VanishMax

A hierarchical staff vanish plugin for Paper and Folia servers.

Unlike simple vanish plugins that just hide a player from everyone, VanishMax uses a rank-based visibility system: vanished staff stay invisible to lower-ranked players and regular users, but remain visible (with a [Vanish] tag) to staff of equal or higher rank. This means your whole team can see who's actually online and vanished, without exposing that to players below them.

Features

• Hierarchical visibility — define as many permission levels as you want in config.yml, each with its own rank. Higher rank sees lower rank's vanish state.
• Full damage immunity while vanished — no fall damage, fire, drowning, mob damage, or PvP damage. /kill still works, so you can still remove a vanished player if needed.
• Mob AI ignores vanished players — hostile and neutral mobs won't target you while vanished.
• Automatic Fire Resistance + Night Vision while vanished, restored to your prior state (not just removed) when you unvanish — so if you already had Night Vision from a potion, it won't get stripped.
• Persists across restarts and relogs — your vanish state is saved and re-applied when you rejoin.
• PlaceholderAPI support — %vanishmax_vanished% for showing a vanish tag in TAB or other placeholder-driven plugins.
• Folia-native — built entirely on the Folia region scheduler API, so it works correctly on both regular Paper and Folia without any code changes.

Commands

Permissions

Configuration

Vanish levels and their ranks are fully configurable in config.yml. Add, remove, or reorder levels freely — permissions are generated automatically as vanishmax.<level-name>.

Compatibility

• Paper 1.21+
• Folia 1.21+
• Optional: PlaceholderAPI (for the vanish placeholder)
• Optional: LuckPerms (recommended for managing the level permissions, though any permissions plugin works)