Quiet spade when sneaking

[GeneralApplejack]

Lets say that you want to make tunnel to enemy base, but everyone can hear you so you die :/.
But, with sneaky spade you can dig out whole enemy base and no one can hear you! Wow! :>!
It would work only when crouching or holding V ofc.
Also the diggin time could be longer then.
What do you think about that?

[Tek2]

And no possible way to find tunnelers other than watching through the ground... Sounds more annoying than fun.

[SICKfudge]

I think this would be a great idea, but only if it took longer to knock away blocks

[Valor]

Doesn't make any sense, how would crouching nerf the sound.

[Articsledder]

Then it would be impossible to find anyone who's tunneling which isn't fair unless everyone else get's X-ray vision.

[Bledd]

Doesn't make any sense, how would crouching nerf the sound.

Crouching =/= sneaking. The sneak key is "v" by default.
Tunneling is going to be harder to counter with the new OpenGL client. Maybe if its sounds was quieter or softer, but absolutely silent and that would make tunneling too strong of a strategy on high-terrain levels. If you were to slow down the digging speed AND make it just so much quieter I think it MIGHT work. The only problem would be how awfully boring it would be to tunnel like that.