Yoda's Hut

For other uses, see Hut.

Yoda's Hut or Yoda's house was both the home and final resting place of Yoda, Grand Master of the Jedi Order.

Description

Yoda's Hut,^[2] also known as Yoda's house,^[3] was simple,^[2] sturdy,^[4] hand-built^[3] hut^[2] worked into the roots of an old, immense,^[4] fearsome-looking^[2] gnarltree on the planet Dagobah. The home was located atop a moss-covered knoll at the edge of a^[3] deep^[4] sweet water lagoon^[3] that never flooded.^[4] The hut, which was small in size, was constructed^[4] using the wattle-and-daub building method^[3] with mud, stones, tree limbs, and cut vine. The house featured a curved, flowing design that went along with the natural order of the swamp.^[4] Leaves, roots and vines covered the exterior of the hut and local twigs and grasses reinforced the home's plaster.^[3]

Yoda's house was comprised of three parts: a sitting room, a kitchen, and a small sleeping loft. The sturdy and waterproof foundation of the home was made from spacecraft deck-plating, and the floor was covered with low-fire clay tiles grouted with mortar. The house had skylights^[3] and small windows that almost appeared like balefully glowing eyes gazing out into darkness. This was caused by the heavy upper lid that kept the near-constant rain of Dagobah out of the house.^[4] The windowpanes were possibly made from precious gems or from transparisteel viewports of an abandoned vessel.^[3] The sitting area was accessed by a small entrance^[4] that incorporated the nozzle system of a spacecraft from the era of the Galactic Republic.^[3] The entrance tunnel sloped down to the swamps and prevented water from getting into the house.^[4]

History

hut, . — Yoda's hut, five years after his death.

Though he was largely undisturbed in his humble abode, there were rare cases in which Yoda's privacy was intruded upon.

A clone of Galen Marek, Starkiller, met Yoda when he visited Dagobah to find himself.^[5]

Rebel pilot Luke Skywalker landed on Dagobah to find Yoda at the behest of Obi-Wan Kenobi's Force ghost. After landing in the swamp, Skywalker met the Jedi Master, who took him back to his hut.^[1] Skywalker later had to find his way back to the hut as part of his training.^[6] He would return sometime later to complete his training, but found Yoda to be nearing the end of his life, and remained at his Master and friend's bedside as the last of the Jedi entrusted their kind's future to Luke and peacefully passed on to the afterlife. From then on, Yoda's hut went dark and would remain uninhabited.

Arhul Hextrophon met Yoda here, although the scholar kept it to himself.

Behind the scenes

Concept art by . — Concept art by Ralph McQuarrie.

Originally Yoda's hut was to resemble a mosque with stained glass windows, though this concept was abandoned to illustrate the Jedi's minimalist outlook. It was probably also deserted for purely practical reasons. Because of the combination of the hut's small quarters and the puppeteers operating Yoda, any action in the hut required the moves to be carefully plotted beforehand to allow for good camera angles. It had walls thick enough that insects took a long time to make their way in.

In the 2001 LucasArts video game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Yoda's Hut, along with Yoda, Skywalker, and R2-D2, appeared as an easter egg in the third level of the Gungan campaign; "Raid on Spearhead." The hut can be seen if the player uses a cheat code to explore the inaccessible areas of the map, and can also be placed in player-made levels in the scenario editor.^[7]