Minecraft Armor Stand Generator
A statue that stands where you put it, in the pose you choose. Give it arms, take away the base plate, name it, and copy the command.
The name as drawn
Guard
Pose
Head
Body
Left Arm
Right Arm
Left Leg
Right Leg
Three angles per part, in degrees, around the X, Y and Z axes. Zero everywhere is the ordinary standing pose.
The command
/summon minecraft:armor_stand ~ ~ ~ {CustomName:'[{"text":""},{"text":"Guard","color":"gold"}]',CustomNameVisible:1b,ShowArms:1b,NoBasePlate:1b}Paste it into chat. It summons the stand where you are standing.
Options
The command carries no armor or held items. Put those on by hand in the game: the way items are written changed twice recently, so a command with equipment in it would work on one version and fail on another.
How it works
- Start from a pose preset, then change the numbers to taste.
- Turn on the options you want. Arms and no base plate are the two most people reach for.
- Give it a name if you want one, with colors if you like, and choose whether the name always shows.
- Copy the command, stand where the statue should go, and paste it into chat.
- Put armor or a player head on it by hand once it is placed.
The command sets up the stand itself and nothing it wears, which is what keeps it working across versions.
Questions
- Which versions does this work on?
- All the recent ones. Only items changed to the new square bracket form; entities are still summoned with an ordinary set of tags, so this command has the same shape it has had for years.
- Why does the command carry no armor?
- Because putting an item on the stand means writing an item inside the command, and the way items are written changed twice in recent updates. A command with equipment would work on one version and fail on another, so the tool leaves it out. Put the armor on by hand in the game, which takes a second.
- Why does my pose do nothing?
- Most likely the arms are turned off. A stand with no arms has nothing to move, so an arm angle changes something invisible. Turn arms on and the pose appears.
- What does invisible do to the armor?
- Nothing. Only the stand disappears. Whatever it wears keeps showing, which is how people make armor float in the air.
- What is marker for?
- It shrinks the part you can click almost to nothing, so the stand cannot be hit or taken by hand. Use it for decoration you do not want a visitor to knock over. Remember that you then need a command to get rid of it.
- How do the pose numbers work?
- Three angles per body part, in degrees, turning around the three axes. Zero everywhere is the ordinary standing pose. Start from a preset and change one number at a time; large jumps are hard to picture.
- Can I put a player head on it?
- Yes, by hand. Make the head with the player head tool, then right click it onto the stand in the game.