Mob Heads
All mobs can drop their head. All baby heads, 3072 tropical fish variants & more
About this Mod
Features
1. 500+ unique heads --> every mob, baby and variant in the game
2. Custom note block sounds for all heads
3. Advancement collection to track your progress
4. Chat notifications when a head drops
5. Fully translated with my Jodeks translations Resourecpack (German, French, Spanish, Japan, Chinese, Russian)
Config
Run ingame:
/trigger mob_heads.config
- Choose between player kill or charged creeper drops
- Adjust drop rates
- Change drop messages
If you want to give yourself a head:
/trigger get_mob_head
Looting does not affect drop rates
Latest Update
Available at: https://modrinth.com/datapack/mob-heads-tropical-fish
Default drop rates
| # | Mob | Drop Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allay | 5% |
| 2 | Armadillo | 5% |
| 3 | Axolotl | 5% |
| 4 | Blue Axolotl | 10% |
| 5 | Bat | 5% |
| 6 | Bee | 5% |
| 7 | Blaze | 3% |
| 8 | Bogged | 5% |
| 9 | Breeze | 5% |
| 10 | Camel | 5% |
| 11 | Camel Husk | 7% |
| 12 | Cat | 5% |
| 13 | Cave Spider | 3% |
| 14 | Chicken | 2% |
| 15 | Cod | 2% |
| 16 | Copper Golem | 3% |
| 17 | Cow | 2% |
| 18 | Creaking | 5% |
| 19 | Creeper | 2% |
| 20 | Charged Creeper | 10% |
| 21 | Dolphin | 5% |
| 22 | Donkey | 5% |
| 23 | Drowned | 2% |
| 24 | Elder Guardian | 15% |
| 25 | Ender Dragon | 20% |
| 26 | Enderman | 2% |
| 27 | Endermite | 5% |
| 28 | Evoker | 5% |
| 29 | Fox | 5% |
| 30 | Frog | 5% |
| 31 | Ghast | 3% |
| 32 | Glow Squid | 5% |
| 33 | Goat | 5% |
| 34 | Guardian | 2% |
| 35 | Happy Ghast | 5% |
| 36 | Hoglin | 3% |
| 37 | Horse | 5% |
| 38 | Husk | 3% |
| 39 | Illusioner | 5% |
| 40 | Iron Golem | 3% |
| 41 | Llama | 5% |
| 42 | Magma Cube | 5% |
| 43 | Mooshroom | 5% |
| 44 | Brown Mooshroom | 10% |
| 45 | Mule | 5% |
| 46 | Nautilus | 5% |
| 47 | Ozelot | 5% |
| 48 | Normal & Weak Panda | 5% |
| 49 | Lazy, Brown, Playful, Aggressive, Worried Panda | 10% |
| 50 | Parched | 5% |
| 51 | Parrot | 5% |
| 52 | Phantom | 3% |
| 53 | Pig | 2% |
| 54 | Pilgin Brute | 10% |
| 55 | Piglin | 3% |
| 56 | Pillager | 2% |
| 57 | Polar Bear | 5% |
| 58 | Pufferfish | 5% |
| 59 | Rabbit | 5% |
| 60 | Ravager | 5% |
| 61 | Salmon | 3% |
| 62 | Sheep | 2% |
| 63 | Shulker | 5% |
| 64 | Silverfish | 2% |
| 65 | Skeleton Horse | 10% |
| 66 | Skeleton | 2% |
| 67 | Slime | 2% |
| 68 | Sniffer | 5% |
| 69 | Snow Golem | 2% |
| 70 | Spider | 2% |
| 71 | Squid | 3% |
| 72 | Stray | 3% |
| 73 | Strider | 5% |
| 73.5 | Sulfur Cube | 5% |
| 74 | Tadpole | 5% |
| 75 | Trader Llama | 3% |
| 76 | Tropical Fish | 5% |
| 77 | Turtle | 5% |
| 78 | Vex | 5% |
| 79 | Villager | 5% |
| 80 | Vindicator | 3% |
| 81 | Wandering Trader | 5% |
| 82 | Warden | 15% |
| 83 | Witch | 2% |
| 84 | Wither | 20% |
| 85 | Special Wither Skull | 5% |
| 86 | Wolf | 5% |
| 87 | Zoglin | 5% |
| 88 | Zombie Horse | 5% |
| 89 | Zombie Nautilus | 5% |
| 90 | Zombie Villager | 7% |
| 91 | Zombie | 2% |
| 92 | Zombified Piglin | 2% |
Config [1.21.5 and below] To change drop rates, rarities and drop messages
make sure to unzip the datapack before
Head to: MobHeads/data/mobheads/function/config
and then edit the specific file (drop _rates.mcfunction , rarity.mcfunction , drop_messages.mcfunction)
