How To Install Minecraft Skins
You can not only install new Minecraft textures, but you can also install new Minecraft skins. Here’s how! (Explanations for offline and online client)
You can install skins for the online client, as well as for the offline client. Both ways are explained here:
Quick Links:
Install Skins for Online Client
Install Skins for Offline Client
Installing Minecraft Skins for Online Client
1. Head over to minecraftskins.com and download a couple skins that you like
I downloaded this fella “Brotherhood of Steel” from Fallout 3:
2. Next, log into your minecraft account at http://minecraft.net/ and click on Preferences at the top:
3. Now click on Browse and find the Minecraft skin that we downloaded previously:
4. After selecting the skin, click on Upload image
5. You have successfully installed a new Minecraft skin!
6. Play Minecraft with your new skin!
Installing Minecraft Skins for Offline Client
Of course you can also install Minecraft skins for the offline client if you don’t play Minecraft online.
0. Download A Zipping Tool
1. Download Minecraft skins and save the PNG image as char.png
2. Important: Follow this tutorial to make sure you can see hidden folders in Windows 7 , else if you can’t see them you won’t be able to follow the next steps.
3. Open the Windows Explorer (Windows key + E) and go to C:\Users\[usernamehere]\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin
Replace [usernamehere] with your name, example C:\Users\sOliver\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\bin
4. Right-click on the file minecraft.jar. Open the file with the zipping tool (step 0).
5. Now minimize the current window of the zipping program so that you can still see it.
6. Open the Windows Explorer again and find the skin that you download, drag the PNG skin into the opened Jar file.
7. Confirm the prompt
8. You have successfully installed a new skin for the Minecraft offline client.
Last Modified: October 28, 2010
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Thank you so much, I’ve checked so many sites for this sorta info and never gotten it.
How come it erased all my files, and when i launched minecraft it stopped at the loading screen?
so i tried installing it, but there was no char.png in the jar file. there was no file to overwrite.
also it doesnt work. i did EXACTLY what the instructions told me, when i go back ingame i still have the default skin.
does it not work for v1.5 users?
A note regarding the offline client: Do NOT put the char.png straight into the minecraft.jar! Instead open the “mob” folder in the minecraft.jar and overwrite the char.png in there with your own char.png.
online users cant see the skin… and i forgot both my passwords (user and email)… [dont beleive me? i play on tgwizman.info:25565]
i try it
but it didnt work
how to make it work?
my skin keep on the default skin
open with winrar minecraft.jar. Open the “mobs” file. Than delete “char.png”, name the .png file that you’ve downloaded as “char.png”. Finally put your file into minecraft.jar and make sure it looks as “char.png” NOT “char.png.png”. It worked.