Covens

Covens are two town-like horror structures added by Hexerei: the Dark Coven, which generates in swamps and marshes, and the Nature Coven, which generates in forests. Both are built from jigsaw pieces of streets, houses and small shops, and both contain witches. The Nature Coven also houses tameable Crows, and the loot in both covens includes herbs for Hexerei's alchemy and the Infused Fabric used for Witch Armor.

Generation

Covens generate in the overworld as surface structures. Each type has its own biome list. The Dark Coven generates in nine swamp and marsh biomes, and the Nature Coven generates in twelve forest-type biomes, including Forest, Birch Taiga and Blooming Valley. The biome table below lists each set.

In this pack both types use random spread placement with a spacing of 20 chunks and a separation of 7 chunks, as shown in the infobox. In a surveyed area of 26 km², the Nature Coven was the more common of the two, with 14 found against 3 Dark Covens. The Dark Coven is the rarer of the two.

Both covens are tagged as horror structures in the pack. Fear Nightfall places horror structures about 30% closer together than the Hexerei defaults, and gives them 6× weight wherever they share a structure set with other structures. Covens are therefore more frequent in humid, temperate-to-cool forests and swamps than they would be in vanilla-spaced worlds.

From the outside, a coven is a cluster of wooden houses and paths with a central meeting point. The Dark Coven is the larger of the two, at about 116 × 21 × 149 blocks, and the Nature Coven measures about 100 × 23 × 105 blocks.

Layout

Both covens use the same kinds of pieces, built from a shared set of templates:

• Town centre: a meeting point that the rest of the coven grows from.
• Streets: straight, corner, turn and crossroad pieces that connect the buildings.
• Houses: witch houses (seven variants), a witch tower, gardens, gazebos and small shops. The Nature Coven also has a jar shop and a pots shop.
• Stairs: up and down pieces, so a coven can rise or fall along a slope.
• Terminators: pieces that close off the ends of a street.

The gardens, gazebos and shops are decorative, and the witch houses and tower are the buildings that hold the coven's witches.

Inhabitants

The Dark Coven places witches in its buildings. Witches are hostile mobs.

The Nature Coven places Crows, bees and witches. A crow can be tamed and commanded, and it can be used to harvest crops and other plants. Crows also spawn naturally in forests.

Loot

Each coven has several chests with their own loot tables. The generated tables below list the chance of each item in each chest type.

The Dark Coven Coffer is the best source of gold. It has a 26% chance of a Gold Ingot and a 9% chance of a Block of Gold, and it also has a 58% chance of Gold Nuggets. The Dark Coven Basic chest is a source of Infused Fabric and Infused Fabric Carpet, which is the material for Witch Armor. Its Emerald chance is 34%.

The Nature Coven Coffer is similar to the Dark Coven Coffer, but its Block of Gold chance is lower, at 5%. The Nature Coven Herbs chest is the best source of plants for alchemy. It contains Cornflower, Belladonna Flowers, Sage, Sage Seeds, Dried Mugwort Leaves and Yellow Dock Flowers, among others. The Nature Coven Crow chest holds crop seeds and dyes, and it is a good source of Light Blue Dye and Orange Dye.

Dark Coven hexerei:dark_coven

Biomes (9): Bayou, Willow Swamp, Swamp, Marsh, Fen, Wetland, Bog, Marsh, Fungal Fen

Mobs placed in the structure: Witch

Chest loot: hexerei:chests/dark_coven_basic

Item	Chance	Avg. stack
Infused Fabric Carpet	38.0%	3.7
Ornate Infused Fabric Carpet	37.3%	3.3
Infused Fabric	35.3%	1.9
Animal Fat	35.0%	3.4
Bone	35.0%	2.2
Glass Bottle	35.0%	1.8
Sage	34.7%	3.8
Gunpowder	34.7%	2.5
Rotten Flesh	34.7%	2.8
Emerald	34.3%	2.5
Wax Blend	33.7%	3.5
Wheat	31.3%	3.0
Redstone Dust	27.7%	3.0
Bottle of Blood	23.3%	1.6
Bottle of Tallow	19.7%	3.2
Dried Sage Bundle	10.3%	1.1
Broom Brush	6.0%	1.0
Blood Sigil	5.7%	1.0

