How to Make and Use a Potion of Night Vision in Minecraft
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A Potion of Night Vision in Minecraft is a brewable item that gives players the Night Vision status effect when consumed. This effect allows you to see better in the dark, increasing the brightness level of your surroundings to 15. Essentially this makes everything appear to be at max light level. This works anywhere including underground and underwater locations.
If you want to explore caves or be able to see better at night, using a Potion of Night Vision is a great option. However, light sources like torches are far easier to make than any potion, so players are likely to use these in most situations.
On the other hand, if you don’t want to bring too many light sources or clutter your surroundings with them, the potion may be what you’re looking for. Mobs also don’t spawn naturally in well-lit places or blocks with light levels above 7. Thus, players may choose Night Vision over light sources so they can still farm mobs in certain areas.
In the end, using the potion comes down to personal preference and what players consider the more convenient option for them.
One more thing to note is that Night Vision does not affect mobs. It was made only to affect the players’ visibility. If hostile mobs somehow pass through a cloud of Night Vision, rest assured this won’t give them the ability to detect you faster. Most mobs don’t even need the enhancement to find their way to you, so we recommend using this potion and its variants only on yourself or other players.
How to Brew a Regular Potion of Night Vision in Minecraft?
To brew a Potion of Night Vision, gather the required ingredients and follow the recipe below:
Ingredients required:
Tools required for the brewing process:
1 – Make a Water Bottle
To make a Water Bottle, craft a Glass Bottle by putting 3 Glass Blocks in a Crafting Table. Then, look for a water source and interact with it.
You can use up to 3 Water Bottles to make 3 potions, but this recipe only needs 1.
2 – Obtain a Golden Carrot
Golden Carrot is the base ingredient for the Potion of Night Vision. You can get one through crafting, looting chests, or trading with farmer villagers. To craft it, put 8 Gold Nuggets and 1 Carrot in a Crafting Table.
3 – Gather Nether Wart and Blaze Rods
Next, you need Nether Wart and Blaze Rods. Both can be found in Nether Fortresses. Nether Warts are typically found growing on Soul Sand while Blaze Rods can be obtained by defeating Blazes.
Once you get some Blaze Rods, turn them into Blaze Powder using a Crafting Table to serve as fuel for the Brewing Stand.
4 – Brew an Awkward Potion
With all the ingredients gathered, put the Blaze Powder, Water Bottle, and Nether Wart in the Brewing Stand.
It will take some time to finish brewing, but once it’s done, you’ll get an Awkward Potion.
5 – Brew a Potion of Night Vision
Keep the Awkward Potion in the potion slot and put the Golden Carrot in the base ingredient slot.
Wait for it to finish brewing to get a Potion of Night Vision! Drinking this potion allows you to see better in the dark for 3 minutes.
How to Use the Potion of Night Vision?
You need to drink a Potion of Night Vision to use it.
For the Java and Education Editions, you drink the potion by equipping it and holding the right-click until the drinking action is finished.
Bedrock Edition uses the following controls:
- Keyboard & Mouse: Right-click and hold.
- Controller: Press the LT/L2/ZL button and hold.
- Mobile: Tap the screen and hold.
Consuming the potion in any version leaves you with an empty Glass Bottle. Green particle effects will appear to show that the Night Vision status effect is active. You can check this by navigating to the inventory menu. Here, you can also see how long the effect will last.
How to Extend the Duration of a Potion of Night Vision?
To extend the duration of a Potion of Night Vision, place a Potion of Night Vision (03:00) in the potion slot and Redstone Dust in the base ingredient slot of a Brewing Stand. This will brew an extended Potion of Night Vision that lasts for 8 minutes.
| Result: Potion of Night Vision (08:00) |
How to Make Other Variants of the Potion of Night Vision?
The Potion of Night Vision has Splash and Lingering variants which can be made by using Gunpowder and Dragon’s Breath respectively. Follow the recipes below to find out how to make each variant.
