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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.
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.


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=====First Floor=====
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======Zac Hall Visitor Centre======
======Zac Hall Visitor Centre======
Regarded by ''eybwam'' as his first contact on the server, {{Player|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 [[dc:wiki/Map_Art#Map_Art_on_Survival_4|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.<br />
Regarded by ''eybwam'' as his first contact on the server, {{Player|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 [[dc:wiki/Map_Art#Map_Art_on_Survival_4|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.<br />


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File:Northold Hollows SP.png|Taken from second floor storage room, the cave spider spawner looms behind a wall of tinted glass.
File:Northold Hollows SP.png|Taken from second floor storage room, the cave spider spawner looms behind a wall of tinted glass.
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File:Northold Hollows NBR.png|Derived from {{Player|Nonium}}'s skin, this bar's red-bathed walls is accented by a piece inspired by one of Piet Mondrian's [https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/composition-with-red-blue-and-yellow-piet-mondrian/xwERWaqDyIcZ9w?hl=en artworks].
File:Northold Hollows NBR.png|Derived from {{Player|Nonium}}'s skin, this bar's red-bathed walls is accented by a piece inspired by one of Piet Mondrian's [https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/composition-with-red-blue-and-yellow-piet-mondrian/xwERWaqDyIcZ9w?hl=en artworks].
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====== Cajun Hall ======
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=====Secret Rooms=====
=====Secret Rooms=====
The ''Hollows'' is home to many secret, often publicly inaccessible rooms. These rooms range from private vaults, redstone maintenance areas to ''eybwam''<nowiki/>'s hiding/escape rooms. Some players may build one upon ''eybwam''<nowiki/>'s request. A notable one from these requested rooms was made by  {{Player|strawberrysham}} and {{Player|zacattack2097}}.
The ''Hollows'' is home to many secret, often publicly inaccessible rooms. These rooms range from private vaults, redstone maintenance areas to ''eybwam''<nowiki/>'s hiding/escape rooms. Some players may build one upon ''eybwam''<nowiki/>'s request. A notable one from these requested rooms was made by  {{Player|strawberrysham}} and {{Player|zacattack2097}}.


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=====World Download=====
A copy of the ''Hollows'' can be downloaded [[World Downloads|here]].<br />
A copy of the ''Hollows'' can be downloaded [[World Downloads|here]].<br />
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Revision as of 13:03, 14 March 2022


Northold Hollows
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WorldSurvival 4 (Beagle)
Founded5th November, 2020
TransportAdjacent Chaincastle Station
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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 20.png 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. It saw completion on the 10th of March 2022.


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 20.png 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.

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Tableau

One of the earliest-built part of the Hollows, the Tableau is the central room to which the first floor's Vintage Corridors surround. A general hostile mob farm is situated above its ceiling. Those mobs fall to their death onto the Willow Rock below


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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.

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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
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Named after 20.png 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
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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:





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Zac Hall Visitor Centre

Regarded by eybwam as his first contact on the server, 20.png 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



Second Floor
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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 20.png 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.


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Sham Foyer

Named after 20.png strawberrysham. The sponge for the chandelier can be owed to 20.png Nonium after being asked to name a block not normally used for chandelier-making.

Other Rooms and Features



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.


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Summer Residence Hall

One of the principal and lattermost additions to the Hollows, the residence wing can be considered as the mini "house" inside





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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.



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Cajun Hall




Other Rooms and Features



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 20.png strawberrysham and 20.png 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, 20.png 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. 20.png TrainerMoon and 20.png Puffball920 would later on split the prize for finding 8 heads.


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