Transportation

Transportation is how players move around the world or between dimensions (the Overworld, the Nether, and the End).

Methods

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Strider with boost

These speeds assume that the form of transportation is not under the effect of the Speed or Slowness, unless mentioned.

Method	Conditions	Running start effective?	Average speed in m/s (blocks per second)^{[note 1]}	Average speed in km/h (1000 blocks per hour)^{[note 1]}^{[note 2]}	Works in the Nether?
Walking	Flat terrain	No	4.317 m/s	15.54 km/h	Yes
	Soul Speed I	No	6.066 m/s	21.84 km/h	Yes
	Soul Speed II	No	6.519 m/s	23.47 km/h	Yes
	Soul Speed III	No	6.972 m/s	25.1 km/h	Yes
Sprinting	Flat terrain	No	5.612 m/s	20.2 km/h	Yes
	Soul Speed I	No	7.885 m/s	28.39 km/h	Yes
	Soul Speed II	No	8.475 m/s	30.51 km/h	Yes
	Soul Speed III	No	9.064 m/s	32.63 km/h	Yes
Sprint-jumping	Flat terrain	No	7.127 m/s	25.66 km/h	Yes
	Elevation momentum (+1 block)^{[note 3]}	No	7.508 m/s	27.03 km/h	Yes
	2-block-high passage^{[note 3]}	No	9.732 m/s	35.04 km/h	Yes
Sneaking	Flat terrain	No	1.3 m/s	4.68 km/h	Yes
	+/- 45 angle	No	1.83 m/s	6.59 km/h	Yes
	Swift Sneak I	No	1.94 m/s	6.98 km/h	Yes
	Swift Sneak II	No	2.59 m/s	9.32 km/h	Yes
	Swift Sneak III	No	3.24 m/s	11.66 km/h	Yes
	Swift Sneak III and +/- 45 angle	No	4.41 m/s	15.88 km/h	Yes
	Soul Speed I	No	1.819 m/s	6.55 km/h	Yes
	Soul Speed II	No	1.949 m/s	7.02 km/h	Yes
	Soul Speed III	No	2.92 m/s	10.51 km/h	Yes
	Swift Sneak III and Soul Speed III	No	5.23 m/s	18.83 km/h	Yes
	Swift Sneak III and Soul Speed III and +/- 45 angle	No	7.11 m/s	25.6 km/h	Yes
Minecart	Powered Track	Yes, small	8.0 m/s	28.8 km/h	Yes
	¹⁄₄ slope track	No	7.1 m/s	25.56 km/h	Yes
	Minecart with furnace ‌	No	4.0 m/s	14.4 km/h	Yes
Boat^{[note 4]}	¹⁄₄ slope rapids	Yes, small	7.3 m/s	26.28 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	¹⁄₄ slope rapids	No	7.0 m/s	25.2 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	Flat ice Flat packed ice Flat frosted ice	No	40.0 m/s	144.0 km/h	Yes
	Flat blue ice	No	72.73 m/s	261.82 km/h	Yes
	Flat water	No	8.0 m/s	28.8 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	Flat water, reverse	No	1.01 m/s	3.636 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	Flat land	No	2.00 m/s	7.20 km/h	Yes
	Flat land, reverse	No	0.24 m/s	0.864 km/h	Yes
	Slime blocks	No	1.18 m/s	4.25 km/h	Yes
	Honey blocks	No	1.06 m/s	3.81 km/h	Yes
Saddled Pig	Flat terrain	No	2.42 m/s	3.712 km/h	Yes
Saddled Pig	Flat terrain, using carrot on a stick	Yes	4.19 m/s	15.08 km/h	Yes
Saddled strider	Flat land, without boost	No	1.74 m/s	6.26 km/h	Yes
Saddled strider	Flat lava surface, without boost	No	4.14 m/s	14.9 km/h	Yes
Horse^{[note 6]}	Flat terrain (average horse speed)	No	9.49 m/s	34.15 km/h	Yes
Horse^{[note 6]}	Flat terrain, fastest possible horse breed	No	14.23 m/s	51.22 km/h	Yes
Donkey Mule	Flat terrain	No	7.38 m/s	26.56 km/h	Yes
Zombie horse Skeleton horse	Flat terrain	No	8.43 m/s	30.35 km/h	Yes
Swimming	Still water, surface^{[note 7]}	No	2.20 m/s	7.92 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	Still water, underwater^{[note 8]}	No	1.97 m/s	7.09 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	Upstream, underwater	No	0.39 m/s	1.40 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	Downstream, underwater	No	1.81 m/s	6.52 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	While diving	No	0.39 m/s	1.40 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	Downstream, underwater, standing	No	1.37 m/s	4.93 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	Dolphin's Grace status effect	No	8.0 m/s	28.8 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	Dolphin's Grace status effect with Depth Strider III	No	48.0 m/s	172.8 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	Dolphin's Grace status effect with Depth Strider III and Soul Speed III on a layer of soul soil underwater ^{[note 9]}	No	75.0 m/s	270 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	Dolphin's Grace status effect with Depth Strider III, Soul Speed III on a layer of soul soil, and Speed II status effect underwater ^{[note 10]}	No	144 m/s	518.4 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
	Dolphin's Grace status effect with Depth Strider III and Soul Speed III on a layer of soul soil, and Speed II status effect underwater, aligned at a +/-45 angle, and holding forward/sideways/sprint keys ^{[note 11]}	No	146.965 m/s	529.074 km/h	No^{[note 5]}
Flying (horizontal)^{[note 12]}	Creative mode	Yes	11.0 m/s	39.6 km/h	Yes
	Creative mode Sprint-flying	Yes	22.0 m/s	79.2 km/h	Yes
	Spectator mode Maximum speed	Yes	43.556 m/s	156.8016 km/h	Yes
	Spectator mode Maximum speed Sprint-flying	Yes	87.111 m/s	313.5996 km/h	Yes
Ender Pearl	Thrown 15° above horizontal	No	~23.0 m/s	~82.8 km/h	Yes
Ender Pearl	Biggest TNT pearl cannon^{[note 13]}	Yes	1,760,000 m/s (1.76 Mm/s) ^{[note 14]}	6,336,000 km/h (6.336 Gm/h)	Yes
Happy Ghast	Flying at 0° pitch	Yes	3.5 m/s	12.6 km/h	Yes
Elytra^{[note 15]}	Gliding at 0° pitch	Yes, small	30.0 m/s	108.0 km/h	Yes
	Continuous rocket boost	No	33.5 m/s	120.6 km/h	Yes
	Gliding at 52° pitch down	Yes	67.3 m/s	242.3 km/h	Yes
	Gliding at 90° pitch down	Yes	78.4 m/s	282.2 km/h	Only when above bedrock level^{[note 16]}
	Trident with Riptide III	No	~375 m/s	1,350 km/h (Mach 1.13)	No^{[note 5]}
	Trident with Riptide III (perfect timing)	No	632.0 m/s ^{[note 17]}	2,275.2 km/h (Mach 1.85)	No^{[note 5]}

