Northold Hollows
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| Northold Hollows | |
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| 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. | |
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| World | Survival 4 (Beagle) |
| Founded | 5th November, 2020 |
| Transport | Adjacent Chaincastle Station Beside the 3,000th mark; across Chaincastle Station portal |
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"Ya boi's man cave built in the wrong update."
eybwam
Northold Hollows, or the Hollows, is the subterranean Survival 4 residence of 
eybwam on the Dogcraft Server. It was founded on the 5th 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 10th 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 a snowy taiga hill. The site was surprisingly unoccupied, considering it borders 
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.
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 various architectural 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 builds.
Layout
Situated at the heart of an abandoned mineshaft, the Hollows encloses 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 would have dominated a stretch of aboveground land for preservation.
The Hollows boasts 54 unique rooms laid out across three floors. The first two floors contain the Tableau which houses the Willow Rock situated at the very center of the base and is the earliest built part of the Hollows. Willow Rock is a three by three polished blackstone slab that serves as the splat point for the mob farm 27 blocks above. Encircling the Tableau is a variety of rooms connected by the Vintage Corridors, an enclosure of hallways. The Vintage Corridors connecting the principal areas display a collection of Cyberdog-given items that eybwam kept as mementos. Although there were several phases of expansion after its foundation, the general layout has remained the same.
First Floor
Most of the principal areas of the Hollows can be found on the first floor. These include 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, is located on the third floor. Of the 54 unique rooms, 19 are located on this level.
Ingress Foyer
Designed to be ill-lit and intimidating, the Ingress Foyer serves as the primary reception area from visitors entering via the nether. It features 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 emerges 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 line the width of the Atrium and are 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 stores the string collected from the cave spider farm situated behind it.
Construction of the room has 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 bathes 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 features a patterned floor and barrel vault ceiling supported by decorative endstone columns. The walls of the chamber consist of vertical alternating stripes of clay and light blue terracotta, and are decorated with a gallery of maps, including those of the City of Alina and Camp Beagle’s. A floor-to-ceiling fireplace is the chamber’s centerpiece, with Northold’s coat-of-arms resting on its mantel. The Chamber serves as the lobby for the six villager trading rooms in the Hollows:
Named after
darparniox, Darp Archives is a 30-librarian trading hall heavily inspired by Neoclassical and Tuscan interior design. A catalog of select Cyberdog-written books are kept here. It is the sole trading hall located on the second floor.
Cartographer's Quarters is the cartographer trading hall that showcases an array of select treasure maps, including an exclusive first edition Alina Sea Chart by
mrkalaspuff, that eybwam has accumulated throughout Survival 4's duration.
Directly across the Tableau, Mason Division is a Tudor- and Italianate-styled room that serves as the Hollow's mason trading hall. A stone generator is neatly tucked into one of its walls.
Ashapink Conservatory, named after
ashapink, is a greenhouse-inspired trading hall where a melon and pumpkin farm hides behind its length. The first pink tulip eybwam received from her is prominently framed here.
42 quartz block, pillar mini blocks embellish the crown molding at Mrkalaspuff Lodge, the Hollow's tool smith trading room.
Sten Bar, designed as a game room bar, is the Hollow's cleric trading room. The Sten heads the villagers are wearing were a product of an afternoon full of laughs and shenanigans.
Zac Hall Visitor Centre
Regarded by eybwam as his first contact on the server, 
zacattack2097's namesake room, the Zac Hall Visitor Centre, is the first pair of rooms to welcome anyone arriving 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 7. Drawing from the namesake's fondness of mob/staff heads, this room displays a small collection of memorable rare heads eybwam obtained from various people, contests, and events. Kanji map arts from the Four Elements Collection are also displayed here. A blue orchid flower from one of zacattack2097's random shulker box gifts is potted prominently in front of the warp point.
Other Rooms and Features
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.
Loungie, a pormanteau of lounge and the room's namesake,
colliecolie, is a piano bar that's a step away from the Hollow's saloon.
Biker Yard, named after
bikerboyGR, was built to honor the namesake's generous sugarcane donations. The room is cornered between a sugarcane and a creeper farm.
Len Den features a conversation pit in front a fish tank. Displayed here are mementos from
Lendog1888.
Taken from second floor storage room, the cave spider spawner looms behind a wall of tinted glass.
Second Floor
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 are displayed at here, along with shelves of diamond blocks on the upper floor.
Sham Foyer
Named after 
strawberrysham. The sponge for the chandelier can be owed to 
Nonium after being asked to name a block not normally used for chandelier-making.
Other Rooms and Features
Named after
Minda905, the Hollow's potion-brewing room is tucked under a mono-pitched ceiling.
A mini kelp farm stands along the wall behind this pass-through room .
A potted blue orchid, one of
M_Sky3's favourite flower, is the subtle accent for this yellow-themed room serving as the Hollow's honeycomb farm.
Dylbor Hall serves as the Hollow's wool farm made for and in celebration of Pride.
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.
Derived from
Nonium's skin, this bar's red-bathed walls is accented by a piece inspired by one of Piet Mondrian's artworks.
Third Floor
The third floor has the most rooms in the Hollows with 23. Most of the rooms were built in the later part of Survival 4 against the context of an impending reset. The remaining principal area would see construction in this level.
Summer Residence Hall
One of the principal and lattermost additions to the Hollows, the residence wing can be considered as the mini "house" inside
The
Bbrain gym and sauna is the wellness section of the residence. A sandy turtle area can be found behind the birch door wall of the sauna.
Named after
Princess223, this kitchen's pantry acts up as a storage area for the cow farm tightly crammed behind it.
Cajun Hall
Enderchest Gallery
Although it was set up in late December 2021, this room's fate would be sealed as the resolution to months of work on the Hollows. The Gallery was used to showcase eybwam's hotbar essentials, armour, as well as his Enderchest contents, all arranged accordingly.
Other Rooms and Features
Serving as the indoor manual tree farm, Edo Hall was unsurprisingly the Hollow's tallest room with 34 blocks of vertical space.
The Great Room puts on view multiple banners acquired through gifts, prizes, or products of various shenanigans.
An axolotl tank is incorporated into a shelf design in the background. Ze_Room was aimed to reflect its namesake,
Ze_Tais', playful personality.
Scooby Hall, a homophone of
Scooberson's Hidey Holes, drew interior inspiration from the warm and mellow atmosphere of log cabins.
Secret Rooms
The Hollows is home to many secret, often publicly inaccessible rooms. These rooms range from private vaults, redstone maintenance areas to eybwam's hiding/escape rooms. Some players may build one upon eybwam's request. A notable one from these requested rooms was made by strawberrysham and zacattack2097.
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
A copy of the Hollows can be downloaded 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 is unofficially labeled as "Adelaide" in the Hermittwt Chamber. It is 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.
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