#minecraft fanlore

[give-grian-rights]

Minecraft Worldbuilding Headcanons

-Players & Species

here is 1179 words of minecraft worldbuilding infodump

I would be spending several more hours working on this if I didn't cut it short here, so I might make a second part. But i'm.. kinda in finales week so I died today.

Included in this is references to some Minecraft YouTubers and their world building, namely Watchers, of the 2017 Evo SMP.

Feel free to use this for fics, art, comics, etc.

Includes headcanons for how Players work, are created, and function. Also how disabilities are accommodated!!!

Very simulation-esque. essentially my world building is as if The Sims were aware of what they are and they had access to make themselves god ig . cyber tech. yeah

Devs/Developers

The Devs/Developers are the first. As their world expanded, and the Universe grew, more of them would appear. They create the updates, design the Mobs, and ensure the future of their Universe; features, challenges and goals, for the Players to explore and use and learn from. The asexual creation of new Players. Purpose, for the Players to never get bored. Devs created the Watchers to manage the day-to-day of Players. Watchers fine-tune and teach the Mobs, kinda like playtesters, to give feedback to the Devs. 

The Devs determined what is and isn’t a Player, and what qualifies something to be a Player.

There are slips, and with malicious or ignorant intent, someone not given the right to be a Player slip through, as man-made creatures. Non-intended “Players” do not respawn, have Communicators (see: Players), or inventories.

Mob hybrids were added one by one, as they assured they could have a quality of life, and make changes as fit to allow them to be.Older Creeper hybrids may look different from younger ones, for example, as they fine-tune their process to make them have the healthiest, safest and most fulfilling possible life.

Devs rarely spend time with any Players. The ones they do speak with are usually first generation, very old Players.

Watchers

(About Me: Watchers are god-like beings featured in an SMP known as Evo. They filled the role of overseers, and are typically interpreted to be the personification of the two things that speak to you in the End Poem. In the series, they were morally-neutral, punishing Players who did wrong, and awarding others. They put them through tasks and challenges, and led them to a series of portals that would take them through time, to new updates. The series started in the first version of Minecraft that featured servers. Nearly everything wrote is from my own worldbuilding or the fanon of others, as there is very little known about them in canon.)

The Player are made from the Universe, and made of the same code, but Watchers  ARE the Universe. They don't make the Players, but they make the Mobs that roams in each world. They oversee upcoming updates. There are only two Watchers who are the true Universe, the ones we see in Evo SMP, all other Watchers are “hired”/recruited based on their morality, strength, perseverance, or sometimes just sheer entertainment. Sometimes, in a situation of Permadeath, the Players that meet their standards are given the opportunity to expand their life and purpose by becoming a Watcher. They are taught the true Universe, the meaning of it all, and the power to manipulate it into life and love. Watchers can also turn animals into Players, and do so in the scenario that a world is deleted/abandoned by all of it’s occupants.

The head Watchers are the two that speak to you, the Player, during the End Poem. They are a bit disconnected but well-intentioned. They enforce laws, and assign Watchers to every Server and world to ensure it’s safety. The Old Watchers (as I’ll dub them) are god-like, and are the only ones that typically speak with the Devs on a regular basis. Not all Watchers are good. Some are centuries old, Players-turned-Demi-Gods who have watched all they love die or age. As such, their mentality may begin to crumble.

Those who are Watchers, stop aging. They no longer can scar, and all injuries are cured on respawn. The state of their body from before being transformed remains the same. For example, bad vision, scars, and hearing lost remain. Their body is frozen from where they left off. Temporary ailments, such as bags under eyes, scratches, bruises, etc. can still occure.

They have the ability to shapeshift, but it is something that takes effort, and can be blocked by Servers. Watchers can toggle between their Player form, where they left off when they were human, or in a Spectator-like form. Think biblical angel. Thick bird-like wings, that can come in a plethora of numbers.

The state of their Watcher form is determined typically by their mental or emotional state.

