Northold Hollows

Northold Hollows
Survival 4 Beagle
Tableau, at the heart of the Hollows, frames the storage room and smelter. The Willow Rock can be seen at the foreground, where mobs drop to their demise persistently to this day.
Base
World	Survival 4 (Beagle)
Founded	5th November, 2020
Transport	Adjacent Chaincastle Station Beside the 3,000th mark; across Chaincastle Station portal
Map

"Ya boi's man cave built in the wrong update."

eybwam

Northold Hollows, or the Hollows, was the subterranean Survival 4 residence of  eybwam on the Dogcraft Server. It was founded on the 5^th of November 2020 in a snowy taiga hills biome about 2,900 blocks north of Camp Beagle. Taking 16 months to build, it was completed on the 10^th of March 2022, four days before reset.

Foundation and Early History

Northold Hollows was born as a starter base carved straight into the side of Mount Phantom, a snowy taiga hill. The site was surprisingly unoccupied, considering it bordered  xcoffeequeenx to the east and Chaincastle Station to the west. In its earliest days, the location was originally intended as a starter branch mine but was later reconsidered upon the discovery of four cave spider spawners and an urgent need for an xp grinder. With a majority of its natural subterranean features removed, only one spawner was left intact.

Architecture

Premeditated on a 'modern mineshaft' concept, it was later deemed as artistically limiting after the first two rooms were built. Later expansion saw the base designed in a variety of historic styles while maintaining a mix of Beaux-Arts style, with decorative Renaissance and Neoclassical cues throughout, and a rustic contemporary theme to anchor them with the Hollow’s early modern construction. Some of the room's profusions of motifs and materials were indicative of eybwam's love for display. The decision for a majority of the room's palette stemmed from a prior assessment/query for each namesake's associated/favourite colour.

Layout

Situated at the heart of an abandoned mineshaft, the Hollows enclosed a claimed area of 12,580 blocks with a further six unclaimed blocks cardinally around it, except to the east, constituting the entirety of Northold — land under direct influence of eybwam and reserved for future underground expansion. Deliberately orientated with its longest side parallel to Beagle SRN North Line, it dominated a stretch of aboveground land for reservation. Although slightly deforested, the unexceptional features of Mount Phantom and the surrounding land belied the wealth of detail found underneath.

The Hollows boasted 54 unique rooms laid out across three floors. The first two floors contained the Tableau which housed the Willow Rock situated at the very center of the base and was the earliest built part of the Hollows. Willow Rock was a three by three polished blackstone slab that served as the splat point for the mob farm 27 blocks above. Encircling the Tableau was a variety of rooms connected by the Vintage Corridors, an enclosure of hallways. The Vintage Corridors connecting the principal areas displayed a collection of Cyberdog-given items that eybwam kept as mementos. Although there were several phases of expansion after its foundation, the general layout remained the same.

First Floor

Most of the principal areas of the Hollows can be found on the first floor. These included the three-floor storage room, the smelter area and armory, the Tableau, the Ingress Foyer, the Ore Atrium, and Zac Hall. together with areas devoted to farms and trading halls, such as Xenocrates Court and Hermittwt Chamber, respectively. The remaining principal area, Summer Residence, was located on the third floor. Of the 54 unique rooms, 19 were located on this level.

Ingress Foyer

Designed to be ill-lit and intimidating, the Ingress Foyer served as the primary reception area from visitors entering via the nether. It featured a diamond-centered chandelier suspended from a domed smooth sandstone ceiling, accented by the light cyan tone of stripped warped stem. Flanked by black stained glass floors and basalt columns, a sandstone path emerged from the tetrastyle portico framing the main nether portal to lay out the arrangement of entry into the Ore Atrium and Tableau.

Ore Atrium

The Atrium was built to pay homage to eybwam's first mined ores in Dogcraft. It’s described by eybwam as ‘so far the closest Northold gets to lavish memorial services’⁽ᵃ⁾. Two rows of four embedded dark oak wood columns lined the width of the Atrium and were richly decorated at the base. Wall portraits made from various ores and glazed terracotta complete what has been described as a ‘tour de force of Minecraft decoration’.

Xenocrates Court

Named after  xenocrates32, Xenocrates (zen-ock-kra-teez) Court stored the string collected from the cave spider farm situated behind it.

