Night Vision

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 as such the player can distinguish between light levels.

In Java Edition 20w14∞, in certain dimensions with unique lighting, the player can see the color spectrum that is not parts 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 ) 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 within the relative luminance value of exactly 0.0722 (as in an Easter egg dimension called  ).

To put it more clearly, with night vision, your vision will be as sharp and clear(althought of course still not as bright) as it was in the daytime. The night sky will still be black in the center, and the moon will still look the same, but around the horizon will be a clear, uniform blue light, rather like when there is a large cloud right overhead, but around the horizon you can still see sunlight. This illuminates the entire landscape, and makes it beautiful–if Minecraft doesn't have stars, this is its way of making up for it! Water will shine with a pale reflection-like radience, and lava will glow bright orange light.

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Trivia

 * Despite mobs being unaffected due to Night Vision's purely visual effects, boss mobs and Giants are both immune to this potion.
 * If used in the Nether, the background appears a brighter red.
 * If used in the End, everything appears tinted pink. Endermen and the end portal appear white when far enough away.
 * If combined with blindness or used in the Void, the screen becomes entirely black.
 * If submerged in lava, the screen appears bright orange.
 * If in water in a swamp biome, the view is foggy and obscured.