Watcher Form

Cool & Collected: One set of wings, long and angular with slick feathers. Appear in the vision of others like a foggy outline in the mist. Eyes covered by a mask.

Stressed & Anxious: One-Three set(s) of wings, feathers bristled and messy. Purple glow around the edge of the mask, and outline of eyes appear around them. Can appear shadow-like.

Angry & Upset: One-Six set(s) of wings, outstretched with a shimmery-crystal like appearance. Halo of eyes around their head. Their real eyes can also be seen glowing underneath the mask. Visual distortion to any that see's them in this state, like a graphical glitch.

Player Form Capabilities

Their eye color is now a hazy purple-gray. Similarly to their Watcher form, experiencing emotions can cause their eyes to turn to a more vibrant purple, and become illuminated.

They can shapeshift their form. If a Player was a hybrid before it's conversion to a Watcher, their traits remain. Their Watcher Form hides these features, and they can also be hidden or altered by their shifting.

Purple wings are always part of them, becoming part of their default form.

Wings can be altered while shapeshifting. Length, width, color, feathers vs scales, etc. are all able to be changed, but they always must remain part of them. Their size can, however, be made small enough to disguise them and appear human.

Wings, tails, hair length, hair color, ears, and clothes are all that can be manipulated. Unlike wings, hybrid Players can completely shift their tell-tale features away.

Players

Qualifications to be a Player

Cognitive Ability

Awareness of self (pain, desire, etc.)

One limb or more capable of holding and manipulating an item

Land mobility

Ability to care for one's own needs (The children of Players are not registered as Players until they reach that milestone. At ages six-eight, they obtain that status. Dependent on the age and maturity of a hybrid/non-human species)

Capable of Respawning

If all are met, they are registered as a Player. Being a Player comes with a Communicator, the main system to access the greater Universe.

Communicators

Communicators offer: Settings, server-list, world creation, texting/messaging, video calling, basic/generic social media

Players join a Server or world by selecting their desired location, and placing it on an unlit netherportal frame.

Communicators are not breakable, and are tethered to a player. They hover, teleport, follow you, and if you do "break it", like shattering it, it respawns. They are an extension of yourself, that allows you greater control in the Universe.

Communicators are the access point for Inventories. Inventories are a pocket-dimension, which you access through the Communicators Graphic User Interface. Breaking items drops them as a digital, or holographic image on the floor. Stepping or touching it will automatically collect it, and put it in your Inventory.

Players are capable of overwriting the inventory, by turning off the setting. Doing so will make it so your tools do not react how they typically wood, and work as real-world items. However, it also means physically carrying them and real manual labor.

Anthro/Animal Players

In the situation of a world/Server being deleted, Watchers and the Universe will pick the most interacted-with animal(s), and the ones that witnessed the most behavior of a Player, and the former mob(s) will take the Player's place. They are warped and made humanoid to fit the previously mentioned criteria.

The longer they were a pet/companion to the Player(s) the more memories of their time as a Mob they’ll remember. Most forget overtime, and will take on the memories of their Player/owner believing them to be their own. 

Spawned

While Players can be born, they can also be spawned by Devs or Watchers. Players can be created anywhere from the ages of 8 and up. They will spawn (typically) in a single player world of their own, an assigned Username, and the knowledge that they're meant to survive and discover.

Hybrids

Hybrid Players are typically Mob and Human to qualify, but that's not always the case. There can be double or triple Mob hybrids, without Human, though uncommon. Hybrid Players can be born from two Human parents. In the case of a Player becoming pregnant, The Universe has a small chance of giving the baby a Hybrid-feature to make it more inclined to their surroundings. Hybrid Players are more common for Spawned, but both is possible. Two Hybrid Players of different species typically ends up with the child being one or the other, not both, but it can happen.

Usernames

Usernames for Spawned are automatically assigned, but can be changed.

Usernames for Players who are born, is a prompt given to them the day the world considers them a Player. At this time, their parent typically have given them a name. Their Username typically contains said name, but with alterations/additions. These Usernames are chosen by the Player, however, and as such can at-times be completely unrelated. That is their legal name.

