Skeleton Skull

A skeleton skull is the head of a skeleton in the form of a block. It can be obtained from ancient cities or by killing a skeleton using a charged creeper's explosion.

Breaking

No tool can accelerate the breaking process of skeleton skull.

Skeleton skull drops itself when it's destroyed. When destroyed by an explosion, the skeleton skull always drops as an item.

Natural generation

Skeleton skulls can generate in ancient cities, which sometimes generate in the deep dark.

Mob loot

Skeleton heads are always dropped by a skeleton if it dies due to a charged creeper's explosion. , if multiple mobs are killed by the same charged creeper, all of them drop their heads, however only one mob selected at random drops its head.

Decoration

A skeleton skull can be oriented in 16 different directions on top of a block, and 4 directions on the sides of blocks, similar to signs. They can be placed on top of, or beside each other by shift clicking.

Wearing

The player can wear skeleton skulls, similarly to pumpkins or helmets. This overlays the second layer of the player's skin.

Disguise

Wearing a skeleton skull reduces the detection range for skeletons. This is similar to (and stacks with) the reductions in detection range from sneaking and from the Invisibility status effect. , wearing a skeleton skull makes the player invisible to other players on a locator map.