Player#getForwardsMovement/getSidewaysMovement is not updated

[execsuroot]

Expected behavior

The method should return the player's movement direction from -1 to 1

Observed/Actual behavior

The method always returns 0 even when player is moving

Steps/models to reproduce

Check getForwardsMovement value while a player is moving

Plugin and Datapack List

Single plugin checking getForwardsMovement

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Other

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[Warriorrrr]

The javadocs of these methods state that this value is only updated for players while they are riding another entity, but while testing it this seems to no longer be the case.

Depending on your use case, you could use the Player#getCurrentInput method to detect whether a player is holding forwards/backwards as an alternative.

[lynxplay]

Yea I think we are best off to just forward CraftPlayer impl of these two to the input and then -1/1 them.