(Also known as the Head Haven mega-update)

Additions:

• Added 3104 new head variants:
  • Armadillo Head
  • Wolf Heads: Woods, Ashen, Black, Chestnut, Rusty, Spotted, Striped, Snowy.
    • This includes their corresponding Angry and Dog¹ variants.
  • Breeze Head
  • Bogged Skull, Snipped Bogged Skull
  • Sheared Sheep Head
  • Noisy variants for Creeper Head, Wither Skeleton Skull, and Dragon Head.
    • These variants exist to support more note block sounds for these mobs.
    • One doesn't simply fit extra sounds into Vanilla heads ...
• Added 33 new head sounds:
  • Armadillo Head (8): All sounds except:
    • Landing, Stepping - Not specific enough to armadillos.
    • Peeking, Unroll Peek - Is a sequence of sounds, not really a sound.
    • Scute Brush - Same sound as Scute Shed.
  • Parrot Head (2): Breeze, Bogged imitation sounds
  • Bogged Head (3): All bogged sounds, except Step and Shear².
  • Breeze Head (12): All breeze sounds, except Whirl³
  • Ender Dragon (4): All dragon sounds, except Roar⁴ and Death⁵.
  • Wither Skeleton (4): All Wither Skeleton sounds.
• You can now transfer sounds between mob heads!
  • To do this, get the head's sound by breaking it with a Brush, set it in your offhand, then brush another head with your mainhand to copy the head's sound!
  • For this to work, the 2 heads must share the same set of sounds.
  • Won't work on Vanilla heads - their sounds can't be tweaked anyway.
• New advancement: Something to Brush with ...
  • It's a tutorial for the new copy head sounds mechanic.

Changes:

