Vernal Manor
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| Vernal Manor | |
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| Survival 4 Husky | |
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| Base | |
| World | Survival 4 (Husky) |
| Location | X= -5960 Y= 70 Z= -8760 |
Vernal Manor is the Husky base of ThEquinox2 on the Survival 4 iteration of the Dogcraft Server. Often just called "The Mansion," it has been in progress since April 5th of 2020.
(page is work-in-progress)
About
Vernal Manor is a large restyled and refurbished Woodland Mansion situated between a birch forest, swamp, and ocean on northwestern Husky. It features dark oak, spruce, and birch wood along with stone bricks and cyan terracotta, with a more varied selection of blocks in the interior rooms. Great leaps of inspiration in the design process were taken from a similar build of Grian's - so much so that Equinox is rather ashamed of her early lack of creativity - but much of the base was actually freestyled, or built without planning.
Mansion Layout
The main structure's layout is similar to vanilla mansions but different in many ways: first, there are much fewer rooms in total, but said rooms encompass more space than before. The corridors are symmetrical instead of haphazard, and are featured much more on the first and third floors than the second floor. The familiar red carpets with white borders make appearances, but no longer run throughout the floors entirely.
Ground Floor
Most of the first floor's area is taken up by halls and corridors, which have miscellaneous decorations lining them. It features access to four patios and the main staircases right at the entrance. There are a total of four rooms here: a map room, one to house the nether portal, a dining room, and a kitchen.
Middle Floor
A central staircase leads into a large library that takes up the most relative space on the the middle floor. There are technically no halls on this floor, and every room leads to another room. Two residents(pillagers) wander the library, kept from hurting themselves with hidden pathfinding blockades. In the library's main room, two staircases lead to the top floor, and a doorway leads to the laboratory, which is fit with redcoder potion brewing and plenty of secret experiments. On either side of the library are entrances to four more rooms: the forge, office, guest room, and vault.
Top Floor
Stairs to the top floor lead into a commons area with lots of tables. Further in, one hall cuts down the middle of six bedrooms, each designated for a mansion resident - and of course one for Equinox herself. A back exit provides a great takeoff spot with elytra to the industrial backyard.
Basement
The mansion's basement is accessible from a staircase on the ground floor, and is less than pretty; but it leads both to Equinox's storage and to the underground Dragontooth Arena.
Dragontooth Arena
A winding cave-like tunnel that begins in the mansion's basement brings the player nose-to-nose with a giant dragon skeleton resting in a spacious cavern. Even as a group effort, the excavation and construction of Dragontooth Arena took upwards of a month. Major contributors were 
Hippo1418, who turned the giant boxy hole into a flushed-out cavern, and 
TekBot0507, who helped liven the cave with colorful features on the sides.
The arena itself is quite large and suited very well for multi-player battles. There is natural cover and height differences, along with certain hazards like slowing water, hot lava, and the unfortunate fact that it is not fully spawnproofed yet. It is equipped with a countdown system that uses a beacon to flash three shades of blue, then green to start the match; but only when two players press a button at the same time.
History
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Trivia
- The base was featured on the official Dogcraft Twitter on December 3rd, 2020.
- The area's claim is a total of 67704 blocks, and ever expanding!
