Wither Skeleton Skull

A wither skeleton skull is the head of a wither skeleton in the form of a block, which is a rare drop from killed wither skeletons. Three of them can be used to summon a wither, a destructive boss mob that is the only source of Nether stars.

Breaking

No tool can accelerate the breaking process of wither skeleton skull.

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

Mob loot

A wither skeleton has a 2.5% chance of dropping a wither skeleton skull when killed by a player or a tamed wolf. In Java Edition, the chance is increased by 1% per level of Looting, for a maximum of 5.5% with Looting III. , the chance is increased by 2% per level of Looting, for a maximum of 8.5% with Looting III. A wither skeleton always drops a wither skeleton skull if it dies from a charged creeper's explosion. , if multiple mobs are killed by the same charged creeper, all of them drop their heads; , only one mob selected at random drops its head.

Decoration

Wither skeleton skulls 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 wither skeleton skulls, similarly to pumpkins or helmets. This overlays the second layer of the player's skin.

Disguise

Unlike some other heads and skulls, wearing a wither skeleton skull does not reduce the detection range for wither skeletons. , wearing a wither skeleton skull makes the player invisible to other players on a locator map.

Withers

Withers can be spawned by placing soul sand or soul soil in a T shape and placing 3 wither skeleton skulls on top of the T. The T can be horizontal or vertical, and the last block placed must be one of the three wither skeleton skulls. A dispenser can also create a wither by placing the final wither skeleton skull onto soul sand directly in front of and below it.