Visible Ghosts

On the client, Visible Ghosts makes invisible players render as partly transparent figures instead of disappearing. The effect applies to players with the invisibility status effect and to players seen in spectator mode, which makes them simpler to track. Transparency can be adjusted, and the mod can be turned off to restore normal rendering.

Players control the mod with the visibleghosts command, which is also available as vg. Its renderInvisiblePlayers option switches rendering on or off, and ghostTransparency sets how transparent invisible players appear. Mod Menu integration is included for changing the same settings from a menu. The mod runs on the client alone, so a server does not need to run it. The server side has a separate visibleghosts-admin command, also available as vga, with an overrideVisibility option. It can force a specified player's invisible players to render as ghosts, overriding the client settings, and can clear that override so the player's own settings apply again.

Visible Ghosts is built for Fabric and covers 1.21.1 – 1.21.11, with files for 1.21.1, 1.21.7 and 1.21.11. The latest file is 1.21.11-2.0.0, published 2026-03-30. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 license and is not open source. Source code and an issue tracker are public.