
Ulterior Motives
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.20. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
⬇ Download on Modrinth🪞 Ulterior Motives 🗡️
A mod that gives Invisibility real power, and side effects.
Links
- 💾 GitHub Repository (in progress) – source code.
- 🪲 Issues – report bugs.
Overview
Ulterior Motives is a mod that twists the concept of invisibility and identity in Minecraft.
It changes how invisibility works, introduces cursed enchantments, and adds tools for uncovering the unseen.
Changed Invisibility Behavior
- No potion particles when the player is invisible (toggleable)
- Mobs will not detect invisible players at all (toggleable)
Enchantments
🪞 Curse of Masking (Helmet Enchantment)
Rarely found in Ancient Cities. Only works if the helmet has no other enchantments.

This curse erases your identity:
- Your name is censored with obfuscated text (toggleable)
- You disappear from the server player list (TAB)
- Join and leave messages are hidden
- If invisible, your chat name is censored (toggleable)
- Your skin is overridden (adds a cape if you don’t have one)
- Your nameplate above your head is censored
Examples:
- Chat Censorship

- TAB Removal

- Skin Override (Front & Back)

- Label Censorship

🔭 Trailwatching (Spyglass Enchantment)
Found in Pillager Outpost chests.

Reveals invisible entities. While using a spyglass, footprints slowly appear beneath them with a short delay.

Additional Features
- If a player doesn’t have OP, they cannot use any commands (toggleable)
Without OP:

With OP:

Notes
- Includes a server-side config file to tweak all features.
- Supports Enchancement.
- Incompatible with Wavey Capes.
- Currently incompatible with Chrysalia (Moonveil Mantle).
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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 ulterior_motives-1.0-1.20.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 62 KB
- Download link checked 7 Nov 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.