How to get zombie head in Minecraft Bedrock

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In Minecraft, players can find hundreds of unique blocks and items. Some blocks like dirt, stone and iron are available everywhere, but a few blocks such as emerald ore, ancient debris, and mob heads can be rare to find.

Mob heads are among the oldest blocks in Minecraft and have been in the game since the Pretty Scary Update of 2012. Mob heads are considered uncommon items in the rarity level chart.

Players can wear mob heads and disguise themselves near hostile mobs. For example, a creeper will have a hard time noticing a player who is wearing a creeper head. Players can use mob heads for decoration purposes or make cool banners with them in Minecraft.

Mob heads are a fan-favorite item for many Minecraft players. These heads make great decorations, help players spawn the wither and can even be worn on the player's head.

Mob heads have been a Minecraft feature for a long time but were only recently made available in the vanilla survival world.

Obtaining mob heads in Minecraft

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A wither skeleton has a 2.5% chance of dropping a wither skeleton skull when killed by a player or tamed wolf. The chance is increased by 1% per level of Looting, for a maximum of 5.5% with Looting III.

In Bedrock Edition, the chance is increased by 2% per level of Looting, for a maximum of 8.5% with Looting III.

Skeleton, wither skeleton, zombie, creeper and piglin‌[upcoming: JE 1.20 & BE 1.20] heads are also always dropped by the respective mob if it dies due to a charged creeper's explosion. However, if multiple valid mobs are killed in one explosion, only one head drops;[1] the one that drops a head is chosen at random. In Bedrock Edition, the number of head drops from a charged creeper explosion is not limited. If an ender dragon or a player is killed by a charged creeper, it does not drop its head.[2]

Usage[]

Decoration[]

Mob heads can be oriented in 16 different directions on top of a block, and 4 directions on the sides of blocks, similar to 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 will play an animation. The piglin head flaps its ears, while the dragon head opens and closes its mouth repeatedly. The same animation occurs when worn by a (horizontally) moving player, zombie, skeleton, or armor stand (note: the animation does not play if the NoGravity tag is set to 1)

Wearing[]

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

Disguise[]

Wearing the corresponding mob head reduces the detection range for skeletons (but not wither skeletons), creepers, zombies, and piglins‌[upcoming: JE 1.20 & BE 1.20] to 50% of the normal range. This is similar to (and stacks with) the reductions in detection range from sneaking and from the Invisibility status effect.

In Bedrock Edition, wearing any mob head or carved pumpkin makes the player invisible to other players on a locator map.

Withers[]

Wither build configuration

Withers can be spawned by placing soul sand or soul soil in a T shape, and putting 3 wither skeleton skulls on top of the T. The T can be horizontal or vertical. The last block placed must be one of the three wither skeleton skulls. A dispenser can also create a wither, by placing the final skull onto soul sand directly in front of and below it.

Dispensers[]

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

Dispensers can also complete the construction of a wither.

Crafting ingredient[]

Enchantments[]

Mob heads can receive the following enchantments, but only through an anvil.

Player skins[]

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition. 

Human heads have an extra usage for map makers, they can be given NBT data so that they appear with the skin of any Minecraft account. This means if a player knows that a specific account has a head that is desired to display, the NBT data can be edited to make it appear.

The command to give the player a head with the skin of another player is /give @s minecraft:player_head{SkullOwner:"<PlayerName>"}. Commonly, this kind of head is called a custom head.

Another command to give the player a head with another player's skin is /give @s minecraft:player_head{SkullOwner:{Id:"<PlayerUUID>",Properties:{textures:[{Value:"<SkinURL>"}]} } }. SkinURL is a string encoded in Base64 containing the URL of the player's skin.[3] A player head saves the skin of the player from the time it was created, meaning if the player changes their skin, the head still displays the original texture.[4] This kind of head is generally called a custom head.

Marc's Head Format[]

Most of the MHF mob heads provided.

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition. 

