Simple Skin
Fabric · Minecraft 26.2

Change your skin mid-game.
Everyone else sees it too.

Simple Skin puts a full skin wardrobe behind one key. Swap, steal, import and edit skins without ever restarting Minecraft — and unlike a plain skin changer, the swap actually reaches the other players on your server.

Download v2.0.0 View more
26.2 Minecraft Java 25 required Client · server optional MIT licensed
Showcase

See how it looks and works

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The Simple Skin library showing saved skins as cards with Equip, Save and settings buttons
The Steal Skin tab listing server players, with a search field for looking up any username
The skin settings screen with a rotatable preview and controls for name, model, hotkey, cape and visibility
The built-in skin editor with layer removal buttons, head transplant and colour replacement
Diagram: your client sends the skin to a Simple Skin server, which relays it to the other players instantly
Diagram of the three-step fallback: upload to the profile, verify the served texture, then rejoin the server
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Interface illustrations drawn from the mod's real layout and colours.

Why it is different

Most skin changers only fool you

They repaint your own screen and stop there. Simple Skin goes the whole way to the other players.

Seen by everyone

On a Simple Skin server the swap is relayed live. Anywhere else it goes through your Mojang profile.

No restart, ever

Equip from the library or a hotkey and the skin is on you in the same tick.

Steal any skin

Copy a player next to you, or look up any username through Mojang's own API.

Edit in-game

Remove a layer, transplant a head, or replace a colour. The original is kept.

Drop-folder import

Put a PNG in config/simple-skin/import and it lands in your library.

Shuffle & rotate

One key for a random skin, or let it rotate on a timer while you play.

The honest part

How the skin actually reaches other players

A client-side mod cannot tell someone else's game what to draw. Every other player asks the server, and the server asks Mojang exactly once — while you are logging in. Simple Skin takes the best route available.

Route 1 · Live sync instant

Your client sends the skin over a plugin channel and the server relays it to every other Simple Skin client. No rejoin, no Mojang round-trip.

simple_skin:equip → server → simple_skin:wearing

Route 2 · Your profile any server

The skin goes to your Minecraft profile, and the mod compares what Mojang is really serving before reconnecting — rejoining early would show the old one.

upload → verify → rejoin

Visibility is yours to choose

Only me stays local. Upload to profile uploads and verifies. Upload + rejoin also reconnects so the server re-reads it.

Grab the jar

One file, dropped in your mods folder. The download page lists what else it needs.

Download simple-skin-2.0.0.jar Read the full feature list