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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index fc7d8b4..1afb8f6 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@
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   "version": "1.0.0",
   "dependencies": {
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-    "@dcl/js-runtime": "https://sdk-team-cdn.decentraland.org/@dcl/js-sdk-toolchain/branch/feat/walk-player-to/@dcl/js-runtime/dcl-js-runtime-7.20.5-22901328357.commit-f984718.tgz",
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+    "@dcl/sdk": "https://sdk-team-cdn.decentraland.org/@dcl/js-sdk-toolchain/branch/1377/merge/dcl-sdk-7.22.5-24715381227.commit-c17cf4f.tgz"
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diff --git a/src/ground.ts b/src/ground.ts
index e88b167..599f12a 100644
--- a/src/ground.ts
+++ b/src/ground.ts
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ export function initGroundRaycast() {
 
 function recordGroundState() {
     prevGrounded = grounded;
-    grounded = ((groundHitTick == tick) || (playerPosition.y < 0.01)) && prevActualVelocity.y <= 0.01;
+    grounded = ((groundHitTick == tick) || (playerPosition.y < 0.01));
     if (playerPosition.y < 0.01) {
         Vector3.copyFrom(VEC3_UP, groundNormal);
     }
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 5b2bd3c..d457341 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,57 @@
-import { AvatarMovement, AvatarMovementInfo, engine, Transform } from '@dcl/sdk/ecs'
+import { AvatarAnimationState, AvatarMovement, AvatarMovementInfo, engine, MovementAnimation, Transform } from '@dcl/sdk/ecs'
 import { Quaternion, Vector3 } from '@dcl/sdk/math';
 import { getExplorerConfiguration } from '~system/EnvironmentApi';
-import { initGroundRaycast, updateGroundAdjust } from './ground';
+import { grounded, initGroundRaycast, updateGroundAdjust } from './ground';
 import { dampVelocity, orientation, updateHorizontalVelocity } from './horizontal';
-import { initStepCasts, updateVerticalVelocity } from './vertical';
+import { currentJumpHeight, initStepCasts, jumpStartHeight, updateVerticalVelocity } from './vertical';
 import { initParamters as initParameters } from './parameters';
 import { initWalkSystem, updateEngineWalk, consumeWalkResult } from './walk';
-import { MAX_SPEED } from './constants';
+import { GRAVITY, MAX_SPEED } from './constants';
+
+// Avatar-bus audio clip pools published via MovementAnimation.sounds. Engine
+// plays each listed clip once per frame on the avatar's local audio bus — the
+// `sounds` field is single-frame fire-and-forget, so we only include it on the
+// tick the event actually fires. Timings and variant pools mirror the native
+// built-ins in `crates/collectibles/src/emotes.rs` so this scene-driven path
+// behaves the same as the velocity-based fallback.
+const WALK_STEP_SOUNDS = [
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_walk01.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_walk02.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_walk03.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_walk04.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_walk05.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_walk06.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_walk07.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_walk08.wav',
+];
+const RUN_STEP_SOUNDS = [
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_run01.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_run02.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_run03.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_run04.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_run05.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_run06.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_run07.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_run08.wav',
+];
+const JUMP_SOUNDS = [
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_jump01.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_jump02.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_jump03.wav',
+];
+const LAND_SOUNDS = [
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_land01.wav',
+  'assets/sounds/avatar/avatar_footstep_land02.wav',
+];
+
+function pickRandom(pool: string[]): string {
+  return pool[Math.floor(Math.random() * pool.length)];
+}
+
+// Clip-relative playback times (seconds) at which the walk/run loops trigger
+// a footstep. Native config: walk.(0.41, 0.91), run.(0.21, 0.54).
+const WALK_STEP_TIMES = [0.41, 0.91];
+const RUN_STEP_TIMES = [0.21, 0.54];
 
