# Ep44. Villager Trading GUI – Minecraft Plugin Development

Source: https://mineacademy.org/tutorial-44
Published: 2023-11-28

[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulSePXkquIU)

How to make a Minecraft plugin that opens custom merchant inventories without needing to have a villager nearby.

I’ll also show you how to modify a villager’s trading GUI and add your own items to it, or remove vanilla you don’t want there.

In this video, we’ll cover:

- **Cditing villager trades** — How to add/remove/edit Villager merchant trades.
- **Opening virtual merchant inventories in Bukkit** — Making a Minecraft plugin that opens custom GUI with villager trades without NPCs nearby.

**Source Codes:**

- [CowCannon plugin (continuously updated)](https://github.com/kangarko/CowCannon)

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