Sprint-Jumping

[TheGatesofLogic]

While dealing with a hardcore spawn I noticed that sprint-jumping, where you sprint and hold the jump key, is more efficient hunger-wise than just sprinting, and especially so on terrain that slows movement. Just an observation that seemed odd at the time.

[FlowerChild]

That's weird. I'll take a look.

[Sarudak]

I have always tended to sprint jump across deserts

[dawnraider]

Just doing a bit of testing, it appears that it's because sprinting while in the air does not incur a hunger penalty. By sprint jumping, you can go up to three blocks at a time only having your hunger drained from the jump. I didn't do enough testing to actually measure the hunger impact, only going off of when the bar jiggles, but I'd assume that jumping takes less hunger than three blocks of sprinting, if that truly is more efficient.

[ko_teknik]

Sprint-jumping mean travel in the desert more safely too.
You will never fall.

[Sarudak]

I find myself sprint jumping over plain sprinting all the time unless I'm on a road. So basically I have three modes of travel: walking to conserve food, sprint jumping for exploration, and sprinting along roads for travel (once food is abundant). I haven't actually done any research in regards to food efficiency or time efficiency. I would be rather interested in the numbers but that's what feels right to me.

[jakerman999]

Sprint-jumping has been my preferred way of crossing ice fields, can't say I've noticed anything about the hunger being off but upon reflection it does seem faster than it should be.

[FlowerChild]

Turns out this was actually a vanilla bug. Increased hunger for sprinting was already in there, just not working.

I may tweak the values further to get it just right, but it was actually an easy fix once I realized what was happening.