How to build Baobab Savanna Treehouse in Minecraft

A safari lodge built in and around a giant African baobab. The tree's huge bottle-shaped trunk swells out of red-orange earth and tapers to a slim neck crowned with short, stubby branches and sparse leaves. A thatched lodge wraps round the baobab's shoulders on stilts, with four rooms off a shady veranda and a little bar hidden inside the hollow trunk. Rope ladders climb from the ground to the lodge and up through the neck to a viewing deck at the very top, perfect for watching the sun go down. Below, an elephant drinks at the watering hole, a giraffe browses a flat-topped acacia and a campfire glows in the boma. Try it at Sunset.

• DifficultyAdvanced
• Size71 × 63, 39 layers tall
• Blocks9,708
• Build time8–12 hours
• CategoryTreehouses

Open the interactive 3D plan above to build it one layer at a time: every layer has a numbered top-down plan, a block list and full-screen step-by-step instructions you can tick off as you go. You can also download it for Litematica, WorldEdit or Minecraft Bedrock, or view it in your room in AR.

Materials list

Building tips

1. Build the trunk layer by layer from a radius list: 10 at the ground, 9 for the belly, then 8, 7, 6, 5 for the shoulders and 4 for the long neck. Mix white terracotta, light gray terracotta and acacia logs for that smooth grey-pink baobab bark.
2. Keep the trunk hollow. The inside of the belly becomes the bar room and the neck becomes the ladder shaft up to the deck.
3. For the thatched roof, lay one hay bale per column, rising one block for every one to two blocks you move toward the trunk. It forms a gentle cone that meets the baobab neck.
4. Acacias are all about the flat top: a leaning trunk that forks, and one thin wide disc of leaves on each fork. Do not round them off.
5. Red, orange and yellow terracotta with a few patches of orange concrete make savanna earth. Scatter yellow carpet for dry grass.
6. Animals read best as silhouettes. Get the outline right first (long legs and neck for the giraffe, big ears and a trunk for the elephant), then add a few brown patches.
7. Hang lanterns under the eaves and put a campfire in a ring of cobblestone. At sunset the warm lights glow against the orange earth.

