Llama

Health points	15 × 7.5 to 30 × 15
Behavior	Neutral Passive (Peaceful difficulty)
Classification	Animal
Attack strength	1
Hitbox size	Adult: Height: 1.87 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Baby: Height:0.935 blocks Width: 0.45 Blocks
Spawn	Windswept Hills Windswept Forest Windswept Gravelly Hills Savanna‌^{[BE only]} Savanna Plateau Windswept Savanna‌^{[BE only]}
Usable items	Chest without or with contents Carpet Lead Wheat Hay Bale

A llama is a neutral mob found in windswept hills, savanna plateau, and savanna‌^{[BE only]} biomes. It can be tamed and used to transport large shipments of items.

A trader llama is a special variant that follows wandering traders.

Spawning[]

Llamas spawn at light level 7 or above. They naturally spawn only above grass blocks in savanna plateau / savanna‌^{[BE only]} biomes in herds of 4 llamas and in windswept hills biomes in herds of 4 to 6 llamas. They come in four variants of coat colors: brown, cream, white, gray. Wandering traders always spawn with two leashed trader llamas.

10% of llamas spawn as babies.

In Bedrock Edition, there is no spawn egg for trader llamas.‌^{[until BE 1.19.10]} 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[]

When killed, adult llamas drop:

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

Upon successful breeding, 1–7 is dropped.

Like other baby animals, killing a baby llama yields no item or experience.

Usage[]

Leading[]

Llamas do not accept saddles, so the player cannot control its movement, even when tamed. Leads are the best way to move llamas. Leading a llama actually signals all other llamas not already in a caravan nearby (up to nine) to follow each other, forming a caravan of up to ten llamas. Leashing a second llama forms a caravan of ten more llamas, and there is no intentional limit on the number of llamas following a player.

Storage[]

GUI of a llama with a chest, with strength 4.

A llama can be equipped with a chest by right clicking a chest on it once tamed, giving it 3, 6, 9, 12, or 15 slots of inventory space, scaling directly with its Strength NBT (see § Data values below). Once equipped, the chest cannot be retrieved without killing the llama and can be accessed by shift + right clicking the llama. A llama's potential carry capacity is a number of item slots equal to 3*Strength, with a maximum of 15 spaces.

Strength distribution in wild llamas
1	2	3	4	5
32.8%	32.8%	32.8%	0.8%	0.8%

Decoration[]

Llamas can be equipped with carpets in their carpet slot (). Each carpet color shows as a different patterned rug on the llama's back. This can be useful for color-coding their storage, similar to dyed shulker boxes.

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

Trader llamas that do not have a carpet wear a blue rug design. It can be replaced with a carpet but not removed. When given carpets, both types of llama look the same.

A llama's carpet decoration remains visible when the llama is under the effect of Invisibility.

Behavior[]

Spitting[]

Llama Spit

Hitbox size	Height: 0.25 Blocks Width: 0.25 Blocks
Network ID	JE: 68

Llamas are neutral, but if a player or mob attacks one, it spits at the attacker once to deal 1 damage. Sometimes their spit can miss their target and hit another llama, starting a fight within a group of llamas. Additionally, a wandering trader's llamas spit at mobs or players who attack the wandering trader.

Llamas are hostile toward wolves and spit without provocation, but they don't attack tamed wolves unless provoked. Wolves are fearful of llamas of strength 4 or 5 and always run away, similar to zombies and villagers.^[1] Wolves flee from weaker llamas less often.

Despite the spitting being a projectile, dying from llama spit still shows the death message "<player> was slain by Trader Llama/Llama."

Trader llamas are hostile toward all zombie variants and illagers,‌^{[Java Edition only]} and they defend both themselves and their wandering trader.

The spit entity must belong to a llama to do damage, meaning that the spit summoned by commands does no damage. Llama spit can be deflected if hit by the player.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Llamas do not attack a player/mob if they attacked another llama.

Taming[]

Llamas can be tamed by repetitively riding them until hearts are displayed, done by pressing use on the llama while holding nothing.

Taming success depends on the llama's Temper NBT. Temper is a positive trait, with higher values increasing the chance of successful taming. Llamas begin with a Temper value of 0 and a maximum of 100. When a player rides 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.

Unlike any other tamed animal, tamed llamas can still retaliate at players should the player hit them.

If a player kills a wandering trader and stays away from the trader llamas for a while, the llamas are tame when the player rides it, and the player can place carpets on the llama.

Naturally spawned trader llamas are untamed and cannot be ridden while being led by their wandering trader. If unleashed, they become tamable‌^{[Java Edition only]} or tamed.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

In Java Edition, tamed trader llamas do not despawn.

Like all tame animals, a death message is displayed to a tamed llama's owner if it is killed.

