May 29, 2025

Lego story #072: My Minecraft adventure (Part 4)

Welcome to the jungle.

21125 The Jungle Treehouse is the biggest Minecraft set I've built. It's also my last.

We get a whopping four characters and two animals. Creeper, Steve, Alex, Skeleton, Ocelot, and Sheep.



There's something charming about those cross-eyed and wall-eyed look.


Play feature number one: You can go up and down the waterfall.



Play feature two: You can make the stairs topple, stop enemies from climbing up the treehouse.




A pen for the sheep. I suppose the ocelot can go in too, if the sheep permits.


 Bucket of water next to the lava? Curious.


Someone's planted crops on top of this tree.


Cocoa plant hanging over a chest with a silver sword and cookies. Opposite the chest is a requisite crafting table.


Play feature three: Trapdoor in front of the bedroom.



Back view of the set.


Lookout tower above the bedroom.



You can detach the lookout tower and plonk it neatly above the sheep pen. It's an alternate build suggested in the instruction manual.



I prefer the original look to the one above.

The instruction manual also provides another alternate build, one that takes actual rebuilding, not merely shifting a few chunks. This build sacrifices trees to make a green wall with a giant creeper face. Like so:


As with 21243 The Frozen Peaks, I made a small modification inspired by 21134 The Waterfall Base: a tiled floor, plus the addition of swords and potions. It's an armory!




Like all the Minecraft sets I've built, the color palette is pleasing. The design is really nice too: for something so blocky in appearance and simple enough for a kid to build, the Jungle Treehouse looks sophisticated, for a Minecraft set at least.

And it comes no less than four minifigures and two brick-built animals. Bonus points for the cute yellow ocelot.

In my final MC post, I'll show how my four sets look when combined.