Llama

Llama

Health points	15 × 7.5 to 30 × 15
Behavior	Neutral
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
Internal ID	JE: 103 BE: 29
Namespaced ID	See Data values

	“	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 that can be tamed and used to transport large shipments of items.

Spawning

Llamas spawn at light level 7 or above, they naturally spawn in savanna biomes in herds of up to four and in mountains biomes in herds up to six animals. They come in four variants of wool colours: brown, cream, white, gray. Wandering traders always spawn with two leashed trader llamas.

10% of llama spawn as babies.

In Bedrock Edition, there is no spawn egg for trader llamas. They always spawn when a wandering trader is spawned using a spawn egg or by using the /summon command, although a trader llama can be summoned using /summon llama ~ ~ ~ minecraft:from_wandering_trader

Drops

Adults drop:

• 0-2 leather (up to 0-5 with Looting 3).
• Any equipped carpets.
• All items in their inventory.
• 1–3 experience orbs, only if killed by a tamed wolf or the player.

Usage

Leading

Llamas do not accept saddles, so the player can't control one's movement when riding one, even when tamed. Thus, leads become the best way to move llamas. Leading a llama actually signals up to ten surrounding llamas (both tamed and untamed) to follow each other, forming a caravan. A caravan can have up to ten llamas in it, including babies. Leashing a second llama forms a caravan of ten more llamas, so there theoretically is no limit on the number of llamas following a player.

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. Once equipped, the chest cannot be unequipped from the llama without killing it.

Decoration

All llama carpet patterns.

Llamas can be equipped with carpets in their carpet slot (). Each carpet color shows as a different patterned rug on the llamas back. This can be useful for color-coding items, similar to dyed Shulker Boxes.

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

Trader Llamas have a unique, blue carpet design as their base skin.‌^{[BE & JE only]} It can be replaced with any of the carpets for a different look, but cannot be removed.

Behavior

Spitting

Llamas are neutral, and if a player or mob attacks one, it spits at the attacker once, dealing 1 damage. They are hostile to untamed wolves and spit at them without provocation. Sometimes when they spit at a wolf or player and miss, hitting another llama, they can start a fight within a group of llamas. Trader llamas are also hostile toward all zombie variants and illagers,‌^{[Java Edition only]}and attack if hit or if players and other mobs hurt their wandering trader.

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

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

Taming

Llamas can be tamed by pressing use on the llama while holding nothing or a spawn egg^{[more information needed]}, until it shows hearts.

Taming depends on the llama's Temper nbt value. Despite its name, a higher Temper value increases the likelihood 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.

Naturally spawned trader llamas are untamed and unrideable, but when unleashed from wandering trader, the trader llamas become tamable‌^{[Java Edition only]} or tamed‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}.

Like all tame animals, a death message is displayed to their owner if tamed llama or tamed trader llama are killed.

Breeding

Tamed llamas can be bred using hay bales. Both llamas must be tamed before they can breed. Trader llamas cannot breed.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

The children 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 breed in the vicinity if they are on a lead. Although one of llamas may not respond to being fed right away; they accept a hay bale/bale(s) if needed to breed. This can result in the consumption from 1 to 3 hay bales.

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 accept.

To feed a llama, hold a valid food item and right click on the llama. If the food is invalid, the player simply mounts the llama. Llamas can be fed only 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	1:30 minutes	+6	Activates love mode in tamed llamas.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
	Llama bleats	entity.llama.ambient	subtitles.entity.llama.ambient	?	?	?	16
	Llama bleats angrily	entity.llama.angry	subtitles.entity.llama.angry	?	?	?	16
	Llama Chest equips	entity.llama.chest	subtitles.entity.llama.chest	?	?	?	16
	Llama dies	entity.llama.death	subtitles.entity.llama.death	?	?	?	16
	Llama eats	entity.llama.eat	subtitles.entity.llama.eat	?	?	?	16
	Llama hurts	entity.llama.hurt	subtitles.entity.llama.hurt	?	?	?	16
	Llama spits	entity.llama.spit	subtitles.entity.llama.spit	?	?	?	16
	Llama steps	entity.llama.step	subtitles.entity.llama.step	?	?	?	16
	Llama is decorated	entity.llama.swag	subtitles.entity.llama.swag	?	?	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID
Llama	llama
Trader Llama	trader_llama

Bedrock Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Llama	llama	29

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

Llamas have entity data associated with them that contains various properties of the mob.

• 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
  •  DespawnDelay: Only present in trader_llama. A timer for trader llamas to despawn.

Spit

Llama Spit

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

Llama spit has entity data associated with it that contain various properties of the spit entity. 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)	Namespaced ID
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	—	husbandry/breed_an_animal
	Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Husbandry	—	husbandry/tame_an_animal
	Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed pairs of each of these 15 mobs. Note: a trader llama does not count as a llama. Other breedable mobs, if any, are ignored for the advancement.	husbandry/bred_all_animals

History

Java Edition
July 26, 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.
					Added baby llamas.
		16w39b			The drops of llamas are now affected by the Looting enchantment.
		16w41a			The spawn rate of llamas has now been drastically reduced.
					Llama spit now has an entity id: llama_spit.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of llamas have now been changed.
					The textures of baby llamas have now been changed.
		19w05a			Added trader llamas, which spawn with wandering traders.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added llamas.
					Added baby llamas.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of llamas have now been changed.
					The textures of baby llamas have now been changed.
					Added trader llamas, which spawn with wandering traders.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.3			Trader llamas are now hostile to mobs that attack wandering traders.
					Trader llamas now always spawn as adult llamas.
					Trader llamas can no longer breed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added llamas.
					Added baby llamas.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The textures of llamas have now been changed.
					The textures of baby llamas have now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added llamas.
					Added baby llamas.

Issues

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

Trivia

• The llama is the only rideable mob in the game that does not require a saddle. Instead, it requires a carpet.
  • Llama still float when riding while on water deeper than 2 block.
• The player can still see a llama's carpet decoration when it is under the effect of Invisibility.
• When breeding two trading llamas, the offspring wears a baby-sized, trader-style carpet.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• 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 expects to receive total consciousness, thus uttering the famous line "So I got that going for me".
• In Java and Legacy Console editions, llamas are the only mob that can directly inflict damage to players in Peaceful difficulty..
• Some carpets on llamas back represent certain mobs: creeper or enderman.
• Interestingly, a llama wearing a gray carpet has a mask, similar to that of a superhero.

Gallery

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  All llama carpet patterns

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  All four llama variants, including baby variants.

References

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