Construction of the room had countlessly been delayed due to ‘indecisiveness over farm design’ — between an automated one or a manual xp farm. The farm had to be finalized first before construction of the room even began. In mid-November 2020, xenocrates32 asked eybwam if they could use the farm’s output to supplement their gaming district’s demand for wool⁽ᵇ⁾. From there, the farm saw multiple reworks before settling on an automatic cactus-trap design. A striped tone to tone wall bathed the room to create a cohesive yet cozy feeling within the space. Aside from associating red with xenocrates32, the warm palette filled with red shades was chosen by eybwam to also offset the room's softer colours.

Hermittwt Chamber

Hermittwt Chamber, named after the unofficial Hermitcraft Twitter fandom, functioned as the venue for cartographer trading until the construction of a new dedicated cartographer trading room. It featured a patterned floor and barrel vault ceiling supported by decorative endstone columns. The walls of the chamber consisted of vertical alternating stripes of clay and light blue terracotta, and were decorated with a gallery of maps, including those of the City of Alina and Camp Beagle’s. A floor-to-ceiling fireplace was the chamber’s centerpiece, with Northold’s coat-of-arms resting on its mantel. The Chamber served as the lobby for the six villager trading rooms in the Hollows:

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  Named after  darparniox, Darp Archives was a 30-librarian trading hall heavily inspired by Neoclassical and Tuscan interior design. A catalog of select Cyberdog-written books were kept here. It was the sole trading hall located on the second floor.

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  Cartographer's Quarters was the cartographer trading hall that showcased an array of select treasure maps, including an exclusive first edition Alina Sea Chart by  mrkalaspuff, that eybwam accumulated throughout Survival 4's duration.

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  Directly across the Tableau, Mason Division was a Tudor- and Italianate-styled room that served as the Hollow's mason trading hall. A stone generator was neatly tucked into one of its walls.

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  Ashapink Conservatory, named after  ashapink, was a greenhouse-inspired trading hall where a melon and pumpkin farm hid behind its length. The first pink tulip eybwam received from her was prominently framed here.

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  42 quartz block, pillar mini blocks embellish the crown molding at Mrkalaspuff Lodge, the Hollow's tool smith trading room.

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  Sten Bar, designed as a game room bar, was the Hollow's cleric trading room. The Sten heads the villagers were wearing were a product of an afternoon full of laughs and mischief.

Zac Hall Visitor Centre

Regarded by eybwam as his first contact on the server,  zacattack2097's namesake room, the Zac Hall Visitor Centre, was the first pair of rooms to welcome anyone who arrived via the public home system. In the initial encounter, zacattack2097 surprised a mine shaft-clearing eybwam with a Pass-It-On Box full of mob heads, inspired by a gift-giving series that ran during HermitCraft Season Seven. Drawing from the namesake's fondness of mob/staff heads, this room displayed a small collection of memorable rare heads eybwam obtained from various people, contests, and events. Kanji map arts from the Four Elements Collection were also displayed here. A blue orchid flower from one of zacattack2097's random shulker box gifts was potted prominently in front of the warp point.

Other Rooms and Features

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  After sporadic episodes of Fox Flu throughout May 2021, this enclosure was built to be the new 'forever home' pen of eybwam and  zacattack2097's arctic foxes.

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  Loungie, a pormanteau of lounge and the room's namesake,  colliecolie, was a piano bar that's a step away from the Hollow's saloon.

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  Biker Yard, named after  bikerboyGR, was built to honor the namesake's generous sugarcane donations. The room was cornered between a sugarcane and a creeper farm.

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  Len Den featured a conversation pit in front a fish tank. Displayed here were mementos from  Lendog1888.

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  Taken from second floor storage room, the cave spider spawner loomed behind a wall of tinted glass.

Second Floor

Thirteen rooms were built on the second floor. Unlike the lower level, an expansive landing performed the role of the Vintage Corridor on the floor's west and north side. Two balconies can be found on the west end overlooking the Hermittwt Chamber and the Tableau.

Scisyf Vault

Planned as a two-floor vault to contain eybwam's cache of elytra, Scisyf Vault saw construction begin on 28 January 2021 with the help of  Scisyf_PB's Redstone Security Systems™ ⁽ᶜ⁾. It was initially installed with two vault doors using an item-frame and password lock. The item-frame vault door, however, was removed due to design restrictions. Its first floor was completed on 26 March 2021 while the upper level saw completion on 7 July later that year. More than a double chest's worth of enchanted elytra were displayed here, along with shelves upon shelves of diamond blocks on the upper floor.