Disability

Accessibility was painstakingly given to ensure every Player could live a life. Devs do not oversee the creation of every single person. They allow them to live, make mistakes, etc. and do not want every Player the same. There is assistance and accessibility for the hearing and seeing impaired, limited mobility folks, etc.

Deafness

Subtitles on their Communicator act as you imagine they would. Only seeable in your eyes, is a small black box in your peripheral that describes the sounds around you.

Visual indicator of where a noise is coming from. Each line in the Subtitles has a corresponding color, and an arrow of the same color, small and in the peripherals, that point towards its direction until it fades. Able to be turned off.

Blindness

One small earplug that narrates your surroundings. It gives the distance between you and a Player/Mob, the amount of blocks you’re looking at and what they are, the registered Username of a Player, etc. Warnings for steps up and step down.

The option to describe a Player (hybrid, hair and hair color, eye color, etc)

Some use a guide cane, or can train a mob to be their guide.  Some prefer the narration and can navigate through life fine that way.

Mobility

Using your Communicator, you can transform something into a wheelchair, crutches, cane, etc. In doing so, Servers will automatically allow you to keep them on/with you. It does not take space in the inventory. They are fully customizable by the Player.

[goldstargloww]

help is this a neurodiverse thing??? other nds. help?? HSFGJ

i want a list of every minecraft roleplay smp, i want a list of all of the neogender umbrellas, i want a database of just so incredibly many liom andor mogai labels and terms and everything, i love minecraft worldbuilding and connecting mcrp smps together, stuff like the hermit empires crossover and the rats origins crossover and the traffic lives referencing evo things and hermitcraft and evo being connected and. help??

is this the adhd or the autism or both or just whatever the fuck??? is this what having a special interest is HJKSFG

[cyanidas]

WOOHOO!! It’s all done!! A race guide for my Yogscraft fanlore stuff!!

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FIRST SLIDE:

This slide shows examples of different features for each of my headcanons for different races within my Yogscast and Minecraft fan-lore. There are six primary races; Human, Lumian, Villager, Fae (subcategories being Seelie and Unseelie), Angel, and Demon. The features shown are; Eyes, Ears, Noses, Mouth and Teeth, and Hands.

Humans are what we’re familiar with, and serve as a comparison so we can know what is typical for humans in my art style.

A quick note for Lumians; the example blood color is green, but there are different colors - more information is on Slide Three. Lumians have smaller pupils than humans by about half our pupil sizes. They have pointed ears, and when flushed, their blood color shows through much like human ears do. Their tongues are closer to their blood color, and front teeth are smaller and pointed. Most of their teeth are pointed like Human canines, except for their canines, which are thinner, like a blade. Their hands are slightly larger and they sport clawlike nails.

Villagers have square or slightly rectangular eyes. Their ears are more concave, like a cow’s or a mouse’s ears, and can have a dark blue fur or blush on the outer part of the flaps. Their noses are similar to a dog’s or koala’s nose, and a navy teal color. Their teeth are larger and entirely stubby with no canines, and they have dark blue mouths with lighter navy tongues. Their hands have dark blue, stubby, round nails, with a couple big, hardened, dark blue pads on the backs of their hands in round, bean-like shapes. They also have these pads on each of their second knuckles.

The Fae are split into two categories; Seelie and Unseelie. - First listed are Seelie. Seelie have an outer iris ring extending their irises to a larger size, with pointed, catlike pupils. Their longer pointed ears concave on each side toward the base, similar to a bat’s or cat’s ears. They can have any shape of nose, depending on how humanoid they are, with humanoid noses being indistinguishable from ours. Their mouths are a more saturated shade of pink, and they sport two canines, replacing the secondary front, top row teeth. Their hands are a wide variety, but if humanoid, they typically have longer fingers. - Second, we have Unseelie. Unseelie Fae eyes are larger, and only have one color, with colored catlike pupils. Their ears are similar to Seelie, but are typically larger at the base and point more upward, instead of outward. Their noses are the same as Seelie’s noses. Their mouths are usually a duller, darker shade of purple or pink, and their primary fangs are double the size or length as a Seelie’s fangs. Their hands are similar to Seelie’s, but their fingers are more often clawed.

