Weapon Throw Lite
Sometimes a sword is more fun as a projectile. Weapon Throw Lite adds the ability to throw your axes and swords at mobs, whether you want to finish off a fleeing creeper or simply enjoy watching a diamond blade spin through the air. The mod is lightweight, configurable, and built for players who like combat with a little extra flair.
What Weapon Throw Lite Adds to Combat
The core idea is simple: press the throw keybind, aim, and launch your weapon. Holding the keybind charges the throw for more power at the cost of extra exhaustion. This makes every toss a small risk-reward decision, especially when your hunger bar is already low. The mod also supports throwing nearly any item as an experimental feature, and each item type can carry its own special properties when thrown.
Enchantments and Effects
Weapon Throw Lite introduces several custom enchantments that change how thrown weapons behave:
- Throw Enchantment: increases throwing damage.
- Grounded Edge Enchantment: chance to apply weakness to nearby enemies on landing.
- Concussion Enchantment: chance to apply nausea and slowness on impact.
- Gravity Cursed Enchantment: your weapon defies gravity and never falls until it touches a block.
- Return Enchantment: essentially Loyalty, but for common weapons.
Fire Aspect also works with thrown weapons, lighting nearby enemies on impact. Tools can interact with the world at the point of impact, so pickaxes, shovels, and axes break blocks based on their tier. The throwing physics are not hyper-realistic, but they feel satisfying and predictable once you learn the charge timing.
Supported Versions and Loaders
Weapon Throw Lite is a Fabric mod and requires Fabric API 0.39.2 or above, along with Cloth Config API for its configuration screen. It targets modern Minecraft releases in the 1.16 to 1.19 era, so check the version list before you download Weapon Throw Lite to make sure the build matches your game. A separate Forge version of the same project exists for players on Forge-based setups.
If you would rather skip manual file management, the foxygame.net launcher handles the entire setup for Weapon Throw Lite through its one-click install, pulling the correct build and its dependencies automatically. That same launcher keeps an add-on catalog and applies auto-updates, so version compatibility stays sorted without you hunting down matching API files.
How to Install Weapon Throw Lite
Getting the mod running is straightforward, and knowing how to install it correctly saves a lot of troubleshooting later.
- Install Fabric Loader for your Minecraft version.
- Place Fabric API 0.39.2 or newer and Cloth Config API into your mods folder.
- Drop the Weapon Throw Lite jar into the same mods folder.
- Launch the game and confirm the mod appears in your mod list.
Once in-game, the default throw keybind is R. You can rebind it in the controls menu if it clashes with another mod. The config file lets you adjust HUD charge displacement, damage values, throwing range, and even disable individual enchantments if you prefer a more vanilla feel.
Damage and Exhaustion Explained
For players who like to tweak numbers, the damage model is fully documented. Total damage depends on flat weapon damage, charge level, stack size, and a tool modifier that differs between swords, pickaxes, shovels, hoes, and axes. Exhaustion scales the same way, so a fully charged diamond sword throw deals roughly 4.5 damage points while costing about 1.31 exhaustion points. Velocity follows its own formula, dropping slightly as stack size rises.
Final Thoughts
Weapon Throw Lite is a compact combat mod that rewards experimentation. The enchantments give thrown weapons real utility beyond novelty, and the config options mean you can tune the experience to your liking. If you want a fresh way to fight mobs in Minecraft, this add-on is worth a spot in your mods folder.