👁️ TabPlayerHider
Hides specific players from the tab list without removing them from the game world.
Perfect for servers running bots — players in hidden-players are invisible in the tab list but fully present in-game, unaffected by lag, collision, or visibility.
✨ Features
- Removes configured players from every client's tab list on join (1-tick delayed packet)
- Immediate hide/show via commands — no relog needed
- Config-driven: add bot names once, persisted across restarts
- Tab-complete for
/tabh hideshows online players;/tabh showshows currently hidden names
⚙️ Configuration
# config.yml
hidden-players:
- "BotName1"
- "BotName2"
Names are case-sensitive and must match the exact Minecraft username.
🔑 Permissions
| Permission | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
tabplayerhider.admin |
Access to all /tabh commands |
op |
💬 Commands
Main command: /tabplayerhide · Alias: /tph
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/tph on |
Enable hiding (hidden players disappear from tab list) |
/tph off |
Disable hiding (all players visible in tab list again) |
/tph status |
Show current state, hidden player count, and who is online |
/tph hide <player> |
Hide a player from the tab list (saves to config) |
/tph show <player> |
Show a player in the tab list again |
/tph list |
List all currently hidden player names |
/tph reload |
Reload config and re-apply hiding |
📋 Requirements
| Server | Paper 1.21.x |
| Java | 21+ |
🔧 How it works
On every player join, the plugin sends a ClientboundPlayerInfoRemovePacket (1 tick after join, after the server's own player-info broadcast) for each hidden player directly to the joining client. Because this only manipulates the tab list packet — and not the entity tracking or scoreboard — hidden players remain fully visible in the world.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as TabPlayerHider_1.0_1.21.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 15 KB
- Download link checked 23 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.