/rotate

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Changes the rotation of an entity.

Syntax

rotate <target> <rotation>

Change the entity's rotation to the specified rotation.

rotate <target> facing <facingLocation>

Rotates the entity to face a specified block position.

rotate <target> facing entity <facingEntity> [<facingAnchor>]

Rotates the entity to face another entity.

Arguments

<target>: entity

Specifies the entity to rotate.

Must be a player name, a target selector or a UUID. And the target selector must be in single type.

<rotation>: rotation

Specifies the rotation.

Must be a rotation consisting of two double number elements, including yaw and pitch, measured in degrees.

• For the horizontal rotation (yaw), -180.0 for due north, -90.0 for due east, 0.0 for due south, 90.0 for due west, to 179.9 for just west of due north, before wrapping back around to -180.0.
• For the vertical rotation (pitch), -90.0 for straight up to 90.0 for straight down.

Tilde notation can be used to specify a rotation relative to the execution rotation.

<facingLocation>: vec3

Specifies the coordinates to make the target entity face towards.

Must be three-dimensional coordinates with double-precision floating-point number elements. Accepts tilde and caret notations.

<facingEntity>: entity

Specifies the entity to make the target entity face towards.

Must be a player name, a target selector or a UUID. And the target selector must be in single type.

<facingAnchor>: entity_anchor

Specifies whether to face towards the entity'eyes or feet. If not specified, defaults to feet.

Must be either eyes or feet.

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