VanishSystem

Vanishes a staff member and hides more than just the model of the player.

Vanish staff will no longer show up in the server list, tab completion, tab list or mob interaction. No player can step into them. With the addition of PacketEvents footstep sounds, scoreboard insertions and particles will also stop. Console and server log will still see them.

Overview

• Vanish self, another player or an offline player and have them log in as invisible. Timed vanish will automatically reappear.
• Job based profiles: observation, builder, strict-ghost and 6 others. These determine what the player may interact with and who may view the player.
• Lock chat during a vanish. Public chat is hidden during a vanish and can be unlocked with a click. This allows for personal messages to not be seen in public chat.
• Watch commands: follow, return, silent teleport and target. These all display the health, food, location, ping and coordinates of the target. There is also an option to view the target silently.
• An audit log exists for vanishes, forced un-vanishes, silent opening of chests and teleportations.

What can players see

"Still sent" entries will only be visible from a client designed to detect them. The packet layer handles this.

Features

• Ghost mode: No collisions, arrows pass through, pressure plates and sculk sensors are silent, mobs stop targeting you and you no longer contribute to the sleep percentage
• Safety: protection from fire, freezing, hunger, air loss and damage. Rescue from the void and a check before being teleported to an unsafe location
• Per-profile restrictions: breaking, placing, containers, pickup, redstone, mounting, trading, etc. with individual permissions. All off by default
• Fake join/leave events, configurable per viewer. Leaves appear as normal leaving
• Silent chests: no sound or lid movement to anyone other than authorized users. Requires PacketEvents
• Multi-tiered visibility: Optional. If a helper has a low see level they cannot see if an admin has vanished. Use /vanish whycansee to see the reasons for a visibility change
• Indicators: Default is action bar. Title, chat and boss bar indicators are also available. Staff can enable/disable these themselves
• Storage: Default is a plain file. MySQL, MariaDB and SQLite are also available
• PlaceholderAPI placeholders that only display information that the viewer is permitted to view

Extra Information

• If no PacketEvents are installed, ping updates, scoreboard team packets, particles, sounds will still leave the server. A modified client will see these, but a normal client will not.
• /who, /list or other plugins output is not altered. If you specify commands in the config, these will return not found instead.
• Viewer glow, silent chests and remaining in the tab list all require PacketEvents. Folia also disables glow.
• Server list hover on Spigot is filtered, but the amount may or may not be reduced. Paper implements this properly.
• On Sponge, invisibility is all or nothing. A hidden player cannot be seen even by other operators.
• Inventory viewing is not supported. Use a separate invsee plugin for this.

Details

plugins/VanishSystem/
├── config.yml               Main config, storage, modules and PacketEvents
├── messages.yml             All messages
├── indicators/config.yml    Title, scoreboard, boss bar, sounds, action bar
├── visibility/config.yml    Protected accounts, levels and who can see whom
├── announcements/config.yml Staff messages and fake join/quit
├── profiles/config.yml      Bundles of settings with names
├── restrictions/config.yml  Actions allowed for vanished players
├── ghost/config.yml         Sensors, projectiles and collisions
├── safety/config.yml        Safe reappear, hunger and damage
├── movement/config.yml      Noclip, spectator and flight
├── containers/config.yml    Silent chests
├── chat/config.yml          Confirmation and chat locking
├── discovery/config.yml     Server list, target lookups and tab completion
├── target/config.yml        Follow, teleport and target
├── gui/config.yml           GUI for /vanish menu
├── audit/config.yml         Auditing
├── network/config.yml      Cross server vanish
└── language/en.yml         Language files

%vanish_is_vanished%     %vanish_state%          %vanish_profile%
%vanish_duration%        %vanish_use_level%      %vanish_see_level%
%vanish_target%          %vanish_packet_layer%   %vanish_sync_status%
%vanish_online_visible%  %vanish_online_public%  %vanish_hidden_total%
%vanish_public_chat_locked%   %vanish_prefix%    %vanish_suffix%

if (VanishAPI.isVanished(player)) {
    return; // don't announce this player
}
if (!VanishAPI.canSee(viewer, target)) {
    continue; // leave them out of your list
}