VillagerBased PlayerShops
VillagerBased PlayerShops lets a player spawn a shop villager and stock its trades, so customers buy from the player's own villager.
What it does
Each shop is a villager that the owner places and configures through a chest setup screen. The owner fills the trades with items, and customers open the normal villager trade screen to buy. Customers need no extra screen or client install, because the shop uses the vanilla merchant interface. Paged stock and payment screens let owners manage larger inventories across several pages.
Owners can rename a shop villager and set its profession, biome variant, glow and rotation, so each shop can look distinct on a server. The mod runs on the server alone, and only the server needs it. It is a Fabric mod for Minecraft 26.2 and requires Fabric API. Files exist for 26.1.2 and 26.2, and the latest Fabric file is 1.0.4+mc26.2, published 2026-07-02. The code is not open source, and the mod is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
Player-owned shop villagers
Players spawn villagers that act as shops, and the server handles every trade.
Chest setup screen
Trades are stocked and configured through a chest-based setup interface.
Villager appearance options
Shop villagers can be renamed and given a profession, biome variant, glow and rotation.
Paged stock and payment screens
Larger stock lists are split across pages in both the stock and payment screens.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Player economies on servers
Server owners can let players run their own villager shops, supporting trade between players without a plugin.
Who it’s for: Server owners who want player-run villager shops, and players who want to sell items to others through a shop they stock themselves.
How it compares
Advanced Economics is a Fabric server-side mod for 26.1.2 – 26.2 with a BUSL-1.1 license and no open source code. Balanced Villager Trades is a Fabric server-required mod, with client use optional, for 26.2 – 26.3 under the MIT License. Both change villager trading, while VillagerBased PlayerShops centers on owner-stocked shop villagers.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VillagerBased PlayerShops | Fabric | 26.1.2 – 26.2 | Server-side only | 2026-07-02 |
| Advanced Economics | Fabric | 26.1.2 – 26.2 | Server-side only | 2026-07-19 |
| Balanced Villager Trades | Fabric | 26.2 – 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-09-24 |
Questions
Does Fabric API need to be installed?
Do players need to install the mod to shop?
Which game versions are supported?
In the catalog
VillagerBased PlayerShops is one of 4,058 Storage mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,474 Storage mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Give players their own villager-run shops — no plugins, fully server-side. /shop create spawns an invulnerable shop villager with no breakable block behind it. Owners stock their own trades through a chest-based setup GUI — rename the shop, pick the villager's profession and biome variant, toggle glow, set rotation…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/villagerbased-playershops
- Owner
- jonahsnotmyname
- Published
- 2026-07-02
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-02
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15