 // export all the functions required to make the scene work
 export * from '@dcl/sdk'
@@ -62,6 +107,7 @@ function initFrame() {
   playerRotation = playerTransform.rotation;
 
   const movementInfo = AvatarMovementInfo.getOrNull(engine.PlayerEntity);
+  activeAnimationState = movementInfo?.activeAnimationState;
   if (movementInfo !== null) {
     Vector3.copyFrom(movementInfo.requestedVelocity ?? Vector3.Zero(), prevRequestedVelocity);
     Vector3.copyFrom(movementInfo.actualVelocity ?? Vector3.Zero(), prevActualVelocity);
@@ -83,12 +129,180 @@ function initFrame() {
   }
 }
 
+// Tracks the last jumpStartHeight we observed so we can detect a new jump
+// (undefined -> defined) and seek the jump clip back to 0 on its first frame.
+var prevJumpStartHeight: number | undefined = undefined;
+// True from touchdown until the engine reports the non-looped landing clip has
+// played through. While true, keep re-requesting the landing so the engine
+// holds it; once activeAnimationState shows it has completed, fall through.
+var requestingLanding = false;
+// Max Y reached while airborne; reset on landing. Used to gate the landing
+// sound to drops of >0.5m so stepping off a small curb stays silent.
+var maxUngroundedY = -Infinity;
+var wasJumpingOrFalling = false;
+// Mirror of the engine's currently-active scene animation state. Read in
+// initFrame; consulted in selectAnimation to decide when to stop the landing.
+var activeAnimationState: AvatarAnimationState | undefined = undefined;
+// Last-observed playback phase of the currently-active scene animation, used to
+// detect when the clip wrapped past a footstep trigger time since the previous
+// frame. Keyed per src so switching clip resets tracking.
+var prevSoundTrackedSrc: string | undefined = undefined;
+var prevSoundTrackedTime: number = 0;
+
+// Detects whether the clip's playback time crossed any of the given trigger
+// timestamps (in seconds) while playing forward between `prev` and `cur`.
+// Backward motion (negative animation speed, e.g. while turning in place
+// with the walk clip's speed driven by signed directional velocity) is
+// ignored so we don't fire a storm of sounds as the clip scrubs back and
+// forth. A genuine loop wrap is distinguished from backward play by
+// requiring the apparent reverse jump to span more than half the clip.
+function stepTriggered(prev: number, cur: number, duration: number, triggers: number[]): boolean {
+  if (cur === prev) return false;
+  const isLoopWrap = cur < prev && duration > 0 && prev - cur > duration * 0.5;
+  if (cur < prev && !isLoopWrap) return false;
+  for (const t of triggers) {
+    if (isLoopWrap) {
+      if (t > prev || t <= cur) return true;
+    } else if (t > prev && t <= cur) {
+      return true;
+    }
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+function selectAnimation(): MovementAnimation {
+  const jumpingOrFalling = jumpStartHeight !== undefined || !grounded;
+  const newJump = jumpStartHeight !== undefined && prevJumpStartHeight === undefined;
+  prevJumpStartHeight = jumpStartHeight;
+
+  if (jumpingOrFalling) {
+    maxUngroundedY = Math.max(maxUngroundedY, playerPosition.y);
+  }
+  // Ungrounded -> grounded transition: the frame the landing sound may fire.
+  const justLanded = wasJumpingOrFalling && !jumpingOrFalling;
+  wasJumpingOrFalling = jumpingOrFalling;
+
+  if (jumpingOrFalling) {
+    requestingLanding = true;
+    // Match the jump clip's ascent timing to the physical ascent: time-to-peak
+    // under gravity = sqrt(2h/g). Speed 0.5/ttp means the clip hits its apex
+    // (midpoint, t=0.5) at roughly the same moment the avatar does.
+    const gravityMag = Math.abs(GRAVITY.y);
+    const timeToPeak = Math.sqrt(2 * Math.max(currentJumpHeight, 0.01) / gravityMag);
+    const ascentSpeed = 0.5 / timeToPeak;
+    // Once the clip has played past its apex pose (midpoint), freeze it via