How to Make a Splash Potion of Night Vision
Splash Potion of Night Vision (03:00/02:15)
To create a Splash Potion of Night Vision, add Gunpowder to a Potion of Night Vision (03:00) in the Brewing Stand. Once it finishes brewing, you’ll get a regular Splash Potion of Night Vision which you can throw at other players. Its effect lasts for 3 minutes in the Java Edition or 2 minutes and 15 seconds in the Bedrock Edition.
| 🛈 Obtain Gunpowder by killing Creepers, Ghasts, or Witches. Gunpowder can also be found in chests or bought from Wandering Traders. |
Splash Potion of Night Vision (08:00/06:00)
To extend the duration of a Splash Potion of Night Vision, add Redstone Dust to a regular Splash Potion of Night Vision (03:00/02:15). This Splash Potion will last for 8 minutes in the Java Edition and 6 minutes in the Bedrock Edition.
| 🛈 Alternatively, you can add Gunpowder to an extended Potion of Night Vision (08:00) to get a splash variant with an extended duration. |
How to Make a Lingering Potion of Night Vision
Lingering Potion of Night Vision (00:45)
Brew a Lingering Potion of Night Vision by adding Dragon’s Breath to a Splash Potion of Night Vision (03:00/02:15). The resulting cloud from a regular Lingering Potion of Night Vision lasts for 45 seconds when thrown at a block or an area.
| 🛈 Obtain Dragon’s Breath by using a Glass Bottle on the Ender Dragon’s breath attack or the purple particles it leaves behind. |
Lingering Potion of Night Vision (02:00)
Extend the duration of a Lingering Potion of Night Vision by adding Redstone Dust to a Lingering Potion of Night Vision (00:45). The Lingering Potion will then last for 2 minutes.
| 🛈 You can also get the extended version of the Lingering Potion by adding Dragon’s Breath to an extended Splash Potion of Night Vision (08:00/06:00). |
How to Make an Arrow of Night Vision Using a Lingering Potion of Night Vision
Arrow of Night Vision (00:22)
Craft Arrows of Night Vision by placing 8 Arrows and a regular Lingering Potion of Night Vision (00:45) in a Crafting Table. Shoot your allies with an Arrow of Night Vision to give them Night Vision for 22 seconds.
Arrow of Night Vision (01:00)
If you want to extend the duration of the status effect, use 8 Arrows and a Lingering Potion of Night Vision (02:00) instead. This variant allows the Night Vision effect to last for a minute.
Where to Find a Potion of Night Vision in Creative Mode?
In Creative Mode, you can get a Potion of Night Vision and its variants by browsing the Creative Inventory Menu or typing their names in the search bar.
If your cheats are enabled, you can opt to use console commands. To do this, enter the following in the chat window:
/give @p potion{Potion:"minecraft:night_vision"} 1- give: This is the main command.
- @p: This refers to the nearest player or you. You can replace this with your username as well.
- potion{Potion:“minecraft:night_vision”): This indicates that you want to give the entity above a Potion of Night Vision.
- 1: This is the amount of the above item that you want to have.
Keep in mind that the above syntax can only be used in the Java Edition. In Bedrock Edition, the following syntax is used:
/give @p potion 1 5If none of these syntaxes work for your version, you can visit the Minecraft Wiki where the /give command is tackled in more detail!
What Are Alternatives to Using a Potion of Night Vision?
The best alternative to using a Potion of Night Vision is investing in light sources. A light source illuminates your surroundings permanently as long as it remains unbroken, whereas a Potion of Night Vision only does so for a limited time. If you want to light up certain areas that you already frequent, this may be a better option for you.
Torches and Campfires make for affordable lighting. Lanterns, Candles, and Glowstones may be slightly harder to acquire, but they are more accessible compared to the potion’s ingredients. Beacons are on the expensive end, but there are still many light sources to choose from if you want to save resources and permanently light up an area.
Another alternative is to eat a Suspicious Stew that gives you Night Vision. This recipe does not require a Potion of Night Vision, but it only lasts for a very short time. To make one, combine 1 Bowl, 1 Poppy, 1 Brown Mushroom, and 1 Red Mushroom in a Crafting Table. The Suspicious Stew (Night Vision) will give you Night Vision for 5 seconds when consumed. The duration is short but you can make multiple Suspicious Stews to reapply the effect if you prefer this method.
