Armor Stand

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

Obtaining
An armor stand can be broken by quickly it twice, dropping itself.

Natural generation
Armor stands can be found in taiga village armorer houses, sometimes pre-equipped with armor.

Usage


Players can use armor stands to hold armor, mob heads and pumpkins, shields (via dispenser), elytra and 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. An armor stand cannot be placed on top of a fence or similar block; it falls through instead.

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.

Armor, a mob head or a pumpkin 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 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.

$$, the pose of the armor stand can be changed by sneaking and clicking on the pose button, or by using a redstone signal. There are 13 possible poses. Armor stands can also hold items by clicking on the equip button.

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 cactus, but can be broken by arrows. An armor stand destroyed by an explosion does not drop as an item. An armor stand in water and lava at the same time is 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".

The stand wobbles slightly when being hit by the player.

Item data

 * : The item's tag tag.

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

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.


 * Equipping armor stands with frost walker boots will cause water to freeze around it if near water. This doesn’t currently work, and may be a glitch that’ll be fixed in a future update.


 * Bedrock Edition has a version exclusive armor stand model, which includes posable arms.