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Spawning an Entity
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In almost all cases, to spawn an entity, you need an `EntityType <http://spongepowered.github.io/SpongeAPI/org/spongepowered/api/entity/EntityType.html>`__, a `World <http://spongepowered.github.io/SpongeAPI/org/spongepowered/api/world/World.html>`__,
and a `Location <http://spongepowered.github.io/SpongeAPI/org/spongepowered/api/world/Location.html>`__ to do so.

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

.. code-block:: java

    import org.spongepowered.api.entity.EntityTypes;
    import org.spongepowered.api.world.Location;
    import org.spongepowered.api.world.World;

    import com.google.common.base.Optional;

    public void spawnEntity(Location location) {
        World world = location.getWorld();
         // We need to create the entity
        Optional<Entity> optional = world.createEntity(EntityTypes.CREEPER, location);
        if (optional.isPresent()) {
            // After this, we can use more API that relates to creeper
            Creeper creeper = (Creeper) optional.get();
            creeper.setPowered(true);
            creeper.setExplosionRadius(10);
            // Now we're actually spawning in the creeper into the world
            world.spawnEntity(creeper);
        }
    }

The code excerpt illustrated above will spawn in a charged creeper with a higher than normal explosion radius at the given location.