Invisibility

Invisibility
Sources	See § Causes
Particle	#F6F6F6 (white)
Type	Positive

Invisibility is a status effect that turns entities invisible.

Effect

The visible parts of a breeze, a shulker, a saddled strider, a trader llama, a phantom, an enderman, a spider, a saddled pig, and a charged creeper

Invisibility has three effects: it causes the affected entity's model to disappear, it decreases the distance the player can be detected by mobs, and hides the player's waypoint from the locator bar.

Rendering

While under the invisibility effect, the model and name of mobs and players is not rendered, making the mob or player appear to be invisible. This does not prevent the mob or player from interacting with the world.

Certain features of mobs and players are not affected by Invisibility:

Worn armor (including horse armor and wolf armor)
Held items
Particles being emitted (including particles from the Invisibility effect)
Fire from entities set on fire
Arrows and bee stingers stuck in players ‌
A shulker's head (whether opened or closed)
A carpet equipped to llamas and trader llamas
A saddle equipped to pigs, striders, horses, donkeys, mules or camels
A harness equipped to happy ghasts
The aura of a charged creeper
The eyes of spiders, cave spiders, endermen, phantoms and creakings
The eyes and wind effects of breezes

Chests on donkeys, mules, llamas and trader llamas are not rendered when the host mob is invisible.^[1]

Mob detection range

When a player is under the Invisibility effect, the distance at which mobs detect the player is much shorter. After detecting a player, the mob behaves as if the player does not have the Invisibility effect; hostile mobs will follow and attack the player until the player is outside of the mob's normal detection range.

A mob's detection range is determined by the follow_range attribute. When a player does not have any items equipped in armor slots (including elytra), the player is detected at 7% of a mob's normal detection range.

When a player has items equipped in armor slots, the detection range is 17.5% times the number of pieces of armor. With 4 pieces of armor, the player is detected at 70% of a mob's normal detection range.

Invisibility stacks with other methods of reducing a mob's detection range:

Sneaking reduces detection range to 80% of the normal range
Wearing the corresponding mob head reduces detection range of skeletons, zombies, creepers, and piglins to 50% of the normal range. Mob heads are worn in an armor slot, and result in a larger detection range than not wearing the mob head.

The exact numerical information is in the table below:

Mob	Base detection range without Invisibility	Detection range no armor	Detection range 1 piece of armor	Detection range 2 pieces of armor	Detection range 3 pieces of armor	Detection range 4 pieces of armor
Ghast	100	7	17.5	35	52.5	70
Enderman	64	4.48	11.2	22.4	33.6	44.8
Allay Bee Blaze Villager	48	3.36	8.4	16.8	25.2	33.6
Llama Wither	40	2.8	7	14	21	28
Zombie Husk Drowned Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin	35	2.45	6.125	12.25	18.375	24.5
Fox Pillager Ravager	32	2.24	5.6	11.2	16.8	22.4
Breeze	24	1.68	4.2	8.4	12.6	16.8
Polar Bear	20	1.4	3.5	7	10.5	14
Illusioner	18	1.26	3.15	6.3	9.45	12.6
Evoker Vindicator	12	0.84	2.1	4.2	6.3	8.4
All other mobs	16	1.12	2.8	5.6	8.4	11.2

Locator bar

The waypoint of a player affected by Invisibility is not shown on other players' locator bar. In Java Edition, this is done by applying a 100% reduction on the waypoint_transmit_range attribute.

Immune mobs

Withers and ender dragons are immune to Invisibility.

Causes

Cause	Potency	Length	Notes
Potion of Invisibility	I	3:00	Wandering Traders drink this potion when attacked by hostile mobs or when avoiding zombies and illagers.‌
Potion of Invisibility (extended)	I	8:00	Wandering Traders drink this potion if the time is between 12000 and 18000.
Splash Potion of Invisibility	I	3:00
Splash Potion of Invisibility (extended)	I	8:00
Lingering Potion of Invisibility	I	0:45
Lingering Potion of Invisibility (extended)	I	2:00
Arrow of Invisibility	I	0:22
Arrow of Invisibility (extended)	I	1:00
Illusioner	I	1:00	Applies only to illusioners when casting the invisibility spell.
Spawning within the world	I	∞	Applies only to spiders on Hard difficulty.‌

Brewing

Potion	Reagent, base	Extended	Enhanced	Effects
Potion of Invisibility		Potion of Invisibility (extended)	-	Grants invisibility (except for equipped or held items).

