After the success with surviving their first night, Twilight, Spike, Fluttershy, and Applejack decided to go exploring for some new resources they could use. Pinkie, Rarity, and Rainbow decided they should stay and hold down the fort. However, Rainbow had a diferent idea in mind. She told Pinkie and Rarity she was going to look for some wood to slowly clear out more of the forest, but she was really going to follow her friends to see what they were going to do. Rainbow soared into the sky and flew just below the clouds.
"Okay, now lets choose a direction to go in." Twilight told her friends. "We can go to where that sand is in the distance, the place with the tall and overgrown trees over there, the very muddy place that way, or just to that dangerous-looking mountain." Twilight pointed her hoof to each area when she mentioned it.
"I um... I would like to go to the place with the tall trees, that is, if you don't mind." Fluttershy quietly spoke.
"Ah wouldn' mind headn' over to that there desert. It looks like theres some weird green plants pokin' out of the sand and next to the water." Applejack told the others.
"I would like to head over to the mountain, because thats where I found some stone earlier." Spike said.
"Well, I think we can go to all of the places if we split up. It would let us see what places we like and we can gather many materials in each place. I'll head to the muddy place if you all head to the places you want to." Twilight said to each of them. They all agreed and headed off to the different lands of Minecraft.
Up in the sky, Rainbow found a different land Twilight didn't see. It was covered in white snow and had dark trees that were tall, scattered, and covered in snow. Where a river should have been was ice, and sheep and wolves could be seen running around the white landscape. She flew off in that direction and left a rainbow trail in her wake.
Back at the house, Rarity was busy building a second floor for her friends. She snuck a peek at Twilights book and found the recipie for 'Oak wood stairs' and she crafted a few. The second floor was made out of some of the cobblestone Spike found and had a hole in the floor where the stairs were supposed to be. Rarity found that if the space above the stairs was too small, then she or the others could seriously get hurt. She kept thinking on what she could make the second floor into, until she had the best idea yet. "PINKIE! I NEED YOUR HELP HERE!" She called out the door. Then she turned around and headed straight for Twilights book she left behind and opened it up to the next chapter.
Applejack was busy digging in the sand blocks when she found some water. She thought it was odd that water was in the middle of a desert, but she shrugged the thought off. She headed over to the water when she saw a large green plant next to it. The plant was about three blocks high and was really a bunch of long green sticks that had leaves on them. She remembered the chapter on farming Twilight showed them and recognised it as sugarcane. She quickly bucked it with her hooves and put it to her saddlebags where it met some sand and cactus blocks. Applejack kept on moving and bucking more plants as she went along, until she found a large structure that was buried a bit beneath the sand. She didn't know what it was, but decided to see what it was herself. Applejack dug up the sand surrounding the entrance and went in.
In the place where the trees were tall, Fluttershy was nervously making her way around the vines and trees. She did meet a lot of ocelots, but after she said hello they ran away. She found large pods and hit them with her hoof. She discovered that the pods that were the largest had more brown things drop out of them than when she hit a small green ones. Fluttershy was very careful when collecting the wood, she didn't want to hurt the trees or startle the animals. But when she removed one small tree, she found a very old cobblestone building that had some places covered in moss. The ruins were covered in vines and it was very dark inside. When Fluttershy peeked in, she saw a Zombie and a set of stairs leading down. She took out her wooden sword and quickly killed the Zombie. She picked up the rotten flesh it dropped and went down the stairs.
Spike was having a horrible time trying to travel across the tall cliffs and mountains. He had to crawl in order to look off an edge in case he fell and died. He tried going into caves, but they always led to dead ends and not many ores. There were bats in the small caves, and a few Creepers. Spike always ran out of the caves screaming until the Creepers ran off. He only found a few flowers and some animals but not much. He had to climb off the sides of the mountains multiple times in order to get close to the ground. Spike almost gave up on his little adventure, but he found a large crater in the ground with plenty of ore. He climbed his way down, but he got a bit more than half-way when he saw some cobblestone in the walls. He knew he didn't place it, but he could also hear many groaning sounds from behind the cobblestone. Spike took out his stone pickaxe and started to mine away the wall, almost completely prepared for what was on the other side.
Twilight was having a nice time in the muddy place. There was green water, which she thought was gross, but also a lot of plant life. She found some sugarcane and plucked it with her magic. She levitated the sugarcane into her saddlebags and kept on exploring. She found weird plants growing on the water and took a few. She discovered that she can somehow walk on them like they were normal ground. After playing around with trying to get the vines which hung off of the tree, she gave up after failing so many times and decided to buck the trees instead. She collected a lot of wood, and when she looked behind one tree, she saw a tiny brown plant. She found a few more identical to it and plucked all of them. She found a few red ones too and plucked every one of them. Twilight was still collecting resources when she saw a wooden building using wood blocks as poles over the water. She thought the structure was odd, and decided to go closer for a better look.
