Screen effects

Screen effects encompass a variety of effects applied alongside or beneath the heads-up display as augmentations to the player's point of view as a method of conveying further information about a player's current state. They are not to be confused with visual effects caused by the game's shaders, which are applied directly in the game rendering.

Effect	Image	Visible in third-person view?	Visible with F1?
Suffocation inside a block		No	Yes
When on fire		No	Yes
When in a Nether portal		JE only[1]	BE only[2]
When underwater		No	Yes
Distortion effect overlay‌[Java Edition only]		Yes	Yes[3]
Darkness		Yes	No[4]
When near the world border‌[Java Edition only]		Yes	No[5]
When inside powder snow		Yes	BE only[6]
When wearing a pumpkin		No	BE only[7]
When using a spyglass		No	BE only[8]

Effect	Image	Visible in third-person view?	Visible with F1?
Totem of undying when used		Yes	BE only[9]
Raid Omen when obtained‌[Bedrock Edition only]		Yes	Yes
Hero of the Village when obtained‌[Bedrock Edition only]		Yes	Yes
Elder guardian ghost		Yes	Yes

Effect	Visible in third-person view?	Visible with F1?
Screen tilting when damaged	Yes[10]	Yes
View bobbing	Yes	Yes
Distortion effects	Yes[11]	Yes
FOV based changes	Yes	Yes
Camera shake	Yes	Yes

This effect manifests when an applicable mob or player's eye level intersects specific blocks; generally those that are full solid cubes and block both vision and movement, with the exception of ice.

In Java Edition this effect involves a darkened version of the block texture covering the entire area of the screen.

In Bedrock Edition, the block's texture is instead arranged into a cube around the player in which the camera can move. This is the case regardless of the player's placement inside the block; the player can be at the edge of it (such that the player's view is partially outside it and the outside texture is clearly visible) and the player can still be rendered as if at the exact center of the cube.

When the player is on fire, this animated effect is applied to the screen. This is caused by being inside of fire or lava (even in Creative mode, although not in Spectator), after exiting such a block (except in Creative/Spectator), or being set on fire through the attack of a burning mob or a burning arrow.

This overlay always displays as fire, even if the player in question is inside of soul fire.

In Java Edition this effect involves two intersecting texture planes being rendered across the bottom half of the screen with the fire texture.

In Bedrock Edition, the fire texture is rendered as a cubemap around the player with only the front and a small part of the sides visible.

Note: this section discusses the Nether portal texture overlay. The Nether portal/nausea wobble effect is discussed in the Distortion effect/Nausea sickness overlay sections.

When the player is inside of a Nether portal, this effect is applied to the screen. It always coincides with either the distortion effect and/or its overlay.

In Java Edition this effect involves the Nether portal texture being stretched across the entirety of the screen.

In Bedrock Edition, the texture is instead arranged into a cube around the player in which the camera can move.

The underwater effect is a blue vignette.

This effect is a green vignette.

This effect appears only when the player has Nausea, and the distortion effect is set to 0%. The effect becomes more transparent as the slider is turned up, until 100% distortion, in which it disappears.

This effect is a black circular blur at the corners. This effect is similar to a regular vignette. This effect appears usually in caves; however, it can appear in any dark place. It also appears when players are inside the structure of trial chambers.

In Bedrock Edition, the vignette gradually fades in as the sky darkens below Y=32, and at Y=-12, it suddenly turns into it's full opacity.

The world border effect is a red vignette. This effect becomes more intense as the player moves closer to the world border. The effect reaches its maximum strength when the player goes past the world border.

The freezing overlay is a circular formation of crystals and snow flakes that appears when the player is freezing in powder snow. This effect slowly fades in until it is at full opacity.

If the player equips leather armor while freezing, this overlay fades out slowly, then disappears.

The pumpkin blur is a cut-out shape of the carved pumpkin's face that appears when wearing a carved pumpkin. In Java Edition, the texture is stretched to the edges of the screen; in Bedrock Edition, the texture is placed in the middle of the screen, with dark edges filling the rest.

The spyglass scope is a brown square in the middle of the screen that appears when using a spyglass. This scope effect quickly zooms in when using a spyglass, until the top and bottom are partly covered.

When within a spherical radius of 50 blocks of an elder guardian, the player is inflicted with Mining Fatigue III. This is indicated by a ghost of an elder guardian appearing in the player's view, which moves from the top of the screen to the bottom.

In Java Edition, this occurrence is considered a particle effect; it can be summoned with the /particle minecraft:elder_guardian command.

