Opening Hours

By default the market is always open — players can /market any time and only the items rotate. Optionally, you can make the market open for a short window after each rotation and close in between, so it feels like a timed event.

The setting

One key in config.yml:

shop:
  rotation-interval: 3600     # items rotate every hour
  open-duration: 120          # market is OPEN for 120s after each rotation, then closed

open-duration	Behaviour
0 (default)	Always open. Only the items rotate.
> 0	Open for that many seconds after each rotation, then closed until the next one.

With the example above the cycle is: rotation → open 2 minutes → closed 58 minutes → next rotation re-opens.

What “closed” means

While the market is closed:

• /market is refused with the market-closed message and a countdown — “The market is closed. Opens in 57m 12s.”
• Any open shop or buy menus are force-closed the moment the window ends, so nobody keeps buying past closing time.

When the next rotation fires, the market opens again — and because the rotation also sends the rotation-broadcast, online players get pinged exactly when it opens.

Timing notes

• The open window starts at each rotation, so it aligns with rotation-interval. Open duration should be shorter than the interval (a longer-or-equal value just means always open).
• Changing open-duration takes effect from the next rotation after a reload. Run /dshop rotate to apply it immediately (and open a fresh window now).
• The window is restart-safe: if the server restarts while the market is open, it stays open for the remaining time.

Placeholders

For scoreboards/holograms (with PlaceholderAPI):

Placeholder	Returns
%drotatingshop_open%	true while open, false while closed.
%drotatingshop_next_open%	Countdown to the next opening (0s while already open).

See Placeholders.