#minecraft au mastertag

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Realized not everyone who's interested in the Minecraft AU knows abt the innerworkings of the characters and lores, so I'm trying to find ways to explain things easily for ppl who are curious. So here's a simple relationship chart I whipped up for testing. I should note that despite there being a list of pairings canon to the AU, I don't discourage shipping of the characters. Hell, my friend Atlas pairs Groda and Makena together (which is funny, I love it), so it's really no issue to me. All I really ask in the context of shipping any of the characters is to respect the identities in place for them (Makena being a lesbian, Zuri being gay, Kai being aromatic, soforth.) Otherwise I encourage exploring different dynamics, and love to see what people do with it.

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THE MINECRAFT AU MEGA REFSHEET IS DONE AFTER 1+ YEAR!! Me n Riley have been working on this for so long now and I'm so happy to see it finally done... (Click for full res bc Tumblr might compress the hell out of it)

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MINECRAFT AU MASTERPOST

Since approximately the date of 08/23/2022, me and @sherbertclown have been working on a story involving our own takes on the Minecraft universe and those who reside within it. This Masterpost will be updated as time goes on and there is more to add.

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#Minecraft AU Mastertag - A collection of every in-date writing or art piece made for the AU.

Characters

Mega ref sheet, featuring all 14 prominent characters

Toyhouse page, HEAVILY unfinished as of writing

Character specific art tags:

Steve

Alex

Rana

Herobrine

Groda

White Eyes

Stephen

Sunny

Efe

Kai

Ari

Noor

Makena

Zuri

Mobs

The Creeper

Endermen

The Wither

Ender Dragon

Zombies

Slime

Magma Slime

Glow Squid

Lore + Worldbuilding

(Image courtesy of Beegswaz)

So what's the deal with Herobrine?

Gender identity and how its treated

Pre-transition Steve and Rana

Are humans commonplace here?

The Wither Cult

What the hell did Groda do anyway?

The final encounter

Groda being forced to be a better person: the timeline

Halloween (10th Moon) in the universe

A meal you can no longer make

Put yourself in the shoes of someone during the end of the world

Commonspeak and Galactic

The soul sand

"And the universe said I love you"

The early days

The magic properties of ores

About Jean

After the Wither fight

The dead seldom stay buried

Romantic relationship chart

Animatics

Look Who's Inside Again

Alex and Rana have a conversation

The Broken Furnace

The Polycube

for all your favorite 4-player romances

Matching icons

In bed for the night

A quick nap

Emojis

Cat people

Happy 10th Moon!

Date night

Stargazing

Meta/Non-canon

The best advertising

Groda (AU) vs Groda (Creepypasta)

A website with Steve

Rana Adventure 2 (feat. Creepypasta Groda)

But what if they were Warrior Cats

Kill her

Papers, Please

Alternative responses to "I love you"

Arrested for Smash Bros. crimes

But what if they were ponies

Crossover episode

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I haven't really gotten to talk about the Ender Dragon yet in the Minecraft AU, and you guys really liked the worldbuilding of oreposting for whatever reason, so we're talking about her now.

To clarify first and foremost: Jean (the dragon) is an intelligent and fully sentient creature. She knows and can speak every spoken language of this world, knows your name, knows every little thing about you, being seemingly omniscient despite having never met prior. That being said, she is not an unfair fighter and is not malicious in nature.

Dragons existed in much greater numbers long ago, though now the only ones you can find are in Ender. The Endermen are direct evolutionary descendants of these other dragons spread through the infinite realm - but not of Jean specifically. Despite this, historical writings would often (inaccurately) refer to her as "The mother of a thousand children." She is not capable of reproduction and is a fully sexless being.

Her relations to the Endermen are begrudging, serving only to have a brutal mutualistic relationship. The Ender dragons (not just Jean) allow them to eat from the chorus fruit trees within their territory so they may not starve, as well as spawn their own young, and the Ender dragons gets their fair share of food in return... by eating some of the Endermen. The Endermen are rather intelligent creatures in their own way, and they often escape to other dimensions to attempt to live a different life that isn't under the "rule" of the dragons, but quite a few are set in their ways because it's what they know. It's the circle of life they've become familiar with as they subject themselves to it for the sake of survival. Jean is unique in that she is "manufactured" in a way. Not to say that she is artificial, far from it, but that she's not a naturally made dragon. She's to the Universe what Cerberus is to the gates of hell, only existing and serving to guard and provide a challenge if necessary. She knows the rules and is respectful of them, and will never be afraid to die again. Much like a phoenix, with each death she is reborn. Upon being slain, she retreats back to the egg from whence she came many times before, only to re-emerge 10,000 years later.

When Jean finds her way back into the world, the knowledge of the return manages to find its way into the minds of everyone as a call to action. Though slaying the beast right away is not necessary per say, its better not to delay, as the longer one waits, often the more the idea will eat away at them.

Much like how the Wither represents the concept of inevitability, Jean represents the repeating cycle of the world - whether it be the persistence in humanity to come back time and time again, the cycle of her own return and inevitable death, or the tendency this world has to repeat itself over and over.

The Universe works in mysterious ways, and she is no exception to its design.

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Piece I commissioned from @azoinab for the MC AU Based off this fun conversation with Atlas:

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this is good advertising right

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"And the universe said I love you" A 24 page visualization of what Rana was told after the battle of Ender (among other things)

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The beast of Ender (rough concept art)

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Riley and me played through Papers, Please again recently and of course I can't just consume media in a normal fashion

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going through my arc of giving the Wither arms for the AU

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Realized I never posted the chart here so in the middle of the night u guys are now getting how different ores are used in regards to their magical properties in the Minecraft AU

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The cycle of life, death, rebirth, and history repeating itself is an extremely common theme in the MC AU. Thus, ouroboros. (Enderboros?)

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the Minecraft AU if i wasnt fucking around

separate refs under cut

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Ringing in the new year by taking a moment to give myself a shoutout on the MC AU creature designs I've done so far bc they all go hard I need to make more tbh

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MC AU Slime More biological info below cut for those interested!

Theorized to be evolutionary descendants of jellyfish due to their lack of brain, heart, and bones (that are theirs, anyway), these gelatinous creatures wander around, over, and through anything they can get themselves on. Despite them sharing similar slime-related labels, the Slime in no way is related to the Magma Slime found in the Nether, and is only named similarly due to their familiar attributes and vaguely similar appearance. Their jelly-like membrane allows them to pick up nearby objects that are caught in the rotation as a source of food, and will eventually make its way to the mouth located at the bottom of its "core". Their diet in question consists of effectively anything that can fit into its mouth. Whether it be rocks, leaves, animals, and so forth. Objects that are too big to be properly consumed stay in the slime rotation until the creature grows large enough to eat it, or it manages to get pulled/pushed out by something. Their size increases with what they consume, and after a certain point they will voluntarily break apart to create a copy of itself, thus continuing the cycle. Despite this, in theory its possible for a slime to grow forever if it allowed itself, as different sizes have been recorded to split at different periods. Their core is a somewhat useless material once the creature is killed, as it's effectively its only organ and deteriorates quickly, but there's great use to be found in the slimey membrane. Whether it be used for its sticky properties as an adhesive of sorts, or to be used to make a sort of pseudo-rubber or plastic by being cooled down, which hardens the material permanently and strips it of its signature sticky quality.

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Creeper Wanted to explore AU ideas on how Herobrine documented his early findings + wanted to make him draw similar to the style of the Mobestiary book.

Also a bonus related drawing from @rileyisupset: