OmniShift

You don't have to shoot in defense mode, I'm not attacking you. I'm simply asking for a very obvious change that literally takes 30s to find in the code, change, and add to an upcoming update along with other changes. No other changes have to be put on hold, and it will help the majority of the community. @Hal13 I understand you don't like this change for the very reason I do want it (Ctrl = sprint is natural to you, just like Shift = sprint is natural to me), but please don't try to tear my suggestion down by claiming you've been playing for 4 years. You can hover over names to see when they joined. @Bastez I know this isn't a suggestion that will help everyone. Like you said: left-handed people will always have to rebind (that does make me wonder whether there are similar standards for left-handed controls, and if so: it would be really cool if you could hotswap the defaults based on your handedness, but that would be an idea that deserves its own topic). But even though my suggestion won't help everyone, I do believe it will help the majority of the community, which is why I made the topic.

I don't understand why you are so opposed to the idea of aligning this game's default controls to that of practically any other game. You are without a doubt greatly exaggerating the amount of people you think consider crossed controls normal, especially since Minecraft may be the only other game that has that.

What I'm suggesting is simply to set the default for sprinting to shift and the default for crouching to Ctrl. Its true that some games have C for crouching, but none have Shift for crouching. I was browsing the wiki the other day and saw the exact problem I'm describing on https://wiki.vintagestory.at/index.php?title=Mining#Obtaining_Metal_Ores_by_Mining. It says "To determine which ores can occur in a rock type, examine a block, hold shift + H, and the handbook will provide information about what ores can appear in that rock type." But it's not shift, its sneak (which in my case is Ctrl). Even the wiki of the game is prone to this mistake, which is why I would like the solution to be very simple: fix the defaults

Its just an issue that can easily be fixed by making the controls consistent with really every other game that has these functions. It's true that the creators of mods should make it robust to rebound keys, but I dont see why the solution should be difficult when it can also be so very easy.

I know it can be rebound. I'm requesting it to be the default so it's in line with every other game (except Minecraft) to prevent the issues some of the Minecraft mods have.

One of the only gripes I have about Minecraft is how the key for crouch is by default set to Shift and the key for sprint by default to Ctrl. I understand that MC can't just change that after having years of those default settings and most mods based on that as well, but I would really hope the defaults for this game can conform to that of all other games that have a crouch and sprint function by setting the formed to Ctrl and the latter to Shift (C=C, S=S). Like I said: most MC mods support the MC default, but I've encountered a problem with that where a mod will say that a function requires a crouch-click, while they actually mean Shift-click, which isn't the case anymore when you've rebound the keys like I have. I would love to prevent that issue in this game, so if I'm not the only one who has this experience: please change the default keys!