Player Head by command

Skin and nickname

Command /give on the head of any playerLearn more

The head of someone else's face in survival falls only from a player killed by a loaded cryper. The command gives it at once, and there are two different commands: one working with the Internet only, the other working anywhere.

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Whose head

You need a licensed account nickname: only Mojang stores the texture of someone else’s skin.

Is there a texture line? Insert it instead of nickname

Notch

Example · Command /give

Commands

Works everywhere - with texture

Nick isn't involved inside: the server draws a head by description and doesn't ask anyone. It's good for a pirate server, a single game, and a world without an Internet.

/give @p minecraft:player_head[profile={id:[I;110787060,1156138790,-1514210135,238594805],properties:[{name:"textures",value:"ewogICJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiIDogMTc5NDI0NTgwODQ5MiwKICAicHJvZmlsZUlkIiA6ICIwNjlhNzlmNDQ0ZTk0NzI2YTViZWZjYTkwZTM4YWFmNSIsCiAgInByb2ZpbGVOYW1lIiA6ICJOb3RjaCIsCiAgInRleHR1cmVzIiA6IHsKICAgICJTS0lOIiA6IHsKICAgICAgInVybCIgOiAiaHR0cDovL3RleHR1cmVzLm1pbmVjcmFmdC5uZXQvdGV4dHVyZS8yOTIwMDlhNDkyNWI1OGYwMmM3N2RhZGMzZWNlZjA3ZWE0Yzc0NzJmNjRlMGZkYzMyY2U1NTIyNDg5MzYyNjgwIgogICAgfQogIH0KfQ=="}]}]

499 signs — 256 in the chat room. This command is being inserted into command block: there is no limit. You can take it from the neighboring command - /give @p command_block.

Short - by nickname

The server itself will ask Mojang whose face this is. On a server with online-mode=false and without the Internet will give out Steve's head with the correct name.

/give @p minecraft:player_head[profile="Notch"]

The texture itself

The same line separately - it is placed in the plugin configs (HeadDatabase, DeluxeMenus, Citizens) and in datapacks.

ewogICJ0aW1lc3RhbXAiIDogMTc5NDI0NTgwODQ5MiwKICAicHJvZmlsZUlkIiA6ICIwNjlhNzlmNDQ0ZTk0NzI2YTViZWZjYTkwZTM4YWFmNSIsCiAgInByb2ZpbGVOYW1lIiA6ICJOb3RjaCIsCiAgInRleHR1cmVzIiA6IHsKICAgICJTS0lOIiA6IHsKICAgICAgInVybCIgOiAiaHR0cDovL3RleHR1cmVzLm1pbmVjcmFmdC5uZXQvdGV4dHVyZS8yOTIwMDlhNDkyNWI1OGYwMmM3N2RhZGMzZWNlZjA3ZWE0Yzc0NzJmNjRlMGZkYzMyY2U1NTIyNDg5MzYyNjgwIgogICAgfQogIH0KfQ==

How to use

Place a command block
command with texture is longer than chat. /give @p command_block - and paste it there.
Run it
By button or lever - the head will come to the nearest player with the correct face on any server.
Or briefly - by nickname
On a licensed server, a short command directly into the chat will suffice. In pirated she will give Steve.

What you need to know about heads

There are two commands, and they are not equivalent. The short name is Nick, and the server goes after Mojang; the long face carries itself. The pirate server and without the Internet only works second, the first one will give Steve's head away and say nothing.
The recording form changed in 1.20.5. Before her, the profile was in the NBT tag SkullOwner, from it - in the component profile. The command from the wrong version strip gives a faceless head - silently, like everything else in the commands.
The UUID in the old entry is an array of four numbers, not a string. So with 1.16; with the line, the command will not be fulfilled at all, and without UUID, the head will be left faceless. Half the numbers are negative, and that's normal: the game reads them as landmarks.
In survival, you almost never get such a head. It only drops from a player killed by a charged creeper - and the creeper must also be charged with lightning. That's why heads are placed as a command at spawns.
The head can be put on. In a helmet slot, she gets up on any server and doesn't protect anything; but the mobs of the species whose head is worn are noticed by the player from a smaller distance.
We need the license, not the command. Only Mojang stores the texture of someone else’s skin, and according to the pirate nickname there is nowhere to get it from. The ready-made command then works anywhere.

What is needed is not the head, but the skin itself - Skine rendezvous give away a face, a figure and a file. Makes his face on the totem of immortality Totem generator, and a command for any other item - Generator /give.

Frequently asked questions

How to get a player's head with a command?

By command /give at minimum:player_head. Short forms are two: Nick and texture, the second works on both the pirate server and the Internet.

Why is the head identified by its nickname as Steve?

The short command asks the server to go to Mojang for a skink. On a pirate server and without an Internet, he can't do it and puts his head on the default. Take the texture command.

Is it possible to put the player's head on yourself?

Yes, the head fits into the helmet slot. It does not provide protection, but is visible to other players.