diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/GameMode/GameModeManager.cs b/Assets/Scripts/GameMode/GameModeManager.cs
index 33e76dd..8ac99a0 100644
--- a/Assets/Scripts/GameMode/GameModeManager.cs
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/GameMode/GameModeManager.cs
@@ -42,6 +42,19 @@ public class GameModeManager : MonoBehaviour
     [Tooltip("Mode active at startup (0 = Player Control).")]
     public int startModeIndex = 0;
 
+    [Header("Player collision")]
+    [Tooltip("ON = players physically block each other (default). OFF = the local player passes through every " +
+             "other player - their CharacterController stops colliding with other players' body colliders. " +
+             "Only affects player-vs-player; environment collision is unchanged. Can be toggled live in Play mode.")]
+    [SerializeField] private bool playersCollide = true;
+
+    /// <summary>Whether players physically block each other. Setting it re-applies on the next frame.</summary>
+    public bool PlayersCollide
+    {
+        get => playersCollide;
+        set { playersCollide = value; _playerCollisionDirty = true; }
+    }
+
     public PlayerCharacterController Player => player;
     public ThirdPersonOrbitInput CameraInput => cameraInput;
     public MeshPainter Painter => painter;
@@ -64,6 +77,12 @@ public class GameModeManager : MonoBehaviour
     private int _resumeIndex = -1;
     private bool _loadFrozen; // true while the pre-match Loading barrier is holding the local player still
 
+    // Player-collision reconciler state (see ReconcilePlayerCollision). Non-serialized: reset each play session.
+    private bool _playerCollisionDirty = true;   // force a re-apply (startup, toggle flip, inspector edit)
+    private CharacterController _localCapsule;    // the local player's capsule, cached to detect a respawn swap
+
+    private void OnValidate() => _playerCollisionDirty = true; // an inspector toggle takes effect next frame
+
     /// <summary>The currently active mode (null before startup).</summary>
     public GameMode ActiveMode =>
         (_activeIndex >= 0 && _activeIndex < _modes.Count) ? _modes[_activeIndex] : null;
@@ -318,6 +337,9 @@ public class GameModeManager : MonoBehaviour
 
     private void Update()
     {
+        // Independent of mode/pause: keep player-vs-player collision matching the toggle every frame.
+        ReconcilePlayerCollision();
+
         if (_paused) return;
         if (_modes.Count == 0) return;
         // No active mode = the inert no-player state (pre-lobby, or after ReleaseToNoPlayer). Ignore the
@@ -393,6 +415,61 @@ public class GameModeManager : MonoBehaviour
                match.LocalSubPhase == MatchManager.MatchSubPhase.Loading;
     }
 