Notes

↑ ^a ^b Multiply the value by 8 to get the Overworld equivalent when doing this in the Nether.
↑ Divide by 3 to get kilometres per game day, or by 6 to get kilometres per half-day (from dawn to sunset)
↑ ^a ^b Assuming the jump key is released then held mid-air every jump
↑ Boat acceleration takes 9.4 seconds—the difference in time between a running start and not, is halved, or 4.7 seconds.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q In the Nether, water cannot be placed without the use of commands or glitches in past versions.
↑ Horses vary in speed. They are the fastest method of land transportation on open but unprepared terrain.
↑ The swimming speeds are not affected by Swiftness potions. The surface speed refers to "skimming" across the top of the water by holding the spacebar.
↑ Underwater refers to any part of the body submerged in water and walking on flat terrain. The Player travels the same speed regardless of if the water is 1 block deep or 2 (in observed cases).
↑ Data based on https://youtu.be/PuXX2zkEs48?t=178.
↑ Data based on https://youtu.be/nNm5mOeH4pE.
↑ Data based on https://youtu.be/ySREkWjks6A.
↑ Flying speed can be varied.
↑ Data based on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Cqxz1-2f8.
↑ Roughly 0.59% of the speed of light
↑ Values are faster than those listed if the player has the Slow Falling status effect.
↑ It is technically possible below; however, the size between the roof of the Nether and the floor is 124 blocks, meaning that it would take less than 2 seconds to go down. Also, achieving speed requires either using rocket boost, or starting above the roof.
↑ Speed achieved with inhumanely precise timings using tool assistance. However there's still room for improvement.

Potions

Using effects from potions or beacons, walking and sprinting speeds become competitive with other methods of transportation.

Each additional level of Speed allows the player to walk at nearly the sprinting speed of the previous level, and sprinting with Speed II is only slightly slower than a minecart at full speed or a boosted pig. With adequate food and potion supplies, sprinting may be more cost-effective than building high-speed transportation systems.

