Caravans

Give your pack-llamas a job. Caravans turns tamed chest-llamas into a working caravan — they follow you in a tidy line, run your loot home while you keep exploring, and stand guard against mobs. It's all built on a custom movement engine that replaces Minecraft's stop-start native pathfinder, so the herd actually moves like a herd.

Part of the Machina plugin family.

📖 Full guide, recipes & config: Caravans Wiki →

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What your caravan can do

Follow

Your chest-llamas trail you in an evenly-spaced line — leader-trail herding keeps the spacing clean over rough terrain, with no conga-line pile-ups or snagging on corners. Get too far ahead and they rubber-band to catch up.
→ Following on the wiki

Storage runs

Packs full? Send half the caravan home. They walk off, slip out of sight, deposit their cargo into your registered depot chests, and stroll back empty a short while later — a diegetic courier run with no teleport menu, so you never have to backtrack. The wait scales with distance: a depot next door returns in ~10s, a far-flung one up to 90s.
→ Storage runs on the wiki

Guardians

Set a llama to guard a spot and it spits at any hostile that wanders into range — damage, Slowness, and a knockback shove.
→ Guardians on the wiki

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In-world tools — no command spam

Everything is driven by two craftable, vanilla-feeling items. Ordinary sticks and leads stay completely ordinary:

Tool	Craft	Does
Drover's Stick	string + stick	recruit · send off · whistle in · halt the caravan
Khipu	string + lead	record depot chests · dispatch a storage run

Prefer commands? /caravan follow · stay · guard · store · home · status still works.

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📖 Docs & setup: https://machina-1.gitbook.io/machina-docs/llamas
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