Most plugins just hide you visually. Vanish++ removes you physically.

• Titan God Mode: While vanished, you are strictly invincible. You take no damage, are immune to all potion effects, and cannot burn. You are a spectator in survival mode.
• Smart Mob AI (True Sight): Mobs completely ignore vanished players. Targeting is cancelled via EntityTargetEvent before the mob ever commits to an attack path. Mobs that had already locked on before you vanished are force-detargeted immediately.
• Projectile Pass-Through: We don't use "teleport hacks." Using native Paper events, arrows, tridents, and snowballs fly physically through your body. It is impossible to hit a vanished player.
• Zero Collision: You cannot push players, mobs, or boats, and they cannot push you. You are a ghost.
• No Physical Triggers: You can walk over Turtle Eggs, Crops, Pressure Plates, Tripwires, and Sculk Sensors without triggering a single vibration or block update.
• Raid Prevention: You won't trigger Bad Omen raids while watching a village.

We hook directly into the server protocol to scrub your existence from clients. (Requires ProtocolLib)

• Nuclear Tab-Completion Scrubbing: If a normal player tries to Tab-Complete your name in Chat, Vanilla Commands, or Plugin Commands, you are not there. Your name is stripped from the packet sent to the client.
• Server List Hiding: The player count in the multiplayer server list is mathematically adjusted. If you are the only one online, the server says "0/20".
• Ghost View for Staff: While normal players see nothing, Staff (with permission) see vanished players in the Tab List as Gray, Italicized Spectators, making it easy to coordinate.
• Staff Glow Indicator: Vanished players render with a glowing outline for staff — a clear visual indicator injected at the packet level. Non-staff never see it. Configurable via vanish-appearance.staff-glow.
• Dynmap & EssentialsX Hooks: Automatically hides you from dynamic web maps and /who, /list, or /online commands.

• Native Language Fake Messages: When you vanish, the fake "Player left the game" message isn't just text—it uses the server's native translation packet. This means a German player sees the message in German, and a US player sees it in English. It is indistinguishable from a real disconnect.
• Native TAB Plugin Support: If you use TAB (by NEZNAMY), Vanish++ hooks directly into it to display your vanish prefix automatically. No manual Placeholder configuration required.
• Legacy Plugin Support: Even without specific hooks, Vanish++ sets standard Bukkit Metadata ("vanished"). This means plugins like CMI, TAB, or custom skripts automatically respect your vanished status.
• Silent Chests: Open Chests, Shulker Boxes, Barrels, and Ender Chests silently. The container opens directly against the real inventory — no animation, no sound, no item duplication.
• DiscordSRV Integration: Registers as a native vanish hook in DiscordSRV. Join, quit, advancement, and death announcements are all suppressed on Discord — even if you reconnect while already vanished. Fake join/leave messages honour DiscordSRV's full embed, colour, avatar, and webhook configuration from messages.yml. Staff notifications still appear in console and for players with the see permission.
• Simple Voice Chat Integration: Automatically isolates/mutes you in voice chat so you can't be heard or hear proximity chat while stalking.
• Smart Item Pickup: Toggle item pickup with /vanishpickup. Don't accidentally steal the diamonds you are watching a player mine.
• /msg / /tell Detection Prevention: Non-staff can no longer /msg or /tell a vanished player — they receive a vanilla-style "player not found" error. /r reply is blocked when the last target was a vanished sender. /me from a vanished player is restricted to staff-only audience. Configurable message text.

