✅ VanishIUM – The Ultimate Vanish Plugin

VanishIUM is a powerful, modern vanish plugin designed for Minecraft servers running Paper, Purpur, or compatible forks (1.21.10 – 26.3).
It gives staff, moderators, and administrators complete control over invisibility — with stunning effects, a clean GUI, permission-based access, optional MySQL cross-server sync, and Bedrock (Floodgate) compatibility.

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🆕 New in 1.1.8

• 🛡️ Vanished staff no longer leak on the server list - hovering your server on the multiplayer screen showed the player name sample, vanished staff included, to anyone with no login required. They are now stripped from that sample and subtracted from the counter next to it.
• ⌨️ Tab completion no longer gives them away - /msg <tab>, /tell, /w, /tp and plugin commands all suggested vanished players to everyone. Suggestions are now filtered on every path the server uses for them, vanilla Brigadier commands included.
• 🔐 Vanish levels still apply - staff allowed to see a vanished player keep seeing them in both places, exactly as before.
• ⚙️ Two new module toggles - hide-from-server-list (with hide-from-count for the counter) and hide-from-tab-complete. Both on by default; existing config.yml files get the fix without editing.

✨ Key Features

• 🎭 17 animated vanish effects Anonymous, Smoke, Blink, Death, CrystalFade, RunePortal, PhantomVeil, Galaxy, MeteorStrike, GlassShatter, DeleteEntity, Celestial Singularity, and more! All animations completely rewritten with improved particles and sounds. Select them via command or GUI! Preview: https://imgur.com/a/4jkQiKh

• 🖥️ Full-featured GUI system Everything is accessible from /vium gui - toggle vanish, pick animations, toggle silent/fake join/leave, change settings.

• 🗄️ MySQL & cross-server vanish sync (optional) Connect every server on your network to one database - a vanished player stays vanished across servers (no join spam), and their animation + all settings follow them. Powered by HikariCP, fully async. Defaults to per-server YAML.

• 🔔 Configurable update notifier Checks Modrinth + SpigotMC and notifies the console on startup and admins on join (vium.update). Re-checked every 12 h, so a release published mid-uptime is picked up without a restart. Every message editable; each source toggleable.

• 🔐 Vanish levels Fine-grained control over who sees who: Use vium.level.1 through vium.level.10 to determine visibility priority.

• 🤫 Silent Join/Leave Join or leave the server without notifying anyone in chat.

• 🎮 Fake Join/Leave Simulate player activity with fake messages. Great for stealthy moderation.

• 🚫 Place/Break & Pickup/Drop Control Block placing, breaking, picking up, and dropping items while vanished. Configurable per player via GUI or commands.

• 📊 PlaceholderAPI Integration 13 placeholders for scoreboards, TABs, and other plugins - vanish status, level, animation, all toggle settings, vanished player count & list, and an accurate online-player count.

• 🔎 Whois Command /vium whois <player> - instantly view a player's full vanish profile: status, level, animation, and all settings.

• 🌈 RGB / Hex Color Support All messages, GUIs, and actionbars support &#RRGGBB formatting.

• 📝 Per-player config system Preferences are stored in individual files under data/players/.

• 🌍 Multi-language support Full English and Polish translations included. Every message editable via lang files - zero hard-coded strings.

• 👻 Vanished players are completely hidden

  • Not visible in tablist
  • Not auto-completed in TabCompleter, vanilla /msg included
  • Not listed in the server list player sample or its online counter
  • Ignored by Warden, Sculk Sensors, Pressure Plates, Turtle Eggs, etc.

• 🧩 Modular feature engine Each invisibility effect is powered by individual "feature modules":

  • NightVision - Automatic night vision while vanished
  • NoPush - Prevent player collision
  • NoMobSpawn - Mobs won't spawn near you
  • NoRaidTrigger - Don't trigger village raids (supports RAID_OMEN)
  • NoDripLeafTilt - Dripleaves stay stable
  • HideAdvancementMessages - Achievements stay hidden
  • SilentChestOpen - Open containers silently (enhanced with ProtocolLib)
  • NoSculkSensorDetection - Sculk sensors, shriekers and Wardens ignore you
  • NoTurtleEggBreaking - Walk over turtle eggs safely
  • HideFromServerList - Gone from the server list player sample and its counter
  • HideFromTabComplete - Gone from command tab completion
  • Broadcast - Server-wide announcements

• 🌍 Floodgate support Bedrock Edition players can also use vanish if permissions allow.

