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What about within a specified distance, eg. the coordinates displayed on a player's minimap?

Is there a way of invoking a QueryBuilder? In the docs, it wasn't apparent that this was feasible. The context in which I'd be using this would be to find a specific "safe" tile within a region that is furthest from monsters with a propensity to attack. This would allow for a user to retreat to...

A deterministic finite automaton would be a more precise term if every node were to have a binary success/failure like you mention.