DropHeads
DropHeads
Let the largest collection head-hunt begin! 
Using quality heads supplied by Minecraft-Heads.com ❤️
Key Features
- Everything is configurable!
- Get heads as a death drop, or with a command
- MASSIVE variety of mob heads (eg: snow fox, lime sheep, grumm swamp farmer villager, …)
- Item-stacking and texture-updating fixes
- Custom behead death messages
- Regular updates (and optional auto-updater)
Configuration (Sample)
Defaults are designed to fit well on just about any server.
However, if you like getting into configuration, here's a taste of what you can do:
- Adjust drop rates based on mob type
- Adjust drop rates based on spawn conditions (eg: Breeding, MobSpawners, /summon, ...)
- Adjust drop rates based on ticks-lived
- Adjust drop rates based on what weapon is used
- Require using specific weapon(s) to get heads to drop
- Support charged creeper head drops
- Limit head drops when not killed by a player (configure what counts as 'killed by a player')
- Change any head textures (or add your own!)
- Set up automatic updates
- ...and more! Check out config files in the source repository
Permissions
For an always up-to-date list, check here.
dropheads.canlosehead: This entity is able to drop a head upon its death
dropheads.canbehead: This entity is able to get heads by killing others
dropheads.alwaysbehead: This entity gets heads for 100% of kills (unless canlosehead is false)
dropheads.clickinfo: Permission to see name of a head by clicking it
dropheads.spawn: Permission to give heads with a command
dropheads.droprate: Permission to check head drop rates with a command
F.A.Q.
Q: Heads are not dropping for me!
A: There a several possible causes; please go over this checklist before messaging me or leaving a comment:
* Check if another plugin is blocking or modifying the death-event item drops
* Check if you have the dropheads.canbehead permission
* Check head-drop-rates and spawn-cause-modifiers (spawn egg drop rates are nerfed by default!)
* Keep in mind the time-alive, weapon-used, and looting modifiers.
* If killing a player, check if they have the dropheads.canlosehead permission
* If you have modified your config files, check them carefully for other causes
Q: Does this plugin ever cause lag?
A: Nope! I hear it is much faster than Xisumavoid's datapack :)
Q: Can I edit the head textures (i.e., to match a resource pack)?
A: Yes! Look in the head-textures.txt file
Q: Migrating from another heads plugin?
A: It should be an easy drag-n-drop replacement, but if you have any issues let me know!
Q: What about older versions of Minecraft?
A: Currently, DropHeads only supports 1.13+. You can find older DropHead jars that work for 1.12 in the Files tab, or use a different plugin that has support for legacy versions, such as PlayerHeads.
Planned Features
- Tropical Fish Color-Color-Pattern head generator
- "Hollow" skull texture for Skeleton Horse & Stray
- Find/improve heads for these mobs:
- Giant (currently using "Giant Toe")
- Tropical Fish (3104—we currently only have 17/22 common varieties ☹️)
- Zombie Villagers with Profession and Biome skin features (W.I.P., about 75% done ☺)
Feel free to reach out if you find any bugs or a texture for a missing head!
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forgot2fletch Owner
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Posted Aug 1, 2020This is a great plugin and promotes PVP on my private server.
When a player kills another player the heads doesn't drop and the drop rate is 100%. I am using the DeadChest plugin and the chest of the dead player contains the head of another player.
Would it possible to add an option for the head to go straight to the player's inventory and not dropped?
Also can you add a plugin reload command that would be super useful.
Thanks again for all your work!
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Posted Aug 3, 2020In reply to itsgaryk:
Hmm okay... yeah I can look into configuration options for alternative death drops (item drop vs. chest vs. directly to inventory). As for why it's not 100%, there could be a couple causes (mostly in the F.A.Q.). I'm working on upgrading the /droprate command, so you can use it with a mob type or player's name (or simply point the cursor at one) and it will tell you the drop rate and each active modifier that is affecting it, but it is still in BETA and doesn't show everything. You can also turn on debug messages and check the console log, and it will tell you a breakdown of all the drop rate modifiers each time a behead event occurs.
As for the second question: reload command is coming soon, along with option to modify settings for drop rates etc. using commands so that you don't need to open the config every time. In the meantime, you can always just use a plugin-manager that lets you /disable and /enable plugins on the fly (I've heard PlugMan is a good one; I personally use a custom one that's more lightweight but with fewer features; can DM me if interested). enabling/disabling the plugin takes a split-second and works as well as a server restart or reload, and DropHeads doesn't have any issues or memory leaks with being reloaded this way, unlike some plugins
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Posted Aug 3, 2020In reply to forgot2fletch:
Thanks for the speedy response.
I look forward to the new features you're adding. Plugman is how I've been reloading the DropHeads but I'm always keen on having lightweight options with the same functionality.
