Thrown Water refers to a set of three consumable weapons that each convert a small area into a biome (Hallow, Corruption, or Crimson for Holy Water, Unholy Water, and Blood Water respectively) when thrown. This conversion affects a roughly circular area with a radius of four tiles from the center. Enemies within this radius are also damaged slightly; this damage is not classified as any of the four damage types and therefore cannot be modified by any buffs or equipment.
Holy Water is only available in Hardmode. It is possible for Corrupted or Crimson Deserts to be generated naturally with the world, making the other two throwable waters available from the beginning of the game, however these biomes will not spread onto sand until Hardmode begins, therefore worlds generated without Corrupted/Crimson Deserts will not have Ebonsand/Crimsand until then. On the PC version,
Console version,
Mobile version, and
tModLoader version, however, Vile Powder or Vicious Powder can be used to convert sand into its corrupt counterpart.

Animation of the Holy Water, Blood Water, and Unholy Water. Notice how they convert a small area into their respective biome.
Variants[]




Type | |
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Damage | 20 |
Knockback | 3 (Very weak) |
Consumable | ✔️ |
Use time | 15 (Very fast) |
Velocity | 9 |
Tooltip | Spreads the Hallow to some blocks |
Rarity | ![]() |
Sell | 40 |
Research | 99 required |
- Holy Water
Use | |
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- Internal Item ID: 422
- Internal Projectile ID: 69
Crafting[]
Recipes[]
Result | Ingredients | Crafting station |
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Tips[]

Area of effect
- The effects of Thrown Water can be reversed with Thrown Powder.
- For creating large areas of Hallow, Corruption or Crimson, a Clentaminator may be a better choice. It fires a stream of solution with a range of about 60 tiles.
Trivia[]
- The Holy Water, including its sprite and the way it is thrown, is possibly a reference to the item of the same name in the action-adventure video game series Castlevania.
See also[]
History[]
- Desktop 1.3.0.1:
- Updated sprites for Holy and Unholy Water.
- Holy Water's crafting recipe changed from 5x Pixie Dust and 1x Bottled Water to 10x Bottled Water and 2x Pixie Dust.
- Unholy Water's crafting recipe now requires 10 Bottled Water, and produces 10 Unholy Water at a time.
- Blood Water introduced.
- Desktop 1.2.0.3: Holy Water will now purify the Crimson biome.
- Desktop 1.2: Stack limit increased from 250 to 999.
- Desktop 1.1: Holy and Unholy Waters introduced.