Marc Watson created a number of accounts with specific skins so map makers could use common heads without the risk of someone changing their skins.[5] Nowadays, since heads do not update the skin if a player changes their skin, this is not something map-makers need to worry about, though these skins are still useful. These accounts have names in the format MHF_<Name>, for example MHF_PigZombie is the name of a Minecraft user with a zombified piglin head. MHF stands for "Marc's Head Format".[6] There are also a few blocks and "bonus" heads, for more variety. These player heads have not been updated in compliance with the Texture Update, and are outdated.

Because these are names of player accounts, these heads are obtained or placed using the SkullOwner tag, for instance: /give @s minecraft:player_head{SkullOwner:"MHF_<Name>"}.

The following names/heads have been made available:[7]

• MHF_Alex
• MHF_Blaze
• MHF_CaveSpider
• MHF_Chicken
• MHF_Cow
• MHF_Creeper
• MHF_Enderman
• MHF_Ghast
• MHF_Golem
• MHF_Herobrine
• MHF_LavaSlime
• MHF_MushroomCow
• MHF_Ocelot
• MHF_Pig
• MHF_PigZombie
• MHF_Sheep
• MHF_Skeleton
• MHF_Slime
• MHF_Spider
• MHF_Squid
• MHF_Steve
• MHF_Villager
• MHF_WSkeleton
• MHF_Zombie

• MHF_Cactus
• MHF_Cake
• MHF_Chest
• MHF_CoconutB
• MHF_CoconutG
• MHF_Melon
• MHF_OakLog
• MHF_Present1
• MHF_Present2
• MHF_Pumpkin
• MHF_TNT
• MHF_TNT2

• MHF_ArrowUp
• MHF_ArrowDown
• MHF_ArrowLeft
• MHF_ArrowRight
• MHF_Exclamation
• MHF_Question

Note blocks[]

Placing a head above a note block will cause the note block to play the corresponding mob's ambient sound when activated. The only exception is the creeper head, as creepers don't make ambient sounds, the note block will play the primed sound instead.‌[upcoming: JE 1.20 & BE 1.20]

Sounds[]

Generic[]

Java Edition:

1. ↑ a b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Unique[]

Java Edition‌[upcoming: JE 1.20]:

Bedrock Edition‌[upcoming: BE 1.20.0]:

1. ↑ a b c d e f Actually equal to
   
   , which is about 0.8409
2. ↑ a b c MCPE-164530
3. ↑ MCPE-164710

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

1. ↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
2. ↑ Unavailable with ambient4 command

Metadata[]

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, mob heads use the following data values: For the item and for the tile entity, data values determine the skull type:

Item data[]

Java Edition:

Main article: Player.dat format

Player heads use item NBT to save the owner.

•  tag: The item's tag tag.

• •  SkullOwner: The username of the player this is a skull of. This gets converted to the compound version on almost any action.
  •  SkullOwner: Different definition for the skull's owner.
    •  Id: UUID of owner, stored as four ints. Optional. Used to update the other tags when the chunk loads or the holder logs in, in case the owner's name has changed.
    •  Name: Username of owner. If missing or empty, the head appears as a Steve head. Otherwise, used to store or retrieve the downloaded skin in the cache. Need not be a valid player name, but must not be all spaces.
    •  Properties
      •  textures
        • : An individual texture.
          •  Value: A Base64-encoded JSON object.
            •  isPublic: Optional.
            •  signatureRequired
            •  profileId: Optional: The hexadecimal text form of the player's UUID, without hyphens.
            •  profileName: Optional: Player name.
            •  textures
              •  CAPE: Optional.
                •  url: URL of a player cape (64x32 PNG).
              •  SKIN
                •  url: URL of a player skin on textures.minecraft.net.
                •  metadata
                  •  model: The model of the player skin. Can be "classic" or "slim".
            •  timestamp: Optional: Unix time in milliseconds.
          •  Signature: Optional.

