🗿 Head Database

A server-side mod (also usable in singleplayer) that enables players to retrieve all different kinds of textured player heads, which are great for decoration.

🆕 What does it add?

Access to about 85k different player heads in modded environments!

Commands

/hdb

• Opens the Head Database menu
• First, a list of categories is shown
• Once a category is clicked, a paginated view of categorized player heads is shown
• Clicking any head will give it to the player

/hdb search <...>

• Opens a menu with search results
• Includes search term matches in name and tags of the individual heads
• You can use multiple search terms by separating them with spaces

/hdb reload

• Reloads the config

⚙️ Configuration

The configuration file is located at:

Forge

Client	Server
.minecraft/saves/<world_name>/serverconfig/head_database-server.toml	<server_folder>/world/serverconfig/head_database-server.toml

Fabric

.minecraft/config/head-database-server.json

Options

mode

• Specifies which permission mode to use (who is allowed to use the command?)
• Can be either of:
  • OP_ONLY: Operators only
  • WHITELIST: Operators and additional whitelisted players
  • EVERYONE: Everyone can run the commands

required_op_level

• Specifies the required operator level (0-4) when using either OP_ONLY or WHITELIST mode

whitelist

• List of non-operator player names or UUIDs allowed to use the command when using WHITELIST mode

ℹ️ /hdb reload can only be used by operators, regardless of config values

🌐 Where does the data come from?

The database is fetched from the public domain repository at https://github.com/TheSilentPro/heads. When the server starts (internal or dedicated), this ~15 MB JSON file is downloaded and parsed.