How To Easily Get Name Tags In Minecraft

Proper noun tags are items that can be used to name mobs by right-clicking on them. Proper name tags are not craftable, so the only fashion to legitimately obtain them in Survival is to notice them inside of dungeon chests or strongholds, through trading, or past fishing.

Usage

Proper noun tags must first exist renamed with the utilise of an anvil before being practical to a mob (which, every bit of ane.eight, costs 1 feel level, and on console editions, it costs 5). To use a name tag, simply hold the item and correct-click on a mob to name it. Once done, the new name will display above the mob's head in a like manner to a histrion'south username. Once a mob is named, it can never be un-named, though its name can exist replaced via some other name tag.

Mob Beliefs

Outside of naming mobs, proper noun tags are useful for preventing mobs from despawning. One time a mob is named, information technology will remain in the globe until it dies, regardless of the fourth dimension or the player's distance from it. This makes it a great tool for hostile mobs (which tin can help in curing a zombie villager), which usually despawn during the day, or for neutral mobs and passive mobs, such as horses, in order to save them for a player to use no matter how far away they are or how long agone they were "rendered."

Easter Eggs

If a mob is named "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm", information technology will be flipped upside downwardly. This is an easter egg for Nathan Adams, a developer with the same Minecraft nickname.
- Players on iOS and Android can flip themselves upside-downward in-game by changing their usernames to "Dinnerbone" or "Grumm". This only works if you sign out of your account and in versions one.1.0 and above.
If a sheep is named "jeb_", its wool volition bike through the colors of the rainbow. It will continuously modify color through all the types of wool, and will not finish unless it'south either killed or renamed. Notwithstanding, this outcome is purely aesthetic. If it'south killed or sheared, it volition driblet the color of its original wool.
If a rabbit is named "Toast", its texture volition exist changed to a black and white fur pattern, like to the real-life Dutch rabbit. This is done in honor of a Minecraft user's girlfriend's lost rabbit.^[one]
If a vindicator is named "Johnny", information technology will be unconditionally ambitious to any mobs and players that are near information technology, except for any blazon of Illagers and ghasts. This is a reference to the picture show The Shining and Hungry Shark games.

Trivia

Names of tagged mobs are visible within 4 blocks.
If the Wither is named using a proper noun tag, its boss wellness bar will display the new proper noun.
The killer bunny mob used to spawn with a name to a higher place it that said, "The Killer Bunny."
If curse words are written on a name tag, it will censor them.
A proper noun tag can exist traded for 20 emeralds at the librarian's master level.
Any mob using a name tag will not despawn.
- Name tags practise non grant immunity, as any mob currently using one can still be killed, but will non naturally despawn on its own.