Blindness

Blindness is a status effect that impairs the player's vision. It can be cast by illusioners‌^{[Java Edition only]} or by consuming suspicious stew made with an Azure Bluet.

Effect[]

Blindness View — The view from a player who is afflicted by blindness.

Blindness impairs the player's vision as if a thick black fog were surrounding them, with only the immediate area being visible (this means that only a few blocks directly around the player are visible to them). However, the sun and moon can be seen as normal, but it has to be during clear weather.‌^{[Java Edition only]} Additionally, liquids do not fade into the fog perfectly. The effect also prevents the player from sprinting or inflicting critical hits but does not stop an ongoing sprint.

The effect can be removed by drinking milk. In Minecraft Education and Bedrock Edition when education options are enabled, drinking eye drops also removes blindness.

Additionally, wardens are only naturally blind mobs even without requiring the Blindness status effect, and they can be found in ancient cities.

Blindness does not effect mobs.

Causes[]

Cause	Potency	Length	Notes
Illusioner ‌^{[Java Edition only]}	I	0:20	As an attack if regional difficulty is greater than 2.00
Suspicious Stew	I	0:08	Must be crafted with Azure Bluet
Suspicious Stew	I	0:05-0:07	Found in shipwreck supply chests Traded from expert farmer villagers‌^{[JE only]}

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Blindness	`blindness`	`15`	`effect.minecraft.blindness`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Blindness	`blindness`	`15`	`potion.blindness`

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	A Furious Cocktail	Have all of these 27 status effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Conduit Power Darkness 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 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.	`nether/all_effects`

History[]

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Java Edition Beta
1.8	Pre-release	Blindness 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 Blindness has been added to `inventory.png`.
1.12	17w16a	Added illusioners, which can affect players with Blindness.
1.14	18w43a	Blindness can now be obtained by eating suspicious stew.
1.14	18w43a	The texture of the blindness effect icon has now been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0	build 1	Added Blindness.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0	?	When Blindness is combined with Night Vision, the screen now appears completely black.^[when?]
1.4.0	beta 1.2.20.1	Eye drops now remove the blindness effect when consumed.
1.11.0	beta 1.11.0.5	The texture of the blindness effect icon has now been changed.
1.13.0	beta 1.13.0.9	Blindness can now be obtained by eating suspicious stew.

Issues[]

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

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