Walking

Walking is one of the fundamental methods of transportation in Minecraft, allowing for a reasonable movement speed while avoiding the hunger impact of sprinting, but without the fall safety of sneaking.

Performing

Walking is possible regardless of hunger level, and can be prevented only via obstruction from a hitbox with collision (most blocks and entities), with a sufficiently high level of Slowness or if the player is in Spectator Mode.

Keyboard

On a keyboard, walking is accomplished by pressing the assigned key to move forward, backward, left or right (W, S, A and D respectively). Multiple adjacent keys can also be used simultaneously to walk in a diagonal direction, but opposite keys cancel out.

Controller

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

On a controller, walking is accomplished by moving the joystick in the appropriate direction. The player walks at an angle equal to the angle of the joystick relative to the direction the camera is facing. A D-pad can also be used for keyboard movement.

Touchscreen

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

On a touchscreen, a virtual touch-based D-pad or joystick can be used. There is a setting in Settings > Controls > Touch to change this.

Usage

Walking is the most accessible form of transportation in the game. The player should try to only walk when there is no food available, since walking does not expend hunger points. However, the player can still lose hunger points when jumping. When the player has six or less hunger points, the player can no longer sprint and can only walk, if traveling on land.

Speed

The default walking speed is 4.317 blocks per second, and in Java Edition, this can be directly changed by the minecraft:movement_speed attribute (in which the default base value is 0.1). However, the speed can also be affected by several factors, such as blocks, effects, using an item and enchantments.

List of blocks that modify walking speed in *Java Edition*
Walking on / in	Block at head-level
	Air	Water	Lava	Powder Snow at max freezing
	blocks/sec	blocks/sec	blocks/sec	blocks/sec
Walking on
Normal Block	4.317	1.960	0.784	0.882
Blue Ice	4.376	1.960	0.784	0.882
Ice Packed Ice Frosted Ice	4.157	1.960	0.784	0.882
Slime Block	3.040	1.960	0.784	0.882
Honey Block Soul Sand	2.508	0.576	0.490	1.254
*Moving along horizontally* (not climbing)**
Twisting Vines Weeping Vines Vines Cave Vines Ladder Scaffolding	3.00	1.960	0.784	0.882
Moving through
Sweet Berry Bush	1.568	0.314	0.314	0.784
Cobweb	0.490	0.098	0.098	0.245
Water	1.960 (water overrides the lower speeds of lava and powder snow)
Lava	0.784	-	0.784	-
Powder Snow	0.882	0.353	-	0.882

By mob

The majority of land-based mobs move via walking.

Walking mobs	Non-walking mobs
Agent Armadillo Bogged Brown Mooshroom Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Cow Creeper Donkey Drowned Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Husk Illusioner Iron Golem Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Piglin Brute Piglin Pillager Polar Bear Ravager Sheep Silverfish Skeleton Horse Skeleton Sniffer Snow Golem Spider Stray Strider Trader Llama Turtle Villager Vindicator Wandering Trader Warden Witch Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Horse Zombie Villager Zombie Zombified Piglin	Allay Axolotl Bat Bee Blaze (visually) Breeze Cod Dolphin Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Ghast Giant (immobile) Glow Squid Guardian Magma Cube NPC (immobile) Parrot Phantom Pufferfish Rabbit Salmon Shulker* Slime Squid Tadpole Tropical Fish Vex Wither

* Can involuntarily teleport when the host-block is affected. Check the complete page for more details

History

Java Edition pre-Classic
rd-131655							Added walking.
Java Edition Beta
1.8			Pre-release				Added sprinting.
Java Edition
1.8			14w32c				It is now possible to walk from a normal block to on top of a bed without jumping.
1.11			16w32a				Walking no longer affects exhaustion, thus no longer decreases saturation or the hunger bar.
1.17			20w49a				Added sculk sensors, which detect nearby entities that are walking.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release							Added walking.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.210 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.210.56				Added sculk sensors, which detect nearby entities that are walking.
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 walking.
TU5	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1		Added sprinting.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		It is now possible to walk from a normal block to on top of a bed without jumping.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Walking no longer affects exhaustion, thus no longer decreases saturation or the hunger bar.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added walking.

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