Super Vanish

VanishLite

A lightweight Spigot/Paper plugin that gives staff a proper, complete vanish command — invisible, removed from the tab list, excluded from the player count, with fake leave/join broadcasts.

What /vanish does

• Makes the player invisible (potion effect, no particles that would give away their position) and fully removes their entity from other players' clients via hidePlayer — which also removes them from the tab list, since it's the same underlying mechanism
• Grants free flight while vanished (doesn't clip through blocks, but lets you fly over/around obstacles freely) — your previous flight state is remembered and restored exactly when you unvanish, so it won't override flight granted by another plugin or creative mode
• Broadcasts a fake message to everyone except the vanishing player ({player} left the game / {player} joined the game, fully customizable), and also suppresses the real vanilla join/quit messages while vanished
• Removes the player from the server list player count (the ping shown in the multiplayer server browser), not just in-game
• Persists across reconnects — if you disconnect while vanished, you're still vanished when you rejoin, and already-online players still won't see you appear
• Two vanished players can always see each other, even though they're invisible to everyone else

Commands

• /vanish — toggle your own vanish (permission vanishlite.use)
• /vanish <player> — toggle another player's vanish (permission vanishlite.others)
• /vanish list — list currently vanished players (permission vanishlite.admin)
• /vanish reload — reload config.yml (permission vanishlite.admin)
• Alias: /v

Configuration

Everything lives in config.yml: toggle the invisibility effect and flight independently, toggle the player-count adjustment, and customize every message.

Design note: no true noclip

Walking through solid blocks (true noclip) and being able to place blocks are mutually exclusive in vanilla Minecraft — the only mode that clips through blocks (Spectator) disables world interaction at the client level, not just server-side. Since normal block placement while vanished was a requirement, this plugin uses free flight instead: you never clip through walls, but you get unrestricted movement without your gamemode ever changing, so building/interacting stays completely normal. This is the same approach every well-known vanish plugin takes, for the same reason.

Compatibility

Single JAR, no version-specific (NMS) code, no packet manipulation — works from Minecraft 1.13 up to the current version (26.2), on Spigot, Paper, and Paper forks.