Northold Hollows
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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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Northold Hollows, or the Hollows, is the subterranean Survival 4 residence of 
eybwam on the Dogcraft Server. It was founded on 5 November 2020 in a snowy taiga hills biome about 2,900 blocks north of Camp Beagle.
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 102 blocks to the east and Chaincastle Station just nine blocks 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.
Layout
Situated at the heart of an abandoned mineshaft, the Hollows encloses a claimed area of 12,284 blocks (148 by 83 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 is currently made up of 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. Although there were several phases of expansion after its foundation, the general layout has remained the same.
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. The principal areas of the Hollows include the two-floor storage room, the smelter area and armory, the Tableau, the Ingress Foyer, and the Ore Atrium, together with areas devoted to farms and trading halls, such as Xenocrates Court and Hermittwt Chamber, respectively. The Vintage Corridors connecting the principal areas display a collection of Cyberdog-given items that eybwam kept as mementos.
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. At present, the Chamber serves as the lobby for the eight planned villager trading halls in the Hollows. From those planned, five have been already finished:
- Mason Division is a Tudor- and Italianate-styled room that serves as Hollow's mason trading hall.
- Cartographer's Quarters is the cartographer trading hall that showcases an array of select treasure maps eybwam has accumulated throughout Survival 4's duration.
- Ashapink Conservatory, named after
ashapink, is a greenhouse-inspired room that functions as both a farmer trading hall and storage room for melons and pumpkins. - Mrkalaspuff Lodge serves as the tool smith trading room.
- Sten Bar, designed as a game room bar, is the Hollow's cleric trading room.
Accessibility
Northold Hollows can only be accessed via the Nether Transport Network. Its nether portal is located beside North's 3,000th mark and is across the Chaincastle Station portal stop. The aboveground site can be accessed via North Line of Beagle's Survival Railway Network (Survival 4) through the Chaincastle Station .
There is no designated /phome for Northold Hollows as of 26 March 2021.
Expansion
Being a work-in-progress residence, this section will continually be updated.
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. It's first floor was completed on 26 March 2021.
Charlotte Archives
Among the five planned trading halls, Charlotte Archives serves as the dedicated librarian trading hall. It is an extension to Hermittwt Chamber that stretches the length of the Vintage Corridors' left wing. As of 7 February 2021, a floor plan has been laid out and is awaiting construction.
Zac Hall
Hollow's scheduled exhibit for rare mini blocks, Zac Hall is dedicated to 
zacattack2097 who eybwam describes as his 'first encounter with a Cyberdog'. zacattack2097 handed out eybwam a 'Pass-It-On' box full of mob heads and one 
Renthedog head in the early days of November 2020.
Notes
a. Memorial service for Sidekit, eybwam's first snowy fox, was minimal despite a 21-arrow salute; tributes were borderline nonexistent.
b. Gaming District to be named. It is xenocrates32 and eybwam's work-in-progress 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'.
Gallery
Taken from second floor storage room, the cave spider spawner looms behind a wall of black glass.
Dedicated cartographer trading hall with buried treasure maps, and an exclusive first edition Alina Sea Chart by
mrkalaspuff, enveloping its walls.
Housing twelve masons, this Tudor-Italianate room is directly across the Tableau.
A melon and pumpkin farm hides behind Ashapink Conservatory's length.
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.
42 quartz block, pillar mini blocks embellish the crown molding at Mrkalaspuff Lodge.
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.
More than a shulker's worth of enchanted elytra are displayed at Scisyf Vault's first floor.
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