History Main / ArborealAbode

* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' Classic supplement ''Alien Module 8 - Darrians: Secret of the Star Trigger''. When the Darrians were first brought to their new planet they lived inside large hollowed out trees. The trees grew nutritious fruits for them to eat.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':

* In the ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'' Cornelius lives in a tree, with windows and doors carved into it, and a library on the inside. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Lucky thing the humans never notice it later in the film.]]

* ''Film/IntoTheWoods''. Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother lives inside a hollowed-out tree, with all of the furniture you would expect to find in a normal cottage.

** ''Magazine/{{Polyhedron}}'' magazine #49, article "The For-Rest Inn". The title inn is a giant hollowed-out oak tree in Ravenloft, the Living City. It is also the home of the innkeeper, the dryad Thistledew Vine.

* Ashe of ''WebOriginal/ThrillingIntent'' grew up a house carved into the trunk of a large tree.

* Protagonists of the ''Literature/InDesertAndWilderness'' at one moment live in a naturally hollowed-out trunk of a baobab tree. It's treated fairly realistically - they have to clear layers of compost and get out various previous inhabitants, such as insects and reptiles, but the trunk still provides better shelter than tents.

* ''Literature/BooksOfTheRaksura'': The "mountain-trees" are colossal magical trees, hundreds or thousands of yards high, whose branches and canopies support entire ecosystems, including forests of smaller trees. To create colonies, the DraconicHumanoid Raksura implant a mountain-tree with a magical seed that lets them shape the tree's growth and form huge networks of rooms within the trunk. [[spoiler:The downside of this is that a shaped tree will slowly die if its seed is removed.]]

** Twilight Sparkle used to live in a tree which had room not only for living quarters, but for an entire library. [[spoiler:It's destroyed in ''Twilight's Kingdom Part II'', prompting her to move into a castle made of crystal instead, though even that looks somewhat treelike and [[ItMakesSenseInContext came from a tree]].]]
** Zecora also lives inside of a tree, though hers has fewer books and more [[WitchDoctor cauldrons and medicinal herbs]].
** Mage Meadowbrook likewise lived inside a large tree in the Hayseed Swamp, and her descendant Cattail still does. When Twilight and Fluttershy visit in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E18AHealthOfInformation A Health of Information]]", Twilight remarks that "anyone who lives in a tree is okay by me", in a callback to her own tree-based house.

* One pops up in the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''Small Magic''. The town where Janus castle is located is built atop the roots of a giant tree, and the tree itself has been transformed into the royal palace.

* One pops up in the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''Small Magic''. The town where Janice's castle is located is built atop the roots of a giant tree, and the tree itself has been transformed into the royal palace.

** ''The Horde'' boxed set. In the forests of the Ama Basin can be found Panjuis, the Pixie Fortress. It consists of three giant trees grown together and hollowed out.

* Terezi from Webcomic/[[Homestuck]] lived in one of these, and used the branches to hang the stuffed animals she found guilty.

** The hippogriffs of Mount Aris live in house built into enormous living trees, with doors at their bases, windows spiraling up their trunks and large, glass-sided chambers nested in the canopies, their walls growing directly from the trunks. The effect is that their city looks as much like a lush, open forest as it does like a typical settlement.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Twilight Sparkle used to live in a tree which had room not only for living quarters, but for an entire library. [[spoiler:It's destroyed in ''Twilight's Kingdom Part II'', prompting her to move into a castle made of crystal instead, though even that looks somewhat treelike and [[ItMakesSenseInContext came from a tree]].]]

* Home Tree in ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' is honeycombed with natural spaces where the Na'vi live.

* In ''Literature/MySideOfTheMountain'' Sam makes his home in a tree. Probably one of the more realistic examples you're likely to find.

* Telvanni wizards from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' live in humongous tree-like fungi. There are natural tree-sized mushrooms in ''Morrowind'', but the Telvanni towers are grown from the bottom up in a process involving magic and are ''much'' larger (and varied in shape).

If you can play through one of those in a video game, then it's a TreeTrunkTour as well. See also TreeTopTown and TreehouseOfFun.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Twilight Sparkle used to live in a tree which had room not only for living quarters, but for an entire library. [[spoiler:It's destroyed in ''Twilight's Kingdom Part II'', prompting her to move into a castle made of crystal instead.]]