help with making mimics

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help with making mimics

I'm thinking of making an entity simply called a "mimic" that copies the appearance of any player that is in the world, it will attack when the player gets too close. It's a good concept but how do I go about doing this though? any help would be appreciated

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You would probably need to…
Sun, 06/07/2026 - 15:15

You would probably need to custom code it, because there isn't any way to access the player skin in vanilla mcreator unless someone makes a plugin that lets you access it and allows you to render it on the "mimic"

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Oh wait this plugin might…
Sun, 06/07/2026 - 15:30

Oh wait this plugin might work

https://mcreator.net/plugin/120316/nerdys-custom-entity-models

I just looked at its github source code and i can see a procedure named "texture_from_entity.java.ftl" that seems to be taking the texture resource location of the entity and it handles the rendering part without doing custom code