Detached Head

Detached Head is a gameplay mod that separates your head from your body. Your head becomes an item you see the world through - hold it, place it, drop it, or let a friend carry it. The body stays behind, headless, and your vision follows the head.

Features

• Your head is an item. A vanilla player head with your skin, so it places correctly and looks right.
• First-person view from the head. In your hand (with camera collision against walls), on a block, on the ground as a dropped item, or in another player's hands.
• Headless body. The head, hat layer, helmet and any head-slot items are hidden. You can see your own body from the head's point of view, even in first person.
• Blind without a head in hand. If the head just sits in your inventory, the screen goes black until you pick it up.
• Eat only through the head. Normal eating is disabled while detached. Feed by right-clicking your placed head with food, or right-click the head in your inventory with food on the cursor. Feeding above max hunger (20) is blocked.
• 10-block tether. A dropped head never despawns and is dragged toward you if you walk more than 10 blocks away.
• Never permanently lost. If the head is destroyed (lava, explosion, cactus) or cannot be found, a new one appears in your inventory after about 5 seconds.
• Death-proof. If you die while the head is placed, dropped, or carried by someone else, it returns to your inventory on respawn.
• Multiplayer ready. Another player can pick up your head and your vision follows them. If they leave your render distance or change dimension, the screen goes dark until they are back.
• World rule. /gamerule detachedhead:all_detached true forces every player to be headless, including players who join later. Set it to false to restore everyone.

Controls

How to play

1. Press G — your head lands in your inventory. Pick it up or place it.
2. To eat, place the head and right-click it with food (or feed it right in your inventory).
3. To look around, place the head on the ground and walk away: the camera stays with the head while your body walks separately.
4. Tired of being headless? Press G again.

Multiplayer

• Hand your head to another player: they carry it, and you see through their eyes.
• If they drop it, it becomes an item and is pulled back to you; if they place it, your view moves to the block.
• For events and horror maps there is a persistent world rule, detachedhead:all_detached.

FAQ

Why is the camera normal in F5? The camera override only applies in first person; F5 keeps the vanilla third-person view so you can look at your own headless body.

Why is my screen black? The head is in your inventory but not in a hand. Pick it up with your main or off hand.

My head is gone. A new one appears after ~5 seconds. If the old one was in a chest, it stays there while you get a fresh head.

Another player is carrying my head and I can't see anything. They are outside your render distance or in another dimension - the screen stays dark until they return.