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Player heads keep their display names and lore tags after being placed down and picked up again.
\nThis is an unofficial fix for MC-174496, which was finally fixed in 1.20.5!<\/p>\n

– mod for Minecraft 1.16 – 1.20.4 (and 1.20.5 to upgrade your world one last time, see the changelog)
\n– works server-only<\/p>\n

If you still want lore and other custom data to be kept in 1.21+, you can use the datapack continuation of this mod, “Keep Head Data”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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