Swift Sneak

Swift Sneak

Maximum level	III
Primary items	None
Secondary items
Enchantment weight	1
Overleveling behavior	Further increases sneaking speed up to level V. Level V and higher equal walking speed.

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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	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.

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	90%
Swift Sneak V+	100%

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Swift Sneak	swift_sneak	enchantment.minecraft.swift_sneak

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Swift Sneak	swift_sneak	37	enchantment.swift_sneak

Enchantment definition

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          "base": 0.15,
          "per_level_above_first": 0.15
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        "attribute": "minecraft:sneaking_speed",
        "id": "minecraft:enchantment.swift_sneak",
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  "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

Java Edition
1.19			Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1				Added Swift Sneak. It is currently applied to boots, and is not compatible with Frost Walker, Depth Strider, or Soul Speed.
			22w11a				Removed Swift Sneak.
			22w12a				Added Swift Sneak to the normal snapshot. It is now applied to leggings instead of boots.
1.21			24w18a				The sneaking speed increase from Swift Sneak is now displayed as a tooltip.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.25				Added 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.