Baldur's Gate 3 modder adds legally distinct Poké Balls so you can 'capture non-player characters inside a ball and free them later (or don't)'

In a game packed with interesting items that can be used for all kinds of productive and/or sinister purposes, one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s more flavorful bits of enchanted ephemera is the Iron Flask, an item you can find early in the game that, as its tooltip says, “can hold friends and foes.” The only way to learn what it contains, however, is to throw it—at which point you’ll discover the spectator that was imprisoned within is very much a foe to you and everything else in the vicinity. And then presumably you’d be hit with one of its many beam attacks.

Unfortunately, the Iron Flask’s potential for Poké Ball shenanigans is limited by the fact that it’s single use, dashing our collective hopes of collecting our least-favorite NPCs and forcing them to fight the game’s most horrible creatures—until this week. Modder ForKiramay has released the Binding Arcane Lattice Lock, or “BALL,” a throwable item allowing you to “capture non-player characters inside a ball and free them later (or don’t).”