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title: "Player Heads — Spectra"
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# **Player Heads**

Look up any player by name or UUID and copy the /give command for their head — in the 1.20.5+ component syntax or the older NBT one, for as many heads as you need.

Give to

Amount

1 to 64, a full stack.

Head source

Shortest command. The server resolves the profile when it runs, so the head keeps following the player's current skin — but it needs a connection to Mojang.

**Component syntax**1.20.5+

```
/give @p minecraft:player_head[profile=""]
```

**Legacy NBT**1.13 – 1.20.4

```
/give @p minecraft:player_head{SkullOwner:""}
```

The amount is only appended when it is above one, the way the game writes it. Both commands need operator rights, or a command block.

## **Features**

### **Both syntaxes, side by side**

1.20.5 replaced item NBT with components, so a head command written for one will be rejected by the other. Both are generated at once, labelled with the versions they cover.

### **Name or baked texture**

A name-based head stays in sync with the player's skin but needs the server online. The baked variant carries the texture in the command, so it works offline and stays frozen — pick per use case.

### **The head as the game draws it**

The preview is the face plus the hat layer, the same two 8×8 regions the item renders, so what you see is what lands in the inventory. Downloadable at 16× as a PNG.

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