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Nick Hider
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Hide your & your friends' nicknames, skins and capes.
Forge is a popular mod loader for versions 1.1+ of Minecraft.
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Fabric is a mod loader for versions 1.14+ of Minecraft, particularly popular for client side and optimization mods.
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Nick Hider
Client-side privacy masking for Minecraft player names, skins, capes and UUIDs.
What This Mod Does
Nick Hider masks player identity details in common vanilla client rendering and text paths.
- Local player: replace your shown name, skin, and cape.
- Other players: replace names with a template and swap skins/capes from configured source accounts.
- Global switch: instantly enable or disable all masking behavior.
Quick Start Tutorial
- Download the jar for your exact Minecraft + loader combination.
- Put the jar in your Minecraft
modsfolder. - Launch the game and open settings from Mod Menu (Fabric + Mod Menu), Mod List (Forge/NeoForge), keybind
Open Nick Hider Settings(default unbound), or command/nickhider. - First-time setup suggestion: enable
Hide Local Name,Hide Local Skin, andHide Local Cape, then setLocal Replacement Nameto a neutral alias. - Join a world/server and verify your own name and skin/cape are masked; enable
Hide Other Names/Skins/Capesif you also want to mask other players. - After config save/reload, Nick Hider automatically refreshes skin/cape sources in the background.
Features At A Glance
| Area | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Local name | Replaces your local displayed name |
| Local skin | Replaces your local rendered skin |
| Local cape | Replaces your local cape and cape-based elytra texture |
| Other names | Template-based replacement with [ID] token support |
| Other skins/capes | Shared configured source usernames |
| External fallback | Optional mineskin.eu + api.capes.dev (default: off) |
| Runtime toggle | Global Enable Nick Hider on/off switch |
| Open config | Keybind + /nickhider command |
Compatibility
- Supported Minecraft versions:
1.20.1and1.21.1 - Loader support policy:
1.20.1: Fabric, Forge1.21.1: Fabric, NeoForge
Short matrix:
1.20.1: Fabric, Forge1.21.1: Fabric, NeoForge
Configuration
Toggle Controls
- Hide local: name, skin, cape
- Hide others: names, skins, capes
- Global master toggle:
Enable Nick Hider - Optional switch:
Enable External Skin/Cape Fallbacks(default: off)
Replacement Inputs
- Local replacement name
- Local skin source username
- Local cape source username
- Other players name template
- Other players skin source username
- Other players cape source username
Validation and Fallbacks
- Replacement usernames must be empty or match
[A-Za-z0-9_]{3,16}. - Local replacement name must match
[A-Za-z0-9_]{3,16}. - If cape masking is enabled but no valid cape source resolves, cape rendering is hidden instead of showing the original cape.
- External fallbacks are queried only after official skin/cape lookups fail.
- Saving or reloading config clears runtime cache and starts an automatic source prefetch.
Diagnostics Logs
- Skin/cape runtime diagnostics use stable
NH-*codes (for exampleNH-SKIN-FETCH,NH-SKIN-RECOVERED,NH-HOOK-FAIL). - Repeated identical failures are throttled per source user to avoid console spam.
- Hook failures log the first incident as warning, and subsequent repeats as debug.
Known Limits
Nick Hider is aggressive on vanilla client paths, but masking is still best-effort. Third-party mods or custom render/UI pipelines can display unmasked data outside covered paths.
License
Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPLv3).
See LICENSE.
Maintainer and Links
- Author:
przxmus - Source: GitHub Repository
- Issues: GitHub Issues
Nick Hider
Client-side privacy masking for Minecraft player names, skins, capes and UUIDs.
What This Mod Does
Nick Hider masks player identity details in common vanilla client rendering and text paths.
- Local player: replace your shown name, skin, and cape.
- Other players: replace names with a template and swap skins/capes from configured source accounts.
- Global switch: instantly enable or disable all masking behavior.
Quick Start Tutorial
- Download the jar for your exact Minecraft + loader combination.
- Put the jar in your Minecraft
modsfolder. - Launch the game and open settings from Mod Menu (Fabric + Mod Menu), Mod List (Forge/NeoForge), keybind
Open Nick Hider Settings(default unbound), or command/nickhider. - First-time setup suggestion: enable
Hide Local Name,Hide Local Skin, andHide Local Cape, then setLocal Replacement Nameto a neutral alias. - Join a world/server and verify your own name and skin/cape are masked; enable
Hide Other Names/Skins/Capesif you also want to mask other players. - After config save/reload, Nick Hider automatically refreshes skin/cape sources in the background.
Features At A Glance
| Area | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Local name | Replaces your local displayed name |
| Local skin | Replaces your local rendered skin |
| Local cape | Replaces your local cape and cape-based elytra texture |
| Other names | Template-based replacement with [ID] token support |
| Other skins/capes | Shared configured source usernames |
| External fallback | Optional mineskin.eu + api.capes.dev (default: off) |
| Runtime toggle | Global Enable Nick Hider on/off switch |
| Open config | Keybind + /nickhider command |
Compatibility
- Supported Minecraft versions:
1.20.1and1.21.1 - Loader support policy:
1.20.1: Fabric, Forge1.21.1: Fabric, NeoForge
Short matrix:
1.20.1: Fabric, Forge1.21.1: Fabric, NeoForge
Configuration
Toggle Controls
- Hide local: name, skin, cape
- Hide others: names, skins, capes
- Global master toggle:
Enable Nick Hider - Optional switch:
Enable External Skin/Cape Fallbacks(default: off)
Replacement Inputs
- Local replacement name
- Local skin source username
- Local cape source username
- Other players name template
- Other players skin source username
- Other players cape source username
Validation and Fallbacks
- Replacement usernames must be empty or match
[A-Za-z0-9_]{3,16}. - Local replacement name must match
[A-Za-z0-9_]{3,16}. - If cape masking is enabled but no valid cape source resolves, cape rendering is hidden instead of showing the original cape.
- External fallbacks are queried only after official skin/cape lookups fail.
- Saving or reloading config clears runtime cache and starts an automatic source prefetch.
Diagnostics Logs
- Skin/cape runtime diagnostics use stable
NH-*codes (for exampleNH-SKIN-FETCH,NH-SKIN-RECOVERED,NH-HOOK-FAIL). - Repeated identical failures are throttled per source user to avoid console spam.
- Hook failures log the first incident as warning, and subsequent repeats as debug.
Known Limits
Nick Hider is aggressive on vanilla client paths, but masking is still best-effort. Third-party mods or custom render/UI pipelines can display unmasked data outside covered paths.
License
Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPLv3).
See LICENSE.
Maintainer and Links
- Author:
przxmus - Source: GitHub Repository
- Issues: GitHub Issues
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