You create a hardened soil cottage out of the materials on the ground in range which lifts from the earth and shapes itself in front of you after casting. The cottage is 8ft high and has a maximum horizontal length of 30 ft. The cottage has a single, dry flat floor, and comes equipped with a sturdy door (if wood is available), two window holes (with wood shutters), eight rectangular soft earth platforms (to put your bedrolls on), a dining table, eight stools, a writing desk, and a small basic fireplace (made of stone). The chimney is a simple pillar to the ceiling above the fireplace, and you decide if the chimney and window holes are added or not during casting. If no wood is available then the furniture will be made of primitive but effective sculpted earth, and there will be no door, just a simple rectangular hole. The spell can only use what is in range and does not create any extra material. Furniture is primitive and not very valuable for sale. The spell creates the cottage permanently but it still can collapse fairly quickly if left exposed to strong weathering for several weeks. The structure can also collapse if you make an unbalanced design (such as unsupported ceilings which will fall down). You only create objects you already know, and structure components you have previously seen before. The spell can be used to create a basic floating raft from wood. The spell comes in useful when used in difficult environments not suited to a tent such as in harsh winds, or if you need a more comfortable and secure place to camp. In an arctic biome the spell can use ice and packed snow for a dome shaped igloo, creating near transparent ice windows if desired, but remember that igloos will still have a freezing interior, and the ice structure melts if exposed to too much heat.
At Higher Levels: When cast at 9th level, the casting time is 8 hours, and the length is increased to 50 ft. If bountiful amounts of materials are present, the spell can be used to create a beautiful wooden Elven mansion with several floors, complete with graceful arches, balconies, staircases, and carved wooden decorations, or if there is enough rock material present, a Dwarven stone mansion. This is useful underground, for the Dwarf variant, and in forests for the Elf variant. The furniture sculpted is still basic, but attractively minimalist. If you want to sell furniture you created with this spell, ask your DM for its value (low to moderate). You can also cast the spell at 9th level to transform a large amount of wood into an equally large and elaborate ship (wood parts only) using a design that you know. The ship will be accurate only to how you remember the design (if you design it poorly it can collapse, or too heavy and it will sink).
* - (a small clay house figurine, a pinch of crushed lime, which the spell consumes)