Well, spoiler alert: it was all an accident Care to learn how it came to be Then grab a chair and hang on tight; this is the extensive behind-the-scenes story of how crawling crawled into Minecraft.

You see, all Minecraft mobs have a hitbox an invisible box that represents how much space the mob occupies.

If you play Minecraft on PC or Mac, you can see all the games hitboxes by pressing the super-secret key combination F3B (dont tell anyone).

If they can gain eye contact, then they can target or follow each other.

One interesting example that stood out was that the polar bears hitbox didnt change during its attack animation.

When you sneak by holding the shift key, your player model goes into a crouching pose.

This was an easy fix just change one number in the Minecraft code and: tadaa, problem solved Eye height was now in the correct position, and the players camera view would lower enough to make them feel like they are crouched.

The reason we got this result was because the game wasnt designed for this, as it assumes a player is standing whenever they arent holding the shift key.

This included things such as dimming your nametag, stopping you from sliding down a ladder, and dismounting you from a horse or minecart and thats just naming a few.

It also raised many questions such as; If you press shift to sneak under a slab, what exactly should happen when you release shift If you are under a slab and not holding shift, should you move normally or slowly Are you technically sneaking or not What does sneaking even mean.

It was a pretty big undertaking as a technical change and involved disentangling all the different behaviors from each other, to make it possible to configure each behavior separately.

When you swim in Minecraft, your character is placed in a horizontal position, and as soon as you exit water, your pose switches back to vertical.

But swimming into a one block high space now resulted in a visual glitch that made the characters head stick up above a block.

Silly, yes, but better than having your head stick out through the ceiling.

Crawl animations dont exist in Minecraft, which led to having us use the swimming animation for it.

We did consider creating an actual crawl animation (even prototyped it), but decided that the existing swimming animation was good enough to continue using.

The game was treating minecarts and boats as not enough space to stand, so the player would be forced into crawling whenever they tried to enter one.

For example, it also turned out players could use trap doors to force themselves into crawling and use it to gain entry to small tunnels and secret passageways.

This clever use of mechanics created new, interesting gameplay that could potentially result in a lot of fun scenarios.

We really liked it, and eventually decided that crawling was a keeper.

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