Llama

Llama

Health points	15 () to 30 ( × 15)
Attack strength	1 ()
Size	Adult: Height: 1.87 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.935 Blocks Width: 0.45 Blocks
Spawn	Mountains, Savanna
Common drops	Leather (0–2)
Usable items	Chest without or with contents Carpet
Experience	Kill Adult: 1–3 Breeding: 1–7
Sounds	Idle Step Eat Angry Spit Swap Hurt Death
Internal ID	JE: 103 BE: 29
Entity ID	llama

	“	Llamas come in four fetching colours, brown, grey, white and creamy. A neutral mob, they can be tamed just like horses and leashed together in chains to form caravans, which is far less grim and prison-chain-gangy than I've just made it sound. Honest! Llamas can even have little llama babies, as if they weren't insufferably cute enough already.	„
		— Tom Stone

Llamas are neutral mobs which can be tamed and used to transport large shipments of items.

Spawning

Llamas spawn naturally in savanna biomes (plateau variant) in herds of up to four and in mountains biomes in herds up to six animals.

Drops

Adult llamas will drop when they die:

• 0-2
  leather.
• Anything equipped, such as a
  carpets or
  chest.
• All items in their inventory.
• 1–3
  experience orbs, only if killed by a tamed wolf or the player.

Usage

Leading

Even when tamed, the player can't control the movement of llamas when riding them. A lead can be attached to one, and when this happens, surrounding llamas (both tamed and un-tamed) will follow, making a caravan. A caravan can have up to ten llamas in it, including babies. Even though only ten llamas can be in a caravan, leashing a second llama forms a second caravan. Using this feature, a player can lead as many llamas as they want.

Storage

Llamas can be equipped with chests, giving it 3, 6, 9, 12, or 15 slots of inventory space, according to the NBT-tag "Strength" (see '#Data values' below). The storage available is 3*(Strength).

Decoration

All llama carpet patterns.

They can also be equipped with carpets in their carpet slot. Each carpet color yields a different pattern. This can be useful for color-coding items, similar to a dyed Shulker box.

For the purposes of the /replaceitem command, a llama carries its carpet in the slot.horse.armor slot.

Behavior

Spitting

Llamas are neutral, and if a player or mob attacks one, it will spit at the attacker once, dealing 1 () damage. They are hostile to untamed wolves, and will spit at them without provocation. Sometimes when they spit at a wolf or player they can start a fight within a group of llamas by accidentally hitting each other.

Llamas will tend to repel wolves with their spitting, depending on their strength value. For llamas with strength 4 and 5, wolves will always run away, and for weaker llamas, wolves will run away correspondingly less often.

Llamas won't attack tamed wolves (dogs) unless provoked.

Taming

Llamas can be tamed by right-clicking on the llama until it shows hearts.

Taming depends on the llama's Temper nbt value. Despite its name, a higher Temper value will make it more likely for a llama to become tamed. Llamas begin with a Temper value of 0, with a maximum of 100. When a player is riding an untamed llama, a random number from 0 to 99 is chosen. The llama gets tamed successfully if this number is less than the Temper value, otherwise, the Temper is increased by 5 and the player is bucked off. Temper can also be increased by feeding the llama.

Breeding

Tamed llamas can be bred using hay bales. Both llamas must be tamed before they can breed.

The children will take on the appearance of one of the parents as if by a coin flip. The strength is chosen as a random integer between 1 and the strength of the stronger parent, inclusive. 3% of the time the resulting strength is increased by 1, but it's still capped at 5. For quick reference, consult the following table.

	Wild	1	2	3	4	5
1	32.8%	97%	48.5%	32.33%	24.25%	19.4%
2	32.8%	3%	50%	33.33%	25%	20%
3	32.8%		1.5%	33.33%	25%	20%
4	0.8%			1%	25%	20%
5	0.8%				0.75%	20.6%

Select a column based on the stronger parent. Wild means there are no parents, e.g. a llama spawned by world generation or a spawn egg. Select a row to find the probability of the resulting llama having a specific strength.

Llamas will not breed if any llama in the vicinity is on a lead. This restricts their movements; they will take a hay bale, but they will not move to another llama until the lead is dropped.

Food

Feeding a llama food can alter its behavior, cause it to grow (if it is not yet an adult; babies normally take 20 minutes to fully mature if not fed), and restore its health. The table below lists the effects of the 2 food items llamas will take.

