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Spawning an Entity
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.. warning::
These docs were written for SpongeAPI 7 and are likely out of date.
`If you feel like you can help update them, please submit a PR! <https://github.com/SpongePowered/SpongeDocs>`__

.. javadoc-import::
com.flowpowered.math.vector.Vector3d
org.spongepowered.api.entity.Entity
org.spongepowered.api.entity.EntityType
org.spongepowered.api.event.cause.entity.spawn.SpawnType
org.spongepowered.api.event.cause.entity.spawn.SpawnTypes
org.spongepowered.api.world.Location
org.spongepowered.api.world.extent.Extent
org.spongepowered.api.world.extent.EntityUniverse
org.spongepowered.api.world.server.ServerLocation
org.spongepowered.api.world.server.ServerWorld
org.spongepowered.api.world.volume.entity.EntityVolume.Modifiable

You will need three things for spawning an :javadoc:`Entity`: a :javadoc:`Location`, an :javadoc:`Extent`, and an
:javadoc:`EntityType`. The process for getting these is quite simple, you just need to grab a ``Location`` from
You will need three things for spawning an :javadoc:`Entity`: a **Position** as a ``Vector3d``, an :javadoc:`World`, and an
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It should be "a World", not an.

:javadoc:`EntityType`. The process for getting these is quite simple, you just need to grab a ``Position`` from
somewhere in your plugin code and choose the type of ``Entity`` you wish to spawn.

For example, let's try to spawn a Creeper:

.. code-block:: java

import org.spongepowered.api.entity.Entity;
import org.spongepowered.api.entity.living.monster.Creeper;
import org.spongepowered.api.entity.EntityTypes;
import org.spongepowered.api.event.CauseStackManager.StackFrame;
import org.spongepowered.api.event.cause.entity.spawn.SpawnTypes;
import org.spongepowered.api.world.Location;
import org.spongepowered.api.world.World;
import org.spongepowered.api.world.server.ServerLocation;
import org.spongepowered.api.world.server.ServerWorld;

import java.util.Optional;

public void spawnEntity(Location<World> spawnLocation) {
World world = spawnLocation.getExtent();
public void spawnEntity(ServerLocation spawnLocation) {
ServerWorld world = spawnLocation.world();

Entity creeper = world.createEntity(EntityTypes.CREEPER, spawnLocation.getPosition());
Creaper creeper = world.createEntity(EntityTypes.CREEPER, spawnLocation.getPosition());
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Is this really meant to be "Creeper" instead of "Creaper"?


// We need to push a new cause StackFrame to the stack so we can add our own causes
// In previous versions of the API you had to submit a Cause parameter
// that would often not contain the real root cause
// By default the current plugin's PluginContainer is already pushed to the stack.
try (StackFrame frame = Sponge.getCauseStackManager().pushCauseFrame()) {
try (StackFrame frame = Sponge.server().causeStackManager().pushCauseFrame()) {
frame.addContext(EventContextKeys.SPAWN_TYPE, SpawnTypes.PLUGIN);
world.spawnEntity(creeper);
}
}

This will grab the world from our ``Location``, which we will need for the actual spawning. Next, it uses
:javadoc:`EntityUniverse#createEntity(EntityType, Vector3d)` to create the entity, but do note that this does not
This will grab the world from our ``ServerLocation``, which we will need for the actual spawning. Next, it uses
:javadoc:`EntityVolume.Modifiable#createEntity(EntityType, Vector3d)` to create the entity, but do note that this does not
spawn the entity into the world, it just will create it. We will need to specify the type of ``Entity`` to spawn, and
the co-ordinates from our ``Location``.

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