A special way of the dispersed settlement formation in Slovakia is the change of seasonal/branch farms to permanent ones. An example of this process is the changes of settlements outside the village of Muránska Zdychava in the 20th century. Settlements outside the village – stodola – irregularly situated on both hill-sides of the riverlet Zdychava are characteristic for the village. Their existence was caused by the way of farming specialized in cattle, low soil quality and extremely articulated, hardly accessible terrain with large height differences. They have been of seasonal as well as permanent character, and primarily only agricultural. Up to the first third of the century, permanently settled buildings were situated only in the village. The central building of these settlements outside the village was a large polyfunctional building – stodola – serving as the barn and as a storage house for fodder. It also saturated other functions in traditional farm yard fulfilled by various other buildings. The special way of agricultural use of the neighborhood of villages determines also characteristic dwelling features. The separation of the farm yard from the house caused the special form of double-residence typical for this village. From the thirties of the present century the division of immovable properties in large families caused the elimination of double-residence, settlements and farm complexes have been formed in one yard. The settlement outside the village changed the local specific double-residential model to a permanent kopanitse settlement. At the same time individual variants of the older model have been conserved. From the seventies onwards these settlements outside the village of Muránska Zdychava are gradually dilapidating, are being damaged, many of them were put down and disappeared.