Angel’s skin shimmers with sunny luster. Angel eyes have very large, glowing, white-to-yellow irises, with colored pupils. Their ears can be round or pointed, but have feathers of any color lining the outermost edges. Their noses are similar to ours, but usually have slotted and/or outwardly pointed nostrils, and the noses can be very flat to the face, even nonexistent. Their mouths are golden with sunshine-colored tongues and perfect rows of completely straight, rounded teeth. Their fingers are all the same length and have totally opaque nails.

Demon’s skin burns bright or saturated shades of red. Demon eyes are completely black, with very small glowing irises and no pupils. Their ears are pointed and lined with small, sharp hornlike growths. Their noses can be nearly any shape with a flat face, similar to moles, pigs, bats, or even a lizard’s. Their mouths are double the size, can unhinge and mold to different shapes, and have very large, sharp teeth all throughout. The inner color of their mouths are deep red to oily black, and their snake tongues are bright red. Their hands are very large, with very long fingers and very sharp, dark claws.

SECOND SLIDE;

This slide is titled “Notes on Humans”. The text is as follows;

Humans may exhibit signs of deific influence after an extended period of time, depending on whose realm they reside under - such as; -faint glowing, dependent on deity's colors -impulses and urges related to deity's influence -affinity for items, places, concepts, and ideas related to deity's influence

The vibes are contagious! Humans have a passive minor influence over the feeling, thinking, and experiences of other creatures and races due to their natural pack bond mentality.

THIRD SLIDE;

This slide is titled “Notes on Lumians”. The text is as follows;

What Lumians lack in creativity, they make up for in leadership prowess, tactical approach, and clinical or scientific understanding. Their society is raised supporting only academic and physical studies with no care put into the arts. As a result, although very bright and quick-witted, Lumians are notoriously high-strung, prone to trauma, and bleak or dry-humored.

Lumian blood color ranges ass wide as the visible spectrum! Green is the most common. Blood color matters as much as a horoscope. Which is to say, not a lot.

Lumina, the Lumian home planet, is home to massive insects. (Lumian) teeth are built to chew the bugs' super tough meat.

Lumians are also all born with glowing freckles and eyes. Freckle patterns vary from light to heavy, and are most commonly on the face and back. Places where freckles are found to be the most are also a folkish indicator of personality and fortune telling.

FOURTH SLIDE;

This slide is titled “Notes on Villagers”. The text is as follows;

Villagers initially evolved from a world of violence and chaos, descended from a species of mammal unseen in anywhere else in the universe. This ancestor, a bovine-apelike hybrid, survived drought, famine, war, disaster, and sickness. They grew horns, cloven claws, bladelike teeth, and thick backs.

Since Kirin's awakening, however, they were blessed and all their troubles washed away. So, over time, the complacent Villagers of today have evolved away from the features of their ancestors, with small, nubby horns, rounder teeth, and softer bodies.

It's said that their religious affiliation (to Kirin) and communal practices discouraging change is what has contributed to their "domestication", as some put it. However, in recent years, it seems that has begun to change in certain rebellious individuals.

FIFTH SLIDE;

This slide is titled “Notes on Fae”. The text is as follows;

The Fae are intelligent, social creatures and humanoids of various differring races, having evolved under their creator, the deity of the mind and soul.

It's due to the crowning of Queen Nyxamenia after her Revolt against said creator, that the Fae split into two factions; Seelie (those of Rule) and Unseelie (those of Anarchy). Upon the Unseelie revering her as their Goddess, they began to take on new forms, evolving into "cursed" or "trickster" versions of Seelie Fae.

Seelie Fae rely on contracts, mutually agreed rules, tried and true methods, tradition, laws of the land, fairness, and strict moral code.

