Alright, so the shop is actually not gonna be run by me, but instead going to be run by the community. But I will provide a little help.

There is going to be a market area in the town with a bunch of (plots) placed next to each other and on front of each other. Each plot would have a number, which would allow warping to that specific plot, which would be important later.

Each plot would contain a chest full of signs and a button that, upon pressing, would construct a booth that contains a bunch of chests. (It would be World guard protected so people can’t just mine these for resources)

You would take a sign from the chest and place it on the booth with your name. You also load your chests with the stuff you are selling, and then mark each chest with the item (or items) and price by using the free signs.

From here, there are two things you could do. You either

A.) just stand at the shop until someone come to buy something

Or

B.) Use Shop protection, which is activated via a lever inside the plot. Shop protection would create a barrier wrapping around the shop (and teleporting you out so you aren’t trapped) preventing players from being able to access it and steal loot. This is handy as it means that you are able to step away from the shop and play the game, and than when someone says they want to buy from you, you warp into inside your plot by doing the warp command and putting in the assigned number. Since this teleports you inside the plot meaning you bypassed the barriers, you can turn off spawn protection, getting rid of the barriers, and allowing the transaction to occur.

You may be asking “but what’s to stop someone from warping inside someone’s shop and stealing?”

Simple, I have a chat log that I would review each day, and if I notice someone who didn’t have a plot/had a different plot warped into a plot that they didn’t claim, the owner of the plot checks to see if anything in missing and if there is some stuff missing, that person is banned.

I already know how to do the commands necessary for this so it should be very easy to implement.

How do you guys like the idea, any suggestions?

Edit: Just realized I could create a stand teleports you out once you create it that has barriers surrounding it, two hoppers that lead to chests, one on the inside of the plot and one on the outside, so that the person buying from the shop says “Hey (user), come to your shop”, the seller does the warp command using the number system I mentioned earlier, the buyer drops the items into the hopper which leads to a chest on the seller’s side, they take it, than they drop the item that the buyer was buying which leads to a chest on the outside, so the buyer can receive their item.