Player Head - Minecraft Block Guide | Properties, Recipe & Uses (2025)

What is Player Head in Minecraft?

A player head is a very special and rare decorative block that looks exactly like the head of a specific Minecraft player's skin. Its main purpose is to be a unique trophy or a personalized decoration. Players use player heads to create statues of themselves or their friends, to mark graves, or as a way to customize a build with a personal touch. Because they are so incredibly difficult to obtain in survival mode, owning one is a huge sign of accomplishment and dedication. They are one of the ultimate collector's items in the game, allowing for a level of personalization that no other block can offer.

How to get Player Head in Minecraft

Getting a player head in survival mode is one of the most difficult challenges in Minecraft. It cannot be crafted. The only way to get a player's head is for that specific player to be killed by the explosion of a charged creeper. A charged creeper is a super powered creeper that is created when a regular creeper is struck by lightning. To set this up, you would need to trap a creeper, wait for a thunderstorm, use a trident with the Channeling enchantment to strike the creeper with lightning, and then carefully lure the target player next to the charged creeper so that its explosion kills them. This is extremely difficult and dangerous. In creative mode, you can get any player's head easily by using the command `/give @p minecraft:player_head{SkullOwner:"PlayerName"}`.

How to use Player Head in Minecraft

The main use for a player head is for decoration. You can place it on the ground or on a wall at various angles to create a cool trophy display or a statue. You can also wear a player head in your helmet slot. It does not provide any armor protection, but it is a fun way to run around looking like another player or to show off your rare trophy. Unlike other mob heads, placing a player head on a note block does not produce a special sound. A player head can also be used in a crafting recipe with a firework star to create a firework that explodes in the shape of a creeper face, just like other heads.

How to craft Player Head in Minecraft

No recipes for this block.

What can Player Head make in Minecraft

No items can be crafted.

My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

By the way, this My Story section is something new I've only just started adding things here! Most of the site was actually built before I ever wrote this part. Now that the website is live, I'm running into problems galore! So if things look a bit rough or unfinished, bear with me I'm updating and adding as I go.

That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

I knew absolutely nothing about making websites. Like, properly nothing. I didn't even know what PHP was. But I'm stubborn as anything, so I just started watching YouTube tutorials and reading random stuff online while I was on my breaks.

Turns out building a database is harder than it looks. Who knew? I've probably broken this thing more times than I've fixed it. My laptop has definitely been sworn at more than it deserves.

The worst part is when you spend hours trying to figure out why something doesn't work, and it turns out you missed a semicolon. Or when everything works fine on your computer but looks like complete rubbish on someone else's. Fun times.

The Reality of It

Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

The database has corrupted itself more times than I care to remember. I've had images that wouldn't load for no reason. CSS that worked yesterday but decided to have a tantrum today. The usual web development nightmare stuff.

But every time I get something working properly, it feels brilliant. Like when I finally got all the block images showing up correctly, or when the search actually started finding things. Small wins, but they keep me going.

What I Actually Want to Build

Here's the thing I want this to be your go to place for everything Minecraft. Not just blocks and items, but proper guides, build tutorials, maybe even schematics you can download. Server info, community stuff, the lot.

I know it doesn't look like much right now, and there's loads missing. But I'm working on it. It takes time when you're learning as you go and doing it around a full time job. But I'd rather take my time and do it properly than rush it and end up with something rubbish.

The plan is to make it the kind of site I actually want to use fast, easy to navigate, with everything you need in one place. No endless ads, no broken links, just useful stuff presented in a way that doesn't make you want to throw your computer out the window.

Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

Plus, I've learned loads doing this. Sure, I've wanted to give up more times than I can count, but seeing it slowly come together is pretty satisfying. And if it helps other people find what they're looking for without having to trawl through ten different outdated websites, then that's worth it.

So yeah, bear with me while I figure this all out. It's going to take a while, but it'll get there eventually. Thanks for checking it out, and if you spot anything broken or have suggestions, let me know. I'm still learning, but I'm determined to make this work.