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Posted Aug 1, 2020I was wondering how to get the different color shulker heads. The server I play on lets us use spawn eggs on spawners to change the spawner type and whenever I use a shulker egg on a spawner, it will only spawn white shulkers. I am currently trying to grind for all the heads and finding out a way to get the colored ones would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Posted Aug 3, 2020In reply to slayspooon:
Hmm, DropHeads will drop the colored heads but only for the colored shulkers. Perhaps ask the server admins if they can add something to let you dye the shulkers by clicking them with dyes, or by clicking the shulker spawner with a dye perhaps? Good luck on your grind!!
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Posted Aug 1, 2020Do player heads drop?
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Posted Aug 1, 2020In reply to carrick04:
Yes they do! Just configure it in the config file.
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Posted Jul 28, 2020Hello, is there anywhere I can get a list of what the various permissions are and do?
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Posted Jul 29, 2020In reply to CrimsonSkyGaurdian:
I'm working on adding a spoiler-tag permissions section to the main page, but in the meantime you can look at all the permissions here (just scroll down a bit): https://github.com/EvModder/DropHeads/blob/master/plugin.yml
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Posted Jul 27, 2020Fantastic plugin, incredibly responsive developer! The latest version works perfectly (running the latest version of paper).
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Posted Jul 27, 2020heya I use this on my server and we all enjoy it very much though recently it suddenly stopped working. I noticed it first when we didnt end up getting a beheading message when getting a wither skeleton skull so we decided to test it and set a mob to 100%(something we've done before and has worked) and it still didnt drop. We do have looting on our swords as well and yet its not working. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this or what we may have done wrong?
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Posted Jul 27, 2020In reply to Melaniedj:
There was a bug in the previous version that resulted in heads dropping only when a sword with looting was used. It's been fixed in the most recent version (along with some great updates!). Download the new version and you should be all set.
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Posted Jul 27, 2020In reply to thekriskane:
Yes we used swords with looting and it still didnt work, we also have the latest version
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Posted Jul 29, 2020In reply to Melaniedj:
There are a couple things that could be causing it; for example, I think by default the spawn-cause-modifiers significantly nerfs drop rates for mobs that are spawned with spawn eggs.
You're using version 3.2.7, correct? Perhaps send me the config files and I can see what's happening. You can also test by resetting it to the default config or selectively disabling other plugins that might be messing with the death-event item drops
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Posted Jul 30, 2020In reply to forgot2fletch:
Hey I tried to reinstall it but now I don't have any config files from this plugin at all :/
I am using version 3.2.7 and tried reinstalling it multiple times but it wont create new config files. Is there anything I can do to make it create these files?
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Posted Jul 31, 2020In reply to Melaniedj:
Please try v3.3.7 (if you meant you are using v3.2.7)
Do other plugins work? Are there any console errors? I can't help you much without more info unfortunately.. I just tried installing it on a fresh empty server and it worked fine
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Posted Jul 31, 2020In reply to Melaniedj:
I suspect it's your configuration--the latest version is working perfectly for us now.
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Posted Aug 1, 2020In reply to forgot2fletch:
other plugins are working fine and there's no errors. commands do show up when typing in chat( but i havent gotten them to work).
I don't put this on you btw this is a great plugin, I'm gonna go ask the server host if they know what could be causing this since it seems to be working fine for everyone here. I did use 3.3.7 sorry for the mistake
Either way I love this plugin and thank you for helping me out!
update: I got it to work with an older version! we're now back on 3.3.5 which seems to work and has created new config files. I'm not sure why the newer version isn't working the only thing that I thought of just now is that we use Spigot, I didn't think this was an issue since it ran fine before (perhaps it works differently in the new version)
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Posted Jul 24, 2020Anyone know how this compares to the MoreMobHeads plugin (https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/moremobheads2). Dudes plugin has had isues for a while now that he never fixes. When players pick up or place a head it sends big long errors in the console. if you place and then pickup a head its name changes from a name to a long hash code, the config files are always breaking and just removing the broken file doesnt regenerate it. You have to completly delete the plugins config folder and then let it recreate all of its config files again. I'm getting tired of it and looking for something better but dont want to just trade in that plugin for something that has the same issues or worse. This plugin already looks better because when i asked about the tropical fish heads he just said not happening. At least this plugin is trying to get it working, even if its just the 22 common varieties.
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Posted Jul 26, 2020In reply to diablo050189:
Well, biased here (from author lol) but this plugin doesn't have those issues.. I haven't tested MoreMobHeads in a while, I will download that plugin and see what the conversion is like for switching between plugins.
Also note that even this plugin is still missing 4 of the 22 common tropical fish varieties (i get them from minecraft-heads.com, the same website that backs HDB), but good news is we may have them all done in a week or so!
(P.S., there is a goal is to eventually get all the other fish varieties as well, by generating them each with a script once the models are ready, but that likely won't be done for a while)