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Life & fun · February 29, 2012

Gravatar for Minecraft

Minotar is an insanely fast service for turning your Minecraft skin into an Avatar. Easily embeddable and usable for your site, blog or plugin.

Gravatar for Minecraft launched on February 29, 2012 with 10 votes, #110 of 360 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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In plain words

Minotar is a service that converts Minecraft player skins into avatars for use on websites, blogs, and plugins. Users provide a Minecraft username or UUID to generate an avatar image, with customizable sizing in pixels and support for PNG format. The service is designed for easy embedding and fast performance, making it suitable for developers and site administrators who want to display Minecraft player avatars.

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From the sources

Just send us a Username or UUID. The UUID can either be plain or dashed (though we will redirect to plain). Usernames may be deprecated in the future and are more susceptible to rate limits. For basic usage, provide a username or UUID in the user field: https://minotar.net/avatar/ user You can also set a size. We use pixels and only need the width . Just add it to the end. https://minotar.net/avatar/ user / 100 And because some services require an extension, we've added simple support for it. Just add .png to the end. https://minotar.net/avatar/ user .png https://minotar.net/avatar/ user / 100 .png Sometimes you want to display a helm too, that's fine with this endpoint:…from minotar.net

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