
Features
- Use custom features like Damage and Heal displays.
- Line Types - Create holograms with many different line types like entities and items.
- Line Height - Configure different heights for individual lines.
- Line Offsets - Configure different offsets for individual lines.
- Pages - Holograms support multiple pages, allowing you to display more information in a single place.
- Permissions - Set permissions to view holograms or individual lines.
- Display Range - Configure maximum distanceplayers can be away from ahologram to see it.
- Compatibility - Plugin fully supports all PlaceholderAPI placeholders.
- ΑΡΙ - As a developer, you can use a large API that's fully shadeable into your plugins.
- Performance - Everything is fake-packet based so there are no entities in the world neither any influence on your server's performance.
Documentation
For additional information and guides, please visit the official wiki.
Feedback & Support
We appreciate your support and would love to hear your feedback! For support, kindly join our community Discord server. Thank you for your understanding!
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All Versions
+ Add Version### Notes:
- DecentHolograms 2.10 is now considered **stable** with this release.
- Custom NBT on items may not function correctly in this version, as
item-nbt-apihas not yet been updated for Minecraft 26.2.
### New features / Improvements:
- Added support for Minecraft 26.2 (v26_2).
- Added support for the
&xRGB text color format - Added
displays-eye-level-positioningconfig option - Added missing validations to display create command
- Fixed
attribute-defaults.ymlfile not being created when missing - Updated some dependencies
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### Notes:
- This release is marked as experimental. It is safe to use on your server, but unexpected bugs or version-specific quirks may still occur.
- If you encounter any issues (displays not working properly, errors, visual glitches, etc.), please report them on our Discord server so we can fix them quickly.
- Feedback is highly appreciated and helps improve Displays faster.
- More information about this update can be found in Discord announcements.
### New Features / Improvements:
- Added **Displays**: a brand new hologram type alongside classic Armor Stand holograms, configurable with
/dh display ... - Powered by Minecraft display entities (1.19.4+)
- Supports text, item, and block displays
- Includes customizable attributes such as:
- background color
- glow color
- scale
- rotation
- billboard mode
- translation
- brightness
- opacity
- alignment
- skull textures
- and more
- Supports animations for selected attributes
- Uses a custom data-driven attribute system configurable with
/dh display attribute ... - Includes configurable defaults via
attribute-defaults.yml - Includes full tab completion support
- Includes major rendering and performance optimizations:
- custom text parsing (~26× faster than Bukkit)
- designed to have near-zero impact on normal setups
- Uses canonical Minecraft material IDs (
minecraft:stone, etc.)
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### New features / Improvements:
- Added support for Minecraft 26.1.2
- Fixed new hologram name not being validated on rename
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### New features / Improvements:
- Added support for Minecraft 1.21.11 (Thanks DerMistkaefer)
- Fixed some synchronization issues
### API Changes:
- Fixed JitPack build for version 2.9.9. Version 2.9.8 will not be available.
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### New features / Improvements:
- Added support for 1.21.9 and 1.21.10 (Thanks james090500)
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### New features / Improvements:
- Fixed the
/dh h clonecommand not validating the new hologram's name. - Fixed the
/dh l insertcommand reusing the previous line’s location instance, causing multiple lines to share the same location until a reload. - Fixed the
/dh h linescommand page index being off-by-one. - Fixed entity dismount in 1.8.
- Fixed potential client-side errors by ensuring at least one metadata property is included in spawn entity living packets.
- Fixed
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExceptionwhen wave animations were missing one of their two required arguments. (Thanks Andre601)
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### New features / Improvements:
- Added support for Minecraft 1.21.8 (v1_21_R5).
- Fixed skull texture fetching by replacing the discontinued Minetools API with a new system.
- Fixed placeholder expansion exceptions not being correctly caught and handled.
- Updated
item-nbt-apito2.15.2-SNAPSHOT.
### API Changes:
- Added the following events:
HologramRegisterEvent,HologramUnregisterEvent,HologramEnableEventandHologramDisableEvent. (Thanks Andre601)
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### New features / Improvements:
- Fixed a bug that caused way more packets to be sent to players unnecessarily, possibly having a negative impact on performance.
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### New features / Improvements:
- Updated
item-nbt-apito2.15.1which supports 1.21.7. - Fixed potential memory leaks with config files.
- Fixed lines not being realigned after setting one.