+    // Keeps player-vs-player collision in sync with `playersCollide`. Only the LOCAL owner's CharacterController
+    // actively depenetrates (remote replicas run with their controller disabled), and it collides with the other
+    // avatars' body MeshColliders (and conversion statues, which carry the same runtime paint collider) - so
+    // making the local capsule ignore those colliders is a complete, per-machine way to let the player pass
+    // through both. Environment collision is untouched.
+    //
+    // While OFF this re-asserts every frame (n = a handful of avatars, so it is cheap) because Physics.IgnoreCollision
+    // is fragile exactly here: its state resets whenever a collider is disabled/re-enabled (teleports toggle the
+    // capsule) and a freshly-spawned avatar's MeshCollider only appears a frame after spawn. Re-applying each frame
+    // sidesteps all of that. While ON it does one restoring pass on a change, then stays idle (collision is the default).
+    private void ReconcilePlayerCollision()
+    {
+        var capsule = player ? player.GetComponent<CharacterController>() : null;
+
+        bool changed = _playerCollisionDirty || capsule != _localCapsule;
+        _playerCollisionDirty = false;
+        _localCapsule = capsule;
+
+        if (playersCollide)
+        {
+            // Collisions on: only act on a transition (toggle flip / new capsule) to restore the pairs we ignored.
+            if (changed) ApplyPlayerCollisionIgnore(capsule, false);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        // Collisions off: re-assert the ignore against every current avatar (see the fragility note above).
+        ApplyPlayerCollisionIgnore(capsule, true);
+    }
+
+    // Ignores (or restores) collision between the local capsule and every OTHER avatar's body collider,
+    // plus every conversion statue (its own paint MeshCollider - otherwise the local player still bumps into
+    // statues while the toggle is off, since statues aren't NetworkPlayerSetup avatars).
+    private void ApplyPlayerCollisionIgnore(CharacterController capsule, bool ignore)
+    {
+        if (!capsule) return; // no local player (pre-spawn / spectator / found) - nothing to gate
+
+        var avatars = NetworkPlayerSetup.Active;
+        for (int i = 0; i < avatars.Count; i++)
+        {
+            var avatar = avatars[i];
+            if (!avatar || avatar.IsOwner) continue; // skip the local player's own avatar
+            var col = avatar.BodyCollider;
+            if (col && col.enabled) Physics.IgnoreCollision(capsule, col, ignore);
+        }
+
+        var statues = MatchStatue.Active;
+        for (int i = 0; i < statues.Count; i++)
+        {
+            var statue = statues[i];
+            if (!statue) continue;
+            var col = statue.BodyCollider;
+            if (col && col.enabled) Physics.IgnoreCollision(capsule, col, ignore);
+        }
+    }
+
     // Cached body/fur renderers of the currently bound local avatar, re-resolved only when `player` changes
     // (a lobby->match respawn rebinds mid-load), so the per-frame Loading hide doesn't walk the hierarchy each tick.
     private PlayerCharacterController _bodyHideOwner;
diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/Network/MatchStatue.cs b/Assets/Scripts/Network/MatchStatue.cs
index fe9d6a8..f5081c0 100644
--- a/Assets/Scripts/Network/MatchStatue.cs
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/Network/MatchStatue.cs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+using System.Collections.Generic;
 using Unity.Netcode;
 using UnityEngine;
 using Chameleon.Components;
@@ -62,6 +63,8 @@ public class MatchStatue : NetworkBehaviour
 
     public override void OnNetworkSpawn()
     {
+        _active.Add(this); // player-collision registry (paired with OnNetworkDespawn)
+
         _painter = GetComponentInChildren<MeshPainter>(true);
         _paintSync = GetComponentInChildren<PlayerPaintSync>(true);
         _pose = GetComponentInChildren<PlayerPoseController>(true);
@@ -92,6 +95,35 @@ public class MatchStatue : NetworkBehaviour
         _freezeAt = Time.time + Mathf.Max(0f, poseSettle);
     }
 
