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Spawns a registered mob on the block you are looking at, the way a spawn egg would place it.

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Usage

Alias: sl Permission: nmentities.spawnlook Player-only: yes

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Arguments

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Examples

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Why it exists

This is the third of the three “where”: spawn puts one on you, spawnat puts one at coordinates, and this one puts one where you point. It exists mostly for custom items. A plugin like Nexo runs an item’s commands on right-click as the player, but hands the command no way to say which block was clicked. A ray-trace from the player’s eyes at that moment lands on exactly that block — so a right-click-to-summon item works without either plugin knowing about the other.

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Notes

  • The reach is the player’s own block_interaction_range attribute, not a fixed number, so creative mode, an attribute modifier or another plugin all move it correctly. An item that summons on right-click must not become one that summons across the map because the player happened to be facing the horizon.
  • If nothing is in reach the command says so and names the distance it tried, rather than silently doing nothing.
  • The mob lands against the face that was hit, in the open space beside the block rather than inside it — the same placement a spawn egg makes.