Effect level	Walking speed (m/s)	Sprinting speed (m/s)
none	4.317 m/s	5.612 m/s
Speed	5.181 m/s	6.735 m/s
Speed II	6.044 m/s	7.857 m/s

Commands

Using the /effect command, extremely high or low speeds become reachable. At exceedingly high levels (100+), the player moves faster than the chunks can load.

Effect level	Sneaking speed (m/s)	Walking speed (m/s)	Sprinting speed (m/s)
Speed 50	14.25 m/s	47.49 m/s	61.74 m/s
Speed 127	34.19 m/s	113.97 m/s	148.17 m/s
Speed 255	67.61 m/s	225.36 m/s	292.96 m/s

Vertical transportation

There are some examples of purely vertical transportation methods:

Method	Conditions	Average speed (m/s)
Jumping^{[note 1]}	Climbing slope without stairs, pillar jumping, etc.	2.0 m/s
Stairs	Ascending	3.2 m/s
Stairs	Descending	3.6 m/s
#climbable (e.g. ladders, vines...)	Ascending	2.35 m/s
#climbable (e.g. ladders, vines...)	Descending	3.0 m/s
Soul sand	Ascending in water	11 m/s
Magma block	Descending in water	4.9 m/s
Waterfall	No adjacent blocks	2.0 m/s
	Ascending, with adjacent blocks	0.6 m/s
	Descending, with adjacent blocks	3.4 m/s
Waterfall (measured in Java Edition)	Ascending, by holding jump	2.23 m/s
Waterfall (measured in Java Edition)	Sprint-swimming upward while holding jump	6.98 m/s
Lavafall	Using a Potion of Fire Resistance	0.8 m/s
Levitation	Level 1	0.9 m/s
Flying	Creative Spectator	7.49 m/s
Falling	Player, terminal velocity	78.4 m/s
	Item, terminal velocity	40.0 m/s
	Arrow, terminal velocity	100.0 m/s
	Falling block, terminal velocity	40.0 m/s
Swimming	Water	0.39 m/s
Scaffolding (measured in Bedrock Edition)	Ascending	1.2 m/s
Scaffolding (measured in Bedrock Edition)	Descending	2.94 m/s
Scaffolding (measured in Java Edition)	Ascending	2.352 m/s
Scaffolding (measured in Java Edition)	Descending	3.000 m/s
Happy Ghast (measured in Java Edition)	Ascending	1.75 m/s
Happy Ghast (measured in Java Edition)	Descending	3.5 m/s

↑ The player can jump up a distance of 1 ¹⁄₄ blocks. With Jump Boost I, that increases to 1 ¹⁵⁄₁₆ blocks, and with Jump Boost II, that increases to 2 ¹⁄₂ blocks.

Falling speed is more complex: Every tick (¹⁄₂₀ second), non-flying players and mobs have their vertical speed decremented (less upward motion, more downward motion) by 0.08 blocks per tick (1.6 m/s), then multiplied by 0.98.^{[note 1]} This can be described as a formula:

$v (t) = 0.98 \times (v (t - 1) - 0.08)$

Where $v (t)$ is the speed (in blocks/second) at the $t$ -th tick. $v (1)$ corresponds to the initial speed of the jump: $v (1) = {\begin{matrix} 0 & F r e e f a l l \\ 0.42 + 0.1 E_{J u m p B o o s t} & J u m p i n g \end{matrix}}$ where $E_{J u m p B o o s t}$ is the level of the jump boost. Because "Speed" (in Minecraft) is defined as the Y coordinate difference between the current tick and the previous tick, the initial speed is $v (1)$ instead of $v (0)$ .

This would produce a terminal velocity of 3.92 blocks per tick or 78.4 m/s. However, the sky isn't quite high enough for that: Falling from layer 320 to bedrock takes around 8 seconds, with impact at 3.70925 blocks per tick (74.185 m/s). It is possible to fly higher in Creative mode, or by flying with an elytra and then removing it, reaching terminal velocity by falling from "above the sky".

↑ Horses have their vertical speed multiplied by 0.98 a second time in the same tick. This may or may not apply to some other mobs.

By solving the recurrence relation, it is possible to get an exact function to calculate the vertical speed of a falling player:

$v (t) = 0.9 8^{t - 1} (v (1) + 3.92) - 3.92$

Where the velocity $v$ is in blocks (meters) per tick, the time $t$ is in ticks and downward motion is negative. Note that if the initial velocity is zero, the function can be simplified to $v (t) = 3.92 \times (0.9 8^{t} - 1)$ .

