I've been wondering.

Most games with custom content cache the custom content from others somewhere. Is there a way to find the custom skins of others somewhere in the Minecraft folder after you played online with others?

Basically, when I see a cool skin someone I'm playing with is wearing, I would sometimes like to "steal" it.

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No, skins are cached in memory, however you can view other skins at:

E.g. My skin would be at

Skins are typically stored in your .minecraft folder. There is a skins folder, which contains all cached skins in multiple folders. These are .png files, however they are not named as such; you have to rename them. You also don't get to see the usernames, just a generated number.

On windows the folder is typically in %AppData%\.minecraft\assets\skins (type / copy this in the folder browser address bar).

Note: Please don't copy other's skins without permission; it is disrespectful.

Go to nameMC.com then search your username and BOOM! There it is, ripe for the download.

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Minecraft does not cache any skins as files on disk, but for your interests for this topic I have some for you :-)

If you want to get a skin from a specific user from whom you know the username (with correct case!) then navigate to

For example: to get Notch's skin.

I use this on our servers website to display pictures of online users and player cards showing the users appearance in game.

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