CraftStands
by n1n
CraftStands adds posed Armor Stands that players craft from recipes, with dialogs that change pose, size and cosmetics.
What it does
Crafting recipes produce a range of Armor Stands with fixed poses such as attacking, thinking, looking, holding, zombie-like walking, cheering and sitting, and separate recipes yield giant-sized stands. Recipes use logs in place of planks and sticks, so the stands fit a survival progression rather than unlimited creative access.
The stands are controlled through dialogs and commands. A pose dialog can combine the top half of one posed stand with the bottom half of another, a movement dialog turns a stand in a chosen direction, and a customization dialog changes gravity, arms and baseplate on existing stands. Other dialogs run trigger commands, and items can be placed in slots that vanilla does not allow, such as the off hand or the head slot, with a named item setting the stand's name.
The datapack is server required, while the client is optional, so players can join a server running it without installing anything. It is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and the most recent files target 26.1.1. Its license is All rights reserved, so the project is not open source.
Key features
Crafted posed stands
Posed Armor Stands, including attacking, thinking, cheering and sitting variants, are made through crafting recipes.
Giant armor stands
A set of recipes produces giant-sized Armor Stands for larger builds and displays.
Dialog-based customization
Dialogs set pose, movement, gravity, arms and baseplate, and can run trigger commands.
Cosmetic slot settings
Items can be placed in slots such as the off hand and head, and a named item sets the stand's name.
Redstone-driven animation
Animated poses and actions can be built with redstone to create animatronic effects.
Stands that look at players
Commands make a stand look at or mimic the nearest player's head movement, or wave and dig with its arms when it is not posing.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Stonecutter Armor Stands is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, server required and client optional, for 1.21 – 1.21.4. Glowing Stands is licensed under the MIT License, server required and client optional, and covers 1.21 – 26.1.2.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CraftStands | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.8 – 26.1.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-02-25 |
| Stonecutter Armor Stands | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 1.21.4 | Server required, client optional | 2024-12-03 |
| Glowing Stands | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 26.1.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-06-07 |
Questions
Does CraftStands need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders does CraftStands support?
Does loading CraftStands affect single-player worlds?
In the catalog
CraftStands is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 11,522 mods support Minecraft 26.1.1.
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What the author says
CraftStands is a unique approach to Customized Armor Stands. CraftStands is a Datapack that adds various poses and unique Armor Stand through Crafting recipes. This is to expand the possibilities with Armor Stands, without creating too detailed Armor Stands that would not fit as close to Vanilla Minecraft. Where it…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/craftstands
- Owner
- n1n
- Published
- 2026-02-24
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-02-25
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15