BlackStep

Minecraft turns sprinting on when you tap W twice quickly. It's easy to trigger by accident — nudging back to a ledge, lining up a jump, walking a 1-block bridge — and there's no vanilla way to turn just that off.

BlackStep disables the double-tap trigger and nothing else.

What still works

Everything except the double tap:

• The Sprint key (Ctrl by default)
• Toggle sprint
• Sprinting on a horse, boat or other mount
• Elytra boosts and riptide
• Sprinting started by other mods

Features

• Toggle key — [ by default, rebindable from vanilla's Controls screen.
• On-screen confirmation — a short popup tells you which state you just switched to, so you're never guessing.
• Settings screen — through ModMenu, if you have it installed.
• Instant config — settings live in config/blackstep.json and apply the moment you change them. No restart.

How it works

The mod intercepts a single field read in the vanilla sprint-start logic, so the second-tap branch is never reached. The sprint key sits in a separate branch and is untouched. That's the whole mod — no ticking loops, no input capture, no measurable overhead.

Requirements

Client-side only. No server install needed, and it works on any server you join.

Note on the vanilla option

26.1 added a Sprint window slider (0–10 ticks) under Controls. Setting it to 0 also disables double-tap sprint. BlackStep gives you an in-game toggle key with feedback instead, and works no matter where that slider sits — it intercepts the read rather than the value.