Other Rooms and Features

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  Named after  Minda905, the Hollow's potion-brewing room was tucked under a mono-pitched ceiling.

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  A mini kelp farm stood along the wall behind this pass-through room .

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  A potted blue orchid, one of  M_Sky3's favourite flower, was the subtle accent for this yellow-themed room that served as the Hollow's honeycomb farm.

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   Dylbor Hall served as the Hollow's wool farm made for and in celebration of Pride.

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  The glowsquid spawn chamber behind the tinted glass never saw any real spawns. All of the glowink inside the collection container were from gifts, donations, and purchases.

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  A mapart of Van Gogh complemented the tall flower farm room's adventurous theme.

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  Patterned after the liveries of Formula 1 racecars, Ry Cinema's seats bespoke of  RY44's regard for motorsports.

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  Derived from  Nomiium's skin, this bar's red-bathed walls were accented by a piece inspired by one of Piet Mondrian's artworks.

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  Sham Foyer's sponge chandelier was attributed to Nomiium's response to being asked the unlikeliest block used for such lighting fixture.

Third Floor

The third floor had the most rooms in the Hollows with 22. Most of the rooms were effectively built in a span of four months, against the context of an impending reset. The remaining principal area saw construction in this level.

Summer Residence Hall

One of the principal and lattermost additions, the residence wing was considered the mini "house" inside the Hollows. The hall featured a central sitting area that was imposed by a tall interior surmounted by parallel sandstone beams. The dwelling featured balconettes and a pair of cathedral-inspired chandeliers. It functioned as a lobby to four quarters:

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  The  Bbrain gym and sauna was the wellness section of the residence. A sandy turtle area can be found behind the birch door wall of the sauna.

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  Tiger Diner explored the rustic and earthy themes of an antiquated dining room.

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  Named after  Princess223, this kitchen's pantry acts up as a storage area for the cow farm tightly crammed behind it.

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  Featuring a billiard table, the residence's entertainment room were a muted contrast to  ZBK42's eclectic aesthetic.

Enderchest Gallery

Although it was set up in late December 2021, this room's fate would be sealed as the culmination of months of work on the Hollows. The Gallery was used to showcase eybwam's hotbar essentials, armour, as well as his Enderchest contents, all of which were arranged accordingly.

Other Rooms and Features

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  Serving as the indoor manual tree farm, Edo Hall was unsurprisingly the Hollow's tallest room with 34 blocks of vertical space.

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  The Great Room puts on view multiple banners acquired through gifts, prizes, and mischief.

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  An axolotl tank was incorporated into a shelf design in the background. Ze_Room was aimed to reflect its namesake,  Ze_Tais', playful personality.

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  Scooby Hall, a homophone of  Scooberson's Hidey Holes, drew interior inspiration from the warm and mellow atmosphere of log cabins.

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  Monty Lobby was the topmost landing to the four bubblevators that served the section between the Ore Atrium and the Tableau.

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  Boasting the most inefficient drowned farm in the locality, Cajun Hall's oxidized walls were accented with elegant paintings and the energetic hues of  CajunNinja's favourite colour orange.

Secret Rooms

The Hollows was home to many secret, often publicly inaccessible rooms. These rooms ranged from private vaults, redstone maintenance areas to eybwam's hiding/escape rooms. Some players built one upon eybwam's request. A notable one from these requested rooms was made by  strawberrysham and  zacattack2097.

Planned but uncompleted elements

eybwam intended an SRN link to adjacent Chaincastle Station months after it opened. The vision was to have the shortest branchline that would take the form of a contemporary subway, and terminate in a palatial chamber behind the Ingress Foyer portico. Although a clearing effort was undertaken, the line nor station were never fully realized. Other features that did not develop beyond conceptualization included a large Gothic-Victorian ballroom, a vehicle parking area, a natatorium, and several other ancillary rooms.

Expansion

The table below documents the completion dates of the Hollow's numerous rooms.

