Swift Sneak

Swift Sneak

Maximum level	III
Primary items	None
Secondary items
Enchantment weight	1
Overleveling behavior	Effect capped at 100% of walking speed (level V)

Swift Sneak is an enchantment applied to leggings that lessens the movement speed reduction that occurs when sneaking.

Obtaining

Generated loot

Swift Sneak can be obtained only from loot chests in ancient cities, making it non-renewable. The chests can contain enchanted books with any level of Swift Sneak.

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Enchanted Book[A]	Ancient City	Chest	1	23.7% { "item": "Enchanted Book", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.23725332720231262, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Chest" }

Usage

Speed

Swift Sneak increases the player's sneaking speed by 15% of their walking speed per level. At Swift Sneak III, the player's sneaking speed equals 75% of their normal walking speed. Swift Sneak IV and V can further increase this, but the sneaking speed can never be greater than the walking speed.

This enchantment also increases the player's movement speed while they are crawling.

It also has an effect in water, but is still slower movement than regularly walking underwater. This holds true even when combined with depth strider, another enchantment upon boots for swimming which further increases underwater walking speed.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Enchantment definition

{
  "anvil_cost": 8,
  "description": {
    "translate": "enchantment.minecraft.swift_sneak"
  },
  "effects": {
    "minecraft:attributes": [
      {
        "amount": {
          "type": "minecraft:linear",
          "base": 0.15,
          "per_level_above_first": 0.15
        },
        "attribute": "minecraft:sneaking_speed",
        "id": "minecraft:enchantment.swift_sneak",
        "operation": "add_value"
      }
    ]
  },
  "max_cost": {
    "base": 75,
    "per_level_above_first": 25
  },
  "max_level": 3,
  "min_cost": {
    "base": 25,
    "per_level_above_first": 25
  },
  "slots": [
    "legs"
  ],
  "supported_items": "#minecraft:enchantable/leg_armor",
  "weight": 1
}

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Issues

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