Glowing

Glowing is a status effect that shows entity positions through blocks.

Effect[]

The Glowing effect causes entities to glow with an outline that can be seen through blocks and entities. This outline is white by default, but can be set to display other colors if the entity is part of a team. The outline displays around any holes in a mob's texture or model, though only when that part of the model can be seen all the way through. If multiple entities with glowing are near each other, the outlines merge to prevent overlapping.

This does not affect mob models as seen in the inventory, of either the player or ridden mobs.^[1]

Causes[]

Cause	Potency	Length	Notes
Spectral Arrow	I	0:10	When shot by it.
Bell	I	0:03	Hitting a bell applies the effect to any illagers or witches within 32 blocks of the bell.

Immune mobs[]

Withers, ender dragons, dropped items and display entities are unaffected by Glowing.

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

Data values[]

ID[]

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Glowing	glowing	24	effect.minecraft.glowing

History[]

Java Edition
1.9		15w31a			Added Glowing effect.
1.14		18w43a			The effect icon texture of Glowing has been changed.
		19w13b			Hitting a bell now gives the glowing effect to raiders within a 32-block-radius of the bell.
1.17		21w10a			Glowing is now based on the outline of all layers on an entity, not just the base layer.
Legacy Console Edition
TU57	CU49	1.56	Patch 27	1.0.7	Added the Glowing effect, but it's only obtainable via inventory editing.
		1.90			The effect icon texture of glowing has been changed.

Issues[]

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

Gallery[]

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  First screenshot of the glowing effect.

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  The Glowing outlines on the husk and spider merged into one.

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  The Glowing effect outlines holes in the skeleton's ribcage only if they go all the way through.

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  Pillagers with glowing effect, as caused by Bell.

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