Name Tag

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A name tag is an item used to give a name to a mob after writing one on the tag using an anvil. Most named mobs do not despawn or count toward the mob cap.

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Name tags are obtainable through fishing, with a 0.8% chance per attempt. See fishing for more details.

To use a name tag, it must first be renamed with an anvil, costing 1 experience level. A stack of up to 64 name tags can be renamed at once, and the cost is still 1 experience level per stack.

If it is not renamed, it has no effect when used on a mob. After the name tag is renamed, the player can use it on a mob to give it the name given to the name tag from the anvil. Mobs and name tags can be renamed any number of times. Name tags with the same name are stackable.

Once a mob is named, it keeps its name, and the name tag is consumed.

When a mob is named, it becomes persistent and is excluded from the mob cap count.

Effects on various mobs:

• A named silverfish that goes into a block appears to lose its name because it is replaced by a newly generated unnamed silverfish when the block is broken.
• A creaking spawned by a creaking heart can survive during the day if named.
• A baby (animal or villager) keeps its name when becoming an adult.
• A named villager keeps its name when transformed into a zombie villager. Once transformed, the zombie villager can despawn naturally unless it was transformed by a named zombie.
• A named zombie villager keeps its name when cured.
• Wandering traders still despawn even if they are named, or in a minecart or boat.
• Naming a wither (or ender dragon with commands) displays the name in the boss bar instead of the respective mob's name.

Any mob can be named except for the ender dragon and the agents. Players also cannot be named.

A name tag can be renamed with an anvil using up to 50 characters‌^{[JE only]} or 30 characters‌^{[BE only]}.

A name tag can rename an armor stand, though it does not show the nameplate above its head until CustomNameVisible:1b is set as an extra step.

Using a name tag on a villager or wandering trader renames the mob instead of opening the trading interface. A rideable mob is renamed instead of being ridden.

Once a name tag is used on a mob, it is impossible to remove the name of that mob without the use of commands or external modifications.

A mob cannot be named "Name Tag" unless the player gives the tag a new name and then renames it back to "Name Tag" or changes to a language, where the name tag is not called "Name Tag" and then renames it to "Name Tag".

Renamed mobs have their name displayed over their head in the same fashion as a mob named through a renamed spawn egg. Their names can be seen only if they are aimed at from 3 or fewer blocks away in Survival, Adventure, and Spectator mode or from 5 or fewer blocks away in Creative mode.

Mobs that are named using the name tag never despawn in the world, similar to tamed mobs.^[1] The exceptions are wandering traders or if the mob is hostile and the difficulty is switched to "Peaceful", causing any hostile mobs or any named hostile mobs to despawn immediately.

If a renamed mob kills a player, the custom name is used in the death message in place of the mob type name. For instance, if a vindicator named "Johnny" kills a player, the death message is "Player was slain by Johnny".

A renamed wither also has a renamed health bar.

The name of a renamed entity is stored in the NBT tag CustomName; editing the string component of the tag is equivalent to renaming the entity via a name tag.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

• Any mob that receives the name "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" is rendered upside down. This even includes the player in Bedrock Edition if the username is set to either of these and the user is not signed into their Microsoft account.
• Naming a sheep "jeb_" causes its wool to fade between the dye colors, producing a rainbow effect. The wool that drops when the sheep is sheared or killed is the original color of the sheep before the sheep was named. A rainbow sheep can never be upside-down as described above, because a mob cannot have multiple names.
• Naming a rabbit "Toast" causes it to have a special memorial skin of user xyzen420's girlfriend's missing rabbit.
• Naming a vindicator "Johnny" causes it to be aggressive and attack all mobs including the wither (except ghasts and other illagers). The hostility even extends to ravagers in Java Edition, as the "Johnny" vindicator can also attack the ravager while riding it.
• Each of these effects are case sensitive (e.g. renaming a rabbit to "toast" will not affect its texture)

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Issues relating to "Name Tag" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Name tags were added at the request of Paulsoaresjr.^[3][4]

• 👁 To use a name tag, the player must first rename it using an anvil.
  
  To use a name tag, the player must first rename it using an anvil.
• 👁 A wolf that has been renamed using a name tag.
  
  A wolf that has been renamed using a name tag.
• 👁 A creeper renamed using the name tag.
  
  A creeper renamed using the name tag.
• 👁 A wither renamed using a name tag. The custom name takes place of "Wither" over the health bar as well.
  
  A wither renamed using a name tag. The custom name takes place of "Wither" over the health bar as well.
• 👁 How to use "Grumm" and "Dinnerbone" name tag easter egg and lead to make another animal Yo-yo.
  
  How to use "Grumm" and "Dinnerbone" name tag easter egg and lead to make another animal Yo-yo.
• 👁 A horse using the "Grumm" or "Dinnerbone" easter egg to be rendered upside-down.
  
  A horse using the "Grumm" or "Dinnerbone" easter egg to be rendered upside-down.
• 👁 Name Tag found in a mineshaft chest.
  
  Name Tag found in a mineshaft chest.

• 👁 First image of a name tag in Bedrock Edition
  
  First image of a name tag in Bedrock Edition
• 👁 A slime named Tom
  
  A slime named Tom
• 👁 Xavius III
  
  Xavius III

• 👁 A name tag in A Minecraft Movie.
  
  A name tag in A Minecraft Movie.

• Spawn Egg

• "Taking Inventory: Name Tag" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, March 15, 2019.