To feed a llama, hold a valid food item and right click on the llama. If the food is invalid, the player will simply mount the llama. Llamas can only be fed when feeding would have an effect, similar to other animals.

Food	Heals	Speeds growth by	Increases temper	Notes
Wheat	2 ()	10 sec	+3
Hay Bale	10 ()	1.5 min	+6	Activates love mode in tamed llamas.

Data values

See also: Chunk format

Llamas have entity data associated with them that contains various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is llama.

• 
  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
  • Additional fields for mobs that can breed see Template:Nbt inherit/breedable/template
  • 
     Bred: 1 or 0 (true/false) - Unknown. Remains 0 after breeding. If true, causes it to stay near other llamas with this flag set.
  • 
     ChestedHorse: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the llama has chests.
  • 
     EatingHaystack: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if grazing.
  • 
     Tame: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the llama is tamed. (Non players mobs will not be able to ride a tamed llama if it has no saddle)
  • 
     Temper: Ranges from 0 to 100; increases with feeding. Higher values make a llama easier to tame.
  • 
     Variant: The variant of the llama. 0 = Creamy, 1 = White, 2 = Brown, 3 = Gray.
  • 
     Strength: Ranges from 1 to 5, defaults to 3. Determines the number of items the llama can carry (items = 3 × strength). Also increases the tendency of wolves to run away when attacked by llama spit. Strengths 4 and 5 will cause a wolf to always run away.
  • 
     DecorItem: The item the llama is wearing, without the Slot tag. Typically a carpet.
    • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
  • 
     OwnerUUID: Contains the UUID of the player that tamed the llama. Has no effect on behavior.
  • 
     Items: List of items. Only exists if ChestedHorse is true.
    • 
      An item, including the Slot tag.
      • Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template

Spit

Llama Spit

Internal ID	JE: 104 BE: 102
Network ID	JE: 68
Entity ID	JE: llama_spit

Llama spit has entity data associated with it that contain various properties of the spit entity. Its entity ID is llama_spit. It produces spit particles when summoned, and obeys gravity. The spit entity must belong to a llama to deal damage, meaning that the spit summoned by commands deals no damage.

• 
  Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • 
     Owner: Contains information about the entity who owns the spit.
    • 
       OwnerUUIDMost: Identifying the owner of this spit, these are the most significant bits of that entity's Universally Unique IDentifier. This is joined with OwnerUUIDLeast to form that entity's unique ID.
    • 
       OwnerUUIDLeast: Identifying the owner of this spit, these are the least significant bits of that entity's Universally Unique IDentifier. This is joined with OwnerUUIDMost to form that entity's unique ID.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	So I Got That Going for Me	Lead a Caravan containing at least 5 Llamas		Yes	Yes	Yes	Wii U, Switch	20G	Bronze

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Internal ID
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of one of these 11 mobs. Other breedable mobs, if any, are ignored for the advancement.[until 1.14]. Breed a pair of one of these 12 mobs. Other breedable mobs, if any, are ignored for the advancement.[upcoming 1.14]	minecraft:husbandry/breed_an_animal
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed pairs of each of these 11 mobs. Other tamable mobs, if any, are ignored for the advancement.[until 1.14] Breed pairs of each of these 13 mobs. Other tamable mobs, if any, are ignored for the advancement.[upcoming 1.14]	minecraft:husbandry/bred_all_animals

History

Java Edition
26 July, 2016					Jeb hosts a poll on Twitter, with the choice of llamas or alpacas. The final results gave favor (58%) to llamas. Alpacas had a 42%.
1.11			16w39a		Added llamas.
			16w39b		Llamas' drops are now affected by the looting enchantment.
			16w41a		The spawn rate of Llamas has been drastically reduced.
					Llama spit now has an entity id: llama_spit.
Pocket Edition
1.1			alpha 1.1.0.0		Added llamas.
Legacy Console Edition
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	Patch 4	Added llamas.

Issues

Issues relating to "Llama" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• The player can still see a llama's carpet decoration when it is under the effect of Invisibility.
• The achievement title refers to the 1980 comedy movie "Caddyshack", where Bill Murray tells a story of how he once caddied for the Dalai Lama. In return, on his deathbed he will receive total consciousness, thus uttering the famous line "So I got that going for me".
• Llamas are the only mob that can directly inflict damage to players in Peaceful difficulty.^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]}

Gallery

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  All llama carpet patterns

• 

  All four llama variants, including baby variants.

References

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