Chest loot: hexerei:chests/dark_coven_coffer

Item	Chance	Avg. stack
Iron Nugget	93.7%	33.3
Gold Nugget	58.3%	18.7
Gold Ingot	26.3%	5.8
Block of Gold	9.0%	1.6

Nature Coven hexerei:nature_coven

Biomes (12): Sleepy Hollows, Forest, Maple Forest, Redwood Forest, Orchard, Old Growth Forest, Willow Forest, Birch Taiga, Woodland, Pumpkin Patch, Blooming Valley, Blooming Plateau

Mobs placed in the structure: Crow, Bee, Witch

Chest loot: hexerei:chests/nature_coven_coffer

Item	Chance	Avg. stack
Iron Nugget	95.0%	32.0
Gold Nugget	62.3%	20.1
Gold Ingot	28.0%	5.2
Block of Gold	5.3%	1.7

Chest loot: hexerei:chests/nature_coven_crow

Item	Chance	Avg. stack
Potato	31.0%	1.8
Carrot	30.7%	1.8
Feather	30.7%	1.8
Melon Seeds	30.0%	3.3
Sage Seeds	29.7%	3.4
Gold Nugget	27.3%	2.4
Stick	27.3%	3.5
Seed Mixture	25.3%	3.4
Wheat Seeds	25.3%	3.6
Beetroot Seeds	23.0%	3.5
Light Blue Dye	19.3%	1.1
Orange Dye	18.0%	1.1
White Dye	17.3%	1.1
Pumpkin Seeds	16.3%	3.7
Black Dye	16.0%	1.1
Brown Dye	15.7%	1.1
Pink Dye	15.3%	1.0
Blue Dye	15.0%	1.1
Magenta Dye	15.0%	1.0
Red Dye	15.0%	1.1
Cyan Dye	14.7%	1.1
Purple Dye	13.7%	1.1
Lime Dye	13.3%	1.1
Yellow Dye	13.3%	1.1
Gray Dye	12.7%	1.0
Light Gray Dye	12.3%	1.1
Crow Blank Amulet Trinket	4.3%	1.0
Crow Flute	3.3%	1.0
Crow Ankh Amulet	0.3%	1.0

Chest loot: hexerei:chests/nature_coven_herbs

Item	Chance	Avg. stack
Cornflower	38.0%	5.2
Belladonna Flowers	26.0%	3.5
Sage	26.0%	3.9
Brown Mushroom	24.0%	4.8
Yellow Dock Flowers	23.3%	3.9
Dried Mugwort Leaves	22.7%	3.7
Sage Seeds	22.7%	6.9
Dried Mugwort Flowers	22.3%	3.5
Red Mushroom	22.3%	4.8
Dead Bush	22.0%	2.2
Belladonna Berries	21.7%	3.1
Bone Meal	21.3%	5.1
Dried Sage	21.0%	2.7
Yellow Dock Leaves	20.7%	3.3
Dried Belladonna Flowers	20.3%	3.4
Dried Yellow Dock Leaves	19.7%	3.4
Mugwort Leaves	19.7%	3.1
Dried Yellow Dock Flowers	19.3%	3.5
Mugwort Flowers	19.3%	3.3
Glow Berries	19.3%	2.2
Dried Mandrake Flowers	19.0%	3.2
Mandrake Flowers	19.0%	3.4
Dandelion	18.7%	5.0
Poppy	16.3%	5.2
Mandrake Root	12.7%	2.8
Dried Sage Bundle	3.7%	1.0
Broom Brush	2.3%	1.1
Enhanced Broom Brush	0.7%	1.5

Tips

• Wear Witch Armor. Wearing two or more pieces of Witch Armor stops witches from targeting you, so you can move through a Dark Coven without being attacked by its witches. Two or more pieces also halve the magic damage the wearer takes.
• Set up a Sage Burning Plate. A lit Sage Burning Plate, made from Sage, blocks natural hostile spawns within 48 blocks by default. Placing one at a base or camp near a coven reduces hostile spawns there. Clearing it by day means fewer witches are in play when you visit the herb chests.
• Tame a crow early. A tamed Crow can be set to harvest crops and plants, which can save time when gathering herbs.