If you don't have an armor stand in your inventory, you can quickly make one with a crafting recipe for an armor stand. To make an armor stand, place 1 smooth stone slab and 6 sticks in the 3x3 crafting grid. Enter the text id of an item (for example stoneor iron_sword) into the appropriate slots. /summon armor_stand ~ ~1 ~ {ShowArms:1} Invisible Armor Stand: Did you ever want to display armors and heads without the boring wooden armor stand? Here is the command for you: Only remove Base Plate: /summon armor_stand ~ ~1 ~ {NoBasePlate:1}
You can enter an arbitrary item for the head or hand, but the other slots must contain an appropriate item.
Steps to Use an Armor Stand 1. Armor Stand With Arms; If you want your armor stand to hold whatever you want in its hand, you can give it arms! To place the armor stand, first, select the armor stand in the hotbar. When making an armor stand, it is important that the smooth stone slab and sticks are placed in the exact pattern as the image below. In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.11 and 1.12, the syntax to show/hide arms for an armor stand using the /entitydata command is: /entitydata @e[type=armor_stand] {ShowArms:
Place the Armor Stand.
Add Items to make an Armor Stand In the crafting menu, you should see a crafting area that is made up of a 3x3 crafting grid. Before you can use an armor stand, you will to put it somewhere in your world, for example, in your shelter.