Firing Throwables and Potions with the Pouch Crossbow

Preparing Your Ammunition

The Pouch Crossbow replaces standard arrow ammunition with throwable items. To prepare the weapon for use, place your chosen throwable in your inventory or off-hand slot. Valid ammunition types include:

• Potions (such as splash potions for applying healing, damage, or negative status effects)
• Snowballs (useful for harassing distant enemies or knocking back Blazes)
• XP bottles (allowing you to launch experience at range)

Deploying Projectiles in Combat

Hold down your use button to draw the Pouch Crossbow just like a regular crossbow. Once fully loaded, aim and release to launch the projectile downrange.

Using this weapon allows you to project status effects and utility items across distances that exceed normal hand-throwing ranges. When firing splash potions, aim at the ground near target mobs or friendly players so the splash radius takes full effect. If firing experience bottles, launch them at terrain near players so the resulting experience orbs can be collected immediately. Keep your inventory organized so your preferred throwable is loaded in sequence during combat encounters.