Jeebus that’s a lot of detail! The shadings don’t look like a simple gradient fill anymore!

Zecora still living in a treehouse after Twilight lost hers to Tirek.

clearly she moved to a bigger tree.why not?

@Daneasaur  
I can buy that.  

@Smudge_Proof  
Most likely either herbs/mixtures that smell bad and/or repellent for most of the more aggressive creatures in the everfree.

@TexasUberAlles  
Zecora wears belts and suspenders?

Backgrounds keep improving.
 
P.S. My headcanon is: plunderseed vines destroyed her old house, so she made a new, very similar, house.

@TexasUberAlles  
I see, I see.

@Smudge_Proof  
Some of them have stoppers in them, meaning they’ve got something inside; a proper spirit trap is an empty bottle. Zecora doesn’t wear pants, but she’s still a belts-and-suspenders lady, covering as many bases as possible.

@TexasUberAlles  
Thank you, that was interesting.  
The witch bottle part I gather is the shape?

Inb4 The headcanon that we haven’t see Zecora’s NEW hut after the incident with the Tree of Harmony in Season 4, and during Filly Vanilli and Twilight Time, not much of the exterior was shown. Probably during the chaos, her old hut was destroyed/non habitable and she has to either move to a new one. Is possible.

Easily noticeable right away that it was a different hut; everyone else here has already said what I had to say about it, but still, as a remark, that’s quite a progression.
 
I notice here that between the two versions, some of the hanging bottles are still in the same general arrangement, and there’s still that mask leaning outside the door, just on the other side now.

Loving the new place Cora. Always thought you could do with a bit more light and a bit less swamp gas.

@meiyeezhu  
<scrolls down>  
Apparently so!

@cheezedoodle  
Hey, THAT’S WHAT I SAID!!!

Well her house did get overrun by plunder vines, right? Maybe this is a new one.

itt peeps trippin cuz a ol lady move to a new crib
 
@Smudge_Proof  
what are those bottles?  
It’s a combination of witch bottles and a bottle tree. There’s an ancient Congolese tradition of hanging bottles in trees to trap evil spirits and keep them away from a home, and slaves from that region brought the tradition with them to the Caribbean and US Gulf Coast; Voodoo/Voudoun/Vodun practitioners combined that with witch bottles, so now there are trees with glass bottles and jars full of creepy stuff hanging from them out in the swamps from East Texas to Florida.

@ZONESS  
Maybe all of Zecora’s portions are having unforeseen side effects, and causing her home to change as a result?

Wow, the Everfree froest must’ve taken a lot of hits from the Plunderseed infestation, hasn’t it?

I’m really liking the improved visuals from season to season. That said, if this was supposed to be an asset upgrade, I think they botched it. Those two don’t look like the same house, which is a bit of a shame, I liked the overall look of Zecora’s hut like the shape of the tree and how the two windows at the front strongly resemble eyes. Oh well, I’ll miss it, but I’ll be fine with what they’re created here.

looks like a place were rayman would live

@Background Pony Number 17  
But it looked like that for what, four seasons?

@Kamazeustra  
The environment in Equestria is very dependent upon ponies’ emotions. Zecora’s hut is less scary looking now because ponies are no longer afraid of her.

And yet they forgot the new playground set from the episode where the CMC got their cutie marks.

By the way, what are those bottles? Pee jars?