How To Disable Name Tags In Minecraft

This article is about the particular that gives names to mobs. For the nameplate to a higher place a player's head, see Player § Username.

A name tag is an particular used to name mobs in the earth and preclude them from despawning naturally.

Obtaining [ ]

Chest loot [ ]

Item	Construction	Container	Quantity	Run a risk
Java Edition
Name Tag	Dungeon	Breast	1	27.9%
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	42.3%
	Ancient City	Chest	1	sixteen.1%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	1	28.3%
Bedrock Edition
Name Tag	Dungeon	Chest	i	28.3%
	Mineshaft	Chest	1	42.three%
	Ancient City	Chest	1	16.ane%
	Cached treasure	Breast	1	34.three%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	one	27.9%

Fishing [ ]

Proper name tags can be caught from angling every bit function of the treasure category with a ¹⁄₆ chance afterward the five% take a chance of being a treasure catch. The hazard of catching treasure increases with the Luck of the Sea enchantment.

Trading [ ]

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

Usage [ ]

To use a proper noun tag, it must first exist renamed with an anvil, costing 1 experience level.

If it is not renamed, it has no event when used on a mob. After the name tag is renamed, the thespian can use it on a mob to give information technology the name given to the name tag from the anvil. Mobs and proper noun tags can exist renamed any number of times. Proper name tags with the same name are stackable.

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

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

Effects on various mobs:

A named silverfish that goes into a cake appears to lose its name because information technology is replaced by a newly generated unnamed silverfish when the block is broken.
A baby (brute or villager) keeps its name when becoming an adult.
- A named villager keeps its name when transformed into a zombie villager.
- A named zombie villager keeps its proper name when cured.
Wandering traders still despawn even if they are named, or in a minecart or boat.
A named wither 'southward dominate bar displays its name instead of "Wither".
Naming an ender dragon with commands also displays the proper noun in the boss bar.

Limitations [ ]

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

A name tag tin rename an armor stand, though it does not show the nameplate above its head until CustomNameVisible:1b is set equally an extra step.

Using a name tag on a villager renames the villager instead of opening the trading interface. A saddled grunter is renamed instead of beingness ridden. Using a proper noun tag on whatever other mob that can be interacted with performs the employ action instead of being named. These mobs can be renamed if the player uses the name tag while crouching or standing in a nether portal because the portal suppresses the utilise activeness.

One time a name tag is used on a mob, it is impossible to remove the proper noun of that mob without the use of commands or external modifications.

Behavior [ ]

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

Mobs that are named using the proper name tag never despawn in the globe, similar to tamed mobs.^[1] The exceptions are wandering traders or if the mob is hostile and the difficulty is switched to "Peaceful", causing whatsoever hostile mobs or whatsoever named hostile mobs to despawn immediately.

If a renamed mob kills a actor, the custom proper noun is used in the death message in place of the mob type name. For instance, if a vindicator named "Johnny" kills a player, the expiry message is "Actor was slain by Johnny".

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

Easter eggs [ ]

Any mob that receives the name "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" is rendered upside down. This even includes the histrion in early on versions of Bedrock Edition if the username is prepare to either of these and y'all are not signed into Xbox Live.
Naming a sheep "jeb_" causes its wool to fade betwixt the dye colors, producing a rainbow effect. 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 it to have a special memorial skin of user xyzen420's girlfriend's missing rabbit.
Naming a vindicator "Johnny" causes it to be ambitious and attack all mobs including the wither (except ghasts and other illagers). The hostility fifty-fifty extends to ravagers in Java Edition, as the "Johnny" vindicator can also attack the ravager while it's riding information technology.

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation primal
Proper name Tag	`name_tag`	Item	`detail.minecraft.name_tag`

Bedrock Edition:

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

History [ ]

Java Edition
1.6.1		13w16b		Added proper name tags. They can now be found in dungeon chests.
1.6.1		13w25a		A mob named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" now renders upside downwards.
1.7.2		13w36a		Name tags can now rarely be acquired by fishing, making them renewable.
1.7.4		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 twenty–22 emeralds for 1 name tag.
1.8		14w27a		Rabbits have been added and naming one "Toast" gives it a special memorial peel.
1.ix		15w44a		Added name tags to mineshaft chests.
1.ix		15w44a		The boilerplate yield of name tags in dungeon chests has been decreased.
1.11		16w39a		Name tags tin can now be found in the new woodland mansion chests.
1.11		16w39a		Added vindicators, which attack nearly all mobs if named "Johnny".
ane.xiii		17w47a		Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 421.
1.fourteen		18w43a		The texture of name tags has been changed.
i.19		Deep Nighttime Experimental Snapshot 1		Name tags at present generate in ancient city chests.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.15.0		build 1		Added name tags, and a new "Name" Interact button.
				A mob named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm" renders upside down.
				A sheep named "jeb_" fades betwixt the dye colors.
				Naming a rabbit "Toast" gives it a special memorial skin.
Pocket Edition
ane.0.4		blastoff 1.0.iv.0		Name tags can now be bought from librarian villagers for twenty-22 emeralds every bit their last tier trade.
1.i.0		blastoff i.1.0.0		Naming a vindicator "Johnny" at present makes it hostile to any mob, except other illagers.
1.i.0		blastoff i.1.0.0		Name tags tin now be found in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta one.ii.14.2		Name tags can at present be found in cached treasure chests.
one.x.0		beta one.10.0.three		The texture of name tags has been changed.
i.xi.0		beta i.11.0.four		Name tags sold by librarian villagers now price 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 inverse.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0				Added name tags.

Problems [ ]

Problems relating to "Name Tag" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia [ ]

Proper noun tags were added at the asking of Paulsoaresjr.^[2] ^[3]
A stack of up to 64 name tags can be renamed at one time. The price is 1 experience level per stack, regardless of how many name tags were stacked.
To name a mob "Proper name Tag" the player must give the proper noun tag a random name, then rename it dorsum to "Name Tag".
A villager with a name tag turned into a zombie villager past a zombie with a name tag does non despawn, only a villager with a proper name tag turned into a zombie by a zombie without a name tag does despawn.
Information technology is incommunicable to accept a rainbow sheep upside-downward, because it is incommunicable for it to be named "Jeb_" and "Dinnerbone" at the same time.

Gallery [ ]

To use a name tag, the player must first rename information technology 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 name tag. The custom name takes identify of "Wither" over the wellness bar as well.
How to use "Grumm" and "Dinnerbone" name tag easter egg and lead to make some other animal Yo-yo.
A horse using the "Grumm" or "Dinnerbone" easter egg to be rendered upside-downward.
Proper noun Tag plant in a mineshaft breast.