# Skins > Real faces on an offline server, and /skin from a link or somebody else's name. Source: https://stygion.eu/docs/keystone/skins Updated: 2026-10-10 On a server in offline mode everybody looks like Steve, because nobody asked Mojang who they are. This module asks. `skins.toml`, three settings and one command. ## A skin when somebody joins ``` skins.restore-on-join = true ``` When somebody joins, Keystone asks Mojang whether that name belongs to a real account, and if it does, puts their own skin on them. **On a server in online mode this does not happen** — the skin already arrived with the player and asking again is work for nothing. What goes out is the name, or the id. Nothing else. ## `/skin` ``` /skin # your own, by the name you play under /skin # somebody else's, borrowed /skin # a picture you found /skin reset # back to nothing ``` The permission is `keystone.skin`. ## A picture of your own ``` skins.allow-own-picture = true skins.signing-service = "https://api.mineskin.org/generate/url" ``` Minecraft will not wear a picture that is not signed by something it trusts, so `/skin ` has to have the image signed. **MineSkin is the default**, because it keeps the accounts for exactly that; anything else that does the same job can replace it. **Only the picture goes out** — no name, no id, nothing about who asked for it. Emptying `skins.signing-service`, or turning `allow-own-picture` off, stops that entirely and `/skin ` stops existing; borrowing a name and restoring a real skin from Mojang keep working. **Slim or classic arms** (0.2.4): `/skin slim` or `/skin classic`. Without either, Keystone looks at the picture itself — on a 64x64 skin a see-through fourth column of the arm means slim — and signs it that way; before 0.2.4 every picture was signed classic and a slim one wore its arms shifted. To look, the server downloads the picture once: **only an `https` link to a public address** (never this machine or a local network), no redirects, at most 256 KiB and five seconds. Anything that goes wrong means classic, as before. ## What other people see A skin is applied the way everybody else sees that player. **Seeing your own new skin in third person** needs the client to build the player again — on what runs today, everybody else sees it at once and you see it after switching views.