Bedrock Edition:

Block states[]

See also: Block states

Java Edition:
Floor

Wall

Bedrock Edition:

Block data[]

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

Java Edition:

See also: Block entity format

• Block entity data
  • Tags common to all block entities
  •  note_block_sound: ‌[upcoming: JE 1.19.3] Optional. The sound event this skull plays when played with a note block.
  •  ExtraType: Name of the player this is a skull of. This tag is converted to SkullOwner below upon loading the NBT. When loaded sets the name to the value and the UUID to null.
  •  SkullOwner: The definition of the skull's owner. When this is a SkullOwner0 or /give @s minecraft:player_head{SkullOwner:"MHF_<Name>"}4, shows this player's skin; if missing, shows the head of the default Steve skin.
    •  Id: UUID of owner, stored as four ints. Optional. Used to update the other tags when the chunk loads or the holder logs in, in case the owner's name has changed.
    •  Name: Username of owner. If missing or empty, the head appears as a Steve head. Otherwise, used to store or retrieve the downloaded skin in the cache. Need not be a valid player name, but must not be all spaces.
    •  Properties
      •  textures
        • : An individual texture.
          •  Value: A Base64-encoded JSON object.
            •  isPublic: Optional.
            •  signatureRequired
            •  profileId: Optional: The hexadecimal text form of the player's UUID, without hyphens.
            •  profileName: Optional: Player name.
            •  textures
              •  CAPE: Optional.
                •  url: URL of a player cape (64x32 PNG).
              •  SKIN
                •  url: URL of a player skin on textures.minecraft.net.
                •  metadata
                  •  model: The model of the player skin. Can be "classic" or "slim".
            •  timestamp: Optional: Unix time in milliseconds.
          •  Signature: Optional.

Bedrock Edition:

Achievements[]

Advancements[]

History[]

For a more in-depth breakdown of changes to textures and models, including a set of renders for each state combination, see /Asset history

Skull "item"[]

Appearances[]

Names[]

• 12w36a - 13w25b: [Has no defined name, rendering a minimum-length text box if highlighted]
• 13w25c - 14w21b: tile.skull.name

When given using the ambient4 command, it is announced as tile.skull.name.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Head" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• Heads do not have their own textures and take their textures from other objects.
• When breaking any head, the particle effect of breaking it is the same as soul sand.
• Despite there being a default Steve head, an Alex head cannot be obtained without using custom names.
• In Bedrock Edition, the skull variant for the item is stored under the /give @s minecraft:player_head{SkullOwner:"<PlayerName>"}52 component, normally used for items with durability.

Gallery[]

Screenshots[]

• 

  All of the heads.

• 

  Heads oriented in different directions.

• 

  Heads are the same scale as cobblestone wall posts.

• 

  A picture of player heads, including some Mojang characters.

• 

  A dragon head found at the bow of an end ship.

• 

  An animation of the dragon head when redstone power is supplied.

Development[]

• 

  First screenshot released of heads.

• 

  First attempt to fix MC-91869 by Xilefian.

• 

  Second attempt.

References[]

1. ↑ MC-63534 – resolved as "Works As Intended"
2. ↑ MC-132933 – resolved as "Works As Intended"
3. ↑ Example: {"textures":{"SKIN":{"url":"http://textures.minecraft.net/texture/292009a4925b58f02c77dadc3ecef07ea4c7472f64e0fdc32ce5522489362680"}}}
4. ↑ "Skulls are a snapshot of the skin as it was made; just change your skin, make a skull, and change your skin back. That's intended behaviour." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on Twitter, May 8, 2014
5. ↑ "I'm here to make it so that people don't have to worry about having a consistent account whose skin might change." – u/Marc_IRL on Reddit, September 9, 2013
6. ↑ "head format. I needed to pick a prefix that was short and not already taken by other usernames." – @Marc_IRL (Marc Watson) on Twitter, September 10, 2013
7. ↑ "For those following the MHF list, I have presents for you. Full list of accounts I've made: http://pastebin.com/5mug6EBu" – @Marc_IRL (Marc Watson) on Twitter, December 9, 2014

   Can you get player heads in Minecraft bedrock?

   Yes, you can get a player's head in Minecraft Bedrock Edition; here's how. If you're looking to get a player's head, you will need to do a few things. Those on PC will need to open up the console command block menu to begin the process.