Unseelie Fae rely on "playing by ear", improvisation, "street rules", dirty games and trickery, blood oaths, high wit, intense emotion, and mind games.

SIXTH SLIDE;

This slide is titled “Notes on Angels”. The text is as follows;

Angels were a species initially forged without Kirin, the deity of Heart and Emotion, as theoretically immortal helper-workers around Limbo (the Sun, and where souls pass through when they die).

(wings are transparent)

As intelligent and magical creatures, they cannot survive outside of The Aether (the paradise within Limbo) for longer than a few years to a decade.

However, since the banishment of Lucifer and The Virtues, many Angels have self-exiled and escaped the safety of The Aether to other places, knowing they will someday perish with no hope for reincarnation, simply hoping to live the rest of their days in peace.

(Angels can also survive outer space!)

They are capable of few "miracles" (1-3 typically), great healing magic (physical bodies only), speaking to and seeing spectres, and generate intense or calming auras. They're also capable of flight!

SEVENTH SLIDE;

This slide is titled “Notes on Demons”. The text is as follows;

Demons were created with very little in the way of physical bodies to cling to, with their lifeforce instead clinging to magic, items, ashen waste, insects, and fire or lava. Power usually correlates to a Demon's age.

A weak Demon will be an invisible force, possessing others in lieu of having a physical body - whereas a powerful Demon will be able to generate a physical form through ability alone. Demons can gain power over time by making Blood Oaths with mortals, or possession leading to the mortal's demise.

Much like Angels, Demons can't reside outside of The Nether for very long. It's very, very rare for Demons and Angels to meet in person.

Demons often choose very dense, sharp bodies with horns, pointed teeth, spiked tails, and bladed claws, to evoke a predator-prey reaction in mortals, and to show off their power to other Demons.

EIGHTH SLIDE;

Anything can breed with Anything. Hybrids can happen, and have happened. Though, they are pretty rare.

A Human-Demon hybrid is referred to as a "Wraith", and are seen as bad omens.

Hybrid Angels are very rarely able to perform one miracle, and are seen as good luck.

Hybridized Lineages of Humans and Villagers exist across Craftia in small tribes, and (their groups) often go by different names, usually a family name. They're fairly new to the scene.

Fae Hybrids are the most common type, sometimes resulting in an entirely new (sub)race of Fae.

Some Unseelie, like the Vampire and Werewolf, have the ability to "infect" or "turn" other mortals, effectively changing (metamorphosizing) their species into one of them.

The Trueblood are Fae who have been born as the species which infects.

The Afflicted are (other) mortals who have been "turned" directly by a Fae.

The Kindred and Kindred lineages are descendants of an Afflicted.

Miracles for Angels and Hybrids are "per person", and do not regenerate (after use). Angels know their miracle limit - however, hybrids do not.

Angels and Demons can shift their forms, but not totally shapeshift, unless they're incredible powerful.

Ravagers and Villagers/Illagers share a common ancestor.

Villager teeth are bigger and thicker than a Human's, so their verbal communication isn't quite the same. They prefer to speak less, and dislike that Humans talk "too much". Some Villagers can (learn to) speak Human languages, however.

The Human ability to generate a "mob mentality" among other species usually works out in their benefit, except on Craftia, where most things can become hostile toward them. It seems their influences have an opposing effect on certain species and in certain locations. Why this is, no one knows.

[rimouskis]

every time someone talks about/links to fic (ANY fic, not just RPF!) in non-fandom spaces, I think about TardisIsTheOnlyWayToTravel, who deleted all 380 of their fics on AO3 because people won't stop linking to them from GoodReads. despite many entreaties over the years to not do so! but people still did it! and it makes me so mad because it's so easy to NOT post about fic and discuss fic on GoodReads, but NO, they HAD to use that platform and not, say, Tumblr or discord, or whatever. some people really don't know, or care to know, why it's a good idea to not discuss fic outside of fannish spaces actually 😤

eons ago I found some deleted pens fics recced on goodreads, with download links even though the author had clearly wanted to wipe their fics off the face of the earth. it's disheartening, and also ... strange ... to put fics on goodreads, of all places.

