robinsonade
A genre of adventure fiction where a hero is stranded alone on a desert island and has to survive with their own wits.
Much, perhaps most, Minecraft fiction follows the robinsonade template, emphasizing the day-to-day life of a character, including nonhuman characters, striving to survive and thrive in a recognizably Minecraftian world by utilizing its resources.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Robinsonade, analyzable in English as Robinson + -ade, named after fictional character Robinson Crusoe, from Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry robinsonade (CC BY-SA 4.0).