Chameleon: Camo Hide & Seek
by illegalPie
Camo Hide & Seek turns a Fabric server into a hide-and-seek arena where hiders disguise themselves by painting their own skin and blending into the scenery.
What it does
Hiders paint their own skin in real time, then cling to walls, fences and ceilings in the manner of a chameleon, climbing and holding positions until they walk off the top. A strike-pose wheel lets a hider freeze perfectly still among the scenery, and decoy clones can be deployed to bait seekers away from the real players.
The minigame runs in three modes: Normal, where tagged players are out, Infection, where tagged players join the seekers, and Double teams, where the sides can swap. A single chameleon play command starts an instant game with automatic team splitting and no setup, and new players receive a How to Play card. The lobby adds team assignment, voting on maps shown as thumbnails, a clickable host panel and timer presets, while Classic Long mode and world-rule toggles cover block breaking, doors and fall damage.
Camo Hide & Seek requires Fabric API and is published for Fabric only, for Minecraft 1.21.1. It runs on client and server, so the mod must be installed on both, and a dedicated server needs the jar in its mods folder followed by a restart. The mod is not open source and is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
Real-time skin camouflage
Hiders paint their own player skin while the round is running, so the disguise changes with the surface they stand on.
Seekers with a paint shotgun
Seekers hunt with a paint shotgun that has a reload animation and muzzle smoke matched to the colour fired.
Three game modes
Normal, Infection and Double teams change how players are tagged, how seekers are recruited and how sides can swap.
Portable map packs
Each map pack keeps its arenas, lobby and thumbnails inside the world, so a full setup moves with a copy of the world folder.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Blocka Chameleon is a Fabric client and server mod for 26.1 – 26.1.2, released under All rights reserved and not open source. MC Chameleon is a Fabric client and server mod for 26.2 under the MIT License and open source. rozseek is an open source Fabric mod under the MIT License for 1.21 – 1.21.11 that is server-side only, so players join without installing it. Camo Hide & Seek differs by targeting only 1.21.1 and by being a minigame with a full lobby system.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chameleon: Camo Hide & Seek | Fabric | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-08 |
| Blocka Chameleon | Fabric | 26.1 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-08-02 |
| MC Chameleon | Fabric | 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-26 |
| rozseek | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2026-10-15 |
Questions
Does Camo Hide & Seek need Fabric API?
Do players need the mod on a dedicated server?
How does a host start a round quickly?
In the catalog
Chameleon: Camo Hide & Seek is one of 2,135 Minigame mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,454 Minigame mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Chameleon: Camo Hide & Seek is a multiplayer hide-and-seek minigame for Minecraft 1.21.1 (Fabric), inspired by the viral game Meccha Chameleon. Hiders paint camouflage directly onto their own player skin in real time and cling to walls to blend into the world. Seekers hunt them down with a paint shotgun. Last…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/minecraft-chameleon
- Owner
- illegalPie
- Published
- 2026-07-05
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-08
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15