(I blame wattpad [I always blame wattpad] because it appears wattpad readers call fics "books," which is confusing to me! apparently some of the works on wattpad are original fiction, but nonetheless: a fic is not a book, and goodreads is for books, not fics)

my issue w/ the tiktoks abt HRPF is that it's exposing our #niche #fandom #interest to people outside of said niche fandom interest and blurs way too many lines.

we already have romance novel readers commenting "😍 BOOKTOK NEEDS TO FIND THIS!" under videos on the kraken's official account, where they're literally begging in public TO the organization that they want fictionalized smut about these players (as face-grabs or stand-ins for romance novel characters), which is (imo) crass !!

we do not need Everyday Random People (some of which are hockey fans, as the algorithm is feeding them content they like, and this nominally counts as hockey content) being introduced to HRPF, especially by a person who—while familiar with fandom—is not familiar with HRPF's struggles with the fourth wall over the years [READ THE FANLORE ARTICLE ON IT].

and man... we aren't a big fandom. we seriously aren't. like yes, we're the largest sports fandom [even though men's football RPF is coming in CLOSE with 30,061 fics and F1 is gaining on us with 22,504 fics] but look at us compared to actually big fandoms on ao3:

star wars: 230,985 fics sherlock: 147,728 fics marvel: 628,295 fics kpop: 584,096 fics spn: 277,618 fics minecraft: 106, 521 fics

in hockey we have a humble 32,180 fics.

we're not even cracking six digits! we're not even HALFWAY to six digits! I feel we punch above our weight when it comes to fic quality by-and-large, but we are not a big fandom. when we get 26,300+ people seeing a tiktok about it... it's weird. it feels exposing! I sure as fuck don't want my fics plastered over the roulette of the internet.

also the original poster of the tiktok said this, which is just... ok, pal.

anyways go be kind to people! since some people need the reminder

[conarcoin]

I made a fanlore page for Minecraft and MCYT fandom terminology. Anyone can edit it :3

[crows-junk-pile]

So nobody here knows this but my ocs used to be minecraft ocs so because I'm bored give me an smp to draw them in

[stitchthesewords]

A Call for Questions

YOU! Fic Writer or Reader or Fanartist for bother mcyt and minecraft original fiction! Do YOU have any questions about Redstone Basics, Redstone Adjacents, or Redstone Fanlore that you just need an answer to?

Come to my Lovely Google Form and send 'em in! I'll be using this to draw up a guide about redstone so your help in figuring out what the general public needs to know would be greatly appreciated!

Feel free to reblog this and spread the word - this guide is going to take me probably a little bit. Form will be open until 1/25/2023

[queermania]

as a mcyt fan and dream fan, i am SO sorry people are being weird to you. it sucks because we should know better than most to treat people kindly and with the benefit of the doubt. anyway, i hope you have a good day.

haha thank you for this message. tbh this is all very funny to me. until yesterday i kind of just thought minecraft was monochrome tetris and now i know a staggering amount of fanlore about a thing i hadn't even known existed. plus, i always think it's funny when i see a poll where the op clearly had no idea what they were inadvertently walking into. it's not any less funny just because it's happening to me. the fact that like three people are having a meltdown about it in my notes and my inbox really just adds to the entertainment value tbh. but thank you for being kind. this was a lovely message to receive <3

[thisweekinfandomhistory]

will you ever be looking for guest stars for certain episodes? I would love to apply if you ever do any on minecraft or other roleplay fandoms

It's definitely possible! We know that there are some fandoms that we're just not the right people to discuss with any degree of knowledge, and Minecraft is definitely one of them -- even though we know some servers are absolutely huge fandoms. The biggest thing that we would need, though, to discuss Minecraft, is a historical event to tie to an episode!

So far, we don't have any Minecraft fandom events on our spreadsheet because it doesn't seem to be a fandom that has a lot of documented history on Fanlore, which is always our first stop for research.

