Functions and How to Make an Armor Stand in Minecraft

Armor Stands are inanimate entities that can wear armor on Minecraft. He can also be arranged to pose while holding items.

You can damage the Armor Stand by attacking it twice. When damaged, it will drop any armor placed on it.

This article will discuss the functions and method making an Armor Stand in Minecraft. Curious? Come on, read the article until the end!

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Minecraft Armor Stand Functions

Players can use the Armor Stand to hold armor, mob heads, carved pumpkins, and Elytra. You can add other items to the Armor Stand by using certain commands.

These entities can be placed in different orientations, similar to banners or other markers. You can also carry out various interactions to make him move places.

Armor Stand falls into the entity category so it can be pushed using pistons, moved by flowing water, pulled by fishing poles and bounced by slime blocks.

The interesting thing about this entity is that you can customize its appearance so that the Armor Stand has arms, poses, ignores gravity and other things using commands or summons with the NBT tag.

On maps that use a lot of Command Blocks, the Armor Stand can be used to maintain a "global" scoreboard, carry out Commands, and so on.

Armor Stands can display various enchanted armor. Whole enchanted armor does not have any effect on the Armor Stand except for the following 3 armors:

• Frost Walker
• Depth Strider
• Armor equipped with Thorns

The Frost Walker armor can create blocks of frozen ice on water if the Armor Stand is pushed using a piston.

Depth Strider can slow down the movement of the Armor Stand when the player pushes it using water.

Lastly, players may take damage from hitting an Armor Stand equipped with armor with the Thorns magic item.

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How to Make an Armor Stand in Minecraft

To make an Armor Stand, you only need two items as basic materials. These two items are Sticks and Smooth Stone Slabs.

If you don't have a Stick yet, you can make it with two items, namely Planks of any type and Bamboo.

Go to menus crafting 3 x 3 then place Plank or Bamboo in the middle slot. Next, place the same item just below the middle slot.

Apart from making them, you can also get Sticks in various locations such as the Village, Dessert Well and treasure chests. After getting the Stick, next you need to get the Smooth Stone Slab.

This item appears naturally in several houses in savanna areas and snowy villages, specifically in meat cutter houses.

If you have successfully collected Sticks and Smooth Stone Slabs, now you can make an Armor Stand.

To create it, open the menu crafting 3 x 3 and place the Smooth Stone Slab in the third row and second column. Next, place the Stick in an empty area except for the second column slot other than the middle.

Apart from making it manually, Armor Stands can also be found in villages in the Taiga biome.

Armor Stands are usually located outside the armory, one is equipped with an iron headdress and the other is equipped with iron armor.