Zecora's Hut

Zecora's Hut (In-Game)

Zecora's Hut (In-Game)

Located in the Everfree Forest, this building is Zecora's former home and contains a minigame where you can create Totems to generate Element Shards by mixing locally gathered ingredients. The Totem needs to be created by mixing three different ingredients, but the order of the ingredients doesn't matter.

If you have run out of an ingredient(s) needed for a mixture, you can still create the mixture by paying gems for the missing ingredient(s) or collect some from the Forest. This cost varies for each ingredient.

Once created, a totem can be placed in one of four slots outside Zecora's Hut where it will generate shards four times. After that, the last time you collect shards from the totem, it will be removed which will give space for another totem.

Totems can be purchased immediately from the Totem Shelf without the need to wait or use ingredients in return for Gems. This is only available for a given totem if it has already been unlocked by finding their ingredient combination at least once. 

In update 4.2, the time it take to create totems have drop significantly along with the time to collect, which means small ones take 40 seconds to create, greater ones take 2 minutes and superior ones take 3 minutes, while the friendship ones, both normal and greater ones, take 5 minutes regardless of how many shards they give. It also means small totems produces once per 30 minutes, greater ones takes 3 hours 30 minutes and superior ones take 6 hours instead.

In update 4.7, totems will instantly disappear after they have finished generating Element Shards.

Note that Zecora's Cottage is a different building - it's Zecora's home in Ponyville.

Ingredients

These can be collected from various places in the forest.

Black Iris

Black Iris is a dark purple flower which it can create a rare totems, such as the friendship totem or the greater friendship totem.

It can be found next to the Castle of the Two Sisters and you need to clear a rock before you can access the expansion it is located in. It can take 8 hrs for this ingredient to grow.

Garlic

Garlic is a vegetable used to create moderate totems. It can be found next to The Tree of Harmony.

Joke Plant

Purple Mushroom

Red Orchid

Sticky Sap

Totems

Regular Totems

Totem	Creation			Operation				Description
	Ingredients	Time	Skip	Shards	Cooldown	Total Time until removal	Skip
Laughter Totem	Purple mushroom Joke plantFile:Zh ingredient joke.png Red orchidFile:Zh ingredient orchid.png (As of 2021)	40s	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	30m	2h	Template:Gem	Produces a small amount of Laughter Shards.
Generosity Totem	Purple MushroomsFile:Zh ingredient mushrooms.png GarlicFile:Zh ingredient garlic.png Red OrchidFile:Zh ingredient orchid.png	40s	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	30m	2h	Template:Gem	Produces a small amount of Generosity Shards.
Kindness Totem	Purple MushroomsFile:Zh ingredient mushrooms.png Joke PlantFile:Zh ingredient joke.png Sticky SapFile:Zh ingredient glue.png	40s	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	30m	2h	Template:Gem	Produces a small amount of Kindness Shards.
Honesty Totem	Purple MushroomsFile:Zh ingredient mushrooms.png Red OrchidFile:Zh ingredient orchid.png Sticky SapFile:Zh ingredient glue.png	40s	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	30m	2h	Template:Gem	Produces a small amount of Honesty Shards.
Loyalty Totem	Red OrchidFile:Zh ingredient orchid.png Joke PlantFile:Zh ingredient joke.png Sticky SapFile:Zh ingredient glue.png	40s	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	30m	2h	Template:Gem	Produces a small amount of Loyalty Shards.
Magic Totem	Black IrisFile:Zh ingredient iris.png Purple MushroomsFile:Zh ingredient mushrooms.png Red OrchidFile:Zh ingredient orchid.png	40s	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	30m	2h	Template:Gem	Produces a small amount of Magic Shards.
Totem of Friendship	Joke PlantFile:Zh ingredient joke.png GarlicFile:Zh ingredient garlic.png Black IrisFile:Zh ingredient iris.png	5m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard Template:Shard Template:Shard Template:Shard Template:Shard Template:Shard	10h	1d 16h	Template:Gem	Produces a medium amount of all Elements of Harmony.

