Sprinting

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Sprinting is a method of transportation that allows the player to move faster, at the expense of depleting saturation. While sprinting, the player's field of view expands slightly. Players who attack while sprinting deal a sprint-knockback attack, inflicting additional knockback and canceling the sprint.

Activating

To sprint, the player can press sprint while moving, or double tap forward. The player cannot sprint if their hunger bar is at 6 () or below, or when they are under the Blindness effect.

Hostile mobs that can sprint:

• Evoker
• Hoglin
• Illusioner‌^{[JE only]}
• Pillager
• Vindicator
• Witch
• Wither Skeleton
• Zoglin

Neutral mobs that can sprint:

• Enderman
• Fox
• Iron Golem

Passive mobs that can sprint:

• Cat
• Camel
• Camel Husk
• Ocelot
• Villager
• Wandering Trader

Usage

Sprinting allows the player to move at around 5.612 meters/second, which is 30 percent faster than the normal walking speed of around 4.317 m/s; jumping while sprinting allows the player to move with an average speed of 7.127 m/s. The player can turn while sprinting, resulting in slightly reduced speed. Sprinting also increases swimming speed and flight speed in Creative mode. Sprinting and jumping while under a 2-block high ceiling causes a player to move at a speed almost twice as fast as regular sprinting speed, but it consumes a hunger point per second, and these rates increase if the ceiling height is further decreased with trapdoors. A similar effect occurs if the player sprints and rapidly hits jump at the same time on a set of stairs.

While sprinting, it is possible to jump across up to four blocks horizontally,^[1] instead of the usual two blocks, although sprinting does not cause the player to jump higher. Jumping out of a 2-block high ceiling increases the jump reach to five blocks.

Sprinting reduces the player's saturation. When saturation reaches zero, the hunger bar depletes at a rate of ¹⁄₂ every 40 meters, or 7 seconds.

Sprinting produces particles at the player's feet corresponding to the block type they are running on. Sprinting and holding down jump at the same time is usually faster, but actually becomes slower when under the effect of Speed II or higher.

Sprinting ends when the player collides with a solid block at an angle of greater than 8 degrees,^{[note 1]} blocks, or attacks a mob. Sprinting also ends if the hunger bar reduces to 6 () or less.

Sprinting pauses when the player eats food or drinks potions, but pressing sprint while eating food or potions does not start sprinting.

Sprint-knockback attack

Players who attack while sprinting deal a sprint-knockback attack, inflicting additional knockback and canceling the sprint. In Java Edition, sprint-knockback attacks cannot be performed simultaniously with critical hits, with the sprint-knockback attack taking priority.

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History

Development

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

Issues

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

Trivia

• Sprint-jumping actually costs less exhaustion per block travelled compared to pure sprinting, despite being faster. This is because exhaustion increases while the player is on the ground. While sprint-jumping, most of the distance is covered in mid-air.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  A player sprinting.

See also

• Sneaking
• Critical hit
• Swimming
• Blocking

Notes

References