Player Heads
Player Heads are a notable illegal on many other anarchy servers, but on Oldfag, while they do exist, they weren't added through any sort of backdoor. Rather, a plugin existed during Christmas, allowed players to get them, that John chose to keep. This christmas exploit constitutes 99% of player heads on oldfag, though a very small amount came through other means.
There is only a total of 9 actual oldfag players who ever had their player head spawned in, and they are masterderpydoge (the alt account of GeNkRaZyKiLLeR), John200410, Ghostpenguins, SSJNSSJNSSJNSSJN, Hifunc, i4_kan (the shared account of tckxrta and svectem), kevin3000, Arcoscope, and DjemLivesMatter. There are shulkers worth of masterderpydoge and John200410 heads spread across the world, two hifunc heads, and the rest have a single copy, except for SSJN, who never got to hold his player head, but only saw it.
Christmas 2019, Main source of player heads[edit | edit source]
On Oldfag Christmas 2019, John added a plugin, that made zombies, skeletons, and pigmen spawn with player heads. Out of the 7 player heads, 5 were christmas themed, 1 was John200410's head, and 1 was an alex skin. While he didn't intend for it, the player heads had a small chance of dropping, and likewise players starting farming them, gold farms being an incredibly efficient method of gaining them.
One of these skins, the alex skin, named "masterderpydoge", was discovered by GeNkRaZyKiLLeR to be an available name. GeNk quickly rushed to change his alts name to this. With this, he was able to change the skin. All new mobs would spawn with this skin, instead of the alex skin. He soon realized that through the next 12 hours, he may have had the oppourtunity to choose between various player head skins. Initially making plans, he started with his own skin, then Gestimo's skin, then a creeper head skin. He noticed something odd though, all previous skins were reverting to creeper heads. When switching back to GeNk's skin, all heads switched back to GeNk. He ultimately deduced that due to some sort of plugin, he could only choose one skin, and having to pick, chose his own.
John200410 for awhile was considering if he should keep or remove the player heads. Chunk dupes and Chunk bans were apparently still unusable with heads as they were patched with other items already, and he asked the playerbase. With an overwhelming amount wanting to keep them, he ultimately chose to not patch them. While all technically part of the same player, but with different NBT tags, all alex heads show up as GeNk heads when opening them in any inventory, or being placed down, but when used with any sort of shulker preview plugin, show up as alex heads, hence a method to differentiate. GeNk heads sometimes revert to Gestimo heads, and revert back. It has been reported, oddly enough, to be location specific, with locations where Gestimo heads previously existed during Christmas to have GeNk heads randomly revert to Gestimo heads there, until leaving.
Heads are unqiue as being a non-renewable resource, with very few exceptions. Afdud likely has the highest player head count at about 3 shulkers worth. Mobs with player heads that spawned from Christmas day still exist, and are occasionally found, such as when YeetMane found a village full of villagers wearing player heads later in mid 2020.
Other Instances[edit | edit source]
Paid Player Heads[edit | edit source]
The owner John has said he would spawn in one of any person's player head for US$100. So far 3 people are known to have have taken up the offer. They are the playerheads of Ghostpenguins, hifunc, and i4_kan. Ghostpenguins was the first to buy it on the first year anniversary of his joindate, Oct 26. 2020. hifunc bought two heads for his main account (hifunc) sometime around May 4th, 2021. Tckxtra and svetecfam won $100 in the map art competition in 2021, and used that to buy the playerhead for their shared account i4_kan.
Competitions[edit | edit source]
On Christmas 2021 John200410 hosted a playerhead competition, where the top 3 players that threw the most snowballs on that day would get one of their own playerhead. The three winners were kevin3000, Arcoscope, and DjemLivesMatter.
Other[edit | edit source]
LolRiTTeR also placed down SSJN's playerhead for a moment in front of him, before instantly breaking it.