Hi guys!! Minecraft was updated to 1.8 and i want to make a guide on how to make cool things with the ArmorStands.

First i want to say one thing: I'm not english,this is the english that i've learned at school and on the internet.if i've done some grammar mistakes i want to apologize!

The command to spawn an ArmorStand is /summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ .You can use coordinates instead of the tildes (~)


To summon an ArmorStand with a rotation (like the signs) you have to add a "Rotation:[0f,0f]" and change the first 0 (zero) with a positive or negative number (remember that a complete rotation is 360°).
Here's the full command : /summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ {Rotation:[0f,0f]}
And here's an example : /summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ {Rotation:[20f,0f]}


The first thing you can see it's that the ArmorStand will fall down. You can remove the gravity using "NoGravity:1"


/summon ArmorStand {NoGravity:1}
[spoiler=" What means ":1" and ":0""]The number "1" means "Yes". If you put number "0" it will mean "No"[/spoiler]


Now, let's add some arms to the armor stand.You have to add a "ShowArms:1" in the same brace ({}). /summon ArmorStand ~ ~1 ~ {NoGravity:1,ShowArms:1}





You think that the BasePlate doesn't look good? You can remove it adding "NoBasePlate:1" inside the parentesis.Remember to add a comma between every attribute that you give to the ArmorStand.
/summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ {NoGravity:1,ShowArms:1,NoBasePlate:1}



All knows that the ArmorStands are made to keep armor and things on it.If you want you can make invisible armor stands.
The command is /summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ {NoGravity:1,ShowArms:1,NoBasePlate:1,Invisible:1}

TIP: You can see invisible ArmorStands like "ghosts" in /gamemode 3

Well now let's go a little more on the difficult!

In this part i will explain you how to move independent parts of the ArmorStand body.

•Step 1: Summon an ArmorStand with Arms,without the BasePlate and if you want with NoGravity.
You can directly copy this command: /summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ {NoGravity:1,ShowArms:1,NoBasePlate:1}


•Step 2: Before read the spoiler





Ok now you have to write what part you want to move and wich angles it have to rotate.
Here's an example of the LeftLeg rotation (the ArmorStand LeftLeg will be like "I'm kicking this ball "): /entitydata @e[type=ArmorStand,r=3] {Pose:{LeftLeg:[50f,10f,-10f]}}



•Step 3: Now you have to move the entire ArmorStand to place it in the place you want (you can see in the image up one ArmorStand that is sitting on a stair).
The command it's simple and is: /tp @e[type=ArmorStand,r=1*] ~ ~ ~*² without the *'s


*This is the radius of blocks in wich the command will work. you have to put a number (Example "r=3")
*²This are the tildes,i explained how to use it on the spoiler "Tip: tildes (~)" . Of course you can look at this spoiler here:

NOW LET'S DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT!

As you can see on the video in the spoiler up here you can place blocks on the head of the ArmorStand,but you can do it only with commands.
The command to summon an ArmorStand with a block on his head is: /summon ArmorStand ~ ~ ~ {NoGravity:1,NoBasePlate:1,ShowArms:1,Equipment:[{},{},{},{},{id:152}]}
Sure!,you can put what block id you want where i put a "152".





Here's an example of full diamond armor+diamond sword and Stone head ArmorStand summon:
!!ATTENCTION!! you can't write it in chat because it's too long:Use command blocks!!
summon ArmorStand ~ ~1 ~ {NoGravity:1,NoBasePlate:1,ShowArms:1,Equipment:[{id:diamond_sword,Count:1},{id:diamond_boots,count:1},{id:diamond_leggings,count:1},{id:diamond_chestplate,count:1},{id:1}]}

I MADE SOME FUNNY COMMANDS FOR YOU GUYS!

BIG P.S.:Thanks for all the diamonds/favourite/comments!!!