It's also much harder to research fandoms where a lot of the action happens on Discord or other private servers/streams, so there's less of a "paper trail" of things that can be cited and documented for posterity.

So, tl;dr, the biggest thing you can do right now to help get Minecraft onto the show is beef up its recorded history on Fanlore! It's a huge fandom that deserves to have more of its happenings recorded for the long haul. :)

[needlebeetles]

I love mixing wider minecraft fanlore into mcyt fics of mine for the worldbuilding. Herobrine is a sort of boogeyman people tell their kids not to wander far from their houses or else he'll get ya. That kind of stuff.

Oh yeah I love it when people worldbuild in Minecraft, esp with culture and food and stuff! Feel free to tell me more of your headcanons if you want!I don’t really have anything on minecraft lore besides the “dimensions” but a headcanon for how endermen happened.

I believe that the endermen and end cities are the result of an ancient civilization, a subsection of which whom wanted to obtain immortality and got a lil too arrogant about it after moving to the magic void at the center of the planet from which the overworld and nether were formed and building a society there. They tried to ascend to the astral plain, where the “gods” were, transforming their physical bodies into magic centered around objects now known as pearls!

The other members of this species slowly developed into what are now known as players. their bodies are mostly like. Magicy spirit stuff trying to be flesh? Their souls are stuck in an eternal cycle of growing too tired to maintain their physical bodies/being killed, regaining energy in the ether for a bit, and reincarnating into a new baby body as a new person. They’re so tall because they’re pulled simultaneously towards the portal, a site of very high magic (magic is kind of like heat in that it’s everywhere but not equally and produced passively by humans. Endermen eat magic, they can taste but their senses are geared towards whatever contains the most magic, which is usually meat or a crafted food) and towards the void surrounding the universe where the gods dwell, which stretches them out. I’ll reblog some art that looks a bit like what I think they look like.

[firefly124]

That's one of the weird things about mcyt fandom. The content creator's personality surely influences the characters they play, but for the most part, when people write fic, it's about the characters, not the CC*, so it's not RPF, but it's understandable that it would look that way from the outside.

From the inside, it's even weirder, though, because the Minecraft character can play different characters depending on which SMP or season. Like, Jimmy Solidarity in Empires S1 (the Codfather) isn't the same character as in Empires S2 (Sheriff of Tumbletown) or Rats SMP (Safety Rat). So there's the CC playing the MC character who's playing a specific character. That's not always the case. I'm pretty sure Zombiecleo-the-character is just always themself whether on Hermitcraft or the Life Series, though it looks like Witchcraft SMP may prove to be an exception. Either way, the common thread is the CC, so again, it looks like RPF from the outside, even though from inside the fandom, it may seem an extra layer removed from the CC.

*I will totally own the selection bias in this statement. This is true for the fic I seek out and read, but there may be swaths of RPF I'm unaware of. But if so, that's all the more reason to make it clearer which is RPF and which is not, rather than labeling everything "video blogging RPF," since the goal is to make it easier to find what you're actually looking for. Crap, I'm talking myself into adding stuff to Fanlore. I'm not sure to what extent Fanlore informs tag-wrangling on AO3, but I imagine it must?

Can I boost the fanlore wiki to your followers while i'm here? The MCYT category only has 28 pages on there, and we have so many fandoms with so much rich history!! Even the top contenders in these polls like Scar don't have any articles on there about their fandoms. I think recording our fandom history is definitely something we should do! It's run by the same organization as AO3, and you're encouraged to write about all fandom history, no matter how niche.

also, unlike many wikis, it's totally okay to start articles and not finish them—other fans can always add more later, and something is better than nothing!

fanlore.org/wiki/Fanlore:About

Definitely if you have time and knowledge and like things to be accurate, check out Fanlore! It tends to not have a lot of information on tumblr-based fandom, and currently seems to think all mcyt fandom is RPF, so there could stand to be a few updates.

