How to make custom armor in minecraft with command blocks

Rarity colorRenewableStackable Flammable item? Size Health points

Common

Yes

JE: Yes (16) BE: Yes (64)

Yes

Normal: Width: 0.5 Blocks Height: 1.975 Blocks Small: Width: 0.25 Blocks Height: 0.9875 Blocks

20 × 10

Armor stands are entities that are able to hold and display wearable items.

Obtaining[]

An armor stand can be broken by quickly attacking it twice, dropping itself and any armor placed onto it.

Crafting[]

IngredientsCrafting recipe

Stick + Smooth Stone Slab

Natural generation[]

Two armor stands are found in each taiga village outdoor armory, one equipped with an iron helmet, the other with an iron chestplate.

Usage[]

Players can use armor stands to hold armor, mob heads, carved pumpkins, and elytra. Commands can be used to give them other items. The stand does not have a GUI, so players interact with it directly. Armor stands are also able to be placed in different orientations, similar to banners or signs. Armor stands are entities, allowing them to be pushed by pistons, moved by flowing water, pulled with fishing rods, and bounced by slime blocks.

Using armor on the stand places the armor if done on a bare spot. Conversely, clicking on armor with a bare hand removes the armor and places it in the highlighted hot-bar slot. It is not possible to take or place items from the armor stand's hands unless playing on Bedrock Edition.

Armor, mob heads, or carved pumpkins can be automatically placed on armor stands with a dispenser.

Armor stands can be customized further to have arms, pose, disobey gravity, dual wield and other things by summoning them using /summon with NBT tags.

In maps heavily using command blocks, armor stands can be used to keep scoreboard objectives that are 'global' to the map, run commands, etc.

In Bedrock Edition, the pose of the armor stand can be changed by interacting with the armor stand (or pressing the Pose button on mobile devices) while sneaking, or by using a redstone signal. There are 13 possible poses. Armor stands can also hold items by interacting with the armor stand (or pressing the Equip button on mobile devices) while holding an item that cannot be worn.

Below are the poses: No.Namespace IDRedstone power

0	animation.armor_stand.default_pose	0
1	animation.armor_stand.no_pose	1
2	animation.armor_stand.solemn_pose	2
3	animation.armor_stand.athena_pose	3
4	animation.armor_stand.brandish_pose	4
5	animation.armor_stand.honor_pose	5
6	animation.armor_stand.entertain_pose	6
7	animation.armor_stand.salute_pose	7
8	animation.armor_stand.hero_pose	8, 13 or more
9	animation.armor_stand.riposte_pose	9
10	animation.armor_stand.zombie_pose	10
11	animation.armor_stand.cancan_a_pose	11
12	animation.armor_stand.cancan_b_pose	12

Behavior[]

Because armor stands are entities, they obey gravity, allowing them to fall and rest on non-full blocks such as enchantment tables, snow layers and slabs.

Any armor on the stand drops when the stand is broken. Armor stands can display enchanted and all forms of dyed armor. The effects of most enchanted armor have no effect when on an armor stand, with three exceptions:

• Frost Walker creates frosted ice blocks on water as usual if an armor stand is pushed with a piston.
• Depth Strider slows the movement of the armor stand when being pushed with water.
• A player may take damage from hitting an armor stand that holds armor enchanted with Thorns.

Armor stands are not damaged by cacti but can be broken by arrows. An armor stand destroyed by an explosion or a firework does not drop as an item. Armor stands in water and lava at the same time are not consumed by the lava.

In Bedrock Edition, armor stands can be affected by status effects. They can be 'killed' by Harming and Decay splash/lingering potions, lava, fire, and campfires, and they play the player death sound and fall to their side and disappear, yielding no armor stand item. If an armor stand is equipped with an item or armor, that item or armor is considered as "naturally-spawned equipment" with an 8.5% chance of dropping when the armor stand "dies" from the Instant Damage or the Wither status effect. If the dropped item is any form of weapon, tool or armor, it drops in a badly damaged state because the game considers it as "naturally-spawned equipment".[1]

The stand wobbles slightly when being hit by the player.

In Java Edition, it is possible to create an armor stand with arms using the /summon command. It is also possible to change an armor stand without arms into a stand with arms by using the /data command. The commands are as follows:

• /data merge entity @e[type=armor_stand,sort=nearest,limit=1] {ShowArms:1}, which will change the nearest armor stand into an armor stand with arms.
• /summon minecraft:armor_stand ~ ~ ~ {ShowArms:1}, which will summon a new armor stand with arms shown.
• /summon armor_stand ~ ~ ~ {Rotation:[0.0f]}, which will summon a new armor stand that will face your desired direction (you have to change the "0.0f" to other numbers or else it will face the same way as a default armor stand, such as "90.0f" or "180.0f").

