Redmaker

*"It’s occurred to me that people might not know the meaning of the term “redmaker”, though it’s appeared in my series as early as Nether Expedition.*

*I sort of imagined that no-one in Minecraftia would refer to players as “players”, it just didn’t make much sense to me. What were they playing? What basis would anyone have to call them players? It didn’t work.*

*So I thought for a bit and established that players definitely have some powerful capabilities that set them far and apart from almost everything else in the world. Endermen can move blocks around a bit, Creepers can break a bunch of them sort of, but only players can build, engineer, carry mountains, and the like.*

*This eventually lead to the formation of my hypothesis of the organo-redstone reaction, which roughly means redstone + organic matter = energy. I have it in mind that some degree of simplistic evolution took place in Minecraftia and eventually it was discovered that, not unlike oxygen in our world, having biology with a bit of redstone in it is a big advantage. So more things start capitalising on redstone because it gives them capabilities that are kind of bizarre in our world. And then eventually “players” appear, and for whatever reason they’ve got a LOT more redstone in them than normal (maybe this hints at a deeply subterranean evolution), they’re running on rocket fuel by comparison, so they can do a lot more absurd things.*

*The rest of the world isn’t oblivious to the organo-redstone reaction, as it’s the basis of the redstone torch and the lever and such, so they figure this much out. An older term for players might be redstoners, but as redstone knowledge has grown and spread that’s come to represent a more specific group of people with a lot of knowledge and experience with the substance more than players at large.*

*Ultimately, the boundless enthusiasm for building and creating gets conflated with the old terminology and players come to be known as “Redmakers”"*

*"In extreme simplification, “redmaker” means “player”, it’s the characters that we control as we play the game. To that end it can be applied to any group of individuals with a high volume of agency in a given setting.*

*In context, it’s a bit more complicated. Whilst there are creatures that function normally as we expect in Minecraft, there’s a sort of biological rocket fuel in the setting that a lot of species have latched on to in the course of their evolution. Redstone releases energy whenever it comes into contact with organic matter (the organo-redstone reaction), so a lot of creatures internalized it to various degrees and use it to provide them with sustenance or to improve the efficiency of their movement. This is what causes the smoke particles whenever such a creature dies.*

*Redmakers took this to a whole other level. With an enormous volume of redstone in their bodies, Redmakers can move blocks, carry vast volumes of material, are very physically powerful, and are even functionally immortal by means of respawning. They’re sort of ridiculous, but it’s this redstone physiology and their capacity to rearrange the world to their liking that earned them the moniker of “Redmaker”." -Lyinginbedmon*

Redmakers are the in-universe explanation for the player character in Minecraft. The moniker of Redmaker denotes a species of being able to do tasks other species are incapable of doing, a Redmaker is not necessarily human, as seen with characters like Lying-shisai who while originally human, is now a kitsune. Due to the intense inherent power of a Redmaker, they are capable of both intense kindness, but also intense destruction. Being functionally immortal with all the powers they have mean they can destroy entire worlds to shape in their image.

As a result some entitied hold grudges against the Redmakers, while a somewhat understandable grudge, at it's most extreme it has resulted in attempted genocide out of a desire to protect a home they see as threatened by Redmaker presence. This is the attitude held by the cyborg pigman \_Timothy as he in defense of the Nether holds a failed attempt at a genocide plot under his belt as he was stopped by a group of Lying's in the nick of time. Though the Paint it Red, a ship he commanded to do the deed still exists, and could theoretically be used again at some point for another attempt.

Though difficult there is indeed ways to kill Redmakers for good, however exact methods are unknown as the only methods shown was the Witch's slapped together ritual in the well, and whatever the Paint it Red was doing. Lao's family and fiancé also perished in a fire, likely permanently, but while he appears to be a Redmaker, it is unknown if being a Redmaker is passed down thus it cannot be said for certain if the rest of his family and fiancé were Redmakers.