I have made a custom skin. If I want to go and change the original Steve texture in the game files, would it mess up my skin I have made and uploaded to my Minecraft profile? My friend wants to try something involving replacing the default Steve skin and I don't want him to mess up my custom skin in the process.
Minecraft – Will replacing the default player skin interfere with the premium profile skin
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If I'm reading this CoFH page correctly, this command allows you (the player) to set your own skin when followed by the url where the skin is hosted.
/cofh skin set [url]
It also mentions that there is a server command to allow you to set capes for other users, but doesn't mention anything about setting another player's skin.
Simple Fix
Navigate to the minecraft profile page and click the "reset" button under "reset your skin".
(As pointed out by @Quinte in his answer)
Workaround
You can get the Steve Skin on Minecraft.net
- Log in, go to Profile
- Download the reference skin
- Upload the reference skin
In this case you will have a Steve skin.
Problems
Uploading the reference skin still counts as there being a skin, because, well, it is there. The problem here is that skins uploaded to the skin server take precedence over skins included in Resource Packs (e.g. the default skin in Sphax PureBDCraft).
Unfortunately there's no way to remove the skin from the skin-server completely.
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Best Answer
Think of it this way:
The default skin, the Steve skin, is like a sock pulled over the frame of the Player Model. Then any custom skin you apply, is like another sock over the top of that.
If you change the Steve skin, because you still have a custom skin over the top, you'll still just see the custom skin (the sock on the outside).
The only thing that might affect your custom skin, is if you add a "helmet" to the Steve skin. To explain: on some skins, players have added things like a hood or headphones, that sit on another layer. If this is applied to the Steve Skin, that will show up on your custom skin.
However, I don't believe it is actually possible to do that.