Notes

Cats behave as though the entity affected is visible.
Players in Spectator mode see invisible entities as translucent instead.
Endermen have a reduced provocation range if the player looking at them is invisible.
Pillagers point their crossbows and look at invisible players instead of shooting them.
Invisibility also prevents the rendering of entity hitboxes‌ by pressing F3 + B.
Sculk sensors and wardens can still detect a player with Invisibility.
The attack indicator‌ still appears when facing an invisible entity.^[2]

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Invisibility	`invisibility`	`14`	`effect.minecraft.invisibility`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Invisibility	`invisibility`	`14`	`potion.invisibility`

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Furious Cocktail	Have every potion effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 17 status effects applied to the player at the same time: Fire Resistance Infested Jump Boost Night Vision Oozing Poison Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged 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.
	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 Blindness Conduit Power Darkness Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Infested 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.

History

Java Edition Beta
1.8			Pre-release				Invisibility 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 Invisibility has been added to `inventory.png`.
							Potions which grant the Invisibility effect are added.
							Milk now clears the Invisibility effect.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Invisibility no longer has any associated potions.
1.4.2			12w34a				Invisiblity now functions, and turns mobs invisible.
							Players under Invisiblity's effect now cannot be detected by other players.
							A potion and splash potion of Invisibility have been implemented and added to Creative mode.
1.6.1			13w24a				Spiders now have a rare chance to spawn with Invisibility on Hard difficulty.
1.8			14w05b				Sheep's wool is no longer visible when they have the Invisibility effect.^[3]
30 July 2014							Jeb has stated that saddles equipped on horses and related mobs are invisible due to technical limitations, as the saddle is part of each horse's texture, and that this may be fixed at some point in the future if more armored mobs were to be implemented.
1.14			18w43a				The effect icon texture of Invisiblity has been changed.
			19w08a				The Invisibility status effect has been improved to allow it to correctly work in many cases where it did not.
							Guardians no longer see players that are invisible from the Invisibility effect.
							Zombies and illagers no longer see invisible villagers and wandering traders.
							Withers no longer see invisible players.
							Iron golems no longer see invisible hostile-neutral mobs.
							Horse armor on horses is now still displayed if the horse wearing it is invisible.
1.15.2			pre1				Iron golem's cracks are no longer visible if they have the Invisibility effect.
1.19.4			Pre-release 3				The potion & effect color have been changed from #7F8392 to #F6F6F6.
1.21.5			25w03a				Saddles on equine mobs and camels are now still displayed if the mob wearing it is invisible;^[4]^[5] this has resulted from the saddle texture being split from the main texture.
1.21.6 Experiment Locator Bar			25w15a				Invisibility now hides players from the locator bar.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0			build 1				Added Invisibility.
v0.11.0			build 1				Invisibility is currently unobtainable.
v0.12.1			build 1				Invisibility can now be obtained from potions and splash potions of Invisibility.
v0.15.0			build 1				Added arrow of Invisibility, which inflicts any mob it hits with Invisibility.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Invisibility can now be obtained from a lingering potions of Invisibility.
Bedrock Edition
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.3				Wandering traders now hide by drinking potions of Invisibility during nightfall, when hurt by projectiles and magic, or when avoiding zombies and illagers.
							The Invisibility status effect has been improved to allow it to correctly work in many cases where it did not.
							Zombies and illagers no longer see invisible villagers and wandering traders.
			beta 1.11.0.5				The effect icon texture of Invisibility has been changed.
1.21.80 Experiment Locator Bar			Preview 1.21.80.20				Invisibility now hides players from the locator bar.
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	Invisibility is added along with 18 other status effects but is currently unobtainable in regular gameplay.
TU14		1.04					Invisiblity now functions, and turns mobs invisible.
							Players under Invisiblity's effect now cannot be detected by other players.
							A potion and splash potion of Invisibility have been implemented and added to Creative mode.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Spiders now have a rare chance to spawn with Invisibility on Hard difficulty.
			1.91				Wandering traders now hide by drinking potions of Invisibility during nightfall, when hurt by projectiles and magic, or when avoiding zombies and illagers.
							The Invisibility status effect has been improved to allow it to correctly work in many cases where it did not.
							Zombies and illagers no longer see invisible villagers and wandering traders.
							The effect icon texture of Invisibility has been changed.