Blindness

Blindness

Sources	See § Causes
Particle	#1F1F23 (dark gray)
Type	Negative

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Blindness is a status effect that impairs a player's vision and prevents sprinting and critical hits. It has no potion, but it can be obtained by consuming suspicious stew made with an azure bluet or open eyeblossom.

Effect

Blindness impairs a player's vision as if a thick black fog was surrounding them, with only the immediate area around them being visible.

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.

Blindness has no effect on mobs. This can be observed in Survival by having a fox eat suspicious stew made with an azure bluet.

Wardens are naturally blind and instead rely on detection via vibrations, smell and touch. This form of blindness is completely independent from the Blindness effect.

Causes

Cause	Potency	Length	Notes
Illusioner ‌	I	0:20	As an attack if the regional difficulty is greater than 2.00
Suspicious Stew	I	0:11‌ 0:07‌	Crafted with an Azure Bluet or Open Eyeblossom
Suspicious Stew	I	0:05-0:07	Found in shipwreck supply chests Traded from expert farmer villagers‌

Immune mobs

• Withers and ender dragons are immune to Blindness.
• All mobs are unaffected by Blindness.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 33 status effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Conduit Power Darkness Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Infested Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Oozing Poison Raid Omen Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Trial Omen Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged 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. See also: Tutorial:Advancement guide/Nether tab § How Did We Get Here? 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.

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

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 and non-functional.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				The effect sprite for Blindness has been added to inventory.png.
							Blindness now functions.
1.12			17w16a				Added illusioners, which can affect players with Blindness.
			17w17a				Illusioners now apply the Blindness effect only if the local difficulty is 3 or above.
			17w17b				Illusioners now already apply the Blindness effect if the local difficulty is 2 or above.
1.14			18w43a				Blindness can now be obtained by eating suspicious stew.
							The texture of the blindness effect icon has been changed.
							The effect is now required for the "How Did We Get Here?" advancement.
1.21.4			24w44a				Blindness can also now be obtained by eating suspicious stew made with an open eyeblossom, lasting 7 seconds.
			24w45a				Blindness obtained from suspicious stew made with an azure bluet now lasts 11 seconds.
			24w46a				Blindness obtained from suspicious stew made with an open eyeblossom now lasts 11 seconds.
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.
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 been changed.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.9				Blindness can now be obtained by eating suspicious stew made with an azure bluet.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.25				Blindness can also now be obtained by eating suspicious stew made with an open eyeblossom, lasting 8 seconds.
			Preview 1.21.50.28				Blindness obtained from suspicious stew made with an open eyeblossom now lasts 7 seconds.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU5	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Blindness is added along with 18 other status effects but is currently unobtainable in regular gameplay.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added illusioners, which can affect players with Blindness.
			1.91				The texture of the blindness effect icon has been changed.

Issues

Issues relating to "Blindness" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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