• Spectator Quick-Switch: Double-tap Shift while vanished to enter Spectator mode instantly. Double-tap again to return to your previous gamemode. Unvanishing forces you back automatically. Requires vanishpp.spectator. (vanishpp.spectator.bypass lets you stay in Spectator after unvanishing.)
• /vspec Quick-Spectate: Instantly enter spectator mode locked to any player with /vspec <player>. Use /vspec stop to return to your previous location and gamemode. Requires vanishpp.spec.
• /vfollow Camera Tracking: Lock your camera to silently follow any player with /vfollow <player>. A HUD indicator shows the active target. Stops automatically if the target disconnects. Requires vanishpp.follow.
• /vhistory Audit Log: Full vanish/unvanish history with timestamps, executor, and reason stored in the database. Requires vanishpp.history.
• /vstats Vanish Time Statistics: View total vanish time, session count, and longest session per player. Requires vanishpp.stats.
• /vadmin Dashboard GUI: In-game GUI overview of all vanished players, active rules, and quick actions. Requires vanishpp.admin.
• /vincognito Fake Name Mode: Replace your display name and tab entry with a configurable fake name while vanished. Requires vanishpp.incognito.
• /vwand Toggle Wand: Grants a Blaze Rod vanish wand — right-click to toggle vanish state. Configurable in config.yml. Requires vanishpp.wand.
• /vzone No-Vanish Zones: Define radius-based zones where vanishing/unvanishing is blocked or forced. Manage with /vzone create|delete|list|reload. Requires vanishpp.zone.
• /vautovanish Auto-Join Vanish: Players opt into automatic vanish on join. Persisted per UUID — survives restarts and server switches. Requires vanishpp.autovanish.
• Bulk Vanish: /vanish all vanishes every eligible online player at once. /vanish world <world> targets all players in a specific world. Vanish reason tracking: /vanish <player> [reason] records a reason visible to staff via /vhistory.
• Bossbar Vanish Indicator: Optional persistent bossbar shown to vanished players as a stealth reminder. Configurable colour, style, and text in config.yml.
• Live Config Editor (/vconfig): Edit any setting in config.yml (Messages, Rules, Boolean toggles) directly in-game. Changes apply instantly without reloading.
• Interactive Help (/vhelp): Forget the wiki. The plugin includes a clickable, interactive guide explaining every command and feature.
• Smart-Merge Migration: Updates are stress-free. The plugin automatically detects old configs and migrates your custom messages/settings to the new version structure safely. Missing message keys are auto-written to messages.yml on load — upgrading never leaves a key undefined.
• Personal Rules System (/vrules): Decide exactly what you want to do while vanished. Supports named presets — save, load, list, and delete rule configurations with /vrules preset <save|load|list|delete> <name>.
  • Want to break blocks? Toggle it.
  • Want absolute peace? Disable "Can Hit Entities".
  • Afraid of leaking info? Enable "Chat Confirmation".
  • Need to drop items? Enable "Can Drop Items".
• Vanish Scoreboard (/vscoreboard): A fully configurable sidebar scoreboard shown automatically when you vanish. Displays world, TPS, player counts, real-time coordinates and direction, biome, ping, health, food, armor, time, and more. Coordinates refresh the instant you move via packet-level ProtocolLib listening — no tick lag. Supports all built-in placeholders plus full PlaceholderAPI. Column separators (|) are auto-aligned regardless of label length. Configured in scoreboards.yml, reloads with /vreload.
• Heartbeat Synchronization: Changed a permission in LuckPerms? Promoted someone via Console? The Heartbeat Task refreshes visuals instantly. No relogging required.
• Setup Advisor: On every startup, the plugin scans the active config and warns you if a hook is enabled but its dependency is missing, or if a PlaceholderAPI placeholder is used without PlaceholderAPI installed. Warnings are printed to the console and shown in-chat to all staff with vanishpp.see — so you always know when your setup is incomplete.
• Dependency Warnings: The plugin intelligently warns admins if ProtocolLib is missing, but allows you to silence these warnings permanently with /vignore.
• Accidental Chat Prevention: If enabled, typing in chat blocks the message and asks you to confirm with /vchat confirm. Never leak your presence by accident again.
• Async Data Persistence: All data is saved asynchronously. Server crash? Restart? Your vanish state is saved instantly. No accidental logins.
• Native Velocity Proxy Plugin: The companion vanishpp-velocity plugin provides a dedicated real-time messaging channel between all Paper servers and Velocity. Vanish state, config changes, and /vanishreload propagate network-wide instantly. Timed rule expiry notifications are delivered to the server the player is currently on — no reconnect required. Servers auto-detect the proxy on startup and fall back to standalone mode if none is present.
• Database Connection Monitoring: When database connectivity fails, staff are notified in-game so infrastructure issues don't go unnoticed. Includes graceful error handling and connection pooling.

• Public VanishAPI: A clean developer API (VanishAPI) exposes vanish state queries, vanish/unvanish calls, event hooks, and rule reads for third-party plugin integration. No internals required.
• LuckPerms Context Integration: Registers a vanished context node in LuckPerms so permissions can be conditionally granted or revoked while a player is vanished.
• WorldGuard Region Flags: Two new WorldGuard flags: vanishpp-force-vanish (auto-vanishes players entering the region) and vanishpp-deny-vanish (blocks toggling vanish inside the region).
• Webhook Support: Configurable HTTP webhooks fire on vanish/unvanish events for external integrations — Discord bots, dashboards, audit systems, anything.
• Shift-Right-Click Invsee: Shift-right-clicking a player while vanished opens their inventory via OpenInv or InvSee++ if installed, falling back to the built-in viewer. Permissions are granted for the duration and revoked on close.