I would love something like this and had mentioned it I think a couple years back. But the idea then as it is now is that there is no way to fully protect player shops without admin protection, and no way to get admin protection without changing their rules for a vanilla server and some significant work.

Your best bet is probably to create a storefront and a storage area for each player and work like some kind of consignment shop. But the bigger question is what would you accomplish that couldn't be done in chat and the trade post already at spawn, that would have players work unprotected? That's been my challenge too as I've been wondering for awhile because I'm all about player economies.

Regardless, I'm interested to see what you come up with and wish you good luck.

Well I would pretty much build a shop with every possible item that people could want and make a certain type of coin to use as the trading currency. And use Redstone to make sure there is no cheating the system in also going to get some powerful facs to guard the place

or trying to make it worth while to keep it around

That's a lot of work you know that right

yeah

but i hope its worth it

Don't really see how this is better than just saying "Hey, I'm selling this items for this prices, post offers here and I'll get to them when they are ready" They only thing you could do is maybe having it open 24/7, but that can be done with the help of some friends.
Honestly, although interesting, there is not much point to it

Buy&Sell threads have worked great for players to make trades happen in the TP that would be your best option,much safer and less hassle.

Yeah, no matter what you do it's going to get raided. I'd suggest going with a forum thread instead.

yeah i know its gonna get raided i just wanna test out the idea also i would probably keep it open 24/7 as long as i can and maybe put someday when i close it. also i would have a machine that for a certain amount of diamond or emerald or iron or gold would be able to switch it to renamed sunflower heads which you could go and buy all the items with also looking out for a dia emerald or iron or gold to equipment price list

Also looking out for a tutorial on hoe to make a system that requires a certain amount of things from someone in exchange for something else

Stick on what you know brodie, you're going way too far. You're not building an Ikea... just sell your items and collect the payment from your customer and that is it

yeah but i want to build it automated

Listen. Automated = items having to be stored at the shop = you're going to get robbed. This doesn't work in a raiding server.

Unless you sell something like dirt blocks, whoever goes to it will attempt to raid you. I don't understand why you can't just sell it the normal way.

Newcomers have strange ideas sometimes, they'll understand as they play

@HaloNest Newcomers have strange ideas sometimes, they'll understand as they play

But it seems like someone should understand that they can get raided after playing for 5 minutes

Well I may make it only a faction shop instead

But I would love to see the idea used like it was when we were back in 1.9

Me and my friend had a working one that wasn't raided but unfortunately I may have built it 10 blocks inside the 1k clear area