SKINS
Change skins, install texture packs, and find free cosmetics for Bedrock.
3 guides in this category
How to Change Your Skin in Bedrock Edition
Step-by-step guide to changing your Minecraft skin on every Bedrock platform, including custom skins and the character creator.
How to Install Texture Packs on Bedrock Edition
Install and apply custom texture packs (resource packs) on all Bedrock platforms including mobile, PC, and console.
Free Bedrock Skins: Where to Find Them
Find free skins, skin editors, and community resources for customizing your Minecraft Bedrock Edition character.
Two skin systems
Bedrock has classic skins, a single image file just like on Java, and the Character Creator in the Dressing Room, which builds a character out of separate body parts and clothing items. Capes are equipped there too.
- Skin file size
- 64×64 pixels, or 128×128 on Bedrock only. Both sizes have an inner layer and an outer layer that sits half a pixel further out, for hats, sleeves and hair.
- Arm width
- Classic arms are 4 pixels wide and slim arms 3. Alex, Efe, Makena and Noor have slim arms by default; Ari, Kai, Steve, Sunny and Zuri have wide ones.
- Transparency
- Pixels on the outer layer can be fully transparent, so that layer only covers the parts you actually draw.
- Character Creator items
- A few pieces are free and some unlock through achievements or promotions. Most cost Minecoins from the Marketplace.
Custom skins by platform
On Windows, phones and tablets you can import your own skin in the Classic Skins tab: a PNG of 64×32, 64×64 or 128×128 pixels, after which you pick the classic or the slim model. Consoles have no import, so there you wear the default skins or what your account owns from the Marketplace and the Character Creator. Signing in with the same account brings those purchases to every device.
The Dressing Room keeps five slots, so you can switch between saved looks without building them again, and up to four emotes can be equipped at a time.
Making a skin pack
A skin pack needs a manifest.json with a module of the type skin_pack and a skins.json that lists every skin. In that list each skin names its model, geometry.humanoid.custom for the Steve shape or geometry.humanoid.customSlim for the Alex shape, and has the type free or paid. The names in the skin picker come from en_US.lang in a texts folder, which the game can do without.
To install it, zip the contents and give the file the .mcpack extension. Opening that file imports the pack into the skin_packs folder in com.mojang, which works on Windows and mobile but not on consoles.
Changing your skin in Bedrock walks through both systems, free Bedrock skins lists where to find skin files, and installing texture packs covers blocks and items.