Gear Vanish

Your armor keeps every point of protection. It just stops getting in the way of your skin.

Gear Vanish is not an on/off switch. Every piece is drawn in three separate passes — plates, trim pattern, enchantment glint — and you decide which of them survive.

Four looks per piece

Helmet, chestplate, leggings, boots and the elytra each get their own setting. Blocks and mob heads worn in the helmet slot follow the helmet.

Everyone sees it

Your choice travels through the server to every other player running Gear Vanish. No more "looks great on my screen only". Players who join later get caught up automatically.

The network channel is optional, so a client with the mod can still join a server without it — the look simply stays local, and the screen tells you so.

Rules bring gear back when it matters

Hiding armor has one real risk: forgetting you are wearing it. Rules fix that.

• In combat — all four pieces reappear while you fight, and for a few seconds after
• Head under water — the helmet comes back, so a turtle shell is visible where it counts
• Gliding — the elytra shows up only while it is actually carrying you
• Nearly broken — any piece close to breaking reappears, so hiding can never cost you the item

Each rule is one click in the GUI. Timings and thresholds live in the config file.

It also handles other mods

Curios cosmetics, Create backtanks and goggles, jetpacks, hats — anything that adds its own render layer to the player can be dropped too, and other players with Gear Vanish honour that as well. The match list is plain text in the config, so mods that do not exist yet are already covered. A debug option logs every layer class it sees, so you can find the right name in seconds.

Using it

Open your inventory. There is a button above the top right corner. Click a piece to cycle its mode; the player preview on the left updates instantly.

A hotkey is registered but left unbound by default, so it cannot fight with whatever else you have installed. Bind it under Controls → Gear Vanish.

Notes

• Purely cosmetic. Protection, durability, enchantments and toughness are untouched.
• Install on the server too if you want other players to see it.
• Requires NeoForge for 1.21.1.
• Available in 13 languages.