Night Vision

Night Vision

Sources	See § Causes
Particle	#C2FF66 (light green)
Type	Positive

Night Vision is a status effect that enhances the player's ability to see in darkness and underwater.

Effect

Night Vision greatly increases the brightness, so the player can easily see in a light level of 0. However, it is not as bright as a light level of 15 (e.g. with the "Moody" brightness setting, it is similar to block light level 12–13 and no sky light in the Overworld within the "Bright" brightness setting), and unlike block lighting it is not tinted. As such, the player can distinguish between light levels.

With Vibrant Visuals, the game specifically enhances the gamma of ambient light (noticable without other light sources) and sky light during nighttime.

If the player has Night Vision without Vibrant Visuals, the fog's color in gets brightened depending on the biome. It turns bright red in Nether wastes and crimson forest, magenta in warped forest,^[1][2] bright cyan in soul sand valley, gray-white in basalt deltas, and pale purple in the End.^[3]

In Java Edition 20w14∞, in certain dimensions with unique lighting, the player can see the color spectrum that is not part of the vanilla lighting system (e.g. vivid shades of green, blue, etc.) easily as the effect is not as fully bright, even with the "Bright" brightness setting (in other cases, in some dimensions (such as Easter egg dimensions like ant) already have the full brightness at any light levels (including light level 0), so the Night Vision effect is indifferent from the player without the effect in the dimensions). However, the extreme darkest saturated color that can be seen in the uniquely generated dimension with this status effect is blue within the relative luminance value of exactly 0.0722 (as in an Easter egg dimension called blue).

Causes

Cause	Potency	Length	Notes
Potion of Night Vision	I	3:00
Potion of Night Vision (extended)	I	8:00
Splash Potion of Night Vision	I	3:00
Splash Potion of Night Vision (extended)	I	8:00
Lingering Potion of Night Vision	I	0:45
Lingering Potion of Night Vision (extended)	I	2:00
Arrow of Night Vision	I	0:22
Arrow of Night Vision (extended)	I	1:00
Suspicious Stew	I	0:05	Only if made with Poppy or Torchflower
Suspicious Stew	I	0:07-0:10	Found in shipwreck supply chests Traded from expert farmer villagers‌[JE only]

Immune mobs

• Withers and ender dragons are immune to Night Vision.
• All mobs are unaffected by Night Vision.

Data values

ID

This section is about the effect IDs. For the IDs on potions, see Potion § Item data. For the IDs on tipped arrows, see Arrow § Metadata.

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Night Vision	night_vision	effect.minecraft.night_vision

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Night Vision	night_vision	16	potion.nightVision

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Furious Cocktail	Have every potion effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 17​[until: Fourth Drop 2026]/18​[upcoming] status effects applied to the player at the same time: Fire Resistance Freezing Infested Invisibility Jump Boost Night Vision Oozing Poison Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement.
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 34​[until: Fourth Drop 2026]/35​[upcoming] status effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Breath of the Nautilus Conduit Power Darkness Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Freezing Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Infested Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Oozing Poison Raid Omen Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Trial Omen Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged Wither The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Beta
1.8			Pre-release				Night Vision is added along with 18 other status effects but is currently unobtainable in regular gameplay.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				The effect sprite for Night Vision has been added to inventory.png.
							Potions which grant the Night Vision effect are added.
							Milk now clears the Night Vision effect.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Night Vision no longer has an associated potion.
1.4.2			12w34a				Added golden carrots and brewable Night Vision potions.
1.9			15w31a				Added the arrow of Night Vision.
							Potions no longer use damage values to determine their effect, the effects moved to the Potion NBT.
1.14			18w43a				Changed effect icon texture.
1.19.4			pre3				The potion & effect color have been changed from  #1F1FA1 to  #C2FF66.
1.20.2			23w32a				The game no longer uses numeric values when storing mob effects to world. Prior to the removal of numeric IDs, this effect's numeral ID was 16.
1.21.9			25w35a				The world now always renders as if the brightness is set to moody when the player has Night Vision[4]
26.1			snap1				The change from snapshot 25w35a has now been reverted.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0			build 1				Added Night Vision, which was unobtainable at the time.
v0.12.1			build 1				Night Vision can now be obtained from potion of Night Vision and from splash potion variants.
v0.15.0			build 1				Added the arrow of Night Vision.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Added lingering potion of Night Vision.
Bedrock Edition
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.5				Changed effect icon texture.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.9				Night Vision can now be obtained from suspicious stew.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU5	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Night Vision is added along with 18 other status effects but is currently unobtainable in regular gameplay.
TU14		1.04					Added golden carrots and brewable Night Vision potions.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Added the arrow of Night Vision.
			1.91				Changed effect icon texture.

Issues

Issues relating to "Night Vision" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• If submerged in lava, the screen appears bright orange.
• If in water in a swamp biome, the view is foggy and obscured.

References