This page is an overview of the ShopDB documentation.
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How is ShopDB updated?
How can I add or remove my chest shops from ShopDB?
By default, all chest shops are hidden. Two criteria must be met for chest shops to be shown:
To check if a chest shop is in a region, go to the chest shop in-game and type: /rg i.
To see if a region is listed, visit the regions page and search for it. Under the region name is an indication of whether or not it is listed. If the region is not displayed, ensure you have unchecked the 'Hide Unlisted' option.
It is also possible that the region is not yet in ShopDB. Regions are only sent to or updated in ShopDB after a chest shop within it has been interacted with, or after the region has been listed.
How are overlapping regions handled?
Sometimes regions overlap. For example, all the chest shops in the market are also in spawn. In ShopDB, chest shops are linked to only one region. In this case, the following criteria is used to select which region the shop likely belongs to:
In most cases, this selection criteria results in the correct region being linked. However, if a region is chosen incorrectly, this can be resolved by the region owners by ensuring that only the correct region is listed. Then, chest shops will be correctly linked after interactions occur.
Which chest shops show up first?
The sorting criteria selected determines the order in which shops are listed. Best price, selected by default, sorts chest shops by the best value (cheapest per individual item sold, or most money offered per individual item purchased). However, many times players trade items for the same price as others.
In the case where the sorting criteria results in a tie, the results are randomized. This way, no chest shops are favored or listed higher than other chest shops.
Where are my other 100 dirt chest shops?
To avoid filling search results with redundant chest shops, hide identical shops, enabled by default, filters out chest shops that have the same item, owner, region, and price. This can be disabled by unchecking the filter.
When the filter is enabled, the most available chest shop will be the unique shop selected and shown. When purchasing, this prioritizes shops with greater quantity. When selling, this prioritizes shops with the greatest space available.