Tamed llamas do not spit at mobs that attack its owner, although it spits at any mob that attacks the llama.

Breeding[]

Tamed llamas can be bred by being fed 1–3 hay bales. Both parents must be tamed before they can breed.

The cria (as a baby llama is called) takes on the appearance of one parent randomly. Its 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 is capped at 5.

Trader llamas cannot breed in Bedrock Edition. When two trader llamas are bred in Java Edition, the cria offspring wears a baby-sized, trader-style carpet.

Stronger parent's strength	Offspring's strength
Stronger parent's strength	1	2	3	4	5
1	97%	3%
2	48.5%	50%	1.5%
3	32.33%	33.33%	33.33%	1%
4	24.25%	25%	25%	25%	0.75%
5	19.4%	20%	20%	20%	20.6%

Select a row based on the stronger parent. The column shows the probability of the resulting offspring having a given strength.

A llama's base health (15 to 30 hitpoints) is calculated based on that of its parents, in the same way as a horse's.

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

Food[]

Feeding a llama food can alter its behavior, restoring lost health or making a baby grow faster (babies ordinarily take around 20 minutes to mature to adults). The table below lists the effects of the 2 food items llamas accept.

To feed a llama, hold a valid food item and press use while facing the llama. Llamas can be fed only when feeding would have an effect, similar to other animals. If the food is invalid, the player mounts the llama instead.

Food	Heals	Speeds growth by	Increases temper by	Notes
Wheat	2	10 sec	+3
Hay Bale	10	1:30 minutes	+6	Activates love mode in tamed llamas.

Water[]

Llamas do not drown. They float when in water deeper than 2 blocks.

Sounds[]

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	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:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Llama	`llama`	`entity.minecraft.llama`
Trader Llama	`trader_llama`	`entity.minecraft.trader_llama`
Llama Spit	`llama_spit`	`entity.minecraft.llama_spit`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Llama	`llama`	`29`	`entity.llama.name`
Llama Spit	`llama_spit`	`102`	`entity.llama_spit.name`

Entity data[]

Java Edition:

Llamas have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Entity data
- - Additional fields for mobs that can breed
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
- 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.
- DecorItem: The item the llama is wearing, without the Slot tag. Typically a carpet.
  - Tags common to all items
- DespawnDelay: A timer for trader llamas to despawn, present only in trader_llama. The trader llama despawns when this value reaches 0.
- EatingHaystack: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if grazing.
- Items: List of items. Exists only if ChestedHorse is true.
  - An item, including the Slot tag.
    - Tags common to all items
- Owner: The UUID of the player that tamed the llama, stored as four ints. Has no effect on behavior. Does not exist if there is no owner.
- 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 always causes a wolf to flee.
- Tame: 1 or 0 (true/false) - true if the llama is tamed.
- Temper: Ranges from 0 to 100; increases with feeding. Higher values make a llama easier to tame.

Llama spit have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all projectiles

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements[]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other platforms	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		So I Got That Going for Me	Lead a Caravan containing at least 5 Llamas	—	20G	Bronze

Advancements[]

Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Husbandry	Breed a pair of any of these 22 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Trader Llama Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this advancement.	`husbandry/breed_an_animal`
Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Husbandry	Tame one of these tameable mobs: Cat Donkey Horse Llama Mule Parrot Trader Llama Wolf	`husbandry/tame_an_animal`
Two by Two	Breed all the animals!	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed a pair of each of these 22 mobs: Axolotl Bee Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Strider Turtle Wolf A trader llama does not count as a llama, and a mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breed-able together. Other breed-able mobs, if any, can be bred, but are ignored for this 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.
		16w39a			Added baby llamas.
		16w39b			The drops of llamas are now affected by the Looting enchantment.
		16w41a			The spawn rate of llamas has been drastically reduced.
		16w41a			Llama spit now has an entity id: `llama_spit`.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of llamas have been changed.
		18w43a			The textures of baby llamas have been changed.
		19w05a			Added trader llamas, which spawn with wandering traders.
1.16		20w15a			Dispensers can now put carpets and chests on tamed llamas.
1.17		21w20a			Llamas no longer spit at players in peaceful mode.
1.18		experimental snapshot 6			Llamas now follow players that are holding hay bales.
1.19		22w17a			Changed all variants' chest texture, to use the chest texture since the texture update.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added llamas.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added baby llamas.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of llamas have been changed.
					The textures of baby llamas have 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.
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added baby llamas.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added llamas.
1.9.19					Added baby llamas.

Issues[]

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

Trivia[]

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 line "So I got that going for me".
Some carpets on llamas back represent certain mobs; a green carpet uses the face of the green creeper, while a purple carpet gains eyes like those of an enderman. A llama wearing a gray carpet has a mask, similar to that of a superhero or a bandit.