So... I haven't posted in a while. A lot is happening in my personal life, and I haven't found time to work on much, especially on Scatterbrained. Though I have been developing a little theory of mine, and, after literal hours of research on worldwide geography, I have come to the decisive conclusion of where the Dream SMP takes place.
The theory I have been developing is that the Dream SMP takes place in the far-flung future, with a post-apocalyptic Earth after some kind of nuclear event. This theory would explain the hybrid characters such as Ranboo, Technoblade, or Philza, who would be a result of generations of radiation affecting human and animal bodies. For Ranboo specifically, this could explain endermen, which would be a possible byproduct of intense radiation. This could also explain the egg.
Intense changes in the atmosphere could also cause some climate changes (which is why I'm bringing up this theory, as this would not make sense without it.)
This then raises the question; where does the Dream SMP take place?
It's likely the Dream SMP would be a little community that developed over centuries in a small abandoned land separated by geographic features. A little side note; every new member in the Dream SMP would be a traveller finding their way to the Dream SMP lands and deciding to stay there, making a living there.
The wide variety of biomes would be due to changes in climate due to atmospheric anomalies, just to give breathing space as Minecraft has different geographic rules than real life.
So, we have a few rules now. The Dream SMP has to be in:
>A land separated by geographic features
>The Dream SMP has a VERY small land area, at most 1000 kilometres. The Dream SMP might simply be a permanent settlement in an - in comparison - large island, which has developed over the centuries. So, we are looking for an island. I know the Minecraft world is gigantic, yet no permanent settlement by any Dream SMP member beyond about 3 IRL kilometres or so exists, meaning that beyond a few hundred kilometres we might as well just cut it off by then.
>The island has to have a good mix of climate and be nearly impossible yet not inconceivable to find and settle in.
>The island has to be, for the most part, grassland.
>It also has to be rather cold, as there are more snow lands than deserts in the Dream SMP.
This leaves us with these possibilities for where the Dream SMP could be:
-Jan Mayen, Norway
-Snares Islands, New Zealand
-Weddel Island, Falklands
-Isla de los Estados, Argentina
-Wollaston Islands, Chile
-Motu Maha, New Zealand
-Barents and Edge Island, Svalbard
-Suðuroy, Faroe Islands
-Guernsey, United Kingdom
-Ile Foch, French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Now, how could we possibly cut down this list to just one island? Well... we have a map of the Dream SMP. With this map, we could then cut down this list to just one island which matches the coastline. And after the long process of putting every island on that list's coastline against Eret's map of the Dream SMP... I have found the closest, almost exact match.
The islands that fit the map of the Dream SMP the closest include the Snares Islands, Weddel Island, Motu Maha, Wollaston, and Ile Foch. Yet the Snares Islands, Motu Maha, and Ile Foch lack a "Snowchester Island," leaving only Weddel and Wollaston Island. So I individually compared the coastlines of these two, using image editors to compare the islands... and found Wollaston Island to be the decisive victor. More specifically, the lands in Wollaston around the Alberto Sound.
To celebrate, here are some facts about the Wollaston Islands:
-The indigenous inhabitants are known as the Yahgan.
-Henry Foster, European "discoverer" of Wollaston Island named the islands after scientist William Hyde Wollaston.
-The islands were originally British but became occupied by Argentina and Chile.
-Though a treaty had given the lands to Chile, Argentina still occupied them for a long portion of the 20th century, yet were given to Chile after a few minor conflicts.
Locations in the Dream SMP
L'Manberg
Las Nevadas
Snowchester
Eret's Museum
So, there's that. There is the Dream SMP's definitive location on Earth; Wollaston Island.