Description
💀 Authentic Player Skulls
Authentic Player Skulls is a lightweight, server-friendly Forge mod that adds realistic, non-forgeable player skull drops upon death. Designed for SMPs, Anarchy, and Survival servers, it preserves true player identities and skins while completely preventing anvil forgery!
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✨ Features:
🏷️ Non-Forgeable Skulls: Players cannot rename normal heads in an Anvil to fake someone else's skull. Authenticity is 100% protected!
🎭 Full Skin Support (Online & Offline):
- Online Mode: Automatically fetches skins for official Mojang / Microsoft accounts.
- Offline Mode (SkinChanger Integration): Fully supports offline servers via the SkinChanger mod (listed in Relations). If a player has a custom offline skin, their skull will display it properly!
- Fallback System: If no skin is found, it safely drops a named Skeleton Skull without crashing.
🎁 EXP Reward System: Right-click a skull to claim EXP based on the victim's experience level. (Rewards are claimable once per skull while keeping the head intact as a trophy!).
📜 Death Lore Tooltip: Hover over any dropped skull to view the exact date, time, and cause of death (or the killer's name).
🔊 Impact Sound & Effects: Features a powerful anvil impact sound (block.anvil.land) and smoke particles upon death.
⚙️ Fully Configurable: Easily customize PvP-only drop rules, drop chances, death broadcast messages, and blacklist specific players/admins.
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🔗 Compatibility & Relations:
🎮 Minecraft Versions: 1.16.5 | 1.17.1 | 1.18.2 | 1.19.2 | 1.20.1
🛠️ Mod Loader: Forge
🧩 Dependencies:
- SkinChanger (Optional Dependency) - Highly recommended for offline servers to render custom player skins on dropped skulls.
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👑 Server Configuration (authenticplayerskulls-common.toml):
Admins can easily customize the behavior via the config file:
- pvpOnly: Set to true if you only want skulls to drop during PvP combat.
- dropChance: Adjust drop rate (from 0.0 to 1.0).
- broadcastDeathHead: Toggle red/yellow kill messages in chat.
- enableExpReward: Enable or disable the right-click EXP reward.
- blacklistedPlayers: Add usernames of admins/players who shouldn't drop heads upon death.


