entity_types()

Syntax

entity_types(descriptor)

Resolves a given descriptor returning list of entity types that match it. The returned list of types is also a valid list of descriptors that can be use elsewhere where entity types are required.

Currently, the following descriptors are available:

• *: all entities, even !valid, matches all entity types.
• valid - all entities that are not dead (health > 0). All main categories below also return only entities in the valid category. matches all entity types. !valid matches all entites that are already dead of all types.
• living - all entities that resemble a creature of some sort
• projectile - all entities or types that are not living that can be throw or projected, !projectile matches all types that are not living, but cannot the thrown or projected.
• minecarts matches all minecart types. !minecarts matches all types that are not live, but also not minecarts. Using plural since minecart is a proper entity type on its own.
• undead, arthropod, aquatic, regular, illager - all entities / types that belong to any of these groups. All living entities belong to one and only one of these. Corresponding negative (e.g. !undead) corresponds to all mobs that are living but don’t belong to that group. Entity groups are used in interaction / battle mechanics like smite for undead, or impaling for aquatic. Also certain mechanics interact with groups, like ringing a bell with illagers. All other mobs that don’t have any of these traits belong to the regular group.
• monster, creature, ambient, water_creature, water_ambient, misc - another categorization of living entities based on their spawn group. Negative descriptor resolves to all living types that don’t belong to that category.
• All entity tags including those provided with datapacks. Built-in entity tags include: skeletons, raiders, beehive_inhabitors (bee, duh), arrows and impact_projectiles.
• Any of the standard entity types, equivalent to selection from /summon vanilla command, which is one of the options returned by entity_types(), except for 'fishing_bobber' and 'player'.

All categories can be preceded with '!' which will fetch all entities (unless otherwise noted) that are valid (health > 0) but not belonging to that group.