20 Secrets You Didn’t Know About Nametags in Minecraft

Name tags in minecraft might seem basic but that couldn’t be further from the truth so in this video discover 20 secrets you didn’t know about name tags so the first secret is that name tag names appear in more places than let’s say just the name above the mob’s head

So for instance we’ll name this mob name i know a very creative thing to name it and then when we’re killed by this husk right here instead of saying i craft mc with slain by husk it’ll say i craft mc with slain by name because it’s basically taking that and replacing it

With the word husk so you can use this for a really funny effect for instance something like let’s say i craft mc was slain by herobrine or something like this now we all know about wandering traitors they come and visit us try and sell us items and then they’ll disappear

Now usually name tagging a mob in minecraft will make them not despawn but what will happen with the wandering trader is unfortunately when we name it it still can despawn this actually makes it the only mob in the entire game that once named can despawn under normal conditions at least so unfortunately you

Cannot keep this wandering traitor around your base forever there’s a lot of different name tag easter eggs in the game such as the fact that if you name a name tag johnny then find yourself a vindicator and johnny spelled like this when we name this vindicator johnny its behavior actually changes instead of

Just attacking the player or let’s say villagers it will attack literally every single mob that exists in the entire game so you can see it’ll kill these sheep right here if it stops chasing me because of course it will only be tracking one mob at a time but if it

Goes after the sheep here that it will kill those instead so for instance you can see the vindicator there is now going after the sheep and killing them this is a reference to a horror movie where basically an axe wielding thug comes into the room and says here comes

Johnny and so if you name these vindicators johnny then they will have that same effect now name tags are of course by default named name tag and so because of that you can’t just right click on a mob and name them something with just a blank name tag so you could

Never have a mob be named name tag or could you well you actually can it’s really easy all you have to do is put a name tag in the anvil here modify it somewhat put it back in the anvil rename it to name tag so now it’s been renamed

Twice the second time to name tag and now you can name anything you want name tag so it’s kind of interesting thing you wouldn’t really assume you can do that but it’s certainly something you can do if for whatever reason you want to name a certain entity in the game

Name tag so armor stands are known as an entity in minecraft that means it’s basically processed by the game in the same way as let’s say a villager would be but even though it’s an entity you can’t name it with a name tag right well you actually can let’s say we name it

Something like armor or something like this what will happen is it will consume the name tag when we right click on it you can see it disappeared but we cannot see the name above it and this armor stand is named but we cannot see the name unless the data of this armor stand

Is changed with commands to allow that name to be visible but you can still technically use a name tag on an armor stand so it’s kind of interesting thing to have invisibly named armor stand in your world now here’s a rather odd bit of trivia if a villager is killed by a

Zombie and the zombie has a name tag on it and the villager has a name tag on it let’s get this villager a name tag when the villager is turned into a zombie villager so that would be a hostile mob it actually will not despawn

Because it has a name tag but let’s say this named villager was killed by a zombie that does not have a name tag on it then it still will despawn so basically both the zombie and the villager need to have name tags or the villager even though it’s named could

Despawn when it is in a zombie villager state now rabbits come in a lot of different colors in minecraft but there’s a secret color of rabbit you can unlock so if you name a name tag toast you can unlock this so let’s just call it toast and right click on the rabbit

Here you’ll notice not only does it now have this name its texture also changes this is a reference to a bunny that was a friend of one of the developers but unfortunately it died there is its texture and it looked like that in real life so you can see here that you can

Always get this toast bunny in minecraft if you want quite an interesting little feature and of course toast was the name of that person’s rabbit now usually when you right click on a mob you will either interact with it like this let’s say open up a villager’s trading interface

Or maybe ride it if it’s something like a saddled pig but there’s two mobs in the game that the name tag actually overrides the use action it doesn’t happen on every mob it just happens on two of them the first one is the saddled

Pig so if we right click on here we do not ride the pig we name it whereas let’s say on a horse that wouldn’t happen and with the villager here if we right click on it with the name tag it’ll name the villager instead of interacting with it first so it’s quite interesting

Functionality there that for whatever reason just the villager and the saddled pig have the fact that your use action is overridden by the name tag now of course if you’re killed by a hostile mob that’s named that will appear in the chat but let’s say you have a pet that’s

Named that is killed by a hostile mob that is named let’s say for instance these three husks here we’ll name them all three evil husk then we will attack all three of them so that our dog will know to attack them basically when our poor dog is killed by the husk you can

See in the chat there that our dog’s name was slain by the husk and both of those names appear in the chat there so in that way you can actually have a fully customized message you could definitely do some very funny pranks like this having literally sang in the

Game that whatever name you want killed whatever name you want so that can definitely makes for some really fun combinations now name tags are of course found as a rare item in certain generated structures like for instance a dungeon but these items are a lot less

Rare than you may think because at the last trade of every single librarian he has 20 emeralds for a name tag of course this is not cheap at all if you zombify this villager four times you can get name tags for literally one emerald each and because emeralds are actually rather

Easy to get you can get yourself an infinite supply of name tags stacks and stacks and stacks with just a few fully zombified librarians and a good source of emeralds so if you need tons of name tags don’t forget about the last trade of the librarian if you rename a name

