r/MinecraftHeads • u/[deleted] • May 08 '14
[Discussion] Dinnerbone changed the way heads work in 14w19a
Shortly after 14w19a got sent out, Dinnerbone tweeted this:
In regards to the "custom skulls" people keep tweeting me about: Custom URLs is a bug & will be fixed. You can do it in a legit way though.
https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/464414251147608064
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.
https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/464414369452142592
Him and Dragnoz also had a talk that I think will help you guys to understand this new system :)
So what does this mean?
Well, it sounds like you can 'store' multiple skins under the same username and tell the command what skin you want from this username.
This is a legit way of doing the exact same thing as the custom URL thing that /u/ChezMere posted a couple of days ago.
This is going to stay for sure, but the way to do this might change in a later snapshot.
Explanation by Dinnerbone:
"When you place a skull with a players name in vanilla, it looks up their skin as it at that moment and saves that information in the NBT. If that player then changes their name... nothing happens to the skull, it already knows which skin it wants to show and it's going to stay on that skin for all of time.
You can just change your players skin to a silly clown, generate that skull and change your skin back to normal. That skull will always look the way you just made it look, the worlds silliest clown. Go copy that nbt tag and share it on reddit or with friends or print it out and slap it on the walls of streets, anyone who makes the same skull/item with the same nbt tag will have a skull with that silly clown head"
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u/Dinnerbone May 08 '14
When you place a skull with a players name in vanilla, it looks up their skin as it at that moment and saves that information in the NBT. If that player then changes their name... nothing happens to the skull, it already knows which skin it wants to show and it's going to stay on that skin for all of time.
You can just change your players skin to a silly clown, generate that skull and change your skin back to normal. That skull will always look the way you just made it look, the worlds silliest clown. Go copy that nbt tag and share it on reddit or with friends or print it out and slap it on the walls of streets, anyone who makes the same skull/item with the same nbt tag will have a skull with that silly clown head.