+    public override void OnNetworkDespawn()
+    {
+        _active.Remove(this);
+    }
+
+    // Statues carry their own runtime paint MeshCollider (MeshPainter bakes it), so the local player's capsule
+    // bumps into them like any body - but they are NOT NetworkPlayerSetup avatars and so aren't in that registry.
+    // Tracked here so GameModeManager's player-collision toggle can let the local player pass through statues
+    // too: a statue is a frozen player representation, so it follows the same "players collide" switch.
+    private static readonly List<MatchStatue> _active = new List<MatchStatue>();
+
+    /// <summary>Read-only view of the statues spawned on this machine. Consumed by the player-collision
+    /// reconciler so the local player passes through statues when player collision is off.</summary>
+    public static IReadOnlyList<MatchStatue> Active => _active;
+
+    // The runtime body MeshCollider (baked skinned mesh) the local capsule collides with. MeshPainter creates
+    // it in Start - a frame after OnNetworkSpawn - so resolve it lazily and cache once it exists.
+    private MeshCollider _bodyCollider;
+
+    /// <summary>This statue's body collider (the paint MeshCollider), or null until it has been created.</summary>
+    public MeshCollider BodyCollider
+    {
+        get
+        {
+            if (!_bodyCollider) _bodyCollider = GetComponentInChildren<MeshCollider>(true);
+            return _bodyCollider;
+        }
+    }
+
     private void Update()
     {
         // Server owner: once the painter is set up, load the captured snapshot and push it to every peer over
@@ -108,7 +140,14 @@ public class MatchStatue : NetworkBehaviour
         // Reveal once the painting is applied locally: the server right after its load/publish, a client once
         // its received snapshot has caught up to the published baseline.
         bool paintReady = IsServer ? _hostPaintDone : (_paintSync && _paintSync.PaintRevealReady);
-        if (paintReady && !_bodyShown) SetBodyVisible(true);
+        if (paintReady && !_bodyShown)
+        {
+            SetBodyVisible(true);
+            // See-through-walls X-ray glow, exactly like an un-found hider during Resolution. The statue only
+            // ever exists in the resolution phase, so the reveal is steadily on (no just-shot flash). Raised
+            // together with the body so the authored _XRayColor eases in alongside it (per-client, cosmetic).
+            if (_painter) _painter.XRayRevealed = true;
+        }
 
         // Re-assert the stance until it has settled (covers a pose index arriving a frame late), then freeze.
         if (_pose && !_frozen)
diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/Network/NetworkPlayerSetup.cs b/Assets/Scripts/Network/NetworkPlayerSetup.cs
index fa4d8db..2eb60ac 100644
--- a/Assets/Scripts/Network/NetworkPlayerSetup.cs
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/Network/NetworkPlayerSetup.cs
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ public class NetworkPlayerSetup : NetworkBehaviour
     public override void OnNetworkSpawn()
     {
         _active.Add(this); // scoreboard registry (paired with OnNetworkDespawn)
+        ActiveVersion++;   // signal the player-collision reconciler that the avatar set changed
         _bodyRenderers = GetComponentsInChildren<SkinnedMeshRenderer>(true);
         _furRenderers = GetComponentsInChildren<FurShellRenderer>(true);
         _painter = GetComponentInChildren<MeshPainter>(true);
@@ -193,6 +194,7 @@ public class NetworkPlayerSetup : NetworkBehaviour
     public override void OnNetworkDespawn()
     {
         _active.Remove(this);
+        ActiveVersion++;
         _isFound.OnValueChanged -= OnFoundChanged;
     }
 
@@ -462,6 +464,29 @@ public class NetworkPlayerSetup : NetworkBehaviour
     // Conversion hit despawns the hider object and spawns a hunter one, so both sides update from the registry).
     private static readonly List<NetworkPlayerSetup> _active = new List<NetworkPlayerSetup>();
 
+    /// <summary>Read-only view of all avatars spawned on this machine (the same registry the scoreboard uses).
+    /// Consumed by the player-collision reconciler to find the bodies the local player should pass through.</summary>
+    public static IReadOnlyList<NetworkPlayerSetup> Active => _active;
+
+    /// <summary>Bumped on every spawn/despawn so a per-frame consumer can cheaply detect a membership change
+    /// without rescanning the list.</summary>
+    public static int ActiveVersion { get; private set; }
+
+    // The runtime body MeshCollider (baked skinned mesh) other players' capsules collide with. MeshPainter
+    // creates it in Start - a frame after OnNetworkSpawn - so resolve it lazily and cache once it exists.
+    private MeshCollider _bodyCollider;
+
+    /// <summary>This avatar's body collider (the paint MeshCollider), or null until it has been created.
+    /// Cached on first successful resolve.</summary>
+    public MeshCollider BodyCollider
+    {
+        get
+        {
+            if (!_bodyCollider) _bodyCollider = GetComponentInChildren<MeshCollider>(true);
+            return _bodyCollider;
+        }
+    }
+
     internal static void CountRoles(out int hunters, out int hiders)
     {
         hunters = 0;