LEGO Set 75636-1 – Windmill Village Hut: Alternate Build Possibilities

If you’ve picked up LEGO Set 75636-1 – Windmill Village Hut (from the One Piece lineup), you’ve got far more than just a quaint seaside hut and a windmill—this parts selection is a pocket-sized sandbox for creative re-imaginations. Compact sets like this are perfect “daily drivers” for alternate builds: they’re quick to dismantle, easy to experiment with, and surprisingly versatile thanks to a mixture of earth-tones, textured masonry elements, sloped roof pieces, window frames, and a handful of technic pins and brackets to lock everything together. With those ingredients, you can pivot from rustic architecture to small fantasy vessels, micro-scale scenery, stylized animals, or even kinetic minis that borrow the windmill’s motion cues.

A smart way to approach alternates here is to think in clusters of parts: the windmill axle + blades suggest motion (great for boats, weather vanes, or tiny waterwheels); the wall panels + plates lend themselves to micro houses, lighthouses, watchtowers, or medieval façades; and the color palette supports coastal themes (piers, barges, huts on stilts) as well as countryside scenes. Because it’s a single-set challenge, constraints become creative prompts—“how do I suggest a sail with only these wedge plates?” or “can I tile a deck using the spare ingots and jumpers?” The result is a build session that feels like rapid prototyping: try, tweak, refine.

Alternate Builds 

The Sea Nomad

Designer: lux.bricks

Get the instructions: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-237818/lux.bricks/the-sea-nomad/