Invisibility

Invisibility

Sources	See § Causes
Particle	#7F8392 (light gray)
Type	Positive

Invisibility is a status effect that turns entities invisible. It has one potency level (active), but its duration can be extended.

Mechanics

The visible parts of a decorated llama, an enderman, a saddled pig, a shulker, a charged creeper, and a spider.

Invisibility causes the affected mob to disappear from view although it is still present.

Boss mobs are immune to invisibility.

Certain features of entities are not affected by invisibility:

• Any armor worn (including horse armor worn by horses)
• Held items
• Any arrows stuck in players ‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• Any particles being emitted
• A shulker head
• A llama's carpet decoration
• A pig's and strider's saddle
• The aura of a charged creeper
• The eyes of cave spiders, spiders, endermen, and phantoms
• Emerald above villager's or wandering trader's heads when opening their trading GUI‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Causes

Cause	Potency	Length	Notes
Potion of Invisibility	I	3:00	Wandering Traders drink this potion when attacked by hostile mobs or when avoiding zombies and illagers.‌[Bedrock Edition only]
Potion of Invisibility (extended)	I	8:00	Wandering Traders drink this potion if the time is between 12000 and 18000.
Splash Potion of Invisibility	I	3:00
Splash Potion of Invisibility (extended)	I	8:00
Lingering Potion of Invisibility	I	0:45
Lingering Potion of Invisibility (extended)	I	2:00
Arrow of Invisibility	I	0:22
Arrow of Invisibility (extended)	I	1:00
Illusioner	I	1:00	Applies only to illusioners when casting the invisibility spell.
Spawning within the world	I	Over 3 years	Applies only to spiders on Hard difficulty.‌[JE only] The effect lasts for 231−1 ticks, equivalent to 3 years, 147 days, 18 hours, 9 minutes, and 42.35 seconds.

Notes

• Mobs do not attack or sense the player until the player is a lot closer than normal.
  • A player with no armor can be detected at 7% of the usual detection distance.
  • Any single piece of armor increases this to 17.5% of the usual distance, and each additional piece increases this by another 17.5%.
  • After detecting the player, a mob continues to follow as if the player is visible.
• Cats behave as though the entity affected is visible.
• Additional methods of reducing detection by mobs include:
  • Sneaking reduces the detection range to 80% of usual, and stacks with Invisibility.
  • Wearing the corresponding mob head reduces the detection range of skeletons, zombies, and creepers to 50% of usual, and stacks with Invisibility.
• Players in Spectator mode see invisible entities as translucent instead.
• Invisibility prevents players from getting the Dolphin's Grace effect naturally.
• Endermen have a reduced provocation range if the player looking at them is invisible.
• In multiplayer and in third-person view, an invisible player's name and model become invisible, although their armor and held items do not.

Data values

ID

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

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Invisibility	invisibility	14	effect.minecraft.invisibility

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Invisibility	invisibility	14	potion.invisibility

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	A Furious Cocktail	Have every potion effect applied at the same time	Local Brewery	Have all of these 13 potion effects applied to the player at the same time: Fire Resistance Invisibility Jump Boost Night Vision Poison Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Water Breathing Weakness The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects, if any, may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement.	nether/all_potions
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	A Furious Cocktail	Have all of these 26 effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Conduit Power Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Poison Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Water Breathing Weakness Wither The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects, if any, may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. Note: This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it.	nether/all_effects

History

Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Invisibility 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 Invisibility has been added to inventory.png.
					Potions which grant the Invisibility effect are added.
					Milk now clears the Invisibility effect.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3			Invisibility no longer has any associated potions.
1.4.2		12w34a			Invisiblity now functions, and turns mobs invisible.
					Players under Invisiblity's effect now cannot be detected by other players.
					A potion and splash potion of Invisibility have been implemented and added to Creative mode.
1.6.1		13w24a			Spiders now have a rare chance to spawn with Invisibility on hard difficulty.
1.14		18w43a			The effect icon texture of Invisiblity has been changed.
		19w08a			The Invisibility status effect has been improved to allow it to correctly work in many cases where it did not.
					Guardians no longer see players that are invisible from the Invisibility effect.
					Zombies and illagers no longer see invisible villagers and wandering traders.
					Withers no longer sees invisible players.
					Iron Golems no longer sees invisible hostile-neutral mobs.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0		build 1			Added Invisibility.
					Invisibility is currently unobtainable.
v0.12.1		build 1			Invisibility can now be obtained from potions and splash potions of Invisibility.
v0.15.0		build 1			Added Arrow of Invisibility, which inflicts any mob it hits with Invisibility.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Invisibility can now be obtained from a lingering potions of Invisibility.
Bedrock Edition
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.3			Wandering traders now hide by drinking potions of Invisibility during nightfall, when hurt by projectiles and magic, or when avoiding zombies and illagers.
					The Invisibility status effect has been improved to allow it to correctly work in many cases where it did not.
					Zombies and illagers no longer see invisible villagers and wandering traders.
		beta 1.11.0.5			The effect icon texture of Invisibility has been changed.

Issues

Issues relating to "Invisibility" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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