Heads

Decorative heads make building a lot easier: a little chest on a shelf, a cake on the table, a pumpkin by the door, arrows pointing the way. There are over 32,000 to choose from, from animals and monsters to furniture, letters and whole sets of characters. Type /heads to pick one, and pay for it with bones.

Get a head

1. Type /heads. You'll see the ten categories: Animals, Monsters, People, Characters, Plants, Food and drinks, Blocks, Decoration, Letters and numbers, and Miscellaneous. All heads shows everything at once.
2. Click a category to see its collections (a font, a set of characters, a kind of furniture), biggest first, or pick Every head in that category. Click a collection, then click the head you want. Long lists have arrows that jump ten pages at a time, and Back takes you up a level.
3. Pick how many: 1, 4, 8, 16, 32 or 64. The screen shows what it costs and how many bones you have.
4. Click Confirm. The bones go and the heads land in your inventory in the same moment.

To search, type a word after the command: /heads cake, /heads arrow, /heads nether. Every word you type has to match, so /heads arrow up narrows /heads arrow down to the arrows pointing up.

What it costs

One plain bone per head. Skeletons drop bones, and the market sells them.

• Only plain bones count. A renamed bone, or a special item made from a bone, is never taken.
• Bones in your backpack, armour slots or off hand don't count. Keep them in your inventory.
• If there isn't room for the heads, nothing happens and no bones are taken. Make some space and try again.

Good to know

• Heads are for decorating. They place like any player head and keep their look and name when you break them again.
• They can't be worn. Decorative heads go on walls and shelves, not on your head, so the helmet slot, /hat and armour stands all say no.
• A decorative head isn't a trophy. It doesn't count towards achievements, and it doesn't prove you beat anything.
• You can trade, sell or give heads away like any other item.