Entity Equipment

Packet ID	Direction
0x05	Clientbound

After an entity has been spawned, this packet may be sent to change the armor and held item of the entity. It is unclear if this packet may be used to equip entities other than players and what the client will do if the inventory slot is not within 0 to 4.

Clientbound

Field	Type	Description
Entity ID	Integer	The ID of the player/entity
Inventory Slot	Short	0 for held item, 1 to 4 for armor
Item ID	Short	-1 to reset the slot to be empty
Item Metadata	Short	The damage value of the item

Example Packet

Field	Value
Entity ID	1298
Inventory Slot	0
Item ID	276
Item Metadata	0