter instead of a villager — shopkeeper outfit included. The Upgrades tab then shows an exclusive Guard Kit slot: your vendor defends the shop with his crossbow when attacked, and even the Movement upgrade lets him leave for his daily meal at the Mess.

📦 Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1 — NeoForge or Fabric (+ Fabric API)
• Minecraft 1.20.1 — Forge 47.2.0+
• Patchouli (required dependency, matching your version and loader)

🚀 Installation

1. Install NeoForge/Fabric (1.21.1) or Forge (1.20.1).
2. Put VillagerShop AND Patchouli in your mods/ folder.
3. On a server, install both mods server-side (and client-side for players).

🔗 Links

• Source code: https://github.com/GusFrip/VillagerShop
• Issues & suggestions: https://github.com/GusFrip/VillagerShop/issues

📜 License

Released under the GNU LGPL-3.0. You're free to use, study, modify and redistribute the mod; modifications to the mod's code must stay under the same license with their source available. See the LICENSE and COPYING files.

🙏 Credits

• Development & original assets: GusFrip
• Dependency: Patchouli by Vazkii