Shop and Selling

The shop is the server's own market on Lifesteal. You sell loot to it for Money and buy supplies from it, including Hearts, spawners, netherite gear and potions. Every price is in Money, and sell prices move with demand.

Opening the shop#

Run /shop to open the Shop Menu, or /shop <category> to jump straight to one category. Click an item to open its buy or sell menu, choose how many with the amount buttons and confirm. /shophistory lists your recent shop transactions.

The category ids you can type after /shop are gear, ores, blocks, food, potions, enchants, misc, farming, fishing, spawners and mobdrops. Capital letters do not matter.

Selling#

You can also sell from a category menu: the sell menu lets you pick an amount or sell your whole inventory of that item. After a sale the game prints "You have sold x{amount} {item} for {price}!" and, if you sold several kinds of item, a "Total" line.

Prices in the menu#

Every item shows its prices in its description:

Items that cannot be bought show only their sell prices, and items that cannot be sold show only a buy price. The website's Market page for Lifesteal charts the same prices live (see Market Data Pages); see Shop for how the shop works across the network.

Demand-based sell prices#

Lifesteal uses demand pricing. The shop compares how much of an item players sold in the last 50 minutes with how much was sold in the 50 minutes before that, and recalculates the sell price every 10 minutes.

• Selling more than before lowers the price. If sales double, the price drops by about 20%, and the biggest possible drop is about 40%.
• Selling less than before raises it, up to +200% on top of the base price.
• An item nobody is selling gets a small incentive of roughly +4% to +20%, so unpopular items recover.
• The shop never pays more than it charges. For items that can be bought and sold, the sell price is capped at the buy price.

An active sell booster adds its bonus to your sell price, up to a maximum of +100%.

Notable purchases#

• Heart: sold in Misc for $25,000 each. See Hearts for what a Heart does and the limits on how many you can hold.
• Ability Pouch key: sold in Misc for $500,000. See Crates.
• Spawners: from a Cow spawner at $425,000 up to an Iron Golem spawner at $15,000,000, plus a Spawner Wrench at $50,000. See Spawners.
• Netherite gear: each armor piece, the sword and the axe cost $150,000 in Gear, as does the trident.
• Enchantment books: $60,000 to $100,000 each in Enchanted Books. Most books, including Sharpness V and Protection IV, cost $100,000.
• Beacon: $100,000 in Misc.

All prices#

The tables below show the current base prices for every category.

Gear#

Ores#

Blocks#

Food#

Potions#

Enchanted Books#

Misc#

Farming#

Fishing#

Spawners#

Mob Drops#

See also#

• Earning Money for every way to make Money, not only selling.
• Auction House to sell items to other players.
• Money for balances, /pay and notes.