Tag to dinner bone the name of one of the developers of minecraft and then name any mob with it the mob will actually turn fully upside down this is a super cool easter egg to the fact that the dinner bone developer is always portrayed as being upside down

And so it’s awesome to have these upside down mobs walking around the game this works on basically every single mob in the game and it’s really cool to see this it even works on things like the wither so you can have some really funny effects with these rather strange upside

Down walking mobs also another interesting fact about name tags is the fact that you name a name tag grum so g-r-u-m-m like this basically will have the exact same effect as if you had the dinner bone name tag so let’s name one of these mob scrum it will also turn upside down the

Exact same way this is basically just an alternative way of doing the exact same easter egg but i still think it’s quite cool this one also works on every single mob in the game now this even works on baby mobs and literally every type of mob so you can have this really funny

And cool effect now naming a mob will make it naughty spawn something like a hostile mob let’s say of course would do spawn rather regularly however there is one difference to this let’s say we name this zombie right here named if we go super far away it will not despawn no

Matter what happens this mob will not naturally just disappear out of the game unless of course it’s killed except for under one circumstance unfortunately hostile mobs that are named will still disappear in peaceful mode so let’s say we just change our difficulty here too peaceful that zombie will still

Disappear whether it’s name tagged or not this is actually the only way other than the wandering trader that a name tag mob can just randomly despawn now the only mob in the entire game that you cannot name with the name tag is the enderdragon you can go right up to it

Even in creative mode and spam right click on it and you just simply cannot name it in the game it is just not possible now you can with commands summon an ender dragon that has a name but there is no way in survival to have

A name tag of work on an ender dragon even in creative a name tag will not work so it’s kind of interesting because you can rename other boss mobs like let’s say the warden or the wither with a name tag but it just does not work with the ender dragon now a really

Interesting effect happens if you do rename the wither such as spawn in a wither right here as soon as it spawns in the game we’re going to apply a name tag to it something like that and basically what will happen is the boss bar will actually rename from

Wither to whatever you named it to so now we have this boss bar that says our message on there subscribe to icraftmc and basically it’ll just stay like that no matter what and of course once you kill the weather that’ll be gone but it is really interesting that you can

Customize the weather’s name like that and it even appears on the boss bar so you can have a boss bar and survival minecraft that says whatever you want it to say in fact on some anarchy servers people will sometimes leave messages on renamed withers trapped in bedrocks that

You have this message whenever you pass by a certain area now a name tag easter egg you may know about is if you name a name tag jeb underscore with no capitals like this and then you rename a sheep that what will happen is it will go

Through all the colors of the rainbow sort of becoming a rainbow sheep there’s actually no way of knowing what color of wool is under there so you could shear that and it’s not going to change depending on what color you see it’s just whatever the original color was

This is definitely a really cool effect in the game probably one of the most in-depth easter eggs there are and all you have to do is name any shape you want jump underscore like that and you will be able to see that too this could be really cool especially for let’s say

Making a wolf arm you could have some rainbow sheep at the entrance of it so you could have this really cool rgb look as i think it’s the only thing in minecraft that looks like that if you have to rename a lot of mobs at once and

You have a lot of name tags you don’t have to rename name tags one at a time you can rename an entire stack of name tags for instance right here we could just call this stack of name tags i know very original here and it’ll rename all

64 for still only one enchantment cost or one level being gone this can be really good if you want to name a lot of mobs the same thing for instance let’s say naming all your villagers just so they do not despawn that could be a really good thing to do or maybe naming

Some hostile mobs as well could save a lot of experience long term then you have this entire stack of name tags ready to use the great news too is that let’s say this stack here you don’t want to actually end up using them all you still have 58 left that are called stack

Of name tags and you kind of regret naming and all that well the awesome thing about it is that you can rename these again so simply just go back up to the anvil here name them whatever you want we could just name these just stack of names or something and we have a

Different name here we just go on from there speaking of renaming things if you put spawn eggs into an anvil and rename them whenever you want then you have these renamed items basically right clicking on the ground here you’ll notice these mobs are pre-named it’s a really cool effect here because you get

To summon in a mob that’s already named whatever you want it to be of course this only works in creative mode but still definitely a cool thing to do and let’s say you have a map and you want it to summon in some mobs that are already

Named something like villain or enemy or something like that you could just have those spawn eggs already be named and they will just come in right like this now the grum and dinner bone name tags i talked about earlier will make any mob turn upside down except for one type

That is squids and glow squids so let’s say we renamed the squid right here you’ll notice its position does not change whatsoever it doesn’t even temporarily turn upside down so although you can name the squids this name it will not do anything to the way that they work whatsoever i would assume that

They would at least flip over temporarily but they do not do that whatsoever so there you have it a mob that is named grum or dinner bone that is not upside down i guess in a sense though squids are always moving right side up and upside down so it makes

Sense that that wouldn’t really apply to them and as the final thing you didn’t know about name tags name tags were actually added at the request of youtuber paul sorry’s jr this was way back in the day and he said he think name tags would be a really good

Addition and mojang decided to add them because of his request now you know 20 secrets about name tags and i’ll see in the next video goodbye