Trader Llama

Trader Llama

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Health points	15HP × 7.5 to 30HP × 15
Behavior	Neutral
Mob type	Animal
Attack strength	Easy and Normal: 1HP Hard: 1.5HP × 0.75
Hitbox size	Adult: Height: 1.87 blocks Width: 0.9 blocks Baby: Height: 0.935 blocks Width: 0.45 blocks
Speed	0.175
Spawn	See Wandering Trader
Usable items	Carpet Chest plus contents Lead Shears Wheat Hay Bale

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A trader llama is a llama variant that spawns with wandering traders.

Spawning

Every wandering trader spawns with two leashed trader llamas.

Drops

Breeding

1–7XP upon successful breeding.

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Leather	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	83.33%	1.50	0–4	91.67%	2.00	0–5	94.44%	2.50

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Leather	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	5⁄6	3⁄2	0–4	11⁄12	2	0–5	17⁄18	5⁄2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Leather	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	5⁄18 (27.78%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	3⁄2 (1.50)	2 (2.00)	5⁄2 (2.50)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Leather	1.00	1.50	2.00	2.50

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Leather	0–2	66.67%	1.00	0–3	66.67%	1.33	0–4	66.67%	1.67	0–5	66.67%	2.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Leather	0–2	2⁄3	1	0–3	2⁄3	4⁄3	0–4	2⁄3	5⁄3	0–5	2⁄3	2

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Leather	0	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)
		1	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		2	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄3 (33.33%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		3	0	1⁄6 (16.67%)	1⁄4 (25.00%)	2⁄9 (22.22%)
		4	0	0	1⁄12 (8.33%)	1⁄6 (16.67%)
		5	0	0	0	1⁄18 (5.56%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	4⁄3 (1.33)	5⁄3 (1.67)	2 (2.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drop
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Leather	1.00	1.33	1.67	2.00

• Any equipped carpets and chest.
• All items in their inventory.
• 1–3XP experience orbs if killed by a player or tamed wolf.

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

Behavior

Trader llamas are neutral, retaliating when it or the associated wandering trader is attacked by a player or mob. Sometimes their spit can miss their target and hit another (trader) llama, starting a fight within a group of (trader) llamas.

Trader llamas are hostile toward wolves and spit without provocation, but they don't attack tamed wolves unless provoked. Wolves are fearful of trader llamas of strength 4 or 5 and always run away, and won't attack unless provoked by their spit.^[1] Wolves flee from weaker trader llamas less often.

Trader llamas are also hostile towards zombies, husks, drowned, zombie villagers, pillagers, vindicators, evokers, and illusioners ‌.

Trader llamas are completely passive on Peaceful difficulty.

Trader llamas float when in water deeper than one block.

Trader llamas can safely fall 6 blocks before they begin to accumulate fall damage, unlike most mobs, which can only safely fall 3 blocks. It also take half of the normal fall damage (rounded up) that most other mobs take (0.5HP × 0.25 damage per block over the safe distance instead of 1HP).

Spitting

Trader llamas attack other mobs by spitting at them, dealing 1HP damage. Trader llama spit is not flammable.

Taming

A trader llama lead by a wandering trader is untamable and cannot be ridden. It becomes tamable‌ or immediately tamed‌ and does not despawn once it is unleashed from the wandering trader.

Trader llamas can be tamed by repetitively riding them until hearts are displayed, done by pressing use on the llama while holding nothing. Tamed trader llamas do not despawn.

Taming success depends on the trader llama's Temper value. 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 30. When a player rides an untamed trader llama, a random number from 0 to 29 is chosen. The trader 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.

Tamed trader llamas do not spit at mobs that attack its owner, although it spits at any mob that attacks the llama. Tamed trader llamas can still retaliate at players should the player hit them.

Feeding a trader llama food can alter its behavior, increasing its temper value if untamed, 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.

A trader llama can be fed by holding a valid food item and pressing 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	2HP	10 sec (200 ticks)	+3
Hay Bale	10HP	1:30 min (1800 ticks)	+6	Activates love mode in tamed llamas.

Breeding

Adult tamed trader llamas can be bred by being fed a hay bale. The baby trader llama takes on the coat color of one parent at random. 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.

When two trader llamas are bred, the offspring wears the same unique rug to all trader llamas.

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 (15HP × 7.5 to 30HP × 15) is calculated based on that of its parents, in the same way as a horse's.

Color variant of llama is randomly selected between parents.

When breeding trader llama with llama the offspring will always be normal llama.

Caravans

Trader llamas form a caravan when one of them is leashed by a player.

Leashing a trader llama signals up to 9 nearby llamas that are not already in a caravan to follow each other, forming a caravan of up to ten llamas. When multiple llamas are leashed, each leashed llama can form a separate caravan of up to ten separate llamas. Each caravan cannot have two or more leashed llamas in it, and there is no limit to the number of caravans a player can lead.

Storage

A tamed trader llama can be equipped with a chest by pressing the use control on it while holding a chest. The chest gives the trader llama 3 to 15 slots of inventory space, depending on its strength (see table below). Once equipped, its contents can be accessed by pressing the use control on the llama while sneaking, or by opening the inventory while riding the llama. The chest itself cannot be retrieved without killing the trader llama.

