MigratingMarkets

A Living Caravan Economy

Forget static shops and merchants that simply teleport around the map. MigratingMarkets brings your server to life with fully traveling merchant caravans that move across the world, establish temporary markets, react to player trading, and reward players who protect them on the road.

Every caravan follows its own configurable route, offers unique goods, and features a dynamic economy driven entirely by your players.

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✨ Features

🐪 Living Traveling Caravans

• Multiple unique caravan types:

  • ⚒️ Blacksmith
  • ✨ Enchanter
  • 🌍 Exotic Trader
  • 🍀 Fortune Teller (LuckyBlock integration currently in development)

• Every caravan has its own configurable route, schedule, and specialty.

• Caravans physically travel across the world instead of teleporting.

🌎 Real World Movement

Caravans don't magically appear.

They:

• Walk between waypoints.
• Automatically adjust to terrain height.
• Never spawn floating or underground.
• Keep their normal Villager AI while parked, making every marketplace feel alive.

📈 Dynamic Supply & Demand Economy

The market constantly evolves.

• Buying items increases their price.
• Selling items lowers their price.
• Prices slowly return to normal over time.
• Stock fully replenishes every market day.

No two visits are ever exactly the same.

📦 Stock & Item Levels

Every item has a configurable level (1–5).

Higher level items:

• Restock in smaller quantities.
• Sell out faster.
• Stay valuable.

Lower level items:

• Remain widely available.
• Restock frequently.

🛡 Escort Reputation System

Protect caravans while they travel.

Defeat hostile mobs near a moving caravan to earn reputation with that specific merchant.

Higher reputation unlocks:

• Better discounts
• Reputation titles
• Improved prices whenever that caravan returns.

🧭 Encourage Exploration

When a caravan leaves, players only receive vague hints about its destination.

Instead of exact coordinates, they'll hear messages such as:

"The Blacksmith Caravan has headed east."

Players must explore the world to find the next market.

💾 Persistent World State

Everything is saved automatically:

• Caravan positions
• Routes
• Dynamic prices
• Remaining stock
• Market timers
• Escort reputation

Restart your server without resetting the economy.

💰 Flexible Economy

Supports:

• Emerald trading (default)
• Vault economy

If Vault isn't installed, the plugin automatically falls back to emeralds.

🍀 LuckyBlock Integration (In Development)

Support for LuckyBlock is currently being developed.

The planned Fortune Caravan will eventually be able to sell real Lucky Blocks of different rarities through native API integration.

⚡ Tab Completion

Full tab completion for:

• /market
• /caravanadmin

Including caravan IDs and waypoint indexes.

⚙️ Highly Configurable

Everything is configurable inside config.yml.

Customize:

• Caravan routes
• Waypoints
• Market schedules
• Item pools
• Dynamic pricing
• Stock limits
• Reputation rewards
• Broadcast messages
• Economy provider

Create as many unique caravans as your server needs.

📋 Commands

Player Commands

Players can also simply right-click a caravan to open its shop.

Admin Commands

🌟 Why MigratingMarkets?

Most shop plugins place NPCs in one location forever.

MigratingMarkets creates a living world where merchants travel, markets evolve, prices change naturally, and exploration becomes part of the economy.

Turn trading into an adventure.