Screen effects

Screen effects encompass a variety of effects applied alongside or beneath the heads-up display as augmentations to the player's point of view as a method of conveying further information about a player's current state.

Summary[]

Effect	Java Edition			Bedrock Edition
	Image	Visible in third-person view?	Visible with F1?	Image	Visible in third-person view?	Visible with F1?
Overlays and vignettes
Suffocation inside a block		No	Yes		No	Yes
When on fire		No	Yes		No	Yes
When in a nether portal		Yes[1]	No[2]		No	Yes
When underwater		No	Yes		No	Yes
Distortion effect overlay		Yes	Yes[3]	N/A
Darkness		Yes	No[4]		Yes	No
When near the world border		Yes	No[5]	N/A
When inside powder snow		Yes	No[6]		Yes	Yes
When wearing a pumpkin		No	No[7]		No	Yes
When using a spyglass		No	No[8]		No	Yes
Animated sprites
Totem of Undying when used		Yes	No[9]		Yes	Yes
Bad Omen when obtained	N/A				Yes	Yes
Hero of the Village when obtained	N/A				Yes	Yes
Elder guardian ghost		Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Visual transformations
Screen tilting when damaged		Yes[10]	Yes		Yes	Yes
View bobbing		Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
Distortion effects		Yes[11]	Yes		Yes	Yes
Speed-based FOV changes		Yes[12]	Yes		Yes	Yes
Underwater FOV changes		Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes

Overlays[]

Suffocation[]

This effect manifests when an applicable mob's eye level intersects specific blocks; generally those that are full solid cubes and block both vision and movement, with the exception of ice.

In Java Edition this effect involves a darkened version of the block texture covering the entire area of the screen.

In Bedrock Edition, the block's texture is instead arranged into a cube, and this cube is fixed around the player's point of view. This is the case regardless of the player's placement inside the block; they can be at the edge of it (such that their view is partially outside of it and the outside texture is clearly visible) and they are still rendered as if at the exact center of the cube.

On fire[]

When the player is on fire, this effect is applied to the screen. This is caused by being inside of fire or lava (even in Creative mode, although not in Spectator), after exiting such a block (except in Creative/Spectator), or being set on fire through the attack of a burning mob or a burning arrow.

This overlay always displays as fire, even if the player in question is inside of soul fire.

In Java Edition this effect involves two intersecting texture planes being rendered across the bottom half of the screen with the fire texture.

In Bedrock Edition, a single fire texture is stretched across the bottom two-thirds of the screen.

Nether portal[]

Note: this section discusses the nether portal texture overlay. The nether portal/nausea effect is discussed in the Distortion effect/Distortion overlay sections.

When the player is inside of a nether portal, this effect is applied to the screen. It always coincides with either the distortion effect and/or its overlay.

In Java Edition this effect involves the nether portal texture being stretched across the entirety of the screen.

In Bedrock Edition, the texture is instead arranged into a cube, fixed around the player's point of view much like the suffocation effect.

Underwater[]

Distortion overlay[]

Darkness vignette[]

World border overlay[]

Freezing overlay[]

Pumpkin blur[]

Spyglass scope[]

Animated sprites and models[]

Elder guardian ghost[]

Totem of Undying[]

Bad Omen[]

Hero of the Village[]

Transformations[]

Damage tilt[]

View bobbing[]

Distortion effects[]

Speed FOV changes[]

Underwater FOV changes[]

History[]

Overlays[]

Animated sprites[]

Transformations[]

References[]