Glowing Status Effect Wiki Guide

This Minecraft tutorial explains the Glowing effect with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

Background

The Glowing effect is a status effect that displays a bright white outline around a player or mob that can be seen through solid objects such as blocks. If the player is a member of a team, the outline will be seen as the team color.

There are levels of Glowing such as Glowing II, Glowing III, Glowing IV and so on. Currently, there are no advantages to using higher levels of Glowing.

Status Effect	Glowing
Type	Harmful Effect
Description	Displays a bright white outline around a player or mob that can be seen through solid objects such as blocks. If the player is a member of a team, the outline will be seen as the team color
Effect Icon
Particles	Green particle effects appear floating around you
Items that give Effect	Spectral Arrow
Game Command	/effect command

Icon and Particle Effects

When you have the Glowing effect, the following icon will appear in the top right corner of your screen:

You will also see particle effects floating around you. In the latest version of Minecraft, these particle effects will be green.

When the Glowing effect wears off, the icon and particle effects will disappear. You will be back to your normal status.

Duration

Depending on how you get the effect, the duration of the Glowing effect will be different. To see how much time is remaining for the effect, go to your inventory menu.

In this example, it says 2:15 under Glowing so this means that there is 2 minutes and 15 seconds remaining of the Glowing effect.

Items that give the Glowing Effect

The following are items that give the Glowing effect in Minecraft:

How to make a Spectral Arrow

Effect ID and Name

Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)

In Minecraft, Glowing has the following effect ID and Name values:

Icon	Status Effect (Minecraft ID Name)	ID	Platform	Version
	Glowing (minecraft:glowing)	24	 Java Edition (PC/Mac)	1.9

• Icon is the image that will appear when you have this effect.
• Status Effect is what the effect is called and (Minecraft ID Name) is the string value used in the /effect command.
• ID is the Internal number for the effect.
• Platform is the platform that applies.
• Version is the Minecraft version number that the effect was introduced for the name and ID that is listed.

Effect Command for Glowing

Effect Command in Minecraft Java Edition (Current)

Glowing:

/effect give @p glowing 99999

Glowing II:

/effect give @p glowing 99999 1

Glowing (highest level):

/effect give @p glowing 99999 255

To remove all status effects including Glowing, you can either drink milk or use the following /effect command:

/effect clear @p

Effect Command in Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.11 and 1.12

Glowing:

/effect @p glowing 99999

Glowing II:

/effect @p glowing 99999 1

Glowing (highest level):

/effect @p glowing 99999 255

To remove all status effects:

/effect @p clear

Other Status Effects

Here are the other status effects in Minecraft such as: