How To Use Name Tags On Animals In Minecraft

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This commodity is nearly the detail that gives names to mobs. For the nameplate to a higher place a player's head, see Player § Username.

A name tag is an item used to name mobs in the world and forestall them from despawning naturally.

1 Obtaining
- 1.1 Chest loot
- 1.2 Angling
- i.3 Trading
two Usage
- 2.1 Limitations
- 2.two Behavior
- 2.3 Easter eggs
3 Data values
- 3.1 ID
4 History
5 Bug
6 Trivia
seven Gallery
8 See also
9 References

Obtaining [ ]

Chest loot [ ]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Coffee Edition
Proper noun Tag	Dungeon	Chest	ane	27.9%
	Mineshaft	Chest	one	42.3%
	Ancient City	Breast	one	sixteen.ane%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	28.iii%
Bedrock Edition
Proper name Tag	Dungeon	Breast	i	28.3%
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	42.3%
	Ancient Metropolis	Chest	one	16.ane%
	Cached treasure	Chest	i	34.3%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	27.9%

Fishing [ ]

Name tags can be caught from fishing as role of the treasure category with a ^ane⁄_{half dozen} chance after the five% chance of being a treasure catch. The chance of communicable treasure increases with the Luck of the Body of water enchantment.

Trading [ ]

Master-level librarian villagers offer to sell a proper name tag for 20 emeralds as one of their available trades.

Usage [ ]

To apply a proper noun tag, information technology must first exist renamed with an anvil, costing 1 experience level.

If it is non renamed, information technology has no consequence when used on a mob. Subsequently the name tag is renamed, the player tin can use it on a mob to give it the name given to the proper noun tag from the anvil. Mobs and name tags can be renamed any number of times. Name tags with the aforementioned name are stackable.

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

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

Effects on diverse 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 cleaved.
A baby (beast or villager) keeps its name when becoming an adult.
- A named villager keeps its proper noun when transformed into a zombie villager.
- A named zombie villager keeps its proper name when cured.
Wandering traders even so despawn fifty-fifty if they are named, or in a minecart or boat.
A named wither 's boss bar displays its name instead of "Wither".
Naming an ender dragon with commands also displays the name in the dominate bar.

Limitations [ ]

Any mob can be named except for the ender dragon and players.

A proper name tag tin rename an armor stand, though information technology does not prove the nameplate above its head until CustomNameVisible:1b is fix as an extra step.

Using a name tag on a villager renames the villager instead of opening the trading interface. A saddled sus scrofa is renamed instead of existence ridden. Using a name tag on whatsoever other mob that tin exist interacted with performs the use action instead of being named. These mobs tin can be renamed if the player uses the name tag while crouching or standing in a nether portal considering the portal suppresses the use action.

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

Behavior [ ]

Renamed mobs have their name displayed over their head in the same fashion as a mob named through a renamed spawn egg. Their names tin be seen only if they are aimed at from four or fewer blocks away.

Mobs that are named using the name tag never despawn in the world, like to tamed mobs.^[ane] 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 decease message in place of the mob blazon name. For case, if a vindicator named "Johnny" kills a player, the expiry message is "Player was slain by Johnny".

A renamed wither besides has a renamed wellness bar, and the boss bar doesn't regenerate^{[ verify ]}.

Easter eggs [ ]

Any mob that receives the proper name "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" is rendered upside down. This even includes the player in early versions of Bedrock Edition if the username is set to either of these and you are not signed into Xbox Live.
Naming a sheep "jeb_" causes its wool to fade betwixt the dye colors, producing a rainbow issue. The wool that drops when the sheep is sheared or killed is the original color of the sheep before the sheep was named.
Naming a rabbit "Toast" causes information technology to have a special memorial pare of user xyzen420's girlfriend's missing rabbit.
Naming a vindicator "Johnny" causes it to be aggressive and set on all mobs including the wither (except ghasts and other illagers). The hostility fifty-fifty extends to ravagers in Coffee Edition, equally the "Johnny" vindicator can likewise attack the ravager while it's riding information technology.

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation cardinal
Name Tag	`name_tag`	Item	`item.minecraft.name_tag`

Bedrock Edition:

Proper noun	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Proper name Tag	`name_tag`	`548`	Item	`item.name_tag.name`

History [ ]

Coffee Edition
1.6.1		13w16b		Added name tags. They can at present be establish in dungeon chests.
1.6.1		13w25a		A mob named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" now renders upside down.
ane.7.2		13w36a		Name tags can now rarely be acquired by fishing, making them renewable.
i.vii.4		13w48b		A sheep named "jeb_" now fades between the dye colors.
1.8		14w02a		Proper noun tags can now be bought from librarian villagers, at 20–22 emeralds for i name tag.
1.8		14w27a		Rabbits have been added and naming one "Toast" gives it a special memorial skin.
1.9		15w44a		Added name tags to mineshaft chests.
1.9		15w44a		The average yield of name tags in dungeon chests has been decreased.
1.xi		16w39a		Proper noun tags can at present exist found in the new woodland mansion chests.
1.xi		16w39a		Added vindicators, which attack almost all mobs if named "Johnny".
1.13		17w47a		Prior to The Flattening, this item'southward numeral ID was 421.
ane.14		18w43a		The texture of name tags has been changed.
1.xix		Deep Nighttime Experimental Snapshot 1		Name tags at present generate in ancient city chests.
Pocket Edition Blastoff
v0.15.0		build 1		Added proper noun tags, and a new "Name" Interact button.
				A mob named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" renders upside down.
				A sheep named "jeb_" fades between the dye colors.
				Naming a rabbit "Toast" gives it a special memorial skin.
Pocket Edition
1.0.4		alpha 1.0.iv.0		Proper name tags can now be bought from librarian villagers for 20-22 emeralds as their terminal tier trade.
1.i.0		blastoff i.i.0.0		Naming a vindicator "Johnny" now makes it hostile to whatsoever mob, except other illagers.
1.i.0		blastoff i.i.0.0		Name tags can now be institute in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.iv.0		beta 1.2.14.2		Proper name tags can now be found in buried treasure chests.
i.10.0		beta one.10.0.iii		The texture of name tags has been changed.
i.11.0		beta ane.11.0.four		Name tags sold by librarian villagers at present cost 20 emeralds.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19	CU7	1.12	Patch 1	Added proper name tags.
PlayStation 4 Edition
i.90				The texture of name tags has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.i.0				Added name tags.

Issues [ ]

Issues relating to "Proper name Tag" are maintained on the bug tracker. Written report issues in that location.

Trivia [ ]

Name tags were added at the request of Paulsoaresjr.^[ii] ^[three]
A stack of up to 64 name tags tin can exist renamed at once. The cost is 1 experience level per stack, regardless of how many name tags were stacked.
To name a mob "Name Tag" the player must give the name tag a random name, then rename it back to "Name Tag".
A villager with a proper noun tag turned into a zombie villager by a zombie with a name tag does non despawn, simply a villager with a name tag turned into a zombie past a zombie without a proper name tag does despawn.
It is impossible to have a rainbow sheep upside-down, because it is impossible for information technology to be named "Jeb_" and "Dinnerbone" at the aforementioned time.

Gallery [ ]

To use a proper noun tag, the player must beginning rename it using an anvil.
A wolf that has been renamed using a name tag.
A creeper renamed using the name tag.
A wither renamed using a proper name tag. The custom proper name takes place of "Wither" over the health bar besides.
How to apply "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.
Name Tag found in a mineshaft chest.