Rainbow was busy looking around the snowy place when she saw a frozen lake. She instantly ran over and started sliding on the icy lake. She looked below the ice and saw squids swimming around below in the water. Having a playful mood, Rainbow cracked the ice and began hitting them with her hoof. Eventually, one squid died and dropped a black thing. She made the hole in the ice bigger and swam to reach it. When she grabbed it she swam upwards and flew the rest of the way so she wouldn't run out of air. Rainbow flew back onto the ice and put the thing in her saddlebags. A wolf that was nearby smelled a bone or two that was in Rainbow's bag and walked over to her. She saw the wolf comming and sniffing the air. She pulled out each item she had and it reacted to none of them. She pulled out her bone last and it cocked its head. She held the bone with her wing and moved it back and forth. The wolf followed it with its head and started whining. "Hehe, here you go." Rainbow told the wolf and gave it the bone. The bone disappeared and a red collar appeared on the dogs neck. Hearts appeared above its head and it sat down with its tail in the air. "So I guess I'm your owner now. Lets head back to where me and my friends live." Rainbow and her new pet headed off to the clearing, happy that they will be loyal to each other.
Pinkie was busy getting ready for when her friends come home. Pinkie took the book Twilight has and read for some of the things you can make with cobblestone and crafted a furnace. She placed one piece of coal in it and put in the iron ore Spike found and started burning it. She eventually found the recipie for buckets and milked the cows Fluttershy recently found. Pinkie explored a beach nearby and found some sugarcane and crafted it down to sugar. Then she went over to the chicken pen and picked up some eggs. She went over to the wheat farm after that and got some wheat. She finally went over to the Crafting Table they had set up and created a cake. She heard a loud ding and ran upstairs to tell Rarity. "RARITY! HEY RARITY! I GOT AN ACHIEVEMENT!" She yelled enthusiasticly. "I GOT IT AFTER MAKING A CAKE!"
"Dear, try not to break my ears when you are excited." Rarity told her. "Its great you found another Achievement, we'll all have to make cakes now. But right now i'm busy, so can you get our friends?"
Pinkie burst out the door after leaving the cake to Rarity. Her Pinkie Sense told her to first look in a desert, so she ran off. When she reached the desrt, she saw Applejack heading into a strange building. She crept into the building and watched Applejack start looking at all of the blocks. 'This kind of looks like the Great Pony Pyramid!' Pinkie thought to herself, thinking of the largest ancient tomb that existed in the desert of Equestria. Applejack started murmuring to herself and she broke one of the oranged blocks in the center of the building. She saw her crawl into to hole and heard a thump sound after a few seconds. Pinkie started wondering what Applejack was doing when she didn't come back out a few minutes later.
Applejack was being very careful. She saw a strange block in the center of the hole, and decided not to step on it. She did however, find four chests and started opening each one of them. The first one had lots of roten flesh and bones. The second one had some flesh and bones, but also five pieces of gold. The third had four pieces of gold, some bones, and seven pieces of iron. The last chest caught her off-guard. It had four diamonds, six pieces of gold, two pieces of iron, and rotten flesh. Applejack silently whooped in hapiness and gathered everything she found. She took out some blocks and jumped while placing the blocks below her, slowly reaching the top. She crawled back through the hole and found Pinkie watching her. "Pinkie? Were ya watchin' me?" Applejack asked the pink pony.
"Yep! Rarity wants everypony to go back to the house for something and my Pinkie Sense told me you were here!"
Applejack just nodded slowly and said "Ahm headin' back to there now. You can get our friends right?"
"Yep! I'll be back quicker than the Cakes when Pound and Pumpkin are crying!" Pinkie yelled.
Applejack just nodded again and headed out. Pinkie followed after her and started hopping over to the place with the overgrown trees. She stepped foot into in and climbed up a vine. Pinkie looked around after reaching the top of a tall tree and saw a ruined building. She watched Fluttershy kill a Zombie and walk inside. Pinkie jumped off the tree and landed with a loud thud. Fluttershy didn't hear it though, and never turned around. Pinkie decided to follow her in and see what she found. She jumped in and saw Fluttershy head down some stairs. Then she saw Fluttershy flick some switches and she saw a block being pulled back and saw a chest below it. Pinkie heard Fluttershy come back up the stairs and shriek. "Relax Fluttershy, its me, Pinkie Pie!"
Pinkie saw Fluttershy start to calm down "Hi Pinkie. I was um... just looking at this ruined place. I saw some switches and when I pulled two of them I heard movement and came up here. I um.. I first thought you were another Zombie."
Pinkie laughed and pointed her hoof to where the chest was "When you pulled the switches, that opened up."
