Minecraft wiki entry for Player, associated text: As mentioned in the Gamemodes section, if the player is in Creative mode the health, hunger and experience bars including armor rating and oxygen bubbles are hidden and only the hotbar is visible. Despite this, the player can still collect experience, wear armour and will still display the screen tilting animation when dying from /kill or the void. In Spectator mode even the hotbar, crosshair and held object/fist is hidden and the hotbar only appears as a player spectating list when a number is pressed or mouse is scrolled.