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Press C To Crawl

Minecraft Java Eidition added crawling in 1.14, which is great. What is weird, and also, quite stupid, is that in order to crawl you have to have your body forcibly pushed down by water, a piston, a trapdoor, etc, or teleport into a one block space to crawl. There is no key to start crawling. This has led crawling to be less used than it could be. 99% of other games with crawling have a key players press to crawl (usually C), so why not Minecraft? only makes sense to me (and as another person has posted there should be a proper crawling animation and not "ground swimming").

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    What about the full keyboard controls? With full keyboard controls, C is used to open the inventory. For full keyboard controls, it should be N. Anyways, I like the idea. Upvoted.

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    What if you have optifine zoom the zoom feature is pressed by c and if this gets added to bedrock phone players will be dissapointed cause phones dont have a keyboard

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    Apparently they were going to give it a keybind, but decided against it because “players should be creative to use it” or something like that. Really makes no sense and isn’t really fair if they don’t just have an unsaid real reason of “we don’t think crawling really fits the game,” so let’s make our voices heard!

    @XNygelTernsX They could give it a different key then, and of course it would have a different button for other controls. You can also configure what to press in the controls menu, including what to press for Optifine’s zoom.

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    It really doesn't make sense to allow crawling, but only if the player uses a trapdoor or something like that... It's a... bizarre... design decision. Please just simply add the ability to crawl on command? As it stands now, crawling is a nice function that's buried behind the clumsiest of interfaces.

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    This is a very good idea.

    It would be good for mapmakers, so they dont have to break immersion if they want the player to crawl. Or if you wanted to sneak into your friends base.

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    I really like this idea and maybe they could add a sitting button and a laying down button. I would like to see three more keys come to use in these ways. I hope they add this because this would make gameplay more fun. And don't forget the roleplayers would love this.

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    I actually searched for this to vote for it.

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    Yes! Finally an easy way to fit into 1 block gaps.

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    I might be nice to have a 'horizontal mode' button in general.

    So we choose when to:

    • Elytra glide
    • Swim fast
    • crawl

    It might be possible to use ctrl+up for elytra/swimming and ctrl+shift+up for crawling. (rather than having a dedicated key)

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    Or, it could be like how you double tap W to sprint and you have to double tap shift or whatever else your crouch button is, because c is already used for loading hotbars in creative mode.

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    this is interesting but wouldn't console be left out on this

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    Yeah this makes a lot of sense to me

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    For the sake of parity with bedrock, I think crawling should happen when holding down crouch or double tapping crouch instead of having an entire different bind for it