VisibleBarrier
VisibleBarrier helps players easily see and manage hidden technical blocks like barriers, light blocks, structure voids, moving pistons, and special air blocks.
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Requirements
Display Options
/visiblebarrier menu opens a 27-slot chest menu with one row of toggles:
Defaults
New players start with overlays disabled globally. When enabled, the default visible categories are:
Permissions
License
VisibleBarrier is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.
Build
mvn clean package
The plugin jar is written to target/VisibleBarrier-1.0.0.jar.
VisibleBarrier helps players easily see and manage hidden technical blocks like barriers, light blocks, structure voids, moving pistons, and special air blocks.
Requirements
- Paper or Folia compatible server, Java 21
- PacketEvents installed as a plugin
- Shows clear visual markers for barriers, light blocks, structure voids, bubble columns, moving pistons, cave air, and void air.
- Lets each player choose which hidden blocks they want to see.
- Lets each player adjust how far away hidden blocks are shown.
- Includes simple commands and a chest menu for quick control.
- Shows the correct light level for light blocks.
- /visiblebarrier toggle [all|barriers|lights|structurevoids|bubblecolumns|movingpistons|air] [on|off]
- /visiblebarrier distance [blocks]
- /visiblebarrier show
- /visiblebarrier menu
- /visiblebarrier reload
Display Options
- labels shows block names above markers.
- distance controls how far away hidden blocks are shown for each player.
- visibleair shows cave_air and void_air with full-block white stained glass markers.
- movingpistons shows moving pistons with full-block lime stained glass markers.
/visiblebarrier menu opens a 27-slot chest menu with one row of toggles:
- Barriers
- Lights
- Structure Voids
- Bubble Columns
- Moving Pistons
- Cave/Void Air
- Labels
- Distance -1
- Distance
- Distance +1
- Reset Distance
Defaults
New players start with overlays disabled globally. When enabled, the default visible categories are:
- Barriers: on
- Lights: on
- Structure voids: on
- Moving pistons: on
- Bubble columns: off
- Cave/Void Air: off
- Labels: off
- Distance: 16 blocks
Permissions
- visiblebarrier.use - use overlays and base commands
- visiblebarrier.menu - open the chest GUI
- visiblebarrier.reload - reload plugin configuration
License
VisibleBarrier is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.
Build
mvn clean package
The plugin jar is written to target/VisibleBarrier-1.0.0.jar.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 26.1, 26.2
- 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 Spigot — 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.
VisibleBarrier is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21, 26.1, 26.2. Downloaded 11 times (via Spigot). Download it and open it directly in the game.