While entering water/touching flowing water while sneaking, it will make the player to unsneak, this has been happening since 1.9.0.3 Beta
This make using the Shield on water (especially flowing water) very difficult when you got attacked by many hostile mobs, this behaviour also different from Java Edition
This issue already happening before the Shield got added to the game, even if this is WAI, this should be changed as using Shield while near water (especially flowing water) in Bedrock was a pain, because the Shield will deactivated because you touching the water
How to reproduce:
1. Create a flowing water or 3x1 water hole
2. hold shift and enter it
Expected result:
Player keep their sneaking state
Observed result:
Player unsneak even though the shift key is still pressed
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We're tracking this issue in MCPE-39970, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
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