Hexerei Witch Hut

The Hexerei Witch Hut is a small wooden structure on stilts added by Hexerei. It is the mod's starter dwelling for witches: a witch lives inside with a cat and a candle-and-herb workshop, and some variants also hold a broom. It generates in swamp biomes, and the pack's horror changes apply to it, so it is one of the structures in the swamp set that the pack made denser.

The hut is a horror structure in Fear Nightfall. It is part of the Witch Huts set, which the pack spreads more tightly than vanilla, so it can appear in swamps close to other horror sites.

Generation

The hut is a surface_structures placement that spawns in the Overworld in these biomes: Swamp, Willow Swamp (Hexerei's own swamp biome), and the swamp-type biomes added by Biomes O' Plenty (bog, marsh, wetland) and Regions Unexplored (bayou, fen, fungal fen, marsh). It does not generate in any other biome.

In the placement set minecraft:swamp_huts, the hut has a weight of 1 out of a total of 6. The set is shared with the vanilla swamp hut and other mods' witch huts, so the hut is one of several options for a given swamp chunk. The in-game grid spacing is 61 chunks with a separation of 15 chunks. Placement is rare in practice: a 26 km² survey of the pack's swamps found none.

The hut is placed up to 80 blocks from its start point and starts at Y 4. Its start is projected onto the world surface heightmap, so the hut sits on the terrain and is not buried. Its jigsaw depth is 2, which means the hut has at most two rooms or sections branching from its centre.

Layout

The hut is built from wooden planks, stairs, slabs, fences, doors and trapdoors, on a base of stone brick or andesite. The interior holds a bookshelf, a chipped anvil, a campfire, a ladder, and a number of candles, candelabra and herb jars.

There are five template variants, and the start pool picks one of five at random with equal weight: witch_hut, witch_hut2, witch_hut4, witch_hut6 and witch_hut7. Their wood palettes mix spruce, mahogany and willow. The witch_hut4 and witch_hut6 variants use mossy stone brick. The witch_hut4 variant is the largest of the five.

Stilts. Some huts stand over water or uneven ground. The template marks each support pillar with a stained glass pane, and the leg processor replaces it with a log column that extends downward through air, leaves, water, lava and any other block that can be replaced, until it reaches solid ground:

Herb workshop. Each variant has herb jars and herb drying racks, and most have candles and candelabra. The jars store herbs and the racks dry them, which is the same herb crafting loop described under Herb Jar and Herb Drying Rack.

Inhabitants

Each template places one witch and one cat. The witch is the hut's hostile mob. Variants witch_hut6 and witch_hut7 also contain a broom (hexerei:broom) and a Witch Helmet. The hut places no bosses and no spawners.

Loot

The hut's templates contain no chests or other loot containers, so the hut does not have a fixed loot chest. The table below lists the loot that the structure's loot data provides.

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

Mobs placed in the structure: Broom, Cat, Witch

Tips

The witch is placed inside the hut, so deal with it before searching the rooms. Some variants stand on stilts over water or uneven ground, so the entrance is above the surrounding terrain.

A broom is one of the mod's early modes of travel across swamps, and the two variants that include one give an early source of it. The herb jars and drying racks show the herb crafting loop, so it is worth examining them before building a workshop of your own with a Mixing Cauldron.

Swamps are dense with horror structures in this pack. Use the Dark Coven and Witch Huts pages to see which other swamp structures are nearby.