Paint And Seek
by stoggi
Paint And Seek is a Fabric hide-and-seek minigame in which hiders disguise themselves with a paintbrush while a seeker hunts them.
What it does
A round starts when a player runs the newround command with friends and picks a seeker, or lets the game choose one at random. The seeker is blinded and receives a bow with spectral arrows, and the hiders are given a paintbrush. Hiders stay hidden until the seek time runs out, and they win if they manage to last that long.
The paintbrush opens a paint screen on right click, where a color is chosen with an eye dropper and applied to the skin. Pose selection and camera orbit use the W, A, S and D keys. Matches can begin at a chosen starting location, and a village is offered as a first starting point. Server owners who want other rules can edit the round functions through a datapack, with an example start function included.
Paint And Seek requires Fabric API and Fabric Language Kotlin, and it runs on the Fabric loader only. Its files cover 26.2 alone, and the environment is client and server, so the server and every player need the mod. The code is under the MIT License and is open source.
Key features
Paintbrush disguise
Hiders blend into the map by painting their skin with colors picked from the world.
Spectral arrow seeker
The seeker shoots hiders with spectral arrows, and a hit stops that hider's point counter.
Point scoring
Seekers earn more points from a longer view of a hider, rewarding closer looks during the search.
Configurable rounds
Round stages are defined by functions in a datapack, so server owners can change the steps of a match.
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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 2
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want a hide-and-seek round in multiplayer, and server owners who want to adjust how the round starts and ends.
How it compares
Paint And Seek is a Fabric mod for 26.2 that is client and server and open source under the MIT License. Chameleon is also a Fabric hide-and-seek mod for 26.1.1 – 26.2, but it is client and server and released as All rights reserved, so its code is not open source. MC Chameleon is a Fabric mod for 26.2 that is client and server and licensed under the MIT License, which makes it open source like Paint And Seek.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paint And Seek | Fabric | 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-03 |
| Chameleon | Fabric | 26.1.1 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-15 |
| MC Chameleon | Fabric | 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-26 |
Questions
Does Paint And Seek need Fabric API?
Does the server need Paint And Seek installed?
Which game versions does Paint And Seek support?
Can server owners change how a round works?
In the catalog
Paint And Seek is one of 2,135 Minigame mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,454 Minigame mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
This mod was inspired by Meccha Chameleon (on Steam). I wanted to play this with my kids after seeing some of our favourite Minecraft content creators playing this game together (on Youtube), but Meccha is Windows only. So over the weekend, with the help of Claude Code, I put together this mod to play a simiar style…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/paint-and-seek
- Owner
- stoggi
- Published
- 2026-06-21
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-03
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15