last player!au: something i’ve been thinking about, are other smps, minecraft series or content creators canon in this au? like, we know that ’hermitcraft’ as a communtity was seen as very prevalent in player culture, but are there other civilizations beyond hermitcraft that were recorded? is hermitcraft an exception because the universe loves it? and if not, then when nobody writes the history, who will be remembered?

All SMPs are equally canon to the LPAU! As are all worlds in general. Big public servers? Small friend groups just messing around? That singleplayer world with the ugly box of a house made entirely of lapis lazuli ore which I made when I was like ten? They all exist, somewhere, in some form. Except superflats I'm not dealing with that logistic nightmare.

They probably aren't very intact, and are unrecognizable, but they did exist.

With SMPs, yes, the archeologists have uncovered a lot of old records, artifacts, ruins, etc. Their knowledge of these things is fragmented and incomplete, distorted because they don't know the full language and because they assume these people were more like Humans and less like minor gods, but hey. It's something.