+    // speed 0 so long falls from high places don't loop the clip back to the
+    // takeoff pose. We deliberately don't re-seek every frame — the engine
+    // preserves the current playback position, and an explicit seek would
+    // add a visible hiccup to the pose.
+    const s = activeAnimationState;
+    const atApex = s !== undefined
+      && s.src === 'assets/jump.glb'
+      && s.playbackTime >= 0.5;
+    // Jump takeoff sound fires for exactly one frame on the newJump tick.
+    return {
+      src: 'assets/jump.glb',
+      speed: atApex ? 0 : ascentSpeed,
+      loop: true,
+      idle: false,
+      transitionSeconds: 0.1,
+      playbackTime: newJump ? 0 : undefined,
+      sounds: newJump ? [pickRandom(JUMP_SOUNDS)] : [],
+    };
+  }
+
+  // Landing: play the non-looped jump clip until the engine reports it has
+  // finished. `loopCount >= 1` means a non-looping clip ran past its end;
+  // `playbackTime >= duration` covers the tick where it first hits the end.
+  if (requestingLanding) {
+    const s = activeAnimationState;
+    const landingClipFinished = s !== undefined
+      && s.src === 'assets/jump.glb'
+      && !s.loop
+      && (s.loopCount >= 1 || s.playbackTime >= s.duration);
+    if (landingClipFinished) {
+      requestingLanding = false;
+    } else {
+      // Fire the landing sound on the touchdown frame only, and only if the
+      // fall was substantial. Covers both jumps and uncommanded walk-offs.
+      var landSounds: string[] = [];
+      if (justLanded) {
+        if (maxUngroundedY - playerPosition.y > 0.5) {
+          landSounds = [pickRandom(LAND_SOUNDS)];
+        }
+        maxUngroundedY = -Infinity;
+      }
+      return {
+        src: 'assets/jump.glb',
+        speed: 1.5,
+        loop: false,
+        idle: false,
+        transitionSeconds: 0.1,
+        sounds: landSounds,
+      };
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Directional (signed) forward speed — matches engine's damped_velocity projected
+  // onto gt.forward(); lets the walk/run anim play reversed when moving backward.
+  const forward = Vector3.rotate(Vector3.Forward(), playerRotation);
+  const directionalVelLen = velocity.x * forward.x + velocity.z * forward.z;
+
+  if (velocityLength > 0.1) {
+    if (velocityLength <= 2.6) {
+      return {
+        src: 'assets/walk.glb',
+        speed: directionalVelLen / 1.5,
+        loop: true,
+        idle: false,
+        transitionSeconds: 0.4,
+        sounds: footstepsFor('assets/walk.glb', WALK_STEP_TIMES, WALK_STEP_SOUNDS),
+      };
+    }
+    return {
+      src: 'assets/run.glb',
+      speed: directionalVelLen / 4.5,
+      loop: true,
+      idle: false,
+      transitionSeconds: 0.4,
+      sounds: footstepsFor('assets/run.glb', RUN_STEP_TIMES, RUN_STEP_SOUNDS),
+    };
+  }
+
+  return {
+    src: 'assets/idle.glb',
+    speed: 1.0,
+    loop: true,
+    idle: true,
+    transitionSeconds: 0.4,
+    sounds: [],
+  };
+}
+
+// Detects a footstep trigger crossing for the currently-playing clip. Returns a
+// single-frame sounds list (or empty) so remote clients see each step as an
+// independent transition.
+function footstepsFor(src: string, triggers: number[], pool: string[]): string[] {
+  const s = activeAnimationState;
+  if (s === undefined || s.src !== src) {
+    prevSoundTrackedSrc = src;
+    prevSoundTrackedTime = 0;
+    return [];
+  }
+  const cur = s.playbackTime;
+  const prev = prevSoundTrackedSrc === src ? prevSoundTrackedTime : cur;
+  prevSoundTrackedSrc = src;
+  prevSoundTrackedTime = cur;
+  return stepTriggered(prev, cur, s.duration, triggers) ? [pickRandom(pool)] : [];
+}
+
 function writeMovement() {
   AvatarMovement.createOrReplace(engine.PlayerEntity, {
     velocity,
     orientation: -orientation,
     groundDirection: Vector3.Down(),
     walkSuccess: consumeWalkResult(),
+    animation: selectAnimation(),
   })
 
