Shy

Shy lets a player hide entities that come close, using a distance setting that can be adjusted with a slider from 0 to 10. The setting controls how near an entity must be before it is hidden, so crowded spawn areas, farms and villages can be cleared without changing the world. Hidden entities are only removed from the player's own rendering, so they keep existing on the server and in other players' views.

The options cover several entity groups separately. A master toggle switches the whole hiding function on or off, while separate options ignore mobs, ignore NPCs and ignore armor stands, so each group can stay visible even while others are hidden. Settings are stored through the OneConfig configuration system, which Shy bundles and which is installed automatically with the mod, so nothing extra is needed to start using it.

Shy is a Forge mod for 1.8.9 and runs on the client only, so only the player who installs it is affected and no server changes are needed. The source code is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, and the project is open source. Shy is categorized as Optimization with a secondary Utility category, and its first public release dates from 2024-02-21, with the latest Forge file, 1.0.3, published on 2024-09-29.