Phantom Facade

Quickstart

1. Craft a few Phantom Facades (recipe below) or grab them from the Functional tab in the Creative inventory.
2. Place a Phantom Facade anywhere in the world — it looks like glass by default.
3. Hold any block item (e.g., a Stone brick or Oak log) and right-click the facade to disguise it as that block. A message in your action bar confirms the change.
4. Right-click the facade with a Stick to lock it — this gives it solid collision so nothing can pass through. Right-click with a Stick again to unlock it and restore pass-through behaviour.
5. Break the facade to pick it back up as an item and move it wherever you need.

Overview

Phantom Facade adds a single, clever decorative block that can wear the skin of any other block in the game. Whether you want a hidden passage, a secret door, or just a perfectly matched wall patch, a Phantom Facade lets you fake any block's appearance while controlling whether players and mobs can walk through it.

What It Adds

How To Use

Disguising a Facade

Hold a block item in your hand and right-click a placed Phantom Facade. The facade will immediately render as that block. Your action bar shows:

"Phantom Facade now looks like [Block Name]"

You can re-disguise a facade at any time by right-clicking it with a different block item. Air and other Phantom Facades cannot be used as a disguise.

Checking the Current Disguise

Right-click a Phantom Facade with an empty hand (or any non-block, non-stick item) to see what it is currently mimicking and whether it is locked or unlocked — the information appears in your action bar.

Locking and Unlocking

Right-click a Phantom Facade with a Stick to toggle its lock state:

Abilities And Mechanics

• Persistent disguise — the chosen block appearance and lock state are saved to the world and survive restarts.
• Multiplayer sync — disguise and lock changes are immediately synced to all players on the server.
• Pass-through by default — an unlocked Phantom Facade has no collision shape, making hidden corridors and secret passages simple to build.
• Drops as an item — breaking a Phantom Facade (unlocked or locked) returns it to your inventory so it can be relocated without losing its purpose.
• Strength — Phantom Facades are relatively fragile (similar to glass) and produce glass-like sounds when interacted with.

Progression And Strategy

• Secret passages — line a corridor with Phantom Facades disguised as the surrounding stone or brick. Leave them unlocked so only players who know the passage exists can walk through.
• Hidden storage rooms — disguise a Phantom Facade as a wall block in front of a door or chest room. Lock it to fool anyone who tries to walk through; unlock it when you want access.
• Camouflaged builds — patch holes or irregularities in a build with Phantom Facades set to match the surrounding material, avoiding the need to source rare or hard-to-reach blocks.
• Traps and puzzles — mix locked and unlocked facades that look identical to create deceptive obstacle courses or escape rooms for other players.