   Vector3.copyFrom(velocity, lastPublished);
diff --git a/src/vertical.ts b/src/vertical.ts
index 2c97ae3..5dff7c0 100644
--- a/src/vertical.ts
+++ b/src/vertical.ts
@@ -30,10 +30,24 @@ function applyGravity() {
 }
 
 export var jumpStartHeight: number | undefined = undefined;
+// The jump height applicable to the current (or next) jump — blended between
+// walk-jump and sprint-jump based on horizontal speed. Exported so the animation
+// selector can size the jump clip's playback speed to match the ascent duration.
+export var currentJumpHeight = 0;
 var jumpWasPressed = false;
+var jumpReleased = false;
 function applyJump() {
   const jumpIsPressed = inputSystem.isPressed(InputAction.IA_JUMP);
 
+  // Track release so a re-press mid-jump doesn't re-engage the continuing-jump
+  // branch with stale state — that branch sets velocity.y = min(requiredSpeed,
+  // jumpSpeedCap), and jumpSpeedCap derives from the decayed prev velocity so
+  // it collapses to a negative, driving velocity.y deeply negative while
+  // jumpStartHeight stays defined (keeping the avatar in jump animation).
+  if (!jumpIsPressed && jumpStartHeight !== undefined) {
+    jumpReleased = true;
+  }
+
   // Use the more conservative of prev requested vs prev actual so external
   // forces (impulses, moving platforms) don't inflate sprint jump height/speed.
   const prevReqHorizLen = Math.sqrt(prevRequestedVelocity.x * prevRequestedVelocity.x + prevRequestedVelocity.z * prevRequestedVelocity.z);
@@ -43,7 +57,7 @@ function applyJump() {
     (naturalHorizSpeed - jogSpeed)
     / (sprintSpeed - jogSpeed)
   ));
-  const currentJumpHeight = jumpHeight + (sprintJumpHeight - jumpHeight) * sprintRatio;
+  currentJumpHeight = jumpHeight + (sprintJumpHeight - jumpHeight) * sprintRatio;
   const currentJumpSpeed = JUMP_SPEED + (JUMP_SPEED_SPRINT - JUMP_SPEED) * sprintRatio;
 
   // Same rationale for the vertical cap: don't let external vertical forces
@@ -58,10 +72,11 @@ function applyJump() {
     // new jump
     jumpStartHeight = playerPosition.y;
     jumpSpeedCap = currentJumpSpeed;
+    jumpReleased = false;
   }
 
   if (jumpStartHeight !== undefined) {
-    if (jumpIsPressed && playerPosition.y + 1e-3 < jumpStartHeight + currentJumpHeight) {
+    if (jumpIsPressed && !jumpReleased && playerPosition.y + 1e-3 < jumpStartHeight + currentJumpHeight) {
       // continuing jump
       const jumpHeightRemaining = (jumpStartHeight + currentJumpHeight - playerPosition.y);
       const requiredJumpTime = Math.sqrt(jumpHeightRemaining * 2 / JUMP_DECEL);
@@ -88,7 +103,6 @@ function snapToGround() {
   if (
     jumpStartHeight === undefined // not jumping
     && !stepping // not stepping
-    && prevRequestedVelocity.y < 0  // not trying to move up (strictly < 0 so snap is skipped when requestedVelocity is zero, e.g. during engine-controlled movement)
     && prevGrounded // was grounded last frame
     && groundDistance < GROUND_SNAP_HEIGHT // close enough
   ) {