In Bedrock Edition, this occurrence is caused by a separate mob called the elder guardian ghost. However, when it is summoned using /summon minecraft:elder_guardian_ghost, it is invisible and rises to the sky.

The model of the elder guardian is used for this effect. This means that changing the texture and model associated with the elder guardian also changes what appears on the player's screen.

The effect appears when a totem of undying is used. The totem spins to the middle of the screen and disappears.

In Java Edition, the totem of undying effect is a full 3D model. In Bedrock Edition, the totem of undying effect is a 2D texture.

This effect appears when the player obtains Hero of the Village from defeating a raid. This effect does not happen when the effect is given through commands. It is similar to the totem of undying effect.

This screen effect appears when the player enters a village while under the Bad Omen effect, converting it into Raid Omen. This effect does not appear when giving Raid Omen through commands, and it looks similar to the totem of undying effect.

In Java Edition, when the player receives damage, the screen tilts to the direction opposite of the entity or block who damaged the player.

In Bedrock Edition, when the player receives damage, the screen tilts to the right regardless of the damage direction.

The strength of damage tilting can be adjusted in the settings.

View bobbing is a toggleable feature that adds a slight movement of the screen from left to right when walking. It also affects items and blocks in the player's hand.

These effects are seen when the player either goes through a nether portal or has the nausea status effect. Different levels do not affect the distortion. However, the effect can be affected by changing the distortion effect setting.‌^{[Java Edition only]}​^{[upcoming: BE 26.40]}

While sprinting, flying, swimming or while affected by a speed effect, the FOV (field of view) increases. The FOV decreases when being affected by the slowness effect, while using a spyglass, by using a bow, or by going into water or powder snow. The FOV can be changed in settings with a minimum of 30, and a maximum of 110. Different levels of slowness or speed affect the FOV more than others.

FOV effects can be toggled in the settings.

With the /camerashake command, a player's camera can perform a shaking effect. This can be either positional (shaking the camera position) or rotational (shaking the camera direction). The effect can be disabled in the settings.

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  Example of a positional camera shake
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  Example of a rotational camera shake

Java Edition
1.8			14w27a				Added elder guardian curse screen effect.
1.11			16w39a				Added totem of undying screen effect.​[more information needed]
1.14			18w43a				Changed totem of undying screen effect to .
			19w12a				Totems of undying now show custom model data, including the enchantment glint applied to them in the animation.[14]

Pocket Edition
?							Added elder guardian curse screen effect
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Added totem of undying screen effect.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Changed totem of undying screen effect to
			beta 1.11.0.7				A screen effect now plays when a player obtains Bad Omen.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.7				A screen effect now plays when a player gets Hero of the Village.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.4				Added the elder guardian ghost effect, replacing the original elder guardian curse screen effect.[verify]
1.18.10			beta 1.18.10.24				Removed the sceen effect that appears when Bad Omen is obtained.
?							Re-added the screen effect that appears when Bad Omen is obtained.
1.21.0			Preview 1.21.0.20				Replaced Bad Omen screen effect with Raid Omen screen effect.
							If a world was imported from the Marketplace, then the Bad Omen screen effect would look like this:

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Added elder guardian curse screen effect.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added totem of undying screen effect.​[more information needed]
			1.91				A screen effect now plays when a player obtains Bad Omen.​[more information needed]
							A screen effect now plays when a player gets Hero of the Village.​[more information needed]

Java Edition Classic
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST							Taking damage caused the player's screen to tilt toward the damage source. Environmental damage sources, such as fall damage, randomly tilt the player's screen left or right.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.3							The directional damage tilt animation does not work properly in multiplayer, instead always tilting the player's screen left.
Java Edition
1.19.4			23w03a				Taking damage once again causes the player's screen to tilt toward the damage source. However, the random tilt when taking environmental damage is broken, instead tilting the player's screen in the last direction the player was hit from.

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.2.0							In singleplayer and for the host in multiplayer, taking damage tilts the player's screen toward the damage source. For joining players the screen always tilts left.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			?				Taking damage no longer causes the player's screen to tilt toward the damage source, instead always tilting left.

v t e Game graphical and visual elements
Effects	Enchantment glint Rendered brightness Starfield
Environmental	Clouds Fog Particles Sky Celestial objects End flash Moon Stars Sun Cubemaps End sky Panorama
Color	Blocks Items Effects Other
Settings	Graphics settings Bedrock Edition only Ray Tracing Vibrant Visuals
Things	Display of blocks by entities Non-model-dependent block elements
Other	Screen effects
Removed	Lower sky Spawn Egg colors
Joke	Earth