Spawning an Entity

In almost all cases, to spawn an entity, you need an EntityType, a World, and a Location to do so.

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

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.