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Before the invention of cars. It takes a good while to walk around. Sure the character looks like he/she/it is running, but its quite slow. I propose a sprinting bar that lasts 10 seconds and when you hold ctrl and walk, you sprint. Its takes 30 seconds to recharge an empty sprint bar. It could also help outrun biters.

Character running speed is 0.15 parts of a tile/tick. That is 9 tiles/sec.

Assumed a tile is 1 meter, the chraacter runs with 9 meters/sec, that is 32.4 km/sec. Well, sprinting wont gain much: Assumed, he is very healthy person, he can run 100 meters within 10 seconds. That's 10 meters/second or 36 km/h. Perhaps 40 is possible... but even the best sprinters on earth cannot go much over that.

In other words: it could be the pixel, which saves you from be eaten by the biters, but it won't speed up anything much.