How do I toggle on and off sneak in Minecraft?

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How can you toggle between sneak and normal standing position?  It's kind of annoying having to keep a button pressed while I try to build and move around to get a better view of what I am doing.

Keaanu · Accepted Answer

While you're holding Shift to sneak, press the Alt key once. This will return control to your mouse pointer, and when you click on the game window again, you will be permanently crouched until you press Shift again.

This only works in windowed mode - there is currently no way to toggle crouch in fullscreen. Notch has, however, expressed interest in adding sneak toggle capability.

Kevin Yap · Answer

Unfortunately, there's no built-in way to toggle sneaking in Minecraft. However, you could always tape down / weigh down your actual Shift key.

Bill K · Answer

There is a program called AutoHotkey that can do stuff like this for windows.

InfinitiesLoop · Answer

I wrote a mod that does Toggle Sneak and MUCH MUCH more, and I plan on keeping it up to date with MC versions.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/355537-166-controlpack-autosneakrunsmartfurnacelookbehindlots-more-v21/

wyzwon · Answer

If you are on a mac you can simply set the crouch command to the caps-lock key. unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for windows.

user84310 · Answer

To toggle on and off just change your sneak to caps lock

intcreator · Answer

As of 1.15+ there is an option to toggle sneak in the Accessibility Settings submenu in Options:

There is also a text list of these options with more details on the Minecraft wiki as well as the source that this was added in 1.15. I tested this option myself in 1.16.2.

How do I toggle on and off sneak in Minecraft?

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