🪧 Shops

Sell your loot — or run a store — with chest-linked sign shops. No commands needed; it's all signs.

Creating a shop

1. Place a chest (or barrel) and fill it with what you're selling
2. Put a sign on or directly above it
3. Write on the sign:

[Shop]
DIAMOND
B 100 : S 40

• Line 1: [Shop] — exactly that
• Line 2: the item name (e.g. DIAMOND, IRON_INGOT, COOKED_BEEF)
• Line 3: your prices — B is what players pay to buy from you, S is what you pay them when they sell to you. You can have just one: B 100 (sell-only shop) or S 40 (buy-only shop)
• Line 4: leave empty — your name is filled in automatically

If the sign is rejected, check the item name and that there's a chest behind/under it.

Using a shop

• Right-click the sign to buy one item (your money → chest owner, item → you)
• Sneak + right-click to sell one item to the shop (your item → chest, owner's money → you)
• If the shop only has one price, any click does that trade
• The shop owner right-clicking their own sign shows shop info

Tax note 💸: whoever receives money in the trade pays the sales tax. Buy a $100 diamond and the owner receives $100 minus sales tax; sell to a shop for $40 and you receive $40 minus tax. The sign price is always the full price paid.

Government shops 🏛️

Admins (hideoutia.shop.admin) can create government shops — official stores backed by the treasury instead of a chest:

[Gov Shop]
DIAMOND
B 100 : S 40

• Line 1: [Gov Shop] instead of [Shop]
• No chest needed — there's nothing to place behind or under the sign
• Line 4 shows Government instead of a player name

How they differ from player shops:

• Infinite stock and capacity — a gov shop never runs out and never fills up
• Buying takes your money straight to the treasury, and the item is created for you. There's no sales tax on a gov sale — the government is the receiver and doesn't tax itself (same as buying land from the state)
• Selling to a gov shop destroys the item and pays you from the treasury. You're the receiver, so you still pay sales tax as normal
• The treasury can go negative if a gov shop buys at generous prices — a deliberate economy lever (and a risk) for the PM

An admin right-clicking a gov shop sign sees its info; everyone else trades.

Protection 🔒

Your shop is safe:

• Nobody else can break your shop sign or chest
• Hoppers can't touch shop chests (in or out — including sneaky double-chest tricks)
• Pistons can't move or crush them
• Explosions won't destroy them
• One shop per chest

Break your own sign or chest to close the shop. A government shop sign can only be broken by an admin (hideoutia.shop.admin), which removes it.

Tips

• Out of stock = the buy side stops working until you restock the chest. Keep it filled!
• Selling to a shop needs the owner to have money and the chest to have space — both are checked before anything moves.
• Trades are all-or-nothing: if anything fails mid-trade, money and items go back where they started.