Greater Totems

Totem	Creation			Operation				Description
	Ingredients	Time	Skip	Shards	Cooldown	Total Time until removal	Skip
Greater Laughter Totem	Purple MushroomsFile:Zh ingredient mushrooms.png Joke PlantFile:Zh ingredient joke.png GarlicFile:Zh ingredient garlic.png	2m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	3h 30m	14h	Template:Gem	Produces a moderate amount of Laughter Shards.
Greater Generosity Totem	Purple MushroomsFile:Zh ingredient mushrooms.png Joke PlantFile:Zh ingredient joke.png Black IrisFile:Zh ingredient iris.png	2m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	3h 30m	14h	Template:Gem	Produces a moderate amount of Generosity Shards.
Greater Kindness Totem	Purple MushroomsFile:Zh ingredient mushrooms.png GarlicFile:Zh ingredient garlic.png Sticky SapFile:Zh ingredient glue.png	2m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	3h 30m	14h	Template:Gem	Produces a moderate amount of Kindness Shards.
Greater Honesty Totem	Joke PlantFile:Zh ingredient joke.png GarlicFile:Zh ingredient garlic.png Red OrchidFile:Zh ingredient orchid.png	2m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	3h 30m	14h	Template:Gem	Produces a moderate amount of Honesty Shards.
Greater Loyalty Totem	Red OrchidFile:Zh ingredient orchid.png Joke PlantFile:Zh ingredient joke.png Black IrisFile:Zh ingredient iris.png	2m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	3h 30m	14h	Template:Gem	Produces a moderate amount of Loyalty Shards.
Greater Magic Totem	GarlicFile:Zh ingredient garlic.png Red OrchidFile:Zh ingredient orchid.png Sticky SapFile:Zh ingredient glue.png	2m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	3h 30m	14h	Template:Gem	Produces a moderate amount of Magic Shards.
Greater Totem of Friendship	GarlicFile:Zh ingredient garlic.png Black IrisFile:Zh ingredient iris.png Sticky SapFile:Zh ingredient glue.png	5 mins	Template:Gem	Template:Shard Template:Shard Template:Shard Template:Shard Template:Shard Template:Shard	12h	2d	Template:Gem	Produces a large amount of all Elements of Harmony.

Superior Totems

Totem	Creation			Operation				Description
	width="20%" Ingredients	Time	Skip	Shards	Cooldown	width="14%" Total Time until removal	width="10%" Skip
Superior Laughter Totem	Purple MushroomsFile:Zh ingredient mushrooms.png Black IrisFile:Zh ingredient iris.png Sticky SapFile:Zh ingredient glue.png	3m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	6h	1d	Template:Gem	Produces a great amount of Laughter Shards.
Superior Generosity Totem	Joke PlantFile:Zh ingredient joke.png GarlicFile:Zh ingredient garlic.png Sticky SapFile:Zh ingredient glue.png	3m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	6h	1d	Template:Gem	Produces a great amount of Generosity Shards.
Superior Kindness Totem	Purple MushroomsFile:Zh ingredient mushrooms.png GarlicFile:Zh ingredient garlic.png Black IrisFile:Zh ingredient iris.png	3m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	6h	1d	Template:Gem	Produces a great amount of Kindness Shards.
Superior Honesty Totem	Black IrisFile:Zh ingredient iris.png Red OrchidFile:Zh ingredient orchid.png Sticky SapFile:Zh ingredient glue.png	3m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	6h	1d	Template:Gem	Produces a great amount of Honesty Shards.
Superior Loyalty Totem	Red OrchidFile:Zh ingredient orchid.png GarlicFile:Zh ingredient garlic.png Black IrisFile:Zh ingredient iris.png	3m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	6h	1d	Template:Gem	Produces a great amount of Loyalty Shards.
Superior Magic Totem	Joke PlantFile:Zh ingredient joke.png Black IrisFile:Zh ingredient iris.png Sticky SapFile:Zh ingredient glue.png	3m	Template:Gem	Template:Shard	6h	1d	Template:Gem	Produces a great amount of Magic Shards.