don't forget to save the file and run /reload afterwards
For anything pre (before) 1.21
Drop chances for 1.20.4 and 1.20.5-6
You can use Ctrl + F to search
Common = 0.02 = 2%
- Chicken (1.21.5+: temperate, warm, cold)
- Cow (1.21.5+: temperate, warm, cold)
- Cave Spider
- Creeper
- Pig (1.21.5+: temperate, warm, cold)
- Sheep (different heads for all colors)
- Skeleton
- Spider
- Zombie
- Snow Golem
- Iron Golem
Rare = 0.1 = 10 %
- Bat
- Bee
- Blaze
- Bogged
- Cod
- Donkey
- Drowned
- Enderman
- Evoker
- Frog (variants: cold, temperate, warm)
- Glow Squid
- Guardian
- Hoglin
- Horse (variants: white, creamy, chestnut, brown, black, gray, dark_brown)
- Husk
- Llama (variants: white, creamy, gray, bronw)
- Magma Cube
- Mooshroom (variants: red, brown)
- Mule
- Phantom
- Piglin
- Pillager
- Pufferfish
- Salmon
- Slime
- Squid
- Tropical Fish
- Villager (snow, savanna, plains, desert, jungle, taiga)
- Witch
- Wolf (woods, spotted, striped, snowy, rusty, pale, chestnut, black, ashen)
Epic 0.2 = 20 %
- Armadillo
- Allay
- Axolotl (variants: pink, wild, gold, cyan, blue)
- Breeze (1.20.5)
- Camel
- Cat (variants: all black, black, british shorthair, calico, jellie, persian, ragdoll, red, siamese, tabby, white)
- Dolphin
- Elder Guardian
- Endermite
- Fox (variants: red, snow)
- Ghast
- Goat
- Illusioner (not in game)
- Ocelot
- Parrot (variants: red, blue, cyan, gray, green)
- Piglin Brute
- Polar Bear
- Rabbit (variants: brown, white, gold, salt, black, white splotched, evil)
- Ravager
- Shulker
- Silverfish
- Skeleton Horse
- Stray
- Strider
- Trader Llama (variants: white, creamy, gray, bronw)
- Turtle
- Vex
- Vindicator
- Wandering Trader
- Zoglin
- Zombie Horse
- Zombie Villager
- Zombified Piglin
Legendary 0.3 = 30%
- Sniffer
- Warden
- Panda (variants: normal, lazy, worried, playful, weak, aggressive)
Mythic 0.5 = 50%
- Enderdragon
- Wither
- Brown Panda
In the datapack, you can edit these chances by changing the value in:
data/minecraft/loot_tables/entities/entity.json
in there, look for "conditions" and the condition "random_chance" and change the "chance" to the value in % you want the head to drop
Bug Fix for when you place down the heads, destroy them, and pick them up again:
This bug is fixed in 1.20.5
Available Versions
How to Install Mob Heads on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set datapack Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the datapack loader and matching Minecraft version (26.3).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Mob Heads". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
26.3, 26.2, 26.1.2 (+18 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Mob Heads server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong datapack version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (26.3). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Mob Heads compatible with datapack and fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?
Mob Heads officially supports datapack, fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 26.3, 26.2, 26.1.2. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Mob Heads – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Mob Heads consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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