Modern games have a day/night cycle for good reason. This brings the setting to life and introduces new gaming dynamics. Minecraft follows suit. All gamers will like the game’s night and day cycle. After dark, Minecraft can be hostile. Survival from hostile mobs and grinding ore mining are required. The major issue in vanilla Minecraft is reduced visibility. The game gets scary and harder, changing the experience. The Night Vision Resource Pack improves this gaming feature. The original creator, cartenavigom, released the resource pack in late 2020. Several changes have since been made to the resource pack. Bug fixes and compatibility concerns have dominated updates since it doesn’t affect many game components. In the 1+ years since its publication, the source pack has garnered approximately a million downloads across numerous internet sites. On some systems, the developer comments with the community. Most resource packs alter, improve, or upscale textures. The final goal is to make the game look better. The Night Vision texture pack emphasizes functionality. It preserves Minecraft’s night and day cycle but makes night less dangerous. The Night Vision resource pack helps when Minecraft purposely complicates things. It does this without modifying any texture or resolution. The resource bundle alters game lighting and shadows.
Minecraft restricts nighttime lighting, making critters and textures hard to distinguish. Things are bearable outside, but enter the cave and it gets gloomy. Night vision brightens shadows and improves visibility. Even digging through a tunnel, you can distinguish blocks, ores, and things better. Night Vision eliminates the need for a flashlight. Some consider the Night Vision resource pack a lighting hack. Some private servers don’t allow world color and light map changes. Some servers allow resource packs. There’s more to installing a resource pack than better visibility. This helps PvP players also. Other players will be harder to surprise and hide. With the resource pack, visibility is about identical to daytime. This effect is odd. Although the sky is dark, visibility is superb and it feels like there is no night. The moon is still there, but it looks and feels different from vanilla Minecraft. The game and night are less scary and difficult. In contrast, the Night Vision resource pack is less intrusive. Player menus, iconography, and HUD remain unchanged. The devs updated vanilla Minecraft for nighttime haters. A resource pack can be installed like another. However, the developer suggests installing Optifine. A developer notice states that the Night Vision resource pack does not operate with shader packs. Shadow packs’ lighting and shadow effects impair night vision. Night Vision can be installed with other texture or resolution-only resource packs.
Night Vision should be compatible with all of these Minecraft versions: 1.20.4 – 1.20.3 – 1.20.2 – 1.20.1 – 1.20 – 1.19.4 – 1.19.3 – 1.19.2 – 1.19.1 – 1.19 – 1.18.2 – 1.18.1 – 1.18 – 1.17.1 – 1.17 – 1.16.5 – 1.16.4 – 1.16.3 – 1.16.2 – 1.16.1 – 1.16 – 1.15.2 – 1.15.1 – 1.15 – 1.14.4 – 1.14.3 – 1.14.2 – 1.14 – 1.13.2 – 1.13.1 – 1.13 – 1.12.2 – 1.12 – 1.11.2 – 1.11 – 1.10.2 – 1.10 – 1.9.4 – 1.9 – 1.8.9 – 1.8.8 – 1.8.1 – 1.8.6 – 1.8 – 1.7.10 – 1.7.9 – 1.7.4 – 1.7
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How to install Night Vision Resource Pack:
- Most source packages require Optifine, so be sure to download and install it. – a general recommended step for all packages, Optifine is also needed for most shaders
- Download the Night Vision texture pack for Minecraft from the download section below. – if there are many different versions, just choose the one you like, is compatible with your version/edition of minecraft that you think your computer can handle in terms of performance.
- Launch the game client via the Minecraft launcher.
- Click “Options” in the main menu.
- Click on “Resource Packs…” from the options menu.
- Click “Open Resource Pack Folder”. – a folder named “resourcepacks” will appear.
- Move the .zip file you downloaded in the first step into the newly opened “resourcepacks” folder.
- Click “Done”.
- Click on “Resource Pack…” again.
- Your package should appear in the left window, just hover over it and click on the arrow pointing to the right.
QUICK TIP: Sometimes when activating a pack, the game may say that the pack is made for a newer or older version of Minecraft. This is just a warning, it doesn’t affect your game in any way and you can still activate and enjoy the pack by just clicking “Yes” when prompted.
- Click “Done” again.
- The package has now been successfully loaded and is ready to use in your world!
- Cartenavigom is credited with creating Night Vision.
- We never modify or modify resource packs in any way. None of the resource packs, shader mods or tools you see on this site are hosted on our servers. We only use official download links provided by official authors. Therefore, they are completely safe.
- Since the links are official and we update them manually – the links may stop working with each new update. We try to update the links as fast as possible and usually we update everything on time and users don’t have any problems, but if suddenly any link stops working – let us know through comments below.
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Night vision texture pack download
The Java Edition of this pack requires Optifine to work and will not work without it! Get optifine here. Also disable active shaders, the pack does not work with shaders.
Java Edition:
[16x] [1.20.x – 1.13.x] Download Night Vision Resource Pack
[16x] [1.12.x – 1.7.x] Download Night Vision Resource Pack
Download instructions:
Curseforge: download starts automatically after a few seconds;
Mediafire: click the big blue button with the text “DOWNLOAD”;
Google Drive: in the top right corner you will see a small download icon (down arrow), click it and the download should start;