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Armor Statues

by Vanilla Tweaks

Gives you a book to customize armor stands with various poses, sizes, and options. Essential for decorating builds.

Overview

Armor Statues hands the player a written book that acts as a full control panel for posing armour stands, letting you fine-tune builds without juggling commands. Vanilla Tweaks drives the whole thing with functions and scoreboard triggers, so tapping book links rotates limbs, resizes the stand, toggles arms, and removes the base plate in place. Every option maps to an entity-data edit applied to the nearest stand you are looking at. It turns the fiddly armour stand into a precise decorating tool for detailed builds.

It is built for builders and decorators who use armour stands as display props and want fine pose control. It comes from Vanilla Tweaks, sits in the Utility category, and is rated a moderate pack to run. Everything happens through vanilla data pack functions, so no mod loader such as Fabric or Forge is required to use it on Minecraft 1.20 through 1.21.4.

Category
Utility
Complexity
Moderate
Install Method
World & Server
Popularity
Very Popular

Features

How It Works

Under the hood, Armor Statues relies on plain data pack mechanics rather than any client mod. Here is what happens in-game once it is loaded:

  1. 1Clicking links in the given book fires datapack functions that edit the targeted armour stand's NBT.
  2. 2Each pose link writes rotation values to a specific body part of the stand.
  3. 3Size and arm toggles set the Small and ShowArms entity tags on the stand.
  4. 4The no-base-plate option flips the NoBasePlate tag so only the figure remains visible.

Supported Versions

1.201.20.11.20.41.211.21.4

Compatibility

Compatible with all data packs.

  • Compatible with effectively all data packs since it only operates on armour stand entities you target.
  • Will not interfere with worldgen or other utility packs because it adds no generation or HUD changes.
  • Multiple Vanilla Tweaks packs can be installed together as they are designed to coexist.

Armor Statues is a pure data pack and does not ship a resource pack, so it changes server-side behaviour without altering textures, models or sounds on the client.

Tags

armor standsdecorationbuildingposes

How to Install

Armor Statues installs as a standard Java Edition data pack and runs on both singleplayer worlds and multiplayer servers. Recent 1.21 releases bumped the data pack format, so keep the pack's pack.mcmeta in step with your server version.

  1. 1.Download the Armor Statues pack as a .zip and keep it zipped.
  2. 2.Open the target world folder — a singleplayer save under .minecraft/saves, or the world folder on your server.
  3. 3.Drop the .zip into that world's datapacks folder, creating the folder if it does not exist.
  4. 4.Load the world (or run /reload if it is already open) and run /datapack list to confirm it is enabled.

The pack is built for Minecraft 1.20 through 1.21.4, so it loads on vanilla Java without Fabric, Forge or any other mod loader. It is a safe drop-in data pack; on load it grants the control book via a function, and you can re-obtain the book any time through its trigger.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which Minecraft versions does Armor Statues support?

It runs on Java Edition 1.20 through 1.21.4, including the 1.20.1 and 1.20.4 updates.

Does Armor Statues need a mod or resource pack?

No. It is a standalone vanilla data pack and the posing menu is an in-game book, so no mods or resource pack are involved.

How do I get the control book?

The pack gives the book when it loads, and you can craft or re-trigger it again later if you lose it.

What can I adjust on an armour stand?

You can set limb poses and rotations, make the stand small or invisible, toggle arms, and remove the base plate.

Does it work in survival mode?

Yes. The book-driven functions work the same in survival and creative, since they only edit the stand you are aiming at.

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