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Armor stands use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance

//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Armor_Stand_hit1.ogg	Block breaking	Friendly Creatures	When an armor stand is damaged	entity.armor_stand.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	1.0	1.0	16
//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Armor_Stand_break1.ogg	Block broken	Friendly Creatures	When an armor stand is destroyed	entity.armor_stand.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	1.0	16
//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Stone_dig1.ogg	Block placed	Blocks	When an armor stand is placed	entity.armor_stand.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	1.0	16
//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Wood_dig1.ogg	Block placed	Friendly Creatures	When an armor stand falls onto a block at a high speed[more information needed]	entity.armor_stand.fall	subtitles.entity.armorstand.fall	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

SoundSourceDescriptionResource locationVolumePitch

//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Armor_Stand_hit1.ogg	Friendly Creatures	When an armor stand is damaged	mob.armor_stand.hit	1.0	1.0
//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Armor_Stand_break1.ogg	Friendly Creatures	When an armor stand is destroyed	mob.armor_stand.break	1.0	1.0
//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Stone_dig1.ogg	Friendly Creatures	When an armor stand is placed	mob.armor_stand.place	1.0	1.0
//minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/File:Wood_dig1.ogg	Friendly Creatures	When an armor stand falls onto a block at a high speed[more information needed]	mob.armor_stand.land	1.0	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Armor StandIdentifierFormTranslation key

Item	armor_stand	Item	item.minecraft.armor_stand

Armor StandIdentifierTranslation key

Entity	armor_stand	entity.minecraft.armor_stand

Bedrock Edition:

Armor StandIdentifierNumeric ID FormTranslation key

Item	armor_stand	552	Item	item.armor_stand.name

Armor StandIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key

Entity	armor_stand	61	entity.armor_stand.name

Item data[]

Java Edition:

•  tag: The item's tag tag.

• •  EntityTag: Stores entity data that is applied to the entity when created.
    • See Entity Format.

Bedrock Edition:

In Bedrock Edition, armor stands have no additional item tag.See Bedrock Edition level format/Item format.

Entity data[]

Armor stands have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity.

Java Edition:

• Entity data
  • Tags common to mobs except LeftHanded, DeathLootTable, DeathLootTableSeed, NoAI, Leash, CanPickUpLoot and PersistenceRequired.
  •  DisabledSlots: Bit field allowing disable place/replace/remove of armor elements. For example, the value 16191 or4144896 disables placing, removing and replacing of all equipment. These can be found using the bitwise OR operator.
  •  Invisible: 1 or 0 (true/false) - if true, ArmorStand is invisible, although items on it still display.
  •  Marker: 1 or 0 (true/false) - if true, ArmorStand's size is set to 0, has a tiny hitbox, and disables interactions with it. May not exist.
  •  NoBasePlate: 1 or 0 (true/false) - if true, ArmorStand does not display the base beneath it.
  •  Pose: Rotation values for the ArmorStand's pose.
    •  Body: Body-specific rotations.
      • : x-rotation.
      • : y-rotation.
      • : z-rotation.
    •  Head: Head-specific rotations.
      • : x-rotation.
      • : y-rotation.
      • : z-rotation.
    •  LeftArm: Left Arm-specific rotations.
      • : x-rotation.
      • : y-rotation.
      • : z-rotation.
    •  LeftLeg: Left Leg-specific rotations.
      • : x-rotation.
      • : y-rotation.
      • : z-rotation.
    •  RightArm: Right Arm-specific rotations.
      • : x-rotation.
      • : y-rotation.
      • : z-rotation.
    •  RightLeg: Right Leg-specific rotations.
      • : x-rotation.
      • : y-rotation.
      • : z-rotation.
  •  ShowArms: 1 or 0 (true/false) - if true, ArmorStand displays full wooden arms. If false, also place and replace interactions with the hand item slot are disabled.
  •  Small: 1 or 0 (true/false) - if true, ArmorStand is much smaller, similar to the size of a baby zombie.