[waterfall-ambience]

/warp worm man

I think the worlds of the Infinite Snapshot are criminally underutilised in Minecraft-based fanlore

(Hermittober 9 - Mountain)

[honey-with-tea]

Minecraft Lore Posts I Personally Think Are Entirely True or Mostly True :]

Apologizing now for all the tags sorry to everyone, I just wanna credit these all^^

- Human Origins!

From: @locatebiome

- Enderman HCs!

From: @whycraft

- Villager Culture!

From: @bi-evoker-81405012021

- Infinity Snapshot HCs (I just think this one's cool)!

From: @tamofthedragons

- Piglin HCs!

From: @sw1tchb04rd

- Eyes of Ender Stuff!

From: @witherbones

- Ancient Debris Stuff!

From: @jackass-minecraft

- Respawn Stuff!

From: @give-grian-rights

- Experience Points!

From: @minecraft-fanlore

- "Minecrafters are fae like"

From: @inkytrinket-irii

- Player Predecessors

From: @muslimsonic

- Magma Creme!

From: @slashgamemodecreative

More to definitely be added! My hyperfixation started two hours ago, so we're only just getting started B)

[talonwings]

Having read your lore on the 'Gods' of the RCU, I am highly curious as to how exactly you have implemented totems of undying into the series. Like, how are they created? What causes them to activate (is it mortal injury/death like in MC) and what happens once they do? What is the extent of their power/abilities?

As a bonus if you can, what is the cultural significance/beleifs of them in The Lost Empire?

Many thanks!

ahem. i know i've said this in many asks before, but i am so sorry for taking such a long time to respond to this, i keep meaning to and then replying in my head instead of actually doing it OTL

the totems themselves actually haven't shown up in the series yet as far as the published fics. the Uncreated Ones graphic is something i made to sort of guide where we were going with lore, something we could reference when we needed to input a detail in fic and we couldn't exactly remember what we'd decided. additionally, neither saturn nor i are Joey watchers, so the amount of info we have about his character is mostly what we've seen from other people's videos and from fanlore.

that being said, the sort of vague idea of the totems in the rcu is that they're linked to the Reanimator, the patron force of chaos, who allows the user to cheat death (subverting the natural order) in exchange for giving it a piece of their soul. only priests of the Reanimator can make them (because they need to be imbued with its power to work), which is why they only come from the Lost Empire--the only place where the Reanimator is worshiped (or even known). like in Minecraft proper, they activate once the user receives an injury or experiences some physical trauma that would have killed them, and they can only activate if they are on the user's person when that trauma occurs.

they're very difficult to make, so only the upper class in the Lost Empire has access to them. however, the lower classes frequently make symbolic ones that are thought to at least bring good luck or promote longevity, and most citizens wear them around the neck on a cord.

thanks for the ask! hope this made sense!

[prairieprayer]

just saw someone say if you donate the the OTW then you're "not going to heaven" and that's such a shitty thing to say

the posts suggesting you donate to other causes rather than the OTW are understandable because yeah, OTW more than reached it's goal already so they're wellll funded for this round. so your money is better off towards other causes if you only have enough to donate to one or two places

but it's a totally other thing to assume that the thousands of people who already donated don't also donate to other charities, already, and thus are horrible people if they also happen to donate towards the OTW.

and the misunderstanding that the donation is only for AO3 is detrimental, too, because then people assume "ohhh you're just donating to the servers that allow like, Minecraft RPF, lol" but some reading comprehension would come into play here. you're not donating to AO3. if you click make a donation it says clearly you're donating towards the Organization for Transformative Works. yes that includes AO3 but OTW isn't just AO3. it's open doors (old fanwork archival service for old fanfics, zines, artworks, etc- free), fanlore (open wiki- free), legal advocacy (who fight for your rights to make fan art at all), and academic research towards fanworks (Transformative Works and Cultures journal... free!!), and future OTW projects

so no, if you already donated to the OTW that doesn't make you a shitty person who "isn't going to heaven." what the fuck.

[l-art-stuff-l]

minecraft fanlore? minecraft fanlore?

Hi < creating a whole mc player species