Carpets

A trader llama can be equipped with a wool carpet in its carpet slot. Each carpet color shows as a different patterned rug when on the llama's back. This can be useful for color-coding the llamas as storage containers, like dyed shulker boxes. A trader llama that does not have a carpet wears a unique blue rug design. This design can be replaced with a carpet but never removed.

When given carpets, all types of (trader) llamas look the same, except for their fur colors. In Java Edition, a trader llama's carpet decoration remains visible when the llama is under the effect of Invisibility;^[2] in Bedrock Edition, it becomes invisible.

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

Despawning

Trader llamas often​ despawn one tick before their trader does, because a trader llama has its DespawnDelay set to 47999 ticks. This value is decremented each tick that the llama is untamed, unleashed​, and not being ridden by a player, and is reset to one tick less than the trader's own DespawnDelay if leashed to a trader. The llama despawns when its DespawnDelay reaches zero ticks.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Llamas, trader llamas, and llama spit use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Entity tags	Translation key
Trader Llama	trader_llama	dismounts_underwater	entity.minecraft.trader_llama

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Trader Llama	trader_llama	157	entity.trader_llama.name

Entity data

Java Edition:

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

Variant	Numerical ID	Identifier
Creamy	0	creamy
White	1	white
Brown	2	brown
Gray	3	gray

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Cow Tipper	Harvest some leather.	Pick up leather from the ground or via fishing.	15	Bronze
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	—	10	Bronze
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
		So I Got That Going for Me	Lead a Caravan containing at least 5 Llamas	—	20	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand also counts for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Best Friends Forever	Tame an animal	Tame one of these 8 tameable mobs: Cat Donkey Horse Llama Mule Parrot Wolf Skeleton Horse and Zombie Horse can be tamed in the same way as a regular horse to gain this advancement with the ride command.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill one of these 73 mobs near a sculk catalyst: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Blaze Bogged Breeze Camel Cat Cave Spider Chicken Cod Cow Creeper Donkey Dolphin Drowned Elder Guardian Enderman Endermite Evoker Fox Frog Ghast Goat Glow Squid Giant Guardian Hoglin Horse Husk Illusioner Llama Magma Cube Mooshroom Ocelot Panda Parrot Phantom Pig Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Polar Bear Pufferfish Rabbit Ravager Salmon Sheep Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Skeleton Horse Slime Sniffer Stray Spider Squid Strider Tropical Fish Turtle Vex Vindicator Warden Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Wolf Zoglin Zombie Zombie Horse Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Mobs that drop no experience as well as the ender dragon are ignored for this advancement.
	Not Today, Thank You	Deflect a projectile with a Shield	Block any projectile with a shield.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	The Parrots and the Bats	Breed two animals together	Breed a pair of any of these 26 mobs: Armadillo Axolotl Bee Camel Cat Chicken Cow Donkey Fox Frog Goat Hoglin Horse Llama Mooshroom Mule Ocelot Panda Pig Rabbit Sheep Sniffer Strider Turtle Wolf A mule must be the result of breeding a horse and a donkey for this advancement as they are not breedable together. Other breedable mobs are ignored for this advancement.

History

Java Edition
1.14			19w05a				Added trader llamas, which spawn with wandering traders.
1.16			20w10a				Firework damage now provokes trader llamas.[3]
			20w15a				Dispensers can now put carpets and chests on tamed trader llamas.
1.17			21w20a				Trader llamas no longer spit at players on Peaceful difficulty.
1.18			experimental snapshot 6				Trader 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.
1.19.4			23w07a				The health of a baby is now a variation of the average of the parents' attributes, rather than being biased toward the average possible value.
1.21.2			24w35a				Trader Llamas will now attack zombies, drowned, husks, zombie villagers and illagers.[4]
			pre1				Carpets now show the enchantment glint on trader llamas when enchanted.
1.21.6			25w20a				Carpets can now be removed from trader llamas using shears.
			pre1				Trader llamas in carpets now emits a vibration frequency of 6, along with the Unequip frequency of 4 from the sculk shrieker.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				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.
1.19.10			Preview 1.19.10.20				Trader llamas are now separate from a normal llama.
							Trader llamas now have their own spawn egg.
1.20.10			Preview 1.20.10.20				Trader llamas now follow players that are holding hay bales.
1.21.90			Preview 1.21.90.25				Carpets can now be removed from llamas using shears.
			Preview 1.21.90.26				A sound now plays when removing a carpet from an llama using shears.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.91							Added trader llamas, which spawn with wandering traders.

Data History

Issues

Issues relating to "Trader Llama" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• The trader llama LEGO BrickHeadz figure is the 200th produced.^[5]

Gallery

Renders

Screenshots

• 
  A pair of trader llamas following a wandering trader.
• 
  A tamed trader llama in an early Survival mode house.

Textures

• 
  Trader llama overlay texture file.

In other media

• 
  Trader llamas in promotional artwork for the first Caves & Cliffs update.
• 
  Lego Minecraft Trader Llama.
• 
  The Lego BrickHeadz Trader Llama figure.
• 
  Promotional artwork for the Trader Llama, Alex, and Zombie BrickHeadz.
• 
  A comparison between the in-game and Lego BrickHeadz renditions of a Trader llama.
• 
  Animated trader llama artwork.
• 
  Fan created render of an early version of the trader llama based on an image from Meet the Wandering Trader article.

References

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