An exact function to calculate the displacement of the player is the following:

$d (t) = d (0) + 50 (v (1) + 3.92) (1 - 0.9 8^{t}) - 3.92 t$

Where the displacement $d$ is in blocks (meters), the time $t$ is in ticks, $d (0)$ is the initial displacement and downward displacement is negative. If the initial velocity and displacement is zero, it can be written as:

$d (t) = 3.92 \times (50 \times (1 - 0.9 8^{t}) - t)$

An approximate function to calculate the time it takes to fall from some height is the following:

$t (d) = 50 + 0.255102 d + 49.498316 \times W_{0} (- 0.367861 \times 0.99485 9^{d})$

Where the height $d$ is in blocks (meters), the time $t$ is in ticks, initial velocity and displacement is zero, downward displacement is negative and $W$ is the Lambert W function.

Other modes of transportation

Players are also able to use pistons for transport.
- It is possible to construct complex flying machines using pistons, blocks of redstone, slime blocks, and honey blocks.
Dying is an instant mode of transportation to the player's bed or spawn point, but at the cost of all items and XP (if the keepInventory gamerule is disabled) and the world (on Hardcore).
- If the player has already defeated the ender dragon, and is near a stronghold/end portal, they can enter and exit the End to instantly be transported to their bed or spawn point without dying.
Explosion knockback can send an adjacent player flying for a short distance, depending on the strength of the explosion. This is not recommended in Survival mode.
It is possible to mount minecarts and boats as long as they are within 4-5 blocks (inclusive) from the player. Placing these in a straight line allows for extremely fast transport. This also works with saddled pigs, provided they stay in position (placed on posts).

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Achievements


Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		Beam Me Up	Teleport over 100 meters from a single throw of an Ender Pearl.	Throw an ender pearl 100 blocks in any direction	20	Silver
		On A Rail	Travel by minecart to a point at least 500m in a single direction from where you started.	Travel by minecart 500 blocks in a straight line away from the player's starting point.	40	Gold
		Super Sonic	Use Elytra to fly through a 1 by 1 gap while moving faster than 40 m/s	—	30	Gold

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Subspace Bubble	Use the Nether to travel 7 km in the Overworld	Use the Nether to travel between 2 points in the Overworld with a minimum horizontal euclidean distance of 7000 blocks between each other, which is 875 blocks in the Nether.

