Ao3 Hermitcraft Recommendations

60-20k Words

These works are listed in the approximate order that I read them in. They are all completed unless noted otherwise. The summaries are copy-pasted from Ao3.

"and the universe shifts"
(aka ATUS)

Author: aayaptre
Rating: General Audiences
Words: 37,691
Chapters: 18
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18905302/chapters/44877343
Summary: "They were playing a game, they called it a game, it was one he couldn't win. He played anyway."

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Grian's been running for a long time, and knowing him, he'd going to be caught eventually.

"The Wings of a Fallen Angel"

Author: Aria_Cinabun
Rating: Not Rated
Words: 23,924
Chapters: 15
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23794672/chapters/57163747
Summary: Grian is a fallen angel, and nobody can know. Has been the entire time they've known him.
If people know, the angels will come, and they will take him away. Because of his choice to Fall, he's already lost his wings - but to lose his closest friends as well?
But when Xisuma discovers a rift in the world, Grian is sent out with Stress and Cleo to investigate it - only to run face-first into the only people he never wants to see again.
And then all three of them are gone, and all that is left is a pair of shoes, random cryptic numbers sent in chat, and a white feather.
Can Grian, Cleo, and Stress survive their time in the Aether?
And can the other hermits rescue the trio before one of them dies?

"Grieving the Living"

Author: SugarsweetRomantic
Rating: Explicit
Words: 22,037
Chapters: 10
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28573908/chapters/70027872
Summary: Nashville, 1949
The aftershocks of World War II are still shaking the world. When Scar Times approaches Private Investigator False Symmetry with the case of his missing sister Jellie, she's reluctant to take it. However, money is hard to come by these days, so she decides to give it a shot. Her investigation leads her from an adult club in a dark alley all the way up the ranks of society to uncover a huge scandal involving the mayor, Keralis, and the captain of the police force, Xisuma Void, and further down into a dark hole.

When family members and acquaintances all seem to be involved in a dark scheme that will endanger everyone they love, it's up to False, Cleo, Xisuma, Stress and their trusted friends to take down a larger evil than they have ever seen before. And who knows, they might find some comfort in each other along the way.

"Wings of Night"

Author: Phantom_Nightz
Rating: Explicit
Words: 33,663
Chapters: 27
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29160765/chapters/71590962
Summary: Grian and Xisuma are brothers, Watchers, and best friends. They've always gotten into trouble together.

The two are young Watchers, but they go farther than they're supposed to and are kidnapped and taken to a new world where they live amongst normal players.

"The Red Sun Never Sets"

Author: Thane Zain
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Words: 27,242
Chapters: 25
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18122372/chapters/42844403
Summary: Mumbo wakes, finding himself stranded in a strange, flat world with a glaring red sun always directly above him. He compulsively builds redstone circuits, barely realizing the deadly traps he's creating. When his friends arrive to bring him home, the acts he commits prove how far gone he is and how long it will take for him to return, fully, from the hollow world of the red sun.