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Swift Sneak

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

Obtaining

Loot chest

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
Enchanted Book[A] Ancient City Chest 1 23.7%
{ "item": "Enchanted Book", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.23725332720231262, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Enchanted Book[A] Ancient City Chest 1 23.7%
{ "item": "Enchanted Book", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.23725332720231262, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Chest" }
  1. ↑ a b Enchanted with a random level of Swift Sneak.

Usage

Speed

Swift Sneak increases the player's sneaking speed by 15% of their walking speed per level. At Swift Sneak level 3, the player's crouch speed equals 75% of their normal walking speed. Swift Sneak 4 and 5 can further improve crouching speed, but the crouching speed can never be faster than the player's walking speed. Past Swift Sneak 4, the player can also sprint while they are already sneaking, even without the use of MC-152728.‌[Java Edition only] The player can sprint while sneaking with Swift Sneak 3 by pressing sprint.

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.

Player's crouching speed compared to walking speed
Enchantment level Percent of walking speed
No Swift Sneak 30%
Swift Sneak I 45%
Swift Sneak II 60%
Swift Sneak III 75%
Swift Sneak IV[note 1] 90%
Swift Sneak V+[note 1] 100%
  1. ↑ a b Exclusive to commands.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifier Translation key
Swift Sneakswift_sneak enchantment.minecraft.swift_sneak

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
Swift Sneakswift_sneak37 enchantment.swift_sneak

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.19Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1Added Swift Sneak. It is currently applied to boots, and is not compatible with Frost Walker, Depth Strider, or Soul Speed.
22w11aRemoved Swift Sneak.
22w12aAdded Swift Sneak to the normal snapshot. It is now applied to leggings instead of boots.
1.2124w18aThe sneaking speed increase from Swift Sneak is now displayed as a tooltip.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.19.0Preview 1.19.0.25Added Swift Sneak. Its addition was not mentioned on the official patch notes for this beta.

Issues

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

Sources