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### Notes:
- Custom NBT on items may not function correctly in this version, as
item-nbt-apihas not yet been updated for Minecraft 1.21.7.
### New features / Improvements:
- Added support for Minecraft 1.21.7 (v1_21_R5).
- Updated
item-nbt-apito2.15.1-SNAPSHOTwhich supports 1.21.6. - Fixed performance issues with Ticker.
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### Notes:
- DecentHolograms 2.9 is now considered **stable** with this release.
- Version 2.9.2 should now be available on JitPack unlike 2.9.0 and 2.9.1.
- :warning: Custom NBT on items may not function correctly in this version, as
item-nbt-apihas not yet been updated for Minecraft 1.21.6.
### New features / Improvements:
- Added support for Minecraft 1.21.6 (v1_21_R5).
- Fixed a bug where entities were not being destroyed correctly on 1.17.
- Fixed runtime errors being thrown by outdated
item-nbt-api. - Improved internal handling of entity types.
- Updated some dependencies.
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### Notes:
- This release is marked **experimental**. It is safe to use on your server, but unexpected bugs or version‑specific quirks may occur.
- If you encounter any issues (holograms not showing, errors, etc.), please report them on our Discord server, so we can fix quickly them.
### New features / Improvements:
- Added configurable
new_version_availablemessage. - Updated
item-nbt-apito 2.15.0 - Fixed support for 1.21.5.
- Removed some unused/unnecessary code.
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### Notes:
- This release is marked **experimental**. It is safe to use on your server, but unexpected bugs or version‑specific quirks may occur.
- If you encounter any issues (holograms not showing, errors, etc.), please report them on our Discord server, so we can fix quickly them.
### New features / Improvements:
- Rewritten NMS integration: Completely replaced the old, reflection-heavy code with separate modules for each supported Minecraft version.
- Improved performance: Plugin now interacts directly with NMS classes, removing reflection overhead.
- Modular version support: Each Minecraft version is isolated in its own module, making future updates safer.
- New features are now possible: The old system made adding anything new virtually impossible—this rewrite fixes that.
Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.
### New features:
- Added a config option to set the timeout for loading skull textures (Thanks Andre601)
### Bugfixes:
- Updated item-nbt-api to 2.15.0
- Fixed connection issues when loading skull textures (Thanks Andre601)
### New features:
- Added support for 1.21.5 (v1_21_R4)
### Bugfixes:
- Fixed wrong view angles of entities
### New features:
- Updated dependencies
### Bugfixes:
- Fixed (hopefully) the "Failed to modify player's pipeline" error. (Thanks Dymeth)
- Fixed mixed-up config options in damage & healing displays.
- Fixed Holograms, that failed to load, not being destroyed properly and staying in the cache.
### Bugfixes:
- Fixed a bug that caused non-persistent holograms to create a file.
### New features:
- Added support for 1.21.4. (Thanks mickas)
- Added '--center' option to hologram create command. (Thanks Andre601)
### Bugfixes:
- Fixed an exception being logged wrongfully.
- Improved some parts of the codebase. (Thanks NonSwag)
### New features:
- Added support for 1.21.2 and 1.21.3. (Thanks shaijana)
- Added
holograms-eye-level-positioningconfig option
### Bugfixes:
- Fixed skull textures on 1.21.1. (Thanks Olzie-12)
- Fixed loading worlds after their worlds not supporting UUID world identifiers.
- Fixed exception being thrown then adding an action with invalid type.
- Improved some parts of the codebase.
### New features:
- Added support for 1.21.1.
### Bugfixes:
- Fixed getting of worlds when loading holograms. (Thanks Andre_601)
- Removed soft-depend on ProtocolLib.
### New features:
- Added support for Item NBT in 1.20.5+. (Thanks Andre_601)
### Bugfixes:
- Fixed the description of removeaction subcommand. (Thanks postyizhan)
- Minor improvements.
### New features:
- Added support for 1.21. (Thanks resi23)
- Added a config option for resetting hologram visibility on player teleport.
### Bugfixes:
- Fixed check for incompatible server version throwing exceptions.
- Fixed items not updating when setting lines.
- Fixed GHolo converter. (Thanks Andre_601)
- Optimized some parts of the code.
### Bugfixes:
- Update NBTAPI to support Paper 1.20.6.
- Have you found any bugs or mistakes? Please, report them on our [Discord](https://discord.decentsoftware.eu/) server.**