YUNG's Better Witch Huts in All the Mods 10

YUNG's Better Witch Huts overhauls the witch huts you find in swamps. It adds several new hut variants that can spawn, plus a witch's circle. If you're exploring swamps for loot, this mod gives you more to find than the vanilla hut.^[1]

The huts have better designs and more meaningful loot. Brewing stands inside may also hold items that hint at some of vanilla's potion recipes, so check them before you leave.^[1]

In this pack

This pack includes version 1.21.1-NeoForge-4.1.1 of the mod. It has been in the pack since All the Mods 10 1.0 or earlier.^[2]

The mod is meant to work with every worldgen mod. Its project page lists YUNG's Better Mineshafts, Better Strongholds, Better Desert Temples, Better Ocean Monuments, YUNG's Extras and YUNG's Bridges as examples.^[1]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Good news: there's nothing to craft before you start with this one. YUNG's Better Witch Huts is a world-generation mod. It adds overhauled witch huts to swamps, so your first step is to go and find them.^[1]

What you'll find

• Multiple new hut variants that can spawn, plus a witch's circle.^[1]
• Better hut designs and more meaningful loot than the vanilla huts.^[1]
• Brewing stands that may contain items hinting at some of vanilla's potion recipes. Check them before you leave.^[1]

Vanilla huts are off by default

By default, vanilla witch huts no longer spawn, so the huts you find in swamps are the new ones. If you want the old ones back, the mod's config has an option for that.^[1][3]

Unverified The sources I was given don't confirm any crafting recipes, quests or guidebook entries for this mod in the pack, so there is no recommended first item to make.

YUNG's Better Witch Huts is a worldgen mod that overhauls witch huts in swamps. It adds several hut variants and a witch's circle, with better designs and more meaningful loot. So the mechanics worth knowing are how the structures generate, what spawns in them and what is in their chests.^[1]

Where the structures generate

The new witch huts can generate in swamp and mangrove swamp biomes. They also accept swamp biomes from other mods, as long as those biomes carry the optional swamp tags in the biome list. The witch's circle is a bit pickier: it uses swamp plus the same optional swamp tags, but mangrove swamp is not in its list.^[4][5]

Both structures use random spread placement. Huts have a spacing of 30 and a separation of 8. Circles are rarer, with a spacing of 40 and a separation of 10.^[6][7]

By default, vanilla witch huts no longer spawn, and the mod's config can bring them back. The option is described as whether or not vanilla witch huts should be disabled.^[1][3]

Unverified Which config file holds the option that controls vanilla witch huts is not shown in the sources here, so check the pack's config folder in game.

How a hut gets built

Both structures are built with the YUNG's API jigsaw system and generate in the surface structures step. They have a size of 20 and a maximum distance from center of 80. They are projected onto the world surface heightmap and ignore waterlogging.^[8][9]

A hut picks its starting piece from a pool with equal weights: a small hut, a large hut or a double hut. The witch's circle pool has just one piece, the circle itself.^[10][11]

Every one of those pieces runs through the same processor list: leg, fence leg, witch circle, brewing stand and potted mushroom. Their names hint at what they touch, but the sources don't spell out exactly what each one does. The mod's description does say that brewing stands may contain items hinting at some of vanilla's potion recipes.^{[1][10][11][12]}

Mobs

The huts and the circle have the same spawn overrides, limited to the bounding box of each piece. A witch can spawn in the monster category and a cat in the creature category, each with weight 1 and a group of exactly 1.^[8][9]

Hut loot

The sources include a chest loot table called hut_0. It has an ingredient pool and a potion pool, and each pool rolls a random number of times within a range.^[13]

• Common ingredient entries, each at weight 10 with a random stack size: Sugar, Gunpowder, Carrot, Redstone, Spider Eye and Slime Ball.^[13]
• Pufferfish and Phantom Membrane are less common, with weight 5 against 10 for the common items.^[13]
• Rabbit Foot is the rarest ingredient, at weight 1.^[13]
• The potion pool gives Potion in water, swiftness, night vision and invisibility. It also gives Splash Potion in weakness, harming and slowness. Each of these entries has a weight of 10.^[13]

This mod adds structures to find rather than items to craft, so progression here is about knowing where to look and what you can loot. Witch huts generate in swamp and mangrove swamp biomes, and the witch circle generates in swamp biomes. Swamp biomes from other mods can count too, if they use the common swamp tags.^[4][5]

Finding the structures

• Witch hut: placed with a spacing of 30 and a separation of 8. It can appear in swamps and mangrove swamps.^[4][7]
• Witch circle: placed with a spacing of 40 and a separation of 10, and only in swamp biomes. Its spacing is wider than the hut's.^[5][6]

Hut loot

The mod ships a chest loot table called hut_0. Its first pool is made of common witch ingredients. Sugar, Gunpowder, Carrot, Redstone, Spider Eye and Slime Ball all share a weight of 10. Pufferfish and Phantom Membrane are less likely at weight 5, and Rabbit Foot is the rarest at weight 1.^[13]

The second pool is potions, all at equal weight 10. You can get water, swiftness, night vision and invisibility as normal potions, and weakness, harming and slowness as splash potions.^[13]

Unverified The sources here do not show which structure piece uses the hut_0 loot table. The structure and template pool files for the hut and circle were too long to include, so the link between this chest and a specific building is not confirmed.

All the Mods 10 8.2 ships YUNG's Better Witch Huts at version 1.21.1-NeoForge-4.1.1, and the mod has been in the pack since All the Mods 10 1.0 or earlier. There are no pack changelog entries for this mod, so everything below comes from the mod's own changelogs.^[2]

4.1.1

• The minimum version requirements were lowered so the mod works on both 1.21 and 1.21.1. This is the version your pack uses.^[2][14]

4.1.0

• The mod was ported to 1.21.1.^[15]
• Brewing stands now have a chance of an extra output potion.^[15]
• All structure NBT files were updated.^[15]

The changelogs don't give a chance value for the extra brewing stand potion, so check the in-game behavior yourself before relying on it.^[15]