Shop Ownership

How to create, rent, sell, and manage the shops you own

Players can use shops to trade items with other players for emeralds. This is possible using chest shops, which allow other players to buy or sell specific items to or from your shop by clicking on signs. Shops themselves can also be rented or sold to other players for emeralds.

Creating Shops

Settlement owners can create shops in their settlements using the /shop create command. You must be standing in a settlement that you own to use this command. You can then claim additional plots for the shop using /shop claim while standing in a plot near your shop. All shops must be separated from other homes, shops, and markets by at least one plot.

Creating Chest Shops

Chest shops are chests with signs on them. The sign on the chest is a contract between the buyer and seller defining what is being bought or sold and for how much. The first line on the sign indicates whether the chest shop is buying or selling. The remaining lines indicate what item is being bought or sold and for how many emeralds. Chest shops will only work if they are in a plot claimed by a shop.

Example of chest shops on Foundation Craft

Renting Shops

Shop owners can use the /shop rent <amount> command to make their shop available for rent to other players. Shops for rent are discoverable when using the /explore shops forrent command. Shop renters have exclusive access to protected storage while renting a shop.

For example, you can use /shop rent 25 while standing in a shop that you own to start renting the shop for 25 emeralds per day. You can stop renting your shop at any time, as long as the shop is not actively being rented by another player. The server will automatically collect rent from shop renters every 24 hours. Shop renters will automatically be evicted from the shop if they fail to pay rent.

Players are not allowed to build in rented shops. Shop owners cannot build or access protected storage in shops which are being rented by another player.

Selling Shops

Shop owners can sell their shops to other players for emeralds. Selling a shop allows players to permanently transfer ownership of their shop to another player for a one-time fee.

Use /shop sell <amount> to start selling one of your shops. Shops for sale are discoverable when using the /explore shops forsale command. Once a shop has been sold, ownership of the shop is transferred to the new shop owner meaning that the previous shop owner will no longer be able to build or access protected storage in the shop.

Shops in large settlements with lots of foot traffic are generally worth more emeralds.

Shop Taxes

Shop owners must pay taxes to the settlement owner. The tax amount is 2 emeralds per plot per day. If a shop owners fails to pay their taxes then the settlement owner may choose to reclaim ownership of the shop using the /shop reclaim command.