	Floor	Room	Completion Date	Notes
01	1	Tableau	Mid-Late November 2020	General hostile Mob farm
02	1	First Floor Storage and Smelter Area	Mid-Late November 2020
03	2	Second Floor Storage	Early-Mid December 2020
04	2	Armory	Early-Mid December 2020
05	1	Ingress Foyer	16 December 2020
06	1	Xenocrates Court	28 December 2020	String farm
07	1	Ore Atrium	06 January 2021
08	1	Hermittwt Chamber	13 January 2021	Trading Hall Lobby
09	1	Cartographers' Quarters	27 January 2021	Cartographer Trading Hall
10	1	Biker Yard	15 February 2021	Sugarcane and gunpowder farms
11	1	Mason Division	25 February 2021	Mason Trading Hall
12	1	Ashapink Conservatory	26 February 2021	Farmer Trading Hall
13	1	Len Den	28 February 2021
14	1	Iron Room	08 March 2021	Iron storage
15	1	Slime Room	11 March 2021	Slime storage
16	1	mrkalaspuff Lodge	17 March 2021	Toolsmith Trading Hall
17	1	Loungie	23 March 2021
18	2	Scisyf Vault	26 March 2021	Lower level
19	1	Sten Bar	02 April 2021	Cleric Trading Hall
20	1	Zac Hall Visitor Centre	09 April 2021
21	2	Darp Archives	28 April 2021	Librarian Trading Hall
22	2	Minda Brewery	15 May 2021	Potion-brewing room
23	1	Fox Sanctuary	Mid May - June 2021	Arctic Fox pen
24	2	Kelp Room	14 June 2021	Kelp farm and storage
25	2	Dylbor Hall	16 June 2021	Wool farm
26	3	Scisyf Vault	7 July 2021	Upper level of Scisyf Vault
27	2	Brown Den	Late July- Mid August 2021
28	2	Glow Room	08 September 2021	First room built after 1.17 update
29	2	Orange Room	11 November 2021	Two-tall flower farm
30	3	Third Floor Storage	13 December 2021	Bulk storage room
31	3	Edo Hall	15 December 2021	Indoor tree farm
32	3	Sham Foyer	16 December 2021	Upper level of Sham Foyer
33	2	M Room	22 December 2021	Honeycomb Farm
34	3	Nether Wart Room	28 December 2021	Nether wart farm
35	3	Trainer Hall	02 January 2022	Chorus fruit/flower farm
36	3	Great Room	07 January 2022	Banner Hall
37	3	Monty Lobby	09 January 2022
38	2	Second Floor Lobby	Early - Mid January 2022
39	3	Blue Atrium	13 January 2022
40	3	Green Atrium	13 January 2022
41	3	Gamby Study	13 January 2022
42	3	Cajun Hall	01 February 2022	Drowned Farm
43	3	Ry Cinema	03 February 2022	Indoor cinema
44	3	Non Bar	07 February 2022
45	3	Bamboo Room	17 February 2022	Bamboo farm and storage
46	3	Persky Room	18 February 2022
47	3	Scooby Hall	22 February 2022
48	3	Rug Room	22 February 2022
49	3	Summer Residence Hall	26 February 2022	Residence Lobby
50	3	Bbrain Gym and Sauna	28 February 2022	Turtle Farm
51	3	Tiger Diner	06 March 2022	Residence Dining Hall
52	3	Princess Kitchen	09 March 2022	Residence Kitchen
53	3	Ze_Room	09 March 2022	Axolotl Tank
54	2	Enchanting Nook	09 March 2022	Smallest Room
55	3	ZBK Room	10 March 2022
56	3	Enderchest Gallery	10 March 2022

Accessibility

Northold Hollows was accessed via the Nether Transport Network or through /phome Northold Hollows. Its nether portal was located beside North's 3,000th mark and was across the Chaincastle Station portal stop. The aboveground site was accessed via North Line of Beagle's Survival Railway Network (Survival 4) through the Chaincastle Station.

World Download

To ensure its preservation, among others, a copy of the Hollows is available for download here.

Notes

a. Memorial service for Sidekit,  eybwam's first snowy fox, was minimal despite a 21-arrow salute; tributes were borderline nonexistent.

b. Unnamed gaming district. However, it was unofficially labeled as "Adelaide" in the Hermittwt Chamber. It was xenocrates32 and eybwam's unfinished project on the Beagle Survival World approximately located at x:2,400; z:-6,300.

c. Unofficial name. Scisyf_PB however remarked it along the lines of a 'good name'.

1. Northold Hollows was featured on @Dogcraftnet's Twitter on the 22nd of April 2021.

2. A Headhunt in the Hollows was had during the Survival 4 Send-Off Celebration. Finding the most Treasure Chest heads meant winning a Dogcraft Fungible Token worth 1 million DCD.  TrainerMoon and  Puffball920 would later on split the prize for finding 8 heads.