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Blessing Skin
What it is
Blessing Skin is a free, open-source PHP service for hosting Minecraft skins. Users can pick skins and capes for game characters and make them visible to other players in Minecraft. A single registered account can hold multiple players, and users can browse a skin library, like entries, and share them with friends. The service works with skin mods such as CustomSkinLoader to display selected skins and capes in game. Blessing Skin is self-hosted: the maker provides server archives through GitHub Releases and an installation guide. That guide lists Nginx, Apache, and Caddy as supported web servers, does not support IIS, and requires PHP 8.1.0 or later. It also states that stable version 6.0.2 does not support PHP 8.2.0 or later. Setup requires generating an app key to encrypt sessions. The FAQ describes AuthMe integration through a plugin from Plugins Market. Uploaded textures are kept in the application's storage/textures directory with hashed filenames and no extensions. The online previewer does not support Elytra. The Free plan is free, billed free forever, with no ads or subscription fees.
For and against
For
- Free forever, with no ads or subscription fees.
- One account can contain multiple players.
- Skin library supports browsing, likes, and sharing.
- Works with skin mods such as CustomSkinLoader.
Against
- IIS is unsupported.
- Stable 6.0.2 does not support PHP 8.2.0 or later.
- Online previewer does not support Elytra.
The verdict
Blessing Skin offers self-hosted skin and cape management with a shared library and support for multiple players per account. Its PHP and server requirements, plus the Elytra preview limitation, are worth checking before deployment.
Who it suits
It suits Minecraft communities that want to host a skin service on their own web server and let accounts manage multiple players. Operators should check the PHP and web-server requirements before installation.
Plans and prices
Free
Minecraft skin and cape upload/hosting · no ads · no subscription fees
Read 15 Oct 2026 · bobbyskin.com
On the record
- Authentication APIs
- Version 4.1 documentation records JWT and OAuth2 API authentication support; later release notes say JWT authentication was removed in 6.0.0.blessing.netlify.app · read 15 Oct 2026
- Development history
- A 2016 developer account describes the early project as PHP code using AJAX, database abstraction, URL rewriting and generated skin JSON endpoints.prinsss.github.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The manual provides installation, FAQ, configuration, manual-build, upgrade, changelog, version and plugin-development sections.blessing.netlify.app · read 15 Oct 2026
- HTTP API
- The changelog describes an HTTP Blessing Skin API introduced as experimental and subject to incompatible changes.blessing.netlify.app · read 15 Oct 2026
- Integration
- The FAQ says AuthMe can be integrated by downloading and configuring the AuthMe Integration plugin from Plugins Market.blessing.netlify.app · read 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Plugins provide integrations with AuthMe and Discuz.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The project currently supports English, Simplified Chinese and Spanish.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- License
- Blessing Skin Server is released under the MIT License.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: deployment expertise
- The community release post says deployment is not suitable for everyone and assumes some experience deploying PHP websites.archives.mcbbs.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Elytra preview
- The FAQ says the online previewer does not currently support Elytra.blessing.netlify.app · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: game visibility
- The server application only supplies skin data; players still need a compatible skin mod or client integration to see skins in Minecraft.archives.mcbbs.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: maturity
- FAUN.dev reports that version 6.0.2 shipped in June 2022 and that later work appeared as commits rather than tagged releases.faun.dev · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: support
- FAUN.dev scores community support at 50/100 and says English-language help is thinner than Chinese-language help.faun.dev · read 15 Oct 2026
- Mod compatibility
- The service works with skin mods such as CustomSkinLoader to show selected skins and capes in game.bobbyskin.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Multiple players
- One account can own multiple Minecraft player names.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- PHP extensions
- Listed extensions include OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer, PDO, Mbstring, Tokenizer, GD, XML, Ctype, JSON, fileinfo, zip and Imagick.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- PHP requirement
- The current repository README requires PHP 8.1.0 or newer.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Plugin API
- The changelog lists a Filters API, service-provider registration and plugin enable/disable Artisan commands.blessing.netlify.app · read 15 Oct 2026
