A feature that most players don’t know in Minecraft is crawling. While most understand the fundamentals of sprinting, crouching, and mining, crawling is not as well-known. Crouching will help you not fall off of cliffs and avoid detection. But crawling enables you to leave difficult areas that can keep you stuck. You may end up trapped underneath some doors and must crawl on the floor to escape. This is how to use crawling to escape from sticky situations in Minecraft.
Crawling in Minecraft
Even though crawling has existed in specific versions of Minecraft for a few years now, the mechanic was fully integrated with version 1.20.30. You can’t actually make your avatar do a crawl voluntarily. There isn’t a button for you to press that’ll make you do a crawl.
The Minecraft world is measured by how much a block takes up space. For example, two blocks on top of each other are considered two blocks high. A character model is typically 1.8 blocks high. Even when crouching, the player avatar won’t be able to walk through one-block entranceways. Generally, players would need to create entrances at least two blocks high.
Crawling reduces the height of the player avatar to 5/8th of a block, allowing you to go through small spaces. However, the only intentional way to do a crawl in Minecraft is to create a trap door.
- Place the trap door next to the space you want to crawl into.
- Have the trap door open and walk underneath.
- Crouch and close the door above you.
- This will force you to go into a space less than one block high, putting you in a crawl. The crawling animation is the same as the swimming animation but on land.
What’s The Purpose of Crawling in Minecraft?
Crawling will help you fit into tight areas and explore places without breaking everything. Traditionally, to fit anywhere, you must break everything to make room for your body. Unfortunately, since you can’t switch to crawling with the press of a button, you must carry around trap doors to force yourself into a crawl.
The purpose of the crawl is to help players escape from areas smaller than one block space. Occasionally, the flow of the water will push you through a one-block space, trapping you until you can glitch your way to destroy your surroundings. Other times, you may be flying with the Elytra and get stuck in one block space while still in the flying animation. Now, if you end up stuck in a one-block space, you automatically go into a crawling animation and move around.
Minecraft is available on the PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Android, and iOS mobile devices.