Disabled slots[]

BinaryInteger numberResult

2^0	1	Disable adding or changing mainhand item
2^1	2	Disable adding or changing boots item
2^2	4	Disable adding or changing leggings item
2^3	8	Disable adding or changing chestplate item
2^4	16	Disable adding or changing helmet item
2^5	32	Disable adding or changing offhand item
2^8	256	Disable removing or changing mainhand item
2^9	512	Disable removing or changing boots item
2^10	1024	Disable removing or changing leggings item
2^11	2048	Disable removing or changing chestplate item
2^12	4096	Disable removing or changing helmet item
2^13	8192	Disable removing or changing offhand item
2^16	65536	Disable adding mainhand item
2^17	131072	Disable adding boots item
2^18	262144	Disable adding leggings item
2^19	524288	Disable adding chestplate item
2^20	1048576	Disable adding helmet item
2^21	2097152	Disable adding offhand item

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Video[]

Note: This video is outdated as Zoglins now attack armor stands

History[]

Java Edition1.8August 5, 2014August 5, 201414w32a14w32b14w32c14w33a1.8.1pre11.915w31a15w33a15w47a16w02a1.1116w32a1.1317w47a1.1418w43a18w50a1.1519w42a1.1620w07a20w14a1.1720w45a20w46a1.18Pre-release 5Bedrock Edition1.2.0beta 1.2.0.21.10.0beta 1.10.0.31.12.0beta 1.12.0.2beta 1.12.0.31.13.0beta 1.13.0.1beta 1.13.0.41.16.0?1.16.210beta 1.16.210.51Legacy Console EditionTU31CU19 1.22 Patch 31.0.1TU43CU33 1.36 Patch 13TU60CU51 1.64 Patch 301.0.11 1.90

Searge tweeted a image of an armor stand. The appearance was changed before release.

Showed crafting recipe and name "[Armor Stand]", both were changed before release.

Added armor stands.

The item texture has changed.

Pick-block can now be used on armor stands.

Armor stands can now no longer be crafted using slabs other than stone slabs.

Added a NoBasePlate tag for the armor stand.

Breaking particles have been added for the armor stand.

Added Marker tag for armor stands.

Armor stands can now dual wield.

HandItems and ArmorItems tags added for armor stands, which is intended to replace the Equipment tag.

The Equipment tag has been removed from armor stands.

The armor stand now wobbles when hit by the player.

Marker ArmorStands will now only outline their equipment when glowing.

The entity ID of the armor stand has been changed from ArmorStand to armor_stand.

Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 416.

The texture of armor stands has been changed to the new oak planks texture.

The texture of armor stand items has been slightly changed. (Comparison: )

The texture of armor stands has been changed again.

Armor stands now generate in taiga villages.

Armor stands can now be placed by dispensers.

Armor stands no longer fall through fences and walls when placed.[2]

Zoglins now attack armor stands.

The model of the armor stand has been changed.

The model of the armor stand has been changed back to how it was in 1.16.

Changed smooth stone texture on armor stand.

Added armor stands.

The texture of armor stands has been changed.

The texture of armor stand items has been slightly changed.

Leather armor no longer shows as being dyed properly when worn by armor stands.

When armor stands hold a raw chicken, raw rabbit, raw salmon, pufferfish or a slime block, they now wear these mob counterparts.[3]

Leather armor now shows as being dyed properly when worn by armor stands.

Armor stands no longer hold certain mobs if they are holding a item related to them.

Armor stands now have a smoother animation when changing poses.

Armor stands are now targeted by zoglins.

Armor stands are no longer attacked by goats.

Added armor stands.

Added sounds for armor stands.

Armor stands now have arms and the player can now change the pose of the armor stand.

The texture of armor stands has been changed.

The texture of armor stand items has been slightly changed.

• The first image of the armor stand.

• The first image of armor stand crafting recipe.

• Armor stands in the 1.8 poster.

Issues[]

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

Trivia[]

• Equipping armor stands with certain blocks and items can cause rendering glitches. According to Searge this is due to transparent rendering on entities not yet being supported.[4][5]
• Bedrock Edition has a version exclusive armor stand model, which includes posable arms.
• Using redstone to change the stands reverse the poses, starting with the Can-can pose first.
• Placing the stand within three powered redstone dust always changes its pose to the Honor pose. Repeaters also switch the stand to the honor pose if not set four blocks from one.
• Using external tools, armor stand spawners can be placed.
• Secret signatures for JAPPA and Searge can be found at the bottom of the Armor Stand’s texture.

Gallery[]

• Armor stands in various positions with various armor.

• Armor stands can wear blocks on their heads. This is accessible with commands such as /item.

• An entire set of netherite armor on an armor stand.

References[]

1. ↑ MCPE-24341
2. ↑ MC-65951
3. ↑ MCPE-48629
4. ↑ MC-67415 – "Armor Stands with Slime Block rendering entities behind them" resolved as "Won't Fix"
5. ↑ MC-67674 – "Armor Stand wearing a Skull and Holding Stained Glass causes Graphical issues" resolved as "Won't Fix"

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