Player Head — Minecraft block

Player Head is a decorative block in Minecraft that displays the skin face of a specific player. Unlike the six mob heads, Player Head has no survival source: zombies, skeletons, wither skeletons, piglins, and creepers drop their heads when killed by a charged creeper, but a player killed the same way drops nothing — the popular claim that charged creepers drop player heads is a myth. Player Head is obtained only from the Creative inventory, the pick-block control, or commands. Player Head has a hardness of 1 and a blast resistance of 1, so any tool breaks it quickly and it always drops itself.

Player Head can be placed on the floor or mounted on a wall, and it can be worn in the helmet slot as a purely cosmetic disguise that grants no protection. Builders use Player Head together with custom-skin head databases to create detailed decorations — furniture, statues, logos, and head-based pixel art — since any skin texture can be encoded into a head. On a note block, Player Head stays silent by default, unlike mob heads. In Java 1.20.5 and later, use /give @p minecraft:player_head[profile="PlayerName"] to obtain a named head directly; earlier versions use the SkullOwner NBT tag.