Wither Skeleton Skull

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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.

No tool can accelerate the breaking process of wither skeleton skull.^[1]

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

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. In Bedrock Edition, 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. In Bedrock Edition, if multiple mobs are killed by the same charged creeper, all of them drop their heads;^[2] in Java Edition, only one mob selected at random drops its head.^[3]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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.

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

Unlike some other heads and skulls, wearing a wither skeleton skull does not reduce the detection range for wither skeletons.

In Bedrock Edition, wearing a wither skeleton skull makes the player invisible to other players on a locator map.

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.

A dispenser can equip a wither skeleton skull on a player, mob, or armor stand with an empty helmet slot, within the block the dispenser is facing.

The dispenser can also complete the construction of a wither by placing wither skeleton skulls unless the difficulty is set to peaceful.

Wither skeleton skulls can receive the following enchantments, but only through an anvil.

Placing a wither skeleton skull above a note block causes the note block to play the wither skeleton's ambient sound when activated.

The block below the note block does not affect the mob sound it creates.

Wither skeleton head is destroyed when the piston tries to push it. It can't be pulled by the sticky piston.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:
Floor

Wall

Bedrock Edition:

A wither skeleton skull has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Issues relating to "Wither Skeleton Skull" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Wither skeleton skulls do not have their own textures; they take their textures from other objects.
• When breaking any head, the particle effect of breaking it is the same as soul sand.
• In Bedrock Edition, the skull variant for the item is stored under the damage component, normally used for items with durability.

• 👁 Alex wearing a wither skeleton skull.
  
  Alex wearing a wither skeleton skull.
• 👁 Ari wearing a wither skeleton skull.
  
  Ari wearing a wither skeleton skull.
• 👁 Efe wearing a wither skeleton skull.
  
  Efe wearing a wither skeleton skull.
• 👁 Kai wearing a wither skeleton skull.
  
  Kai wearing a wither skeleton skull.
• 👁 Makena wearing a wither skeleton skull.
  
  Makena wearing a wither skeleton skull.
• 👁 Noor wearing a wither skeleton skull.
  
  Noor wearing a wither skeleton skull.
• 👁 Steve wearing a wither skeleton skull.
  
  Steve wearing a wither skeleton skull.
• 👁 Sunny wearing a wither skeleton skull.
  
  Sunny wearing a wither skeleton skull.
• 👁 Zuri wearing a wither skeleton skull.
  
  Zuri wearing a wither skeleton skull.

• 👁 Wither skulls as they appear in Minecraft: Story Mode
  
  Wither skulls as they appear in Minecraft: Story Mode
• 👁 Wither skeleton skulls as they appear in Minecraft: Volume 1
  
  Wither skeleton skulls as they appear in Minecraft: Volume 1