• ⚙️ Fully configurable

  • Customize GUI layout, item slots, and icons in config.yml
  • Translate every message in lang files (lang/en.yml, lang/pl.yml)
  • Reload anytime with /vium reload

• 🚫 No hard dependencies Works out-of-the-box. Softdepend: ProtocolLib (silent chests), PlaceholderAPI (vanish placeholders).

🎬 Animations

💎 = Special Edition

🔧 Commands

You can use /vium, /v, or /vanish as the main command alias.

📊 PlaceholderAPI Placeholders

🔐 Permissions

# General Use
vium.use             - Toggle your own vanish
vium.others          - Vanish other players
vium.list            - View vanished players
vium.reload          - Reload the plugin
vium.help            - Use /vium help
vium.see             - See other vanished players of equal or lower level

# GUI
vium.gui             - Open main GUI
vium.gui.options     - Open options menu
vium.gui.animations  - Open animations menu

# Vanish Options
vium.silentjoin      - Toggle silent join
vium.silentleave     - Toggle silent leave
vium.fakejoin        - Simulate join message
vium.fakeleave       - Simulate leave message
vium.autovanish      - Auto vanish on login
vium.pickupitems     - Toggle item pickup/drop in vanish
vium.placebreak      - Toggle place/break in vanish

# Admin Tools
vium.broadcast       - Send broadcasts
vium.admin.chat      - Use admin chat (@a)
vium.whois           - Use /vium whois
vium.update          - Receive update notifications on join

# Vanish Levels
vium.level.1 through vium.level.10

# Animations
vium.animation.*             - Access all animations
vium.animation.anonymous     - Anonymous
vium.animation.smoke         - Smoke
vium.animation.cave          - Cave
vium.animation.blink         - Blink
vium.animation.magicdust     - MagicDust
vium.animation.death         - Death
vium.animation.enderfade     - EnderFade
vium.animation.runeportal    - RunePortal
vium.animation.crystalfade   - CrystalFade
vium.animation.phantomveil   - PhantomVeil
vium.animation.lightburst    - LightBurst
vium.animation.netherflame   - NetherFlame
vium.animation.galaxy        - Galaxy
vium.animation.meteorstrike  - MeteorStrike
vium.animation.glassshatter  - GlassShatter
vium.animation.deleteentity  - DeleteEntity
vium.animation.celestial     - Celestial Singularity

# Master Permission
vium.*               - Grants all permissions

🛡️ Stealth Features

🗄️ Storage & Cross-Server Sync

VanishIUM stores per-player data (vanish state + every setting) in one of two backends, selected in config.yml:

• yaml (default) - local files in data/players/<uuid>.yml. Per-server, zero setup.
• mysql - a shared database that enables cross-server vanish sync. A vanished player who switches servers (e.g. lobby → OneBlock) stays vanished, with no join notification and no animation/fake-message replay. All database I/O is async (HikariCP pool). If the connection fails, VanishIUM automatically falls back to YAML, so your server never breaks.

storage:
  type: yaml          # yaml | mysql
  mysql:
    host: localhost
    port: 3306
    database: minecraft
    username: root
    password: ""
    table: vanishium_players
    useSSL: false
    pool-size: 8

Run VanishIUM on every server of your network and point them at the same database to share vanish across the whole network. Requires a MySQL/MariaDB JDBC driver on the server.

🔔 Update Notifier

Get notified when a new version is released. Checks Modrinth and SpigotMC, notifies the console on startup and admins (with vium.update) on join. Every message is editable in the lang files.

update-checker:
  enabled: true
  notify-console: true
  notify-admins: true
  permission: vium.update
  sources:
    modrinth: true
    spigot: true
  modrinth-project: vanishium
  spigot-resource-id: 124014
  download-url: "https://modrinth.com/plugin/vanishium/versions"

📦 Installation

1. Download VanishIUM.jar
2. Place it in your /plugins/ folder
3. Restart your server
4. Configure config.yml and the lang files (lang/en.yml, lang/pl.yml) as needed
5. (Optional) Set storage.type: mysql and fill in your database to enable cross-server sync
6. Use /vium gui to access all features!

Optional: Install ProtocolLib for enhanced silent chest functionality.

🔧 Technical Info

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