Creating a Fake Entity

To create a fake entity, we first need to obtain an IFakeEntityFactory from our IPacketEntityAPI instance:

IFakeEntityFactory factory = instance.getEntityFactory();

It doesn't matter if you cache this value or not because it's constant, but your code will be cleaner if you store it in a variable.

Then, you can simply pass the EntityType you want to the #createFakeEntity(EntityType) method. If you would like to populate a map of metadata values in the returned entity, also pass true into the method.

Before you can send a spawn packet, you'll need to specify the location to spawn at using #setLocation(Location). You may also need to specify a few additional values using #setField(String, Object):

• If it is a painting, you must specify the title through the Bukkit Art enum that should be displayed.
• If it is a painting or an item frame, you must specify the direction that the entity is facing in Bukkit BlockFace form.
• If it is an experience orb, you must specify the orbcount (an integer) that represents the value of this orb.
• If it is a projectile, you must specify an int shooter.
• If it is a falling block, you must specify an id and a data value. (Integer and byte, respectively.)

Additionally, if you would like to specify a velocity, that should be in Vector form.