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Minecraft: Java Edition
1.21.x
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Licensed MIT
Published 3 months ago
🚶 RealisticWalk
---Make movement feel real. RealisticWalk slows players down to a natural walking pace and gives them a mild speed boost only when they actively sprint — no more super-speed by default!
✨ Features
- 🐢 Reduced walk speed — players move at a calm, realistic pace by default.
- 🏃 Sprint speed — pressing Ctrl / Sprint grants a slightly faster (but still realistic) speed.
- ⚙️ Fully configurable — every speed value is tunable via
config.yml. - 🔄 Live reload — change settings without restarting your server.
- 🛡️ Bypass permission — grant
realisticwalk.bypassto players/staff who should keep the default Minecraft speed. - 🔌 Zero dependencies — lightweight, event-driven, no per-tick scheduler.
- ♻️ Clean disable — speeds are restored to vanilla defaults when the plugin unloads.
📦 Installation
- Download the latest
RealisticWalk-x.x.x.jarfrom the releases page. - Drop it into your server's
plugins/folder. - Restart (or reload) your server.
- Edit
plugins/RealisticWalk/config.ymlto your liking. - Run
/rw reloadto apply changes without a restart.
Requires: Paper (or any Paper fork) 1.21+, Java 21+
⚙️ Configuration
plugins/RealisticWalk/config.yml
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# SPEED SETTINGS
# Minecraft's default walk speed is 0.2 (internal value).
# Values must be between -1.0 and 1.0.
# Recommended sensible range: 0.05 → 0.5
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
speeds:
# Speed applied while the player is walking normally.
walk: 0.15
# Speed applied while the player is sprinting (holding Ctrl / Sprint key).
sprint: 0.35
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# MESSAGES
# Supports standard Minecraft color codes with & prefix.
# Set any message to '' to disable it entirely.
# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
messages:
prefix: "&8[&bRealisticWalk&8] "
reload-success: "&aConfiguration reloaded successfully."
reload-failure: "&cFailed to reload configuration. Check console for details."
no-permission: "&cYou don't have permission to use this command."
| Key | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
speeds.walk |
0.15 |
Player speed while walking |
speeds.sprint |
0.35 |
Player speed while sprinting |
Tip: Minecraft's internal default is
0.2. Values below that feel slower; values above feel faster.
🔧 Commands
| Command | Alias | Permission | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
/realisticwalk reload |
/rw reload |
realisticwalk.admin |
Reloads config.yml and re-applies speeds live |
🔑 Permissions
| Permission | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
realisticwalk.admin |
OP | Access to /realisticwalk reload |
realisticwalk.bypass |
false |
Exempts the player from speed changes |
🕹️ How it works
- When a player joins, their walk speed is immediately set to
speeds.walk. - When they start sprinting (Ctrl), speed is raised to
speeds.sprint. - When they stop sprinting, speed drops back to
speeds.walk. - When they leave, their speed is reset to the Minecraft default (
0.2) so they aren't affected on other servers.
The plugin is entirely event-driven — there is no per-tick scheduler, keeping server performance impact at near zero.
📄 License
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
💬 Support
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