History

Java Edition pre-Classic
rd-131655							Added walking and jumping as the first form of locomotion.
Java Edition Classic
0.0.12a							Added water and lava. "Swimming" (more akin to treading water) has been introduced.
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST							Added slabs as a means of vertical transportation without jumping.
Java Edition Infdev
20100327							The player now drops their inventory and respawns at the spawn point upon death, enabling instant transportation at the cost of all of the player's items.
20100607							Added ladders as a means of vertical transportation without jumping.
20100618							Added minecarts and rails.
20100625-1917							Added saddles, which made it possible to use pigs as an uncontrollable method of transportation.
20100629							Added stairs, as a more compact method of vertical transportation compared to slabs.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.6							Added boats.
v1.0.14							Added minecarts with furnaces as a way to propel minecarts.
v1.1.1							Added sneaking.
v1.2.0			preview				Added the Nether, which could be used for fast travel, as any distance covered in the Nether is multiplied by 8 in the Overworld.
Java Edition Beta
1.5							Added powered rails, which eliminates the need for "booster" minecarts and furnace minecarts.
1.8			Pre-release				Added sprinting, which can be started by double-tapping forward.
							Added Creative mode, where the player can fly.
							Added the hunger bar, which gradually depletes when the player walks, jumps, sneaks, swims or sprints.
							An infamous bug where walking on the edges of blocks would accumulate step sounds and rapidly play them upon touching solid ground has been fixed.
							Added ender pearls, which are currently useless.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2				Ender pearls can now be thrown, teleporting the player to where it lands.
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				The Speed effect can now be obtained from potions of swiftness, allowing for faster travel.
1.3.1			12w23a				Boats have been made faster and easier to control.
1.4.2			12w34a				Entities can now travel through portals, allowing transportation of mobs between dimensions.
			12w36a				Added carrots on sticks, making it possible to control saddled pigs.^[1] Acceleration results a slow speed-up, but can reach up to 5 blocks per second (5m/sec).^[2]
			12w36a				Before this update, the player had no control over the pig's wandering, so this was not a practical form of long-distance transportation. After this update, however, the pig does not jump when being controlled, so transportation is still limited (to the same height or downhill directions).
			12w37a				Saddled pigs now jump over blocks when being directed with the carrot on a stick.
			12w38a				Teleportation by nether portal is now instantaneous in Creative mode.
1.6.1			13w16a				Added horses, which can be ridden when tamed and equipped with saddles.
1.6.1			13w16b				Horses are now slower and the amount of gliding from horses has been reduced.
1.7.2			13w36a				Added a sprint button (default to `Left Ctrl`) as an alternative way to start sprinting.
1.8			14w05a				Added Spectator mode, where the player can fly through solid blocks, and adjust their flying speed.
			14w18a				Slime blocks can now be moved by pistons, allowing automatic flying machines to be built.
			14w25a				Added the Depth Strider enchantment, allowing faster movement through water.
			14w34d				Pressing the sprint button now speeds up flying in Creative mode.
1.9			15w31a				Added chorus fruits, which causes the player to teleport to a random nearby location.
			15w31a				Added the Levitation status effect, which causes the player to float upward.
			15w41a				Added elytra, enabling controlled true flight in Survival.
			15w41a				Boats have received an overhaul. They now have paddles, are much slower than before, are controlled with left and right keys, can have mobs as passengers, but no longer breaks upon impact.
			15w42a				Boats have been made faster again, matching the speed of the old boats.
			15w45a				The negligible speed threshold for entities is now 0.003 (previously 0.005). As a result, the player's jump height is increased from 1.2492 blocks to 1.2522 blocks.
			16w04a				Boats are now controlled with forward and backward keys again.
			16w05a				Boats can now travel fast on ice and packed ice.
1.11			16w32a				The hunger cost of most player actions have been greatly reduced, with walking and sneaking no longer costing any hunger.
1.11.1			16w50a				Added the ability to propel elytra with firework rockets.
1.13			18w07a				The player can now sprint-swim when their head is submerged underwater, allowing faster and more controllable underwater movement.
							Added bubble columns as a form of vertical transport.
							Added tridents and the Riptide enchantment, which launches a player touching water or rain.
			18w15a				Added blue ice, which allows boats to travel even faster on top of it.
			18w19a				Added the Dolphin's Grace effect, allowing the player to swim quickly next to dolphins.
1.14			18w45a				Added scaffolding as a form of vertical transport.
1.14			19w14a				The player can now crawl when they are forced into spaces less than 1.5 blocks high.
1.16			20w11a				Added the Soul Speed enchantment, allowing faster travel on soul sand and soul soil.
1.16			20w13a				Added striders, which can stride on lava, allowing the player to cross lava oceans.
1.16.2			Pre-release 1				Ender pearls are now affected by bubble columns, making it easier to build ender pearl stasis chambers that instantly teleports the player to the location upon activation.
1.21.5			25w02a				Moving diagonally by holding down two movement keys no longer increases the player's speed.^[3]
1.21.5			25w04a				Moving diagonally by holding down two movement keys once again increases the player's speed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0							Added water, therefore allowing swimming.
0.2.0							Added flying.
0.8.0			build 2				Added minecarts.
0.11.0			build 1				Added boats.
0.12.1			build 1				Added sneaking and sprinting.
0.14.0			build 1				Added ender pearls.
0.15.0			build 1				Added horses in the Friendly Update.
							Added saddles, which can be equipped on horses and pigs to ride them.
							Added carrot on a stick to control pigs when riding.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Added elytra in the Ender Update.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.13			beta 1.2.13.8				Added the ability to sprint while in water in the Update Aquatic, which causes the player to dive to the ground and actually swim. This is much faster than the previous form.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added all transportation features from and prior to Java Edition Beta 1.6.6.
TU5							Added sprinting, which can be started by double-tapping forward.
							Added Creative mode, where the player can fly.
							Added the hunger bar, which gradually depletes when the player walks, jumps, sneaks, swims or sprints.
							Added ender pearls, which are currently useless.
TU7							Ender pearls can now be thrown, teleporting the player to where it lands.
TU7							The Speed effect can now be obtained from potions of swiftness, allowing for faster travel.
TU14		1.04					Boats have been made faster and easier to control.
TU14		1.04					Added carrots on sticks, making it possible to control saddled pigs.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Entities can now travel through portals, allowing transportation of mobs between dimensions.
							Teleportation by nether portal is now instantaneous in Creative mode.
							Added horses, which can be ridden when tamed and equipped with saddles.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Slime blocks can now be moved by pistons, allowing automatic flying machines to be built.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Added the Depth Strider enchantment, allowing faster movement through water.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Added chorus fruits, which causes the player to teleport to a random nearby location.
							Added the Levitation status effect, which causes the player to float upward.
							Added elytra, enabling controlled true flight in Survival.
							Boats have received an overhaul.
							The negligible speed threshold for entities is now 0.003 (previously 0.005). As a result, the player's jump height is increased from 1.2492 blocks to 1.2522 blocks.
							Boats can now travel fast on ice and packed ice.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Added a sprint button (defaults to nothing) as an alternative way to start sprinting.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Added the ability to propel elytra with firework rockets.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	The hunger cost of most player actions have been greatly reduced, with walking and sneaking no longer costing any hunger.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Players can now sprint-swim in water.
							Added bubble columns as a form of vertical transport.
							Added tridents and the Riptide enchantment, which launches a player touching water or rain.
							Added blue ice, which allows boats to travel even faster on top of it.
			1.83				Added scaffolding as a form of vertical transport.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added all transportation features from and prior to Pocket Edition v0.15.4 alpha.
1.7.10							Added elytra in the Ender Update.