Fluttershy walked over to it and opened up the chest. Inside there were three pieces of iron and some bones. She pulled them out and showed Pinkie her goods and they traveled down the stairs. This time, they turned the other way and she put up a torch. Right in front of her was a thin piece of string leading from wall to wall. When she stepped on it, she saw an arrow fling out and hit the wall next to her. Fluttershy flew over it and saw Pinkie bounce over the string. She saw Pinkie look at a weird block poking out of the wall and saw her pull out a bunch of arrows and put them in her saddlebags. When the two turned another corner and they saw another thin line of string. Neither of them stepped on it though, and Fluttershy just quietly flew over it and opened the chest. Inside there were six pieces of gold and rotten flesh. Fluttershy placed the materials in her saddlebags and flew out of the ruined building. Pinkie somehow got out of there faster and started speaking very quickly
"HiFluttershy!Guesswhat? IjumpedthroughthesentanceandcameheretotellyouthatyouneedtoheadbacktothehousewhereRarityis!"
Pinkie started jumping up and down and smiling widely. Fluttershy nodded and went back the way she came into the overgrown forest. Pinkie jumped off toward the mountain that was nearby, singing one of her songs the entire way. She found burnt places on the ground near some caves and some explosion holes. Pinkie found a large crater in the ground and saw Spike digging in a cobblestone wall. "HEY SPIKE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Pinkie yelled.
Spike turned and waved to his friend. "I'm just digging out this wall. I hear Zombies behind it, and I don't know anyone who put this wall up. Do you want to help?"
"SURE!" Pinkie bounced down into the hole and took out her wooden sword. Spike finished digging out the wall and she could see some Zombies appearing from a bluish blackish box in the middle of the room. There were two chests, but there were too many Zombies to get to them easily. "I'll put down torches if you fight the Zombies Pinkie." Spike told her.
Pinkie nodded and she ran in, hitting the Zombies with her sword. Spike placed some torches on the walls and Pinkie finished off the last of the Zombies. They didn't appear after Spike put the torches around and Pinkie jumped over to a chest. Inside there was a bucket, an orange saddle, two pieces of wheat, and a brown seed-like thing. She put the things in her saddlebags and bounced over to the second chest. Inside there was two pieces of gunpowder, another bucket, four red things that looked like gunpowder, three pieces of string, and one green and black round disc. Spike was mining the floor and the blocks that had green moss on them. They finished up in there and Pinkie told him that Rarity needed them all back at the house. Spike's eyes lit up and he ran straight for their home. Pinkie chuckled as she moved on to the next area.
Rainbow was flying with her new dog back to the house when she saw Pinkie jumping off to the muddy place Twilight went to. She decided not to head that way, and instead fly as fast as possible to the house. Rainbow commanded her new dog to sit and flew high into the air. She began a fast and steady nosedive and could start to see a white band appear in front of her hooves. Tears started forming in her eyes because of her speed, and her mouth started flapping. Soon the white band closed in and she felt the sound barrier breaking. Suddenly a loud BANG could be heard, and a pixelated ring of color formed behind Rainbow. A thick rainbow trail followed her, and she quickly turned around to tell her dog to come. She was still flying incredibly fast when she spotted her sitting dog. Rainbow yelled at it to stand and kept flying to their home. Her dog has teleporting to her quickly because of how fast she was going, and it couldn't keep up. Soon Rainbow reached the house where she could see Fluttershy,Spike, and Applejack waiting for her. She slowed to a stop and landed next to her friends, who told her about their adventures.
Pinkie found Twilight next to a wood house standing in the water with wood blocks supporting it. She saw Twilght was levitating dirt blocks to get up to it when she yelled hello. She saw Twilight turn her head and wave back to her. Pinkie bounced over and asked "What are you doing Twilight?"
Twilight replied "I found this small house, and I just want to see if anything is in there right now. I already kept an idea of this place in case anypony wants to come here."
"Why didn't you say so? I'll go check it out and come back!" Pinkie jumped up the blocks Twilight put down and looked inside the small building. She saw nothing interesting and jumped back down. "There is nothing in there right now, maybe we should come back later." Pinkie saw the slight disapointment in Twilight's face, but told her Rarity needs her back at the house. She saw Twilight perk up and start running. Pinkie just jumped to the next paragraph to get to their home faster.
Twilight finally reached their home and saw Pinkie was already chatting with the rest of her friends, minus Rarity. She walked over and started telling her friends about her adventure while they talked about theirs. "Girls! Please come into the house now!" Rarity called to them.
"What is it Rarity?" Twilight asked. Pinkie seemed to know what was going on though. She saw her friend start jumping up and down and toward the staircase that wasn't there before. Twilight and the rest of her friends (and Rainbow's dog) walked up the stairs and met a little surprise. Fences were underneath random and colored blocks and the shapes looked like balloons. There