Phantasmic Flight

Phantasmic Flight

Early game flight via phantom corpses

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Screenshots

A pack of phantoms spawned after failing to fall asleep
A phantom carrying off the player
Flying with phantom wings

About this Mod

Phantasmic Flight

A rework of phantoms, giving them an actual use instead of being a nuisance.

Insomnia is removed. Instead, phantoms have a chance of spawning if you go to sleep under the sky and wake up without passing the night. When a phantom bites you, it will pick you up and carry you off. When you kill the phantom carrying you, its dead body acts like an elytra until you land, allowing early game flight (at the cost of some health). Be careful though, because doing this too much will attract more and stronger phantoms...

Mechanics

Spawning
  • Insomnia (phantoms spawning after 3 days of not sleeping) is disabled by default
  • Phantoms have a chance of spawning when a player goes to sleep in a location with sky access and wakes up without passing the night
    • The number and sizes of phantoms spawned increases depending on how many times you've done this before
      • Phantoms spawn between sizes 1-4 (compared to 0 in vanilla)
      • This count can be reset by sleeping through the night properly
    • There is a 60 second cooldown on spawning phantoms in this manner (configurable)
  • Larger phantoms have higher stats
    • Health: 4 * size + 16
    • Attack damage: size + 2
Carrying & Gliding
  • When a phantom attacks a player it will pick up the player and carry them into the sky
    • ...unless the player is already picked up or is wearing an elytra (should work with most modded elytras)
    • The shift key does not dismount the phantom
  • When the player kills the phantom carrying them, the phantom will become a pair of wings the player can glide with until they land, upon which the phantom will fall off and die properly
    • By default the player is set to third person mode until they land, but this can be disabled in the config
    • Firework rockets cannot be used to boost phantom wings
Insomnia Omen
  • Sleeping in a bed with Bad Omen will turn it into Insomnia Omen
  • You can sleep with monsters nearby and in any dimension without beds exploding, but you cannot pass the night or set your spawn at a bed
  • Gurantees phantoms spawn upon waking up, assuming other conditions pass
  • This allows you to, for example, use phantoms to traverse the End

Configuration

Install McQoy for Mod Menu support.

Client

  • Change Perspective (true/false): If the player should automatically be set to third person when gliding with phantom wings, returning to the previous perspective upon landing similar to Auto Third Person. Default: true

Server

  • Max Phantom Size (integer): The largest phantom size that can spawn naturally. Default: 4
  • Base Spawn Chance (0.0-1.0): The chance of phantoms spawning when a player has spawned 0 phantoms previously. Default: 0.5
  • Spawn Chance Increase (0.0-1.0): How much the spawn chance should increase per previously spawned phantom. Default: 0.05
  • Max Spawn Score (integer): The cap for the "spawning score" used to determine the count and sizes of a phantom group spawn. Default: 8
  • Respawn cooldown (integer): The cooldown in seconds for a player spawning phantoms by sleeping. Default: 60

Notes

  • Requires Fabric API and optionally McQoy for a config gui
  • Inspired by this reddit post.
  • The mod makes the doInsomnia gamerule default to false. If you are adding the mod to an existing world, you must disable it manually using /gamerule doInsomnia false.
  • Compatible with Comforts, which is recommended if you want to be able to use phantoms to fly without changing your spawn point.
    • Has a bug when used on sinytra connector with the neoforge version of comforts where sleeping in a sleeping bag will not spawn phantoms. This can be worked around by installing the fabric version.
  • The mod is not designed to be played with my other phantom rework, Phantom Tweaks. I will not support playing both mods at once, both technically and in terms of balance.

Available Versions

Phantasmic Flight 1.3.3+mc26.2release
MC 26.2-rc-1, 26.2-rc-2, 26.2fabric
June 12, 2026
Phantasmic Flight 1.3.3+mc1.21.1release
MC 1.21.1fabric
April 13, 2026
Phantasmic Flight 1.3.3+mc26.1release
MC 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2fabric
March 25, 2026
Phantasmic Flight 1.3.2+mc1.21.11-pre3release
MC 1.21.11-pre3, 1.21.11-pre4, 1.21.11-pre5, 1.21.11-rc1, 1.21.11-rc2, 1.21.11-rc3, 1.21.11fabric
November 27, 2025
Phantasmic Flight 1.3.2+mc1.21.10release
MC 1.21.9, 1.21.10fabric
November 27, 2025

How to Install Phantasmic Flight on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).

2

Set fabric Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (26.2).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Phantasmic Flight". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

fabric

Minecraft Versions

26.2, 26.2-rc-2, 26.2-rc-1 (+16 more)

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

4 GB(min. 3 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Phantasmic Flight server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (26.2). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Phantasmic Flight compatible with fabric?

Phantasmic Flight officially supports fabric for Minecraft 26.2, 26.2-rc-2, 26.2-rc-1. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Phantasmic Flight – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Phantasmic Flight consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.

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Details

License
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later
Server-side
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Supported Versions

26.226.2-rc-226.2-rc-126.1.226.1.126.11.21.111.21.11-rc31.21.11-rc21.21.11-rc1+9 more