Better Mob Heads

Mob Heads is a server-side Minecraft Java Edition datapack that gives supported vanilla mobs without an existing vanilla head item a decorative custom head when they die. The pack uses real minecraft-heads.com textures from the public MinecraftHeads CDN and applies simple score-driven loot logic with Looting support.

What It Does

• Every supported mob in this pack can drop a decorative custom player_head that matches that mob's texture.
• Looting increases the drop chance, bosses can be guaranteed, and charged creepers trigger a best-effort guaranteed-drop pulse for nearby mobs.

Supported Mobs

• Overworld hostile: Zombie Villager, Husk, Drowned, Stray, Bogged, Spider, Cave Spider, Enderman, Witch, Slime, Silverfish, Endermite, Phantom, Pillager, Vindicator, Evoker, Ravager, Vex, Breeze, Blaze
• Overworld passive/neutral: Pig, Cow, Sheep, Chicken, Rabbit, Fox, Wolf, Cat, Horse, Donkey, Mule, Llama, Axolotl, Frog, Allay, Bee, Turtle, Panda, Polar Bear, Goat, Bat, Squid, Glow Squid, Cod, Salmon, Tropical Fish, Pufferfish, Dolphin
• Nether: Piglin, Piglin Brute, Zombified Piglin, Ghast, Hoglin, Zoglin, Strider
• End and rare mobs: Shulker, Ender Dragon, Elder Guardian, Guardian, Warden, Iron Golem, Snow Golem, Villager, Wandering Trader, Giant

Drop Rates

Charged Creeper Mechanic

This is the closest reliable datapack-only approximation to a true charged-creeper kill check when using scoreboard-driven mob death detection.

Credits

Mob head textures sourced from:

• minecraft-heads.com — https://minecraft-heads.com
• MinecraftHeads database by TheLuca98 — https://github.com/TheLuca98/MinecraftHeads

Head textures are used under the terms of the minecraft-heads.com developer license. Original texture credits belong to their respective creators on minecraft-heads.com.

Sources

• minecraft-heads.com
• MinecraftHeads database by TheLuca98
• CDN source used for matching: heads.csv