Custom Mob Heads

CustomMobHeads

CustomMobHeads is a highly configurable Paper plugin that lets mobs drop their heads (custom textured player heads) upon being killed. These can be used for decoration, as collectibles, or even as rare trophies for killing difficult bosses.

Features

• Configurable, per-mob drop chances
  Customize drop chances for each mob separately in easy-to-read config files

• Mob Variant support
  This plugin differentiates between different mob variants, as follows:

  • Temperate / Warm / Cold Cows, Pigs, and Chickens
  • Angry / Pollinated / Angry + Pollinated Bees
  • Charged / Normal Creepers
  • Villager Biomes + Professions
  • Tropical Fish with 22 named special variants (others drop a generic Tropical Fish head, sorry, I ain't adding all 3,072 variants)
  • Easter egg mobs, like the Toast Rabbit, jeb_ Sheep, and The Killer Bunny

• Built-in command
  Usage: /gethead <player> <mob_id> [variant] [subvariant]

• Simple, fully customizable config

  • chance_config.yml: Drop rates per mob or variant
  • textures.yml: Head texture base64 values
  • translations.yml: Display names for heads
  • config.yml: Global behavior (killer lore, default drop chance, force drop, etc.)
  • sound_config.yml: Includes sound overrides for mobs

config.yml overview

# If true, all mobs will always drop their head (for testing purposes)
force-drop-all: false

# If true, dropped heads will have lore with the killer's name
add-killer-lore: true

# The fallback drop chance (percent) if a mob type is missing in chance_config.yml
default-drop-chance: 50.0

⚠️ Note: This plugin only supports vanilla mobs by default. Modded mobs will not drop heads unless manually configured — and may show as missing texture if no base64 is provided. This has not been tested, so here be dragons!