Issues

Issues relating to "Transportation" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

Sprinting with Soul Speed 3 on soul sand while having Speed 2 is almost as fast as the fastest possible horse breed (12.6896 m/sec).

References

↑ "I went with carrots, and the future of pig based transportation has arrived... this future smells funny :( http://dinnerbone.com/media/uploads/2012-08/screenshots/Minecraft_2012-08-28_14-38-35.png" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), August 28, 2012
↑ "They start slow but end up going about 5 blocks per second. Or something." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), August 28, 2012
↑ Was actually a bug: MC-271065 — Diagonal movement is not normalized when crouching or using certain items — resolved as "Fixed".

Navigation

[times-8-1] Multiply the value by 8 to get the Overworld equivalent when doing this in the Nether.

[game-day-2] Divide by 3 to get kilometres per game day, or by 6 to get kilometres per half-day (from dawn to sunset)

[manual-press-3] Assuming the jump key is released then held mid-air every jump

[4] Boat acceleration takes 9.4 seconds—the difference in time between a running start and not, is halved, or 4.7 seconds.

[no-water-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q In the Nether, water cannot be placed without the use of commands or glitches in past versions.

[6] Horses vary in speed. They are the fastest method of land transportation on open but unprepared terrain.

[7] The swimming speeds are not affected by Swiftness potions. The surface speed refers to "skimming" across the top of the water by holding the spacebar.

[8] Underwater refers to any part of the body submerged in water and walking on flat terrain. The Player travels the same speed regardless of if the water is 1 block deep or 2 (in observed cases).

[9] Data based on https://youtu.be/PuXX2zkEs48?t=178.

[10] Data based on https://youtu.be/nNm5mOeH4pE.

[11] Data based on https://youtu.be/ySREkWjks6A.

[12] Flying speed can be varied.

[13] Data based on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Cqxz1-2f8.

[lightspeed-14] Roughly 0.59% of the speed of light

[15] Values are faster than those listed if the player has the Slow Falling status effect.

[16] It is technically possible below; however, the size between the roof of the Nether and the floor is 124 blocks, meaning that it would take less than 2 seconds to go down. Also, achieving speed requires either using rocket boost, or starting above the roof.

[riptide_speed_cap-17] Speed achieved with inhumanely precise timings using tool assistance. However there's still room for improvement.

[18] The player can jump up a distance of 1 ¹⁄₄ blocks. With Jump Boost I, that increases to 1 ¹⁵⁄₁₆ blocks, and with Jump Boost II, that increases to 2 ¹⁄₂ blocks.

[19] Horses have their vertical speed multiplied by 0.98 a second time in the same tick. This may or may not apply to some other mobs.

[20] "I went with carrots, and the future of pig based transportation has arrived... this future smells funny :( http://dinnerbone.com/media/uploads/2012-08/screenshots/Minecraft_2012-08-28_14-38-35.png" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), August 28, 2012

[21] "They start slow but end up going about 5 blocks per second. Or something." – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), August 28, 2012

[22] Was actually a bug: MC-271065 — Diagonal movement is not normalized when crouching or using certain items — resolved as "Fixed".

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