Elite Holograms

Elite Holograms

Elite Holograms is a lightweight Minecraft mod for creating, managing, and customizing floating text (holograms) right from in-game commands. Perfect for server info, leaderboards, waypoints, shops, live stats, rules, and decorative text.

Works in single-player worlds, modpacks, and on multiplayer servers. It runs server-side, so on a server your players join with a vanilla client and still see everything. No external placeholder API, no fuss. Just drop it in and start building.

> Inspired by Advanced Holograms. Supports Forge (1.19.2, 1.20.1), Fabric (1.20.1) and NeoForge (1.21.1, 26.1, 26.2). The Fabric edition requires Fabric API.

For full setup and command details, see the Wiki.

Why Elite Holograms?

• Plays everywhere: single-player worlds, modpacks, and multiplayer servers all supported.
• Server-side only: on a server, players join with a vanilla client and still see everything.
• Modpack-friendly: drop it into any Forge, Fabric, or NeoForge pack with no client-side setup.
• Almost no dependencies: the placeholder system is built in, no PlaceholderAPI needed. Only the Fabric edition needs anything alongside it, and that is just Fabric API.
• Persistent: holograms survive restarts with safe, synchronous saves on shutdown.
• Beautiful out of the box: MiniMessage gradients, hex colors, and rainbows on every line.
• Built for servers: runs on its own manager thread with graceful shutdown and minimal overhead.

What's New in 1.3.0

• Clickable holograms: /eh click <id> set <command...> makes a hologram run a command when a player right-clicks it, and console <command...> runs it elevated for warps and kits players cannot run themselves. %player% is replaced with the clicker's name. Anything that used to be a sign and a pressure plate can now be a hologram. It works on fixed and player-facing holograms and needs no client mod, and console is gated on the admin permission so it cannot be used to hand out operator commands. Not available on Forge 1.19.2.
• /eh display <id> scale <0.1-10>: resize a fixed hologram's text. Line spacing grows with the scale, so a scaled-up hologram never overlaps its own lines.
• /eh display <id> brightness <0-15|auto>: light the text regardless of the surrounding light level. 15 makes a hologram readable at night without placing a single block in the world, which for most people is what backlights were for.
• /eh display <id> billboard <fixed|vertical|horizontal|center>: control how a fixed hologram turns. vertical is the one to know: the text follows the player horizontally but never tilts, so it stays readable from any direction without lying on its back when someone flies overhead.
• Fixed: scoreboard holograms lost their styling on restart: leaderboards are stored in their own file, and the Forge 1.20.1 and Fabric editions never wrote background settings there, so a restyled board reverted to the default on restart. Boards now keep their background, scale, brightness, billboard and click command like any other hologram.
• Crash-safe saves: every save writes a complete file and swaps it in atomically, keeping the previous version as a backup. A crash or power cut can no longer leave a missing or half-written hologram file, and a damaged one is restored from its backup automatically
• Nothing is deleted behind your back: a hologram or scoreboard in a dimension that isn't loaded (say, after removing the mod that adds it) is kept in the file untouched and comes back when the dimension does. It used to be erased by the next save
• /eh reload loads your hand edits: it used to save what was in memory first, overwriting the very edit it was meant to load
• Deleting your last scoreboard now sticks: it used to come back on the next restart
• Console and command blocks: /eh addline, setline, insertline, removeline, delete and info now work from the console and command blocks on Forge and Fabric, as documented

What's New in 1.2.1

• /eh background <id> ...: restyle the panel behind a fixed hologram's text. Vanilla draws it as 25% opaque black; now colour <name or #RRGGBB> recolours it, opacity <0-100> sets how solid it is, none removes it entirely for floating text with no box, and reset restores the vanilla look.
• Forge 1.19.2 command parity: /eh backlight, /eh settheme, /eh list and /eh movevertical were being registered twice on that edition, and whichever registration ran last won, so several commands reported "Unknown command" despite shipping. All 23 subcommands now resolve against a single registry.
• Fixed: fixed and facing were swallowed into hologram text: /eh create shop fixed Welcome produced a hologram reading "fixed Welcome". Both keywords are now recognised on every create command.

What's New in 1.2.0