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A village built, as the name suggests, entirely out of treehouses. Rope bridges typically connect the structures to one another, and ladders are typically used to access the community from ground level.
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Compare [[Treehouse of Fun]].
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== Comic Books ==
* [http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/365fourth/2010/10/day-11-habitat/ Habitat], from the [[Jack Kirby]] run on ''[[Superman]]'s Pal Jimmy Olsen''. It was inhabited by a biker gang by the time Jimmy and company stumbled across it, but it was built by The Hairies, [[Our Elves Are Different|youthful super-geniuses]] created by a [[Secret Project Refugee Family|secret government genetic engineering project]].
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* The home of Prince Barran's forest people in ''[[Flash Gordon (comic strip)|Flash Gordon]]''.
* The home of the Rope People in ''[[The Phantom (comic strip)|The Phantom]]''.
== Tabletop Games ==
* Canonical for the Wood elves in many [[Dungeons
** Basic D&D supplement ''[http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=5124 The Elves of Alfheim]'' ([[Mystara]]). In Alfheim the elves have various tree houses connected by ladders and catwalks. The area "Sky City" in Alfheim Town is a network of rope bridges and catwalks connecting "treeforts" in the huge Sentinel Trees
** And then "you'll walk right under it and never notice" type of Wood Elf settlements everywhere.
* The old Role Aids supplement "Giants" has a race of forest-loving giants, who live in a
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* There's one of these in ''[[Threads of Fate]]'', with tons of respawning mooks that are easy to [[Level Grinding|grind]] with.
* Ellinia in ''[[Maple Story]]''.
* In ''[[Wizardry]] 8'', Trynton, home of the Trynnie, is an uber-example of the Treetop Town: seven "boughs" (varying areas), with one of the boughs being infested by the Rattkin.
** To some extent, [[Wizardry]] VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant did this as well with the "Rattkin Ruins," although without 3D the effect is far less dramatic.
* Played with in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'': [[Winged Humanoid|Arakkoa]] villages are textbook examples: Ground access is via a winding staircase within the tree, and most inhabitants live on interconnected platforms on top of the strongest branches. Darnassus, the Night Elven capital city is built on top of the giant tree Teldrassil, but is fairly level and has streets and stone structures. Troll villages, like Zabra'jin, are on the ground but are constructed out of wood and have rope bridges connecting the upper floors.
* The wood elf city of Kelethin in ''[[EverQuest]]'' is this, complete with a lack of railings on the platforms and bridges, and numerous newbie corpses littering the ground below.
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The Noob]]'' [http://
{{quote|'''Leggolas''': Alas, our numbers are dwindling... as humans multiply in their cities of stone, the elven race is dying off! Only a few ever get past level one and forth to a life of adventure!
'''Ohforf''': Why?
'''Leggolas''': Who knows? *sigh*
'''a new PC''': Yo, guys, where's the bank''[[No OSHA Compliance|aaaaAAAAAH]]'' }}
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has Tree-Top Towns [[In Space]]! That is, [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-05-01 colony trees] of the Esspererin ("solar powered robo-fairies); there seems to be a whole ecosystem based on those, thanks to [[Mechanical Evolution]].
** The Fethrell (sapient dinosaurs from Earth [[Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs|accidentally doomed]] and then saved from extinction by passing aliens) built a [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-10-13 treetop house] (on Cretaceous redwoods) as an "embassy". The visiting side is somewhat desensitized, seeing how the locals just gave the ambassador a ride on [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] and all this happens in a "park" inside an extragalactic worldship the size of a modest gas giant to begin with.
{{quote|'''Sorlie''': Bonus points for sense of wonder, but I'm not really keeping score. }}
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== Real Life ==
* The [[wikipedia:Korowai|Korowai]] tribe of Papua New Guinea live in tree houses 100 feet up to escape floods and predators, according to ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_19286_9-houses-you-wont-believe-people-actually-live-in_p2.html 9 Houses You Won't Believe People Actually Live In] and [http://www.cracked.com/article_19976_6-isolated-groups-who-had-no-idea-that-civilization-existed.html 6 Isolated Groups Who Had No Idea That Civilization Existed].
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