Oakenheart

*This article is about **Oakenheart**, once known as Acey's Office. You may be looking for **Acey's office at Lakeview Town Hall.***

## Architect

Acey

**Oakenheart**, formerly known as **Acey's Office**, was the private residence of Acey beneath the Old Oak in Lakeview Village during Dragonhollow's First Era.

# History

    Sometime during the Ancient Era, the goddess of discord Eris chose to make her home beneath the Old Oak, carving out an area around the roots of the Great Tree which bore a connection to the Heart of the Hollow. She transformed the spot into Oakenheart, an elegant subterranean complex filled with living spaces, workshops, and gardens.

As she prepared to welcome a new age of people to her realm, Oakenheart became Acey's personal office with lists of her upcoming projects and plans for the future of Dragonhollow and remained so until she created an office inside her administrative headquarters at Lakeview Town Hall.

Hobo was the first mortal to discover the existence of Oakenheart.

The layout underwent significant changes as the First Era progressed, including a library redesign and a laboratory expansion.

On 1E:6, Acey generously gave Smitten a full tour of Oakenheart upon request including the most secret spaces.

Oakenheart's laboratory was one of the prototype exhibits on display as part of the Redstone Labs, though visitors needed an Oaken Key to proceed further into the private residence.

According to *Lakeview Lost*, parts of Oakenheart survived the catastrophic collapse of the Old Oak during the deadly First Bloodmoon, but had been abandoned by Acey when she led her subjects to the unspoiled Swamplands in the Second Era.

Residents who never knew Oakenheart existed were later taken on tours of the apartment during Tox's Throwback Thursdays during the Second and Third Eras.

# Points of Interest

### Entrances

There were two hidden entrances to Oakenheart.

The primary entrance was an underground cobblestone staircase. It was accessed by a piston door buried beneath the soil on the west side of the Old Oak. There was no way to trigger the door from above; it could only be opened from the inside.

The secondary entrance was a vertical shaft beneath a redstone lamp at the exit of the Old Oak. The lamp could be retracted from a lever inside Oakenheart, allowing one to drop down 12 meters into water and pass through a trapdoor leading to the complex's Control Room.

### Control Room

The control room served as a lobby for visitors and a control panel for access to Oakenheart. Both entrances—the shaft and the stairway—could be opened and closed from this room.

The stair entrance door was hidden behind a painting and the shaft was reached through a trapdoor.

### Lounge

The lounge was the first area off of the control room, deliberately positioned to receive visitors and give them a place to relax. A short double staircase led down to a carpeted parlor with two couches beneath a chandelier.

The lounge provided access to the dining room and the upper library landing.

### Dining Room

The dining room had a central white dinner table under a chandelier and was decorated with flowing waterfalls and rose flowerpots.

The dining room led to the kitchen, goddesswood, and the workshop.

### Kitchen

The kitchen had three stoves under a hood and ample countertop space on either side. A center island was flanked by two storage pantries.

The kitchen led to the goddesswood.

### Goddesswood

The goddesswood was an underground park for recreation and relaxation. It was reached by descending twin stone brick staircases. Unlike the rest of Oakenheart, rather than walls the park was cut into a natural stone cavern. It had a grass surface and featured hills, shrubs, oak trees, hanging vines, and a pond fed from a waterfall.

The goddesswood could be accessed from both the kitchen and the workshop.

### Workshop

The workshop was designed for crafting and repairing. There were anvils, furnaces, and a crafting table, as well as two storage nooks and a lava wall for discarding items.

The workshop was conveniently located next to the mine entrance.

### Laboratory

A laboratory allowed Acey to tinker with redstone mechanisms. The quartz floors, walls, and ceilings gave it a sterile appearance. The lab had an autosmelter and an autosorter connected to an intricate hopper system that fed both systems raw materials.

The lab was connected to the upper library landing. It was also part of the Redstone Labs, linked by a secret portal designed to make visitors think they were still in Eventide, but to proceed further into the rest of Oakenheart they required a key that opened the piston door's interlocking quartz "teeth".

### Library

Oakenheart's library had stacks of bookcases and storage for written books. A carpeted upper floor landing led down to a lower platform packed wall to wall with reading material. An earlier iteration had a level 30 enchanting table.

The library led to the laboratory and Oakenheart's lower floor. The original library layout had a hidden piston door that revealed the entrance to Acey's secret study, but she later replaced it with a more traditional staircase.

### Secret Study

The secret study was where Acey got much of her early work done in seclusion during the Ancient and early First Eras. Originally it was closed off from the rest of Oakenheart by a hidden piston door in the library, but eventualy she opened it up by replacing the door with a staircase. The study had a large spruce desk with a comfy chair resembling a throne. Two side wings contained

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storage and a project board, each flanked by wall-to-wall waterfalls.

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### Hearth

A brick hearth was centrally located on the lower floor of Oakenheart where Acey could entertain guests in a more intimate setting than the lounge. It was reached by descending a split staircase.

The hearth provided access to Acey's office, bedroom, and shroom garden.

### Bedroom

Acey's bedroom was surprisingly charming and understated for a goddess. Entrance was made through a narrow partition of oak leaves and glowstone. Her raised queen-size bed was lit by two end table lamps decorated with two roses against a pleasant waterfall backdrop draped with hanging vines. The bedroom also had a large flat-screen television and a bay window with a padded bench overlooking the shroom garden.

Acey's bathroom was accessible from the bedroom.

### Bathroom

The bathroom was accessible from a bedroom doorway. Decorated with a bright quartz motif, the spacious private restroom had a tub, toilet, and a shower with a working pump that could be turned on and off.

### Office

Across from her bedroom was a small office. It had a workstation with a laptop computer, a modest library, and a window looking out into the shroom garden.

### Shroom Garden

The most unique and impressive feature of Oakenheart was its shroom garden. Like the goddesswood, it was carved from a natural stone cavern, but the similarities ended there. Brown, red, and huge mushrooms grew there in the mycelium soil, while dense foilage creeped across the ceiling and vines drooped overhead. The garden also had a large pond fed by a waterfall with a tiny island and was lit by clusters of glowstone similar to those found in the Nether.

The only way in and out of the garden was from a nether brick balcony leading back to the hearth.

### Mine

Oakenheart's mine was reached from the workshops. A large storage area for ores was conveniently located at the top of a double-track railway, which allowed for passengers and mined ore to travel opposite directions simultaneously. The rails descended 41 meters to another storage room and rail station at bedrock level.

# Gallery

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# Behind the Scenes

*The following is out-of-universe information about the real world Dragonhollow.*

   Acey built Oakenheart as part of her Old Oak home in the days when Dragonhollow was her private server before it went public. There was a project board with her future plans—some of which were realized, such as Lakeview Village and the Hedge Maze—and others that remained a mystery like the "Ender Tower, "Vandemere Castle", "Treetops Village", and "Halcyon Central".

Over time, Acey altered the build's layout. She closed off the areas that were open to underground cave systems so that players could not wander inside. Later, she added a laboratory as part of the Redstone Labs and redesigned the library by removing a piston door that concealed the downstairs study.

At one point, Acey toyed with the idea of remodeling the entire build to resemble Tartarus from the 1993 DreamWorks Animation film *Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, the realm of Eris, whom her own goddess of discord alter ego was inspired by.*