• Head texture tweaks:
  • The existing Wolf heads: Now looks more consistent with the new variants.
    • They also got a new Pale prefix to match the other variants.
  • Farmer Villager and Zombie Villager heads:
    • I tweaked these to give its signature hat some depth, while also try to make it look more like a hat.
  • Sheep heads:
    • The face is now more visible when seen from the front, like it does for the Sheep.
• Player Kill tweaks⁶:
  • The old head variants are now 3x less likely to show up compared to the head variants you'd normally expect.
    • Mainly because I want the head you expect a mob to drop is most likely the one you'll get first.
    • I also want the old variants to reflect how tricky it is to get access to ancient game knowledge.
  • Tripled the average amount of Cod and Salmon kills needed to get a head.
    • These respawn pretty quickly, and often in schools, so it was much easier to get these than I initially thought they would.
  • Lowered Tropical Fish head drop rate by 2.5x.
    • Same logic with Cod/Salmon heads, but we got a lot more variants for these things.
  • Raised the amount of kills needed to get a Pufferfish head by 1.45x.
    • These don't show up in schools like the others, but getting one was still considered to be a bit too easy.
  • Dropped Noisy Head variants' replacement rate from 50% to 25%.
    • For Wither Skeletons, this is 2.5% due to how valuable it's vanilla counterpart is.
  • Lowered Slime Head rates⁷ due to Potion of Oozing.
  • Lowered Silverfish Head rates⁸ due to Potion of Infestation.
• Custom Note Block Sound tweaks:
  • Heads when brushed now causes block updates, which can be paired with existing Redstone mechanics!
  • Now plays the sound the head just switched to if a Note Block is below the head.
    • If not, it'll use a custom sound cue.
    • This lets you know brushing has worked in cases where particles are too far to be rendered in.
  • Now cycles through head sounds when brushed continuously!
    • This lets you cycle through to your desired sound really quickly, which saves a lot of time.
    • It also lets you quickly go through all the possible sounds you just got from that new head of yours.
  • Raised the chances to get regular Parrot sounds.
    • Parrot sounds should always be as likely to show up as the mob imitation sounds.
  • Now adapts to your current block interaction range!
  • Effect colors now have randomization for more variety!
• The old Tropical Fish Head is now called Archaic Tropical Fish Head.
  • For common Tropical Fishes⁹: This has a 10% chance to replace your expected head variant as the drop.
  • It's a good reminder of how annoyed I was having to settle for only one tropical fish head at the time.
• Baby Zombie Villagers no longer drop profession-based heads.
  • From the server's view: Zombie Villagers are given random professions when they spawned in, but no exception was made for the babies, even though they're not supposed to have jobs in this universe.
  • Unless made visible via a Resource Pack, you normally won't be able to see it, so I tweaked it to be more consistent to what you're actually seeing.
• Head sources now reflect how the head dropped, not how the mob died.
  • This means if the drop case is not allowed, it's head source won't be available.
• Fixes and improvements:
  • Fixed "Not Behind" advancement not counting if you picked up a Creeper/Piglin Head.
  • Fixed a bug causing Wither Skeletons to drop only coal instead of coal and bones.
  • Improved Wither Boss's head drop processing performance.
• Wither Heads now drop based on Player Kill chance if Wither Kill is the only active setting, instead of being a guaranteed drop.
• Wither Skeleton Skulls now drop based on Player Kill chance if no settings are active, or Wither Kill is the only active setting.
  • In previous versions, you get Wither Skeleton Skulls via Charged Creepers if Wither Kill the only head case available, but it's not really that obvious.
  • If no settings are active, it's basically vanilla, so Wither Skeleton Skulls should still drop because of that.
• Player Heads' Cause of Death rework:
  • Now shows quite a bit more detail on how you died.
    • Has the following format: <type> <source> <details, if any>
    • Can also be Shenanigans if it can't be detected.
  • Death type can be one of the following:
    • Environment kills: Uses a tree icon.
    • Player kills: Uses a controller icon.
    • Non player kills: Uses a sword icon.
  • Death source:
    • If environment kill: Name of the death environment.
      • Supported environments: Cactus, Crammed, Drowned, Exploded, Fireballed, Fireworks, Kinetic Energy, Frozen, On Magma, Suffocated, In Lava, Void, Out of Border, Starved, Withered, On Fire, Fall Damage, Lightning Struck, Falling Block, Sweet Berry Bush
    • If player/non player kill: Name of killer.
  • Death details:
    • For direct kills, or if not identified: No details are provided.
    • For indirect kills: Shows the kill method's name.
      • Supported methods: Sonic Boom, Spat, Thorns, Magic, Arrow, Trident, Wither Skull, Wind Charge, Fireball, Explosion
  • This should make storing your death history far more interesting, if you'll even have any.
• Details:
  • Changed background to match current game drop's theme.
  • Changed Skeleton Shot drop case to Skeleton Kill.
    • Bogged and Wither Skeleton kills now count towards the Skeleton Kill head drop case.
  • Potion Kill has been renamed to Potion Damage.
  • Charged Creeper Kill and Creeper Kill have been renamed to Charged Creeper Blast and Creeper Blast respectively.
  • Demonic Panda Head has been renamed to Evil Panda Head.
    • Now has a 20% chance to replace Aggressive Panda Head (instead of 50%)
  • Shellless Shulker Head: Is now 2% + 1% per looting instead of the fixed 5%.
  • Pumpkin Mask's name has been removed.
  • Rewrote existing setting descriptions:
    • Now highlight the more important bits instead of notable subjects.
    • Reduced unnecessary differences between cases so you can read through them quicker.
• Ctrl-Picking¹⁰ now gives you the exact head as the one currently placed.
  • Head's sound variant will also be shown as if mined with a Brush.
  • Because of this, it's tooltip has been changed from "Brushed Sound" to "Current Sound".
• Editing the head's name via the Anvil now saves the name when it's mined.
• Toast and ✨ Sheep Heads now drop as long as the name matches, regardless of formatting.
• Decapitation's Head Drop Chances file has been tweaked:
  • Is now moved to the Interactive Help File .
  • Now shows you all the game's mobs and their head drop chances.
  • Also contains how many head variants you can expect to find from this mob.
    • Because we got over 3000 head variants now, showing each head's drop rates becomes impractical.
    • This approach also won't spoil all the head variants one can expect to find, which makes the whole hunting process much more interesting.

