Tab Player Hider
Hides specific players from the tab list without removing them from the game world
👁️ 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.