Instructions/Get Entity At

Get Entity At
Lua ID	get_entity_at
Category	Math
Icon	Power.png
Argument One: Type	Input
Argument One: Name	Coordinate
Argument One: Description	Coordinate to get Entity from
Argument One: Data Type	coord_num
Argument Two: Type	Output
Argument Two: Name	Result

Description

Gets an entity that is at the specified coordinate.

Uses

Used for capturing which entity exists on a coordinate.

Effectively the inverse of Get Location, which gets a coordinate based on an entity.

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