DiamondFire

Unfortunately, you can't. you can give it a name or a tag and check with it tho

wai how do I get a projectile to detect nearby players

the best way i can think of is when you spawn a projectile start a process and repeat forever and select nearby players using the select block

this way have a lot of downsides as the projectile might be faster than the checking so it might fail

the projectile is an egg

k did that now how do I detect projectiles that have recently died

in the process select either last entity or projectile (idk which one would work) and check the selection size, if it's 0 that means the entity died