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.
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Stick + Smooth Stone Slab |
Natural generation
Armor stands can be found in taiga village armorer houses.[Java Edition only]
Usage
All different poses of armor stand.
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. When an armor stand is placed on top of a fence or similar such block, it will fall through it instead of being placed on top.[1]
Using armor on the stand will place the armor, if done on a bare spot. Conversely, clicking on armor with a bare hand will remove the armor and place it in the highlighted hot-bar slot. By default, 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 /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 and Legacy Console editions, 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.
Armor on the stand will drop when the stand is broken. Armor stands are able to accurately render 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 will create frosted ice blocks on water as usual if an armor stand is pushed with a piston
- Depth Strider will slow the movement of the armor stand when being pushed with water,
- Player may take damage if they hit an armor stand while it has a piece of armor with thorns.
Armor stands are not damaged by cactus, but can be broken by arrows. An armor stand destroyed by an explosion will not drop as an item. An armor stand in water and lava at the same time will not be 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 will 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 will be considered as 'naturally-spawned equipment' and have an 8.5% chance of dropping when the armor stand 'dies' from the Instant Damage or Wither status effect. The dropped item if it is any form of weapon, tool or armor, such as swords, pickaxes, shields, flints and steel and chestplates, will be badly damaged since the game considers it as a 'naturally-spawned equipment'.[2]
The stand will wobble slightly when being hit by the player.
Data values
Item data
- tag: The item's tag tag.
- EntityTag: Stores entity data that is applied to the entity when created.
- See Entity Format.
- EntityTag: Stores entity data that is applied to the entity when created.
Entity data
Armor stands have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity.
- Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to mobs except LeftHanded, DeathLootTable, DeathLootTableSeed, NoAI, Leash, CanPickUpLoot and PersistenceRequired.
- Tags common to all mobs
- DisabledSlots: Bit field allowing disable place/replace/remove of armor elements. For example, the value
16191or4144896disables 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.
- Body: Body-specific rotations.
- 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
| Binary | Integer number | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Video
History
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | August 5, 2014 | Searge tweeted a picture of an armor stand. The appearance was changed before release. | |||
| August 5, 2014 | Searge tweeted a picture of the crafting recipe, which was changed before release too. | ||||
| 14w32a | File:Armor Stand Revision 1.png Added armor stands. | ||||
| 14w32b | Pick-block can now be used on armor stands. | ||||
| Armor stands can now no longer be crafted using slabs other than stone slabs. | |||||
| 14w32c | Added a NoBasePlate tag for the armor stand. | ||||
| 14w33a | Breaking particles have now been added for the armor stand. | ||||
| 1.8.1 | pre1 | Added Marker tag for armor stands. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | Armor stands can now dual wield. | |||
HandItems and ArmorItems tags added for armor stands, which is intended to replace the Equipment tag. | |||||
| 15w33a | The Equipment tag has now been removed from armor stands. | ||||
| 15w47a | The armor stand will now wobble when hit by the player. | ||||
| 1.11 | 16w32a | The entity ID of the armor stand has now been changed from ArmorStand to armor_stand. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 416. | |||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | File:Armor Stand Revision 1.png Added armor stands. | |||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.13.0 | ? | Armor stands will now have smoother animation when changing poses. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Patch 1 | File:Armor Stand Revision 1.png Added armor stands. |
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | Added sounds for armor stands. | |
| TU60 | CU51 | 1.64 | Patch 30 | Patch 11 | Armor stands will now have arms and the player can change the pose of the armor stand. |
Issues
Issues relating to "Armor Stand" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- Equipping armor stands with certain blocks and items will cause rendering glitches. According to Searge this is due to transparent rendering on entities not yet being supported.[3][4]
- An armor stand was first featured in the Minecraft music video Fallen Kingdom by CaptainSparklez on April 1st, 2012 before it was later implemented into the game.
Gallery
Armor stands can wear blocks on their heads. This is accessible with commands such as
/replaceitem.
References
- ↑ MC-65951 – "Armor stands fall through fences" resolved as "Won't Fix"
- ↑ MCPE-24341
- ↑ MC-67415 – "Armor Stands with Slime Block rendering entities behind them" resolved as "Won't Fix"
- ↑ MC-67674 – "Armor Stand wearing a Skull and Holding Stained Glass causes Graphical issues." resolved as "Won't Fix"
Trivia
You can left click on an armor stand with an arrow to make it look like it was shot in the back; this also works with tipped arrows