Step-by-step: all 39 layers

1. Layer 1 Brown Terracotta ×117
2. Layer 2 Orange Terracotta ×1545, Red Terracotta ×755, Yellow Terracotta ×375, Orange Concrete ×290, Brown Terracotta ×197, Water ×117, Dirt ×20, Cobblestone ×1
3. Layer 3 Yellow Carpet ×179, White Terracotta ×80, Oak Sapling ×72, Orange Carpet ×56, Light Gray Terracotta ×30, Dandelion ×27, Acacia Log ×24, Light Gray Concrete ×12, Brown Terracotta ×9, Cobblestone Slab ×8, Acacia Stairs ×4, Andesite ×4, Acacia Fence ×1, Fire ×1, Ladder ×1
4. Layer 4 White Terracotta ×51, Light Gray Terracotta ×26, Acacia Log ×20, Andesite ×6, Light Gray Concrete ×6, Brown Terracotta ×4, Ladder ×2, Acacia Fence ×1, Yellow Terracotta ×1
5. Layer 5 White Terracotta ×44, Light Gray Terracotta ×27, Acacia Log ×22, Light Gray Concrete ×14, Brown Terracotta ×4, Ladder ×2, Yellow Terracotta ×2, Andesite ×1, Lantern ×1
6. Layer 6 White Terracotta ×43, Light Gray Terracotta ×33, Acacia Log ×24, Light Gray Concrete ×14, Andesite ×6, Brown Terracotta ×4, Ladder ×2, Yellow Terracotta ×2
7. Layer 7 White Terracotta ×49, Light Gray Terracotta ×43, Light Gray Concrete ×26, Acacia Log ×19, Smooth Quartz Slab ×4, Yellow Terracotta ×3, Andesite ×2, Ladder ×2, Brown Terracotta ×1, Dark Oak Fence ×1
8. Layer 8 Light Gray Terracotta ×46, White Terracotta ×36, Light Gray Concrete ×33, Acacia Log ×23, Brown Terracotta ×10, Yellow Terracotta ×9, Andesite ×2, Dark Oak Fence ×2, Ladder ×2
9. Layer 9 Light Gray Terracotta ×44, White Terracotta ×41, Light Gray Concrete ×23, Acacia Log ×19, Yellow Terracotta ×11, Brown Terracotta ×9, Andesite ×6, Black Concrete ×2, Ladder ×2, Dark Oak Fence ×1
10. Layer 10 White Terracotta ×49, Light Gray Terracotta ×41, Acacia Log ×18, Light Gray Concrete ×11, Andesite ×6, Brown Terracotta ×4, Yellow Terracotta ×3, Ladder ×2
11. Layer 11 Light Gray Terracotta ×37, White Terracotta ×36, Acacia Log ×34, Ladder ×2, Yellow Terracotta ×2, Brown Terracotta ×1
12. Layer 12 White Terracotta ×50, Acacia Leaves ×49, Acacia Log ×43, Light Gray Terracotta ×22, Brown Terracotta ×2, Ladder ×2, Yellow Terracotta ×1
13. Layer 13 Acacia Leaves ×175, White Terracotta ×40, Acacia Log ×32, Light Gray Terracotta ×30, Brown Terracotta ×6, Ladder ×2
14. Layer 14 Acacia Planks ×496, Acacia Leaves ×236, Acacia Slab ×136, White Terracotta ×60, Light Gray Terracotta ×42, Acacia Log ×10, Brown Terracotta ×6, Ladder ×2, Yellow Terracotta ×1
15. Layer 15 Acacia Leaves ×124, Acacia Fence ×83, Acacia Planks ×66, Acacia Log ×27, White Terracotta ×24, Light Gray Terracotta ×16, Birch Planks ×12, Orange Carpet ×11, Red Carpet ×7, Acacia Stairs ×6, Acacia Door ×4, Bookshelf ×4, Brown Terracotta ×2, Chest ×2, Red Bed ×2, White Bed ×2, Yellow Terracotta ×2, Acacia Slab ×1, Crafting Table ×1, Hay Bale ×1, Ladder ×1, Lantern ×1
16. Layer 16 White Terracotta ×44, Birch Planks ×40, Acacia Log ×31, Light Gray Terracotta ×31, Glass Pane ×28, Acacia Leaves ×21, Acacia Slab ×6, Brown Terracotta ×4, Lantern ×2, Yellow Terracotta ×2, Ladder ×1
17. Layer 17 Birch Planks ×40, Acacia Log ×29, Glass Pane ×28, White Terracotta ×23, Light Gray Terracotta ×10, Yellow Terracotta ×3, Black Concrete ×2, Brown Terracotta ×2, Lantern ×2, Ladder ×1
18. Layer 18 Birch Planks ×68, Acacia Log ×36, Light Gray Terracotta ×35, White Terracotta ×34, Lantern ×16, Brown Terracotta ×3, Dark Oak Fence ×2, Ladder ×1
19. Layer 19 Hay Bale ×180, Birch Planks ×72, Acacia Log ×32, White Terracotta ×20, Light Gray Terracotta ×14, Brown Terracotta ×2, Ladder ×1
20. Layer 20 Hay Bale ×128, Birch Planks ×56, White Terracotta ×40, Acacia Log ×29, Light Gray Terracotta ×17, Brown Terracotta ×2, Ladder ×1, Lantern ×1
21. Layer 21 Hay Bale ×132, Birch Planks ×12, Light Gray Terracotta ×11, White Terracotta ×10, Acacia Log ×5, Brown Terracotta ×2, Ladder ×1
22. Layer 22 Hay Bale ×128, White Terracotta ×31, Light Gray Terracotta ×20, Acacia Log ×5, Birch Planks ×4, Brown Terracotta ×4, Ladder ×1
23. Layer 23 Hay Bale ×80, Light Gray Terracotta ×16, White Terracotta ×15, Birch Planks ×4, Acacia Log ×1, Ladder ×1
24. Layer 24 Hay Bale ×76, White Terracotta ×24, Light Gray Terracotta ×5, Acacia Log ×3, Ladder ×1
25. Layer 25 Hay Bale ×68, White Terracotta ×17, Light Gray Terracotta ×9, Acacia Log ×4, Brown Terracotta ×2, Ladder ×1
26. Layer 26 White Terracotta ×18, Light Gray Terracotta ×8, Acacia Log ×5, Brown Terracotta ×1, Ladder ×1
27. Layer 27 White Terracotta ×15, Light Gray Terracotta ×14, Acacia Log ×3, Ladder ×1
28. Layer 28 White Terracotta ×15, Light Gray Terracotta ×12, Acacia Log ×5, Ladder ×1
29. Layer 29 White Terracotta ×19, Light Gray Terracotta ×10, Acacia Log ×2, Brown Terracotta ×1, Ladder ×1
30. Layer 30 White Terracotta ×26, Light Gray Terracotta ×13, Brown Terracotta ×4, Acacia Log ×1, Ladder ×1
31. Layer 31 White Terracotta ×27, Light Gray Terracotta ×23, Acacia Log ×6, Brown Terracotta ×2, Ladder ×1
32. Layer 32 White Terracotta ×50, Light Gray Terracotta ×33, Acacia Log ×7, Brown Terracotta ×3, Ladder ×1
33. Layer 33 Acacia Planks ×136, Acacia Slab ×40, Acacia Log ×14, Ladder ×1, Light Gray Terracotta ×1
34. Layer 34 Acacia Fence ×41, Acacia Log ×14, Acacia Stairs ×5, Acacia Slab ×2
35. Layer 35 Acacia Log ×14, Lantern ×8, Acacia Fence ×1
36. Layer 36 Acacia Leaves ×45, Acacia Log ×14, Acacia Fence ×1
37. Layer 37 Acacia Leaves ×182, Hay Bale ×21, Acacia Log ×7
38. Layer 38 Acacia Leaves ×114, Hay Bale ×1
39. Layer 39 Acacia Leaves ×37

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