When blocking with a sword while walking on ice, movement is much slower than when blocking while waling on dirt. However, when facing diagonally and walking horizontally e.g. holding W and A, movement is at the same speed as walking on dirt, but restricted (sort of) to horizontal movement. Confirmed with different swords, biomes, game modes, weather and worlds.
Discovered while messing around with soul sand, ice, cobweb, sneaking and blocking.
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Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version 1.6.2 / Launcher version 1.1.3 ? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.
Facing diagonally and pressing A+W or D+W at once ... was able to reproduce faster movement this way in 1.6.2 (never noticed this before though).
Relates to MC-75474?
I guess since sword blocking is no longer a feature, this bug doesn't matter anymore? Or is it the same story with shield blocking? I would test myself, but I don't have access to MC right now.
I checked if this was still true with shield blocking (1.9-pre1), and it isn't. Blocking with a shield has exactly the same movement speed on ice (And packed ice) as it does on other blocks, both when walking straight, and when walking diagonally. And as sword blocking isn't a thing anymore, this bug is obsolete.
Confirmed in 1.5 pre-release. In fact, as soon as you are in the sort of "locked" movement, you can let go of one of the movement keys, and you still move along one axis instead of diagonally.
The walking speed seems to be that of blocking on normal ground.
Also happens when the ice is on top of soul sand.