Minecraft:Head

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All heads and skulls.

Heads (including skulls) are a group of 7 Minecraft:blocks based on the heads of Minecraft:players and 6 different Minecraft:mobs. All heads can be Minecraft:worn as Minecraft:helmets and serve as special Minecraft:note block instruments.

Variants

There are seven types of entity heads:

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Obtaining

Mob loot

The following heads drop when the corresponding mob is killed by a Minecraft:charged creeper's explosion:

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Minecraft:Dragon heads and Minecraft:player heads have corresponding mobs, but they don't drop when these mobs are killed by a charged creeper.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

If multiple mobs are killed by the explosion of a single charged creeper, only one head will drop from a mob randomly chosen from those killed in this explosion.Template:Only

A Minecraft:wither skeleton sometimes drops a wither skeleton skull when killed.

Natural generation

• Minecraft:Skeleton skulls generate as part of Minecraft:ancient cities.
• A single Minecraft:dragon head generates at the front of Minecraft:End ships.

Player head

The Minecraft:player head is unobtainable in Minecraft:Survival, and can be obtained only by the Minecraft:Creative inventory, using Template:Control or executing Minecraft:commands.

Usage

Heads can be broken by Minecraft:fluids, dropping themselves unless destroyed by Minecraft:lava.

Decoration

Heads can be oriented in 16 different directions on top of a block, and 4 directions on the sides of blocks, similar to Minecraft:signs. They can be placed on top of or beside each other by shift-clicking.

When placed and powered by redstone, the piglin and dragon heads play an animation. The piglin head flaps its ears (2 times per second for the right ear and 2.5 times per second for the left ear) while the dragon head opens and closes its mouth repeatedly (2 times per second). The same animation occurs when worn by a (horizontally) moving player, zombie, skeleton, or Minecraft:armor stand (note: the animation does not play if the NoGravity tag is set to 1).

Wearing

The player can wear heads, similarly to Minecraft:carved pumpkins or Minecraft:helmets. This overlays the second layer of the player's Minecraft:skin.

Wearing the corresponding head reduces the detection range for Minecraft:skeletons (but not Minecraft:wither skeletons), Minecraft:creepers, Minecraft:zombies, and Minecraft:piglins to 50% of the normal range. This is similar to (and stacks with) the reductions in detection range from Minecraft:sneaking and from the Minecraft:Invisibility status effect.

Wearing any head hides the player's waypoint on the Minecraft:locator bar. Template:IN, wearing any head makes the player invisible to other players on a locator Minecraft:map.

Dispensers

A Minecraft:dispenser can equip a head on a player, mob, or armor stand with an empty helmet slot, within the block the dispenser is facing.

Dispensers can place wither skeleton skulls to complete the construction of a wither unless the Minecraft:difficulty is set to peaceful.

Enchantments

Heads can receive the following enchantments, but only through an Minecraft:anvil.

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Minecraft:Curse of Vanishing	I	Template:BlockLink

Note blocks

Placing a head above a Minecraft:note block causes the note block to play the corresponding mob's Template:Cd sound when activated. The only exception is the creeper head; as creepers don't make Template:Cd sounds, the note block plays the Template:Cd (hissing) sound instead.

The block below the note block does not affect the mob sound it creates.

Sounds

Unique

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Data values

ID

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Block states

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Block data

A head has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

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• Template:Nbt Block entity data
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  • Template:Nbt: Optional. The custom name of the head or skull. Represents the Template:DCL component.
  • Template:Nbt: Optional. If this block is a player head, this is the Minecraft:sound event produced by the note block that this head is placed on. Does nothing if present on any other head or skull type. Represents the Template:DCL component.
  • Template:NbtTemplate:Nbt: Optional. The textures and/or player profile used to render a player head. If specified as a string, it corresponds to Template:Nbt and is always saved as a Template:Nbt compound. If omitted, a the wide Minecraft:Steve skin is used. Does nothing if present on any other head or skull type. Represents the Template:DCL component.
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See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

History

Trivia

• Heads do not have their own textures and take their textures from other objects.
• When Minecraft:breaking any head, the particle effect of breaking it is the same as Minecraft:soul sand.
• Despite there being a default Steve head, heads for the other default skins cannot be obtained without using custom names.
• Template:IN, the skull variant for the item is stored under the Template:Cd component, normally used for items with Minecraft:durability.

Gallery

Screenshots

• Heads oriented in different directions.
  Heads oriented in different directions.
• Heads are the same scale as Minecraft:cobblestone wall posts.
  Heads are the same scale as Minecraft:cobblestone wall posts.
• A picture of player heads, including some Mojang characters.
  A picture of player heads, including some Mojang characters.
• Several heads as they appear during a puzzle in the Timeless Trails DLC.
  Several heads as they appear during a puzzle in the Timeless Trails DLC.

Development images

• First screenshot released of heads.
  First screenshot released of heads.
• Notch's head in a Minecraft:minecart with chest.
  Notch's head in a Minecraft:minecart with chest.
• First image of held heads rendering as blocks.
  First image of held heads rendering as blocks.
• Second image of held heads rendering as blocks.
  Second image of held heads rendering as blocks.
• First image of a head being worn in bedrock edition.
  First image of a head being worn in bedrock edition.
• First attempt to fix Template:Bug by Minecraft:Xilefian.
  First attempt to fix Template:Bug by Minecraft:Xilefian.
• Second attempt.
  Second attempt.

In other media

• Efe placing a zombie head sneakily on the note block.
  Efe placing a zombie head sneakily on the note block.
• Makena waking up startled at the sound of zombies being played on the note block.
  Makena waking up startled at the sound of zombies being played on the note block.
• Minecraft:Sunny using a piglin head to make noise in a Minecraft:Crimson Forest.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct7CfOBplrG/</ref>
  Minecraft:Sunny using a piglin head to make noise in a Minecraft:Crimson Forest.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct7CfOBplrG/</ref>