Armor Stand

Template:ItemEntity 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

Ingredients	Crafting 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, a mob head or a carved 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 Edition, 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.

Pose types.

No.	Namespace ID	Redstone 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".

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,r=8] {ShowArms:1}, which will change all armor stands within 8 blocks into armor stands with arms.
• /summon minecraft:armor_stand ~ ~ ~ {ShowArms:1}, which will summon a new armor stand.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
File:Armor Stand hit1.oggFile:Armor Stand hit2.oggFile:Armor Stand hit3.oggFile:Armor Stand hit4.ogg	Block breaking	Friendly Creatures	Hitting the entity	entity.armor_stand.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	1.0	1.0	16
File:Armor Stand break1.oggFile:Armor Stand break2.oggFile:Armor Stand break3.oggFile:Armor Stand break4.ogg	Block broken	Friendly Creatures	Destroying the entity	entity.armor_stand.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	1.0	16
File:Stone dig1.oggFile:Stone dig2.oggFile:Stone dig3.oggFile:Stone dig4.ogg	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the entity	entity.armor_stand.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	1.0	16
File:Wood dig1.oggFile:Wood dig2.oggFile:Wood dig3.oggFile:Wood dig4.ogg	Block placed	Friendly Creatures	The entity falls onto a block	entity.armor_stand.fall	subtitles.entity.armorstand.fall	1.0	1.0	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Armor Stand	Namespaced ID	Form	Translation key
Item	armor_stand	Item	item.minecraft.armor_stand

Armor Stand	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Template:EntitySprite Entity	armor_stand	entity.minecraft.armor_stand

Bedrock Edition:

Armor Stand	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Item	armor_stand	425	Item	item.armor_stand.name

Armor Stand	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Template:EntitySprite Entity	armor_stand	61	entity.armor_stand.name

Item data

• Template:Nbt: The item's tag tag.

Player.dat format/Entity Spawners

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

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

Video

Note: This video is outdated as Zoglins now attack armor stands

History

Java Edition
1.8		August 5, 2014			32px 32px Searge tweeted a image of an armor stand. The appearance was changed before release.
		August 5, 2014			Showed crafting recipe and name "[Armor Stand]", both were changed before release.
		14w32a			32px 32px 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 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 been removed from armor stands.
		15w47a			The armor stand now wobbles when hit by the player.
		16w02a			Marker ArmorStands will now only outline their equipment when glowing.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID of the armor stand has been changed from ArmorStand to armor_stand.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 416.
1.14		18w43a			32px The texture of armor stands has been changed to the new oak planks texture.
					32px The texture of armor stand items has been slightly changed. (Comparison: 32px)
		18w50a			32px The texture of armor stands has been changed again.
					Armor stands now generate in taiga villages.
1.15		19w42a			Armor stands can now be placed by dispensers.
1.16		20w07a			Armor stands no longer fall through fences and walls when placed.
		20w14a			Zoglins now attack armor stands.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.17		20w45a			32px The model of the armor stand has been changed.
		20w46a			32px The model of the armor stand has been changed back to how it was in 1.16.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			32px 32px Added armor stands.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			32px The texture of armor stands has been changed.
					32px The texture of armor stand items has been slightly changed.
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.2			32px Leather armor no longer shows as being dyed properly when worn by armor stands.
		beta 1.12.0.3			x73pxx73px x73px x73px x73px When armor stands hold a raw chicken, raw rabbit, raw salmon, pufferfish or a slime block, they now wear these mob counterparts.
1.13.0		beta 1.13.0.1			Leather armor now shows as being dyed properly when worn by armor stands.
		beta 1.13.0.4			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.
1.16.0		?			Armor stands are now targeted by zoglins.
1.16.210		beta 1.16.210.51			Armor stands are no longer attacked by goats.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	32px 32px Added armor stands.
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch 13		Added sounds for armor stands.
TU60	CU51	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	32px Armor stands now have arms and the player can now change the pose of the armor stand.
		1.90			32px The texture of armor stands has been changed.
					32px The texture of armor stand items has been slightly changed.

• Armour stand 1.png

  The first image of the armor stand.

• JE 1.8 Dev Armor Stand crafting.png

  The first image of armor stand crafting recipe.

• The Bountiful Update.png

  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.
• 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.

Gallery

• Armor Stand Demo.png

  Armor stands in various positions with various armor.

• Armor Stand glass and sword.png

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

• Bedrock edition armor stand poses.png

  All armor stand poses as seen in Bedrock Edition.

References

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