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Mob head
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Mob head
| Type |
Solid Block |
| Requirements |
? |
| Physics |
No |
| Transparency |
Yes |
| Luminance |
No |
| Blast resistance |
5 |
| Tool |
Any tool |
| Renewable |
Yes (Wither Skeleton) |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Flammable |
No |
| First appearance | |
| Tile Entity ID |
Skull |
| Data values |
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Mob heads are decorative blocks. There are five variants of mob heads: Skeleton, Wither Skeleton, zombie, human and Creeper. The Wither Skeleton variant is a rare drop from the respective mob, with the other heads only available in Creative mode.
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[edit] As a crafting ingredient
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| Mob head + Gunpowder + Dye (Forms Creeper shape) |
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[edit] Uses
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Wither build configuration
The main use of heads is as decoration. They can be oriented in 16 different directions on top of a block, and 4 directions on the sides of blocks, similar to signs. They cannot be placed on top of each other.
Wither skeleton skulls are essential for spawning a Wither. To do so, place 4 soul sand in a T-shape, then place three wither skeleton skulls on top. The orientation of the skulls does not matter.
Heads are also used in the crafting of Firework Stars. Firework Rockets crafted with said stars will have a creeper shaped explosion, regardless of which type of head was used.
The player can also wear heads as disguise, similarly to pumpkins. This will only replace the first layer of the player's skin. If the player has a second layer over their head, it will still render over the head. Occasionally, another mob may pick up a skull and wear it just as the player would. This is common when a wither skeleton drops a skull next to another mob in the nether. They can also be used as a decorative disguise, using dyed leather armor. Heads are not able to be pushed by pistons, as they have tile entities.
The only mobs which can wear the heads are the Skeleton, Wither Skeleton, Zombie, and Zombie Pigmen (Only the part that its skull shows). As of right now no other mobs can wear the heads. However, other mobs can wear heads using custom spawners via MCEdit.
[edit] History
| Official release | ||
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| Jeb released images of the skeleton head,[3] hinting of more types to come. | ||
| At PAX, Dinnerbone revealed that there would be very rare drops of these mobs.[1][2] | ||
| 1.4.2 | 12w36a | The skeleton, wither skeleton, zombie, steve, and creeper heads were introduced in the update. Wither Skeleton skulls are rarely dropped by the Wither Skeleton upon death (2.5% chance), while the other four are only obtainable from the creative inventory. |
| 12w37a | Added as a hidden and disabled feature, human heads can now have the skin of a specific player. A line in the language file implies that there either used to be, or in a future update, the possibility of obtaining a specific player's head.[4] Dinnerbone hinted at the possibility of player heads being dropped at death like trophy heads.[citation needed] Player heads do not/will not drop in vanilla, but mapmakers/modders/etc. can make them by adding an NBT string tag "SkullOwner" -> (player name) on the skull items.[5] |
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| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Any kind of mob head can be used to craft a Firework Star with Creeper-face effect. |
[edit] Issues
Issues relating to "Mob head" are maintained on Mojira. Report issues there.
[edit] Trivia
- When breaking any head, the particle effect of breaking it is the same as soul sand.
- The most possible reason is because they don't have their terrain.png file
- All heads are not to scale, but are, in fact, the same size (even though Wither Skeletons have larger heads than the other represented mobs).
- Heads are one of the few blocks that do not use terrain.png (13w01b and earlier) or Textures/Blocks (13w02a and later) and take their textures from other objects.
- Heads will break upon contact with water and lava.
- The "hat layer" is not represented on mob heads.
- Heads can be worn by zombies, skeletons, wither skeletons, and zombie pigmen.[6]
- In demo mode after the demo period has ended, breaking a Wither Skeleton skull will cause it to reappear as a normal skeleton skull.
- Although Mob heads do not protect the player, an enchanted Mob head, when worn, will apply the said effects to the player.
[edit] Gallery
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First screenshot released of heads
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All the heads as of snapshot 12w36a
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Heads oriented different directions
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A circle of creeper heads with different orientations.
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Heads are the same scale as cobblestone wall posts.
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Heads in Item Frames
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A picture of player heads, including some Mojang characters[5]
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Zombie Pigmen wearing Wither Skeleton Skulls.
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Custom head created with a map editor. It's AntVenom's head.
