How to Make a Night Vision Potion in Minecraft

Ingredients

Item	Quantity	Source
Golden Carrot	1	8 Gold Nuggets + 1 Carrot in crafting table
Nether Wart	1	Nether Fortress stairwells
Blaze Powder	fuel	Crafted from Blaze Rods
Glass Bottle	1-3	Crafted from Glass

Brewing Chain

1. Fill Glass Bottles with water to get the Water Bottles a batch of Night Vision starts from.
2. Add Nether Wart to brew the Awkward Potions that Night Vision needs as a base.
3. Add Golden Carrot to produce Potion of Night Vision (3:00).

Variants

Variant	Modifier	Effect	Duration
Potion of Night Vision	-	Maximum brightness everywhere	3:00
Potion of Night Vision (Extended)	Redstone Dust	Maximum brightness	8:00
Splash Potion of Night Vision	Gunpowder	Max brightness (throwable)	2:15
Lingering Potion of Night Vision	Dragon's Breath on Splash	Max brightness (area cloud)	0:45

Night Vision has no enhanced (level II) variant.

Splash and Lingering Night Vision

Add Gunpowder to a finished Night Vision potion to create a Splash Potion of Night Vision you can throw. A splash Night Vision affects every entity within a small radius on impact, and the Night Vision it applies is at full strength where the bottle lands, dropping away with distance until it is nothing four blocks out. Add Dragon's Breath to a Splash Potion of Night Vision to create a Lingering Potion of Night Vision, which leaves an area-of-effect cloud of Night Vision on the ground. A lingering Night Vision cloud applies a quarter of the drinkable duration each time it touches you, and it keeps applying that Night Vision for as long as the cloud sits there.

Best Uses

• Cave exploration: Eliminates the need to place torches for visibility, letting you focus on mining and mob awareness. You still need torches for spawn-proofing.
• Ocean Monuments: Night Vision lets you see clearly underwater, making Guardian navigation and Elder Guardian fights far easier.
• Building at night: Keep a supply of extended Night Vision potions for building sessions after dark without switching to peaceful or sleeping.
• Prerequisite for Invisibility: Night Vision is the required base potion for brewing Invisibility potions.

Night Vision in exact numbers

Night Vision is a pure vision effect with no attribute behind it, and it has no enhanced variant for the same reason Fire Resistance has none: full brightness cannot be made brighter. The only number that moves is the timer, from three minutes to eight with Redstone Dust, and the last ten seconds flicker as a warning rather than cutting out.

Night Vision: what was checked	Value in Java 26.2
What Night Vision applies	Night vision, counted as a beneficial effect
Night Vision base duration	3600 ticks (3:00)
Night Vision particle colour	#C2FF66, stored as 12779366
Extended Night Vision with Redstone Dust	9600 ticks (8:00)
Splash Night Vision at the point of impact	3600 ticks (3:00), the same as drinking it yourself
Splash Night Vision one block away	2701 ticks (2:15.1); the share shrinks with every block and is nothing at four
Lingering Night Vision cloud	901 ticks (0:45.1) per application, a quarter of the bottle
Tipped arrow of Night Vision	451 ticks (0:22.6), an eighth, and eight arrows come out of one bottle
Brewing Night Vision	a Golden Carrot on an Awkward Potion
Night Vision turns into	the Invisibility potion, with a Fermented Spider Eye

Night Vision as a mining and diving tool

Night Vision is not a combat potion and it is one of the most useful bottles in the game. Night Vision lifts every block to full brightness, which under water means you can read a monument corridor without a torch, and in a cave means you see the ore before you see the drop. Night Vision runs three minutes at base and eight extended, and the last ten seconds of Night Vision flicker as a warning, which is your cue to drink the next one rather than a bug. The other reason to keep Night Vision brewed is that it is the only route to Invisibility.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Night Vision work underwater?

Yes. Night Vision removes the fog and darkness underwater, giving you full visibility. Combine it with Water Breathing for extended underwater exploration.

Does it affect other players in multiplayer?

No. Night Vision only affects the player who has the status effect active. Other players still see the same lighting conditions.

Why does my screen flash near the end of Night Vision?

When the effect has 10 seconds or less remaining, the screen alternates between the Night Vision view and normal darkness as a visual warning. Drink another potion before it expires to avoid sudden blindness in a dark area.

How long does Night Vision last in ticks?

3600 ticks at base and 9600 with Redstone Dust. The effect has no attribute and no amplifier, so those two numbers are the only ones the potion has, and the flicker in the last seconds is a warning rather than a separate stage.

What else can I brew out of a Night Vision potion?

A Fermented Spider Eye turns it into Invisibility, and the extended version turns into extended Invisibility on the same clock. That makes Night Vision the only beneficial vision potion that is also a stepping stone to another potion entirely.

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Questions about Make a Night Vision Potion

Why would you set up Make a Night Vision Potion at all?

Fill Glass Bottles with water to get the Water Bottles a batch of Night Vision starts from.

How much does Make a Night Vision Potion actually need?

When the effect has 10 seconds or less remaining, the screen alternates between the Night Vision view and normal darkness as a visual warning.

How do the choices in Make a Night Vision Potion compare?

For Golden Carrot, the table on this page lists Quantity: 1, Source: 8 Gold Nuggets + 1 Carrot in crafting table.

What should you avoid while doing Make a Night Vision Potion?

Drink another potion before it expires to avoid sudden blindness in a dark area.