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Create your own Head!

By ็

* This Guide will help you create your own head using a built in feature.
* It will also provide you with Software and Pattern needed to create the head.
* There are also Pre-Made heads made by BattleBlock Community!

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Category: Characters, Classes, Co-op, Gameplay Basics, Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer, Workshop

Languages: English

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17 Jun, 2014 @ 8:08am

3 Nov, 2023 @ 11:05pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Software & Pattern

How-To

How do Custom Heads work? [Remote User Heads]

Pre-Made Custom Heads

Comments

Software & Pattern

Software

I recommend using PaintDotNET[www.getpaint.net] because of its simplicity and ability to make transparent backgrounds, you can't do this with normal MS Paint.

Pattern

You will need a 128x128 Transparent Pattern. If you don't know how to make one, download it here![www.dropbox.com]

How-To

1. Make a Head:

Create a head on the pattern!

Be mindful about the tilt the game does to the head file!

2. Double Check

Make sure it's Transparent
Make sure it's 128x128
Make sure it's in .png file format (Paint.NET likes saving in .pdn)
Make sure its name contains only letters or numbers

3. Installation

Navigate to your UserFaces files;

For Windows they should be in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\BattleBlock Theater\GameData\UserFaces

C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\BattleBlock Theater\GameData\UserFaces

For Mac they should be in:

Library > Application Support > BattleBlockTheater

4. Use your Head!

You can now choose your head on Character Select!
When chosing the type of head make sure you choose this:

How do Custom Heads work? [Remote User Heads]

Custom Heads work thanks to Remote User Heads feature which can be enabled in Options (turned off by default). You don't need to enable this to view your head but you will need to enable it to view other people's Custom Head.

If the feature isn't enabled you will see other people's custom head like this:

Pre-Made Custom Heads

You can get Custom Heads from Reddit!

Hatty Hattington

Ever wanted to play as Hatty?
Well now you can!
Get Hatty HERE![imgur.com]

No Head

You can play without a head too!
All you have to do is to save the empty pattern.

NOTE: Some in-game heads have hardcoded coloring regions; for example the Hatzilla's headwear won't change color depending on which team you are.
https://steamproxy.net/id/Freekill/inventory/#238460_2_31502247
This however, is not possible with custom heads, so if you want to use a custom Hatty head, the color of Hatty's tears will change color depending on what team you are on. Because of this, if your head is not explicitly black and white only, its probably for the best to stay on the WHITE team as it won't discolor the non white and black regions!

322 Comments

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Yoshi Master Kyle 4 May @ 2:41am

you can also just make custom heads in paint 3d

AdmdRddr 26 Sep, 2023 @ 10:37pm

So it works! Nice. Hey, do you think that you can make costums in the future? just running around i no suit doesn't seem very cool, plus: you sa in the trailer or in the movies dat hatty was wearing a suit, both when the cats gave him a hat, he was just a block head (i don't mean it to be rude, i mean littarly.) so yeah, do you think that maybe you can wear a suit in the future?

cool person 8 11 May, 2023 @ 1:14pm

󠀡󠀡 @ it works! thanks!

็ [author] 11 May, 2023 @ 11:21am

@cool person 8 sorry I havent played BBT on Linux, so I can only give you second hand information which I havent tested myself

This is the path the folder from step 3 should be located on
~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common/Battleblock Theater/gamedata/UserFaces

Let me know if the UserFaces folder is there so I can update the guide with Linux folder location.

cool person 8 11 May, 2023 @ 9:14am

do you know how to do it for linux?

Miscell 24 Apr, 2023 @ 6:43pm

I made a custom template circle head for people to use, I did my best to crop the head out of the body, and I also removed the mouth. The photo is already in a 128x128 square and is transparent, but you will need to move it around and warp it a bit to make it fit correctly on a body. https://imgur.com/a/S1ob8ht

grim-two 11 Mar, 2023 @ 7:52pm

i made spamton.g.spamton

Pezzels 23 Feb, 2023 @ 5:58am

nice

micah 29 Mar, 2022 @ 6:39pm

okaymar

SkeleBones 27 Jul, 2021 @ 5:11am

now me hatty hattington thanks

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