Admin Settings:

• The in-game settings system has now been reworked, and is now known as Admin Settings.
  • You can access these settings by typing /function tdp.config:decapitation in chat.
• Added new Settings:
  • Brush Updates: If brushing heads causes block updates.
  • Player Head Drops: Enable/Disable Player Head drops.
• Admin Book now saves your current page and loops around, which makes editing easier!
• Added Setting Presets: Save and load your preferences from different worlds, or online!
  • This can be found in the Admin Book's Presets page.

Update Notes:

• If you're upgrading from pre-1.21:
  • Your existing settings won't be saved to this version because everything was wrecked when 1.20.5 attacked.
  • The internal head format has also been wrecked when 1.20.5 attacked, so that had to be reworked.
    • You can migrate heads from the old format to the new one by changing it's Note Block Sound.
    • Existing Note Block head sounds aren't affected, so your contraptions will still work just fine.

Extras:

• After 6 years of making datapacks, we finally have icons now!
• Improved the look of info text messages.
• Text files have been merged into one single Interactive Help File.
  • I have to learn 3 new languages to get all this to work as well as it did.
  • Not the best at it yet, but it works well enough for now.
• Codebase now uses Scripter 4.

Head texture credits:

• 3072 Tropical Fish Heads: https://www.patreon.com/posts/141407729
• Armadillo: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/78612-armadillo
• Breeze Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/68476-breeze
• Bogged Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/87691-bogged
• Snipped Bogged Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/83839-bogged-shorn
• Pale Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89364-pale-wolf
• Angry Pale Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89365-pale-wolf-angry
• Pale Dog Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89366-pale-wolf-tamed
• Ashen Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89355-ashen-wolf
• Angry Ashen Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89356-ashen-wolf-angry
• Ashen Dog Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89357-ashen-wolf-tamed
• Black Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89358-black-wolf
• Angry Black Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89359-black-wolf-angry
• Black Dog Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89360-black-wolf-tamed
• Chestnut Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89361-chestnut-wolf
• Angry Chestnut Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89362-chestnut-wolf-angry
• Chestnut Dog Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89363-chestnut-wolf-tamed
• Rusty Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89367-rusty-wolf
• Angry Rusty Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89368-rusty-wolf-angry
• Rusty Dog Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89369-rusty-wolf-tamed
• Snowy Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89370-snowy-wolf
• Angry Snowy Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89371-snowy-wolf-angry
• Snowy Dog Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89372-snowy-wolf-tamed
• Spotted Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89376-spotted-wolf
• Angry Spotted Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89377-spotted-wolf-angry
• Spotted Dog Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89378-spotted-wolf-tamed
• Striped Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89373-striped-wolf
• Angry Striped Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89374-striped-wolf-angry
• Striped Dog Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89375-striped-wolf-tamed
• Woods Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89379-woods-wolf
• Angry Woods Wolf Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89380-woods-wolf-angry
• Woods Dog Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/89381-woods-wolf-tamed
• Noisy Dragon Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/102804-ender-dragon
• Noisy Wither Skeleton Skull: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/22400-wither-skeleton
• Black Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49691-black-sheep
• Blue Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49698-blue-sheep
• Brown Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49692-brown-sheep
• Cyan Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49697-cyan-sheep
• Gray Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49690-gray-sheep
• Green Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49699-green-sheep
• Light Blue Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49696-light-blue-sheep
• Light Gray Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49689-light-gray-sheep
• Lime Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49700-lime-sheep
• Magenta Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49694-magenta-sheep
• Orange Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49702-orange-sheep
• Pink Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49695-pink-sheep
• Purple Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49693-purple-sheep
• Red Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49703-red-sheep
• White Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49688-white-sheep
• Yellow Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49701-yellow-sheep
• ✨ Sheep Head: https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/head/49687-✨-sheep

Footnotes:

1: A special variant that contains dog-specific sounds. Has a chance to replace the regular Wolf Head.
2: These sounds were not distinct enough.
3: This sound was way too quiet.
4: This was the same as Growl, just different subtitle.
5: This is a long sequence of sounds, not really a sound.
6: Also known as drop rate tweaks.
7: From 2.1% to 1.8%.
8: From 3.3% to 2.5%.
9: Appears 90% of the time, has a special name when put on a Bucket.
10: Hold Ctrl, then press your Pick Block key.

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