Movement speed

Creatures and players have a different movement speeds depending on whether they are walking, running, swimming or flying.

Knockback causes rapid movement of 10 m/s overwriting any existing movement on the knockback direction.

Frost Effect slows movement speed by up to 90% which gradually wears off (on average 65% reduction).

Players

Walking

Players move 4 m/s and can rotate 300 degrees per second when walking. The speed is reduced by gear speed penalty. For example 20% speed penalty would reduce the speed to 3.2 m/s.

Walking creates noise 15 meters away and uses no stamina.

Sneaking

Players move 2 m/s and can rotate 300 degrees per second when sneaking. The speed is not affected by gear.

Sneaking creates no noise but drains 5 stamina per second while moving. Stamina drain is reduced by sneak skill (on average -0.75% per level, up to -75%).

Encumbered

Players move 2 m/s and can rotate 300 degrees per second when Encumbered. The speed is not affected by gear.

Walking whle encumbered drains 5 stamina per second. Running is not possible while encumbered.

Running

Players move 7 m/s can rotate 300 degrees per second when running. The speed is reduced by gear speed penalty with 1.5x effect. For example 20% speed penalty would reduce the speed to 4.9 m/s. The speed is increased by running skill (+0.25% per level, up to +25%) which gives maximum speed of 8.75 m//s.

Running creates noise 30 meters away and drains 8 stamina per second. Stamina drain is reduced by running skill (-0.5% per level, up to -50%).

While in water with more than 0.4 meters depth, run speed uses the following formula:

$speed = walkSpeed + 0.33 \cdot (runSpeed - walkSpeed)$

Swimming

Players move 2 m/s, accelerate 5% and can rotate 100 degrees per second when swimming. The speed is not affected by gear.

Swimming creates noise 15 meters away and drains 6 stamina per second. Stamina drain is reduced by swimming skill (-0.5% per level, up to -50%).

Creatures

Creatures have different speeds for walking, running, swimming and flying. Creatures run and fly fast when alerted. All actions create the same as noice as for players.

The default ordering of creatures is roughly in the intended biome progression and can be resorted back to this using the first column. Swim acceleration is compared to the player swim acceleration.

	Creature	Run	Turn speed	Walk	Walk turn	Swim	Swim acc	Swim turn
1	Neck	5	200	1	1x	2	1x	2x
2	Boar	8	200	1.5	0.5x	2	1x	1x
3	Deer	7	200	1.5	0.4x	2	1x	1x
4	Greyling	4	200	2	1x	1.5	1x	1x
5	Eikthyr	8	100	2	1x	4	1x	0.5x
6	Greydwarf	6	200	4	1x	1.5	1x	1x
7	Greydwarf Brute	5	200	2	1x	1	1x	1x
8	Greydwarf Shaman	4	200	2	1x	1.5	1x	1x
9	Skeleton	4	300	1	1x	1	1x	1x
10	Rancid Remains	4	300	1	1x	1	1x	1x
11	Ghost	4	300	1	1x	1	1x	1x
12	Troll	6	250	3	0.4x	1.5	1x	1x
13	The Elder	6	200	3	0.5x	1.5	1x	1x
14	Root	0	200	0	1x	0	0x	1x
15	Serpent	4	20	4	1x	10	4x	1x
16	Blob	2	100	1	1x	2	1x	1x
17	Oozer	2	100	1	1x	2	1x	1x
18	Draugr	5	300	1	1x	1	1x	1x
19	Draugr Elite	6	300	1	1x	1	1x	1x
20	Leech	2	50	2	1x	3	2x	1.5x
21	Surtling	6	400	2	1x	2	1x	1x
22	Wraith	5	200	2.5	1x	1	1x	1x
23	Bonemass	4	100	2	0.5x	2	1x	1x
24	Wolf	8	200	1.5	0.5x	2	1x	1x
25	Fenring	7	200	1.5	1x	2	1x	1x
26	Drake	12	100	4	1x	1	1x	1x
27	Stone Golem	4	150	2	0.67x	1.5	1x	1x
28	Moder	6, 20 flying	60, 80 flying	4, 10 flying	1x	4	1x	0.6x
29	Deathsquito	12	500	5	1x	1	1x	1x
30	Lox	6	100	2	0.7x	3	1x	0.5x
31	Fuling	6	200	2	1x	1.5	1x	1x
32	Fuling Berserker	5	300	2	0.5x	1.5	1x	1x
33	Fuling Shaman	2	200	1	1x	1.5	1x	1x
34	Yagluth	4	50	2	1x	1.5	1x	1x