CraftStands

CraftStands

A Crafting Focused Armor Stand Datapack focused on Survival, Limited, but unique Armor Stands. Unique functionality with special item based animations & commands!

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Screenshots

CraftStands Logo
CraftStands Banner
All Basic Poses
Different Sizes!
Still Animations
Mimic Yeti

About this Mod

CraftStands Banner features the word Craftstands, with 2 armor stands on either side holding it. They are on top of a stretched out crafting table.

CraftStands is a unique approach to Customized Armor Stands. CraftStands is a Datapack that adds various poses and unique Armor Stand through Crafting recipes. This is to expand the possibilities with Armor Stands, without creating too detailed Armor Stands that would not fit as close to Vanilla Minecraft. Where it doesn't increase complexity, it makes up for it with Animated Poses and Actions that feel like they are made with redstone to make Animatronics.

This is a Resource Pack, Mod, and Ultimately a Datapack! The resource pack adds the visuals for the items of Armor Stands. To use with other resource packs that use the Items Files, please use a mod to allow both.

Please Note, this uses Dialogs which Mojang Classifies as "Expiermental" When loading into Single Player Worlds you will be met with a warning.

*Please Note this datapack can expose Vanished Admins on Servers with the Look and Mimic Command.

Survival First

This datapack is a Survival First Experience! This is balanced around Survival Play where recipes, commands, and things cost specific currency. Some commands specify what they cost in chat upon attempts. These are ignored for Creative Users & there is a custom /trigger cs_ArmorStandBox that gives all base Variants!

Features:

  • Recipes for 8+ Posed Armor Stands that include: Attack, Thinking, Look At This, Holding, Zombie, Walking, Cheering, & Sitting Armor Stands!
  • Recipes for 8 Giant Armor Stands that are giant sized Armor Stands. Requires Logs for the recipes instead of planks or sticks!
  • Animated Poses spice up Armor Stands without increasing complexity. The Current Animated Poses are: Spin (Clockwise), Reverse Spin (Counter-Clockwise), Look, Mimic, Wave (Left and Right Seperated), And Mine (Left and Right Seperated).
  • Setting Cosmetics lets you place items on certain slots that would otherwise be disallowed, such as Off Hand, Main Hand, Head, and setting the Armor Stand's Name with a named item.
  • Movement lets you move the armor stand in any direction you specify via a Dialog
  • Vast Customization Via Dialogs.
    • Pose Dialog: Allows you to change the pose of an Armor Stand to mix the top half of Posed Armor Stands with the bottom half of other Posed Armor Stands (I.e. Cheering Sitting Armor Stands)
    • Move Dialog: Lets you move an Armor Stand in a variety of ways, including teleporting to yourself, moving in a direction, aligning to the center of a block, and the basic any direction supports 1/8th - 1 full block movement.
    • Customization lets you set existing Armor Stands to not have Gravity, to not or to have arms, or to not or to have a Baseplate.
    • Other Dialogs just run their trigger commands

Selecting

Selecting can either be done with the /trigger cs_Select Command and right clicking an Armor Stand or an Item Frame, or it can be done automatically by a command. The order selection happens is it selects an Armor Stand you are looking at, up to 16 blocks away (stops at solid blocks), if it doesn't detect one then it goes to the nearest within ~5 blocks. Auto Selected Entities get unselected immediately after the command is ran. Manually selected Entities get unselected when you are 25 blocks away from it.

Full Command List:

All the commands require "/trigger cs_" to be before the command.

Full Command List Animated Poses:
Look Sets the Armor Stand to look at the nearest player
Mimic Sets the Armor Stand to mimic the nearest player's head movement
LeftMine Sets the left arm to mine if it isn't already posing
RightMine Sets the left arm to mine if it isn't already posing
LeftWave Sets the left arm to wave if it isn't already posing
RightWave Sets the right arm to wave if it isn't already posing
ReverseSpin Sets either Armor Stands or Item Frames to Spin Counter-Clockwise
Spin Sets either Armor Stands or Item Frames to Spin Clockwise
StopAnimation Stops all Animated Poses exactly where they were for some neat, but small customization of static Armor Stands

Selection Commands:

Select Lets you right click Armor Stands or Item Frames to select them, of which will only be unselected when you move far away from them (25 blocks)
UnSelect Unselects your manually selected Armor Stand/Item Frame.
Lock Locks an Armor Stand/Item Frame with a Diamond so it cannot be edited or deleted. All commands disallow editing locked Armor Stands or Item Frames
UnLock Unlocks your locked armor stand or Item Frame, only ones you locked can be unlocked by you.
Pose Opens a Dialog to Pose an Armor Stands with the main Posed Armor Stands top's and bottoms
RandomizePose Randomly Selects a random combination of poses for an Armor Stand
Reset Pose Resets the Armor Stands Pose to be the Vanilla Pose

Cosmetic Commands:

Head Places the held item onto the Armor Stand's Head
MainHand Places the held item onto the Armor Stand's Main (Right) Hand
OffHand Places the held item onto the Armor Stand's Off (Left) Hand
Nametag Names items now set the Armor Stand's Name
RemoveNametag Removes the nametag from the Armor Stand after applying one with the /trigger cs_Nametag Command
Swap Lets you swap exactly what you are wearing with the Armor Stand & Vise Versa. This has a side effect of letting you put anything you want on your head, all cosmetic anyways so no harm!

Other Commands:

ArmorStandBox **Creative Only** Gives a Shulkerbox of all the basic Armor Stand Poses & Basic Armor Stands
Customize Opens a Dialog to customize either Armor Stands or Item Frames
FixArmorStands A Legacy Command that should fix upgrading issues of past and future updates.
Help Sends a Chat Message explaining some of the commands (it's kind of old so it isn't fully functional!)

Available Versions

CraftStands Public Release Version 1release
MC 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1, 26.1.1fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt
February 25, 2026
CraftStands Public Release Version 1release
MC 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1, 26.1.1datapack
February 24, 2026

How to Install CraftStands on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

2

Set datapack Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the datapack loader and matching Minecraft version (26.1.1).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "CraftStands". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

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Minecraft Versions

26.1.1, 26.1, 1.21.11 (+3 more)

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

CraftStands 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 (26.1.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is CraftStands compatible with datapack and fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?

CraftStands officially supports datapack, fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 26.1.1, 26.1, 1.21.11. 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 CraftStands – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if CraftStands 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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Details

License
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Server-side
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Supported Versions

26.1.126.11.21.111.21.101.21.91.21.8