When using the “/give” command to get a player head of someone, the corresponding skin to the name doesn’t show up in the inventory. The only way for it to show up is if:
You’re holding it
You drop it on the ground
You place it
MC-296458
Player heads in the inventory don't show the right skin
Resolved
Fixed
10
Confirmed
Platform
Important
Rendering
25w15a, 25w19a
1.21.6 Pre-Release 1
Retrieved
Can confirm custom player heads show up as default skins in gui. This seems to only happen when a player head hasn’t been cached in the current session. Once it does get cached and you reload resources it fixes itself.
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