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. A walking player can be obstructed by colliding with the hitbox of most blocks and entities. A sufficiently high level of Slowness can prevent walking. Walking is not possible in Spectator mode.

Keyboard

On a keyboard, pressing the assigned keys to move forward, backward, left, or right (W, S, A, and D, respectively) causes the player to walk. Two adjacent keys can be pressed 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. The speed can be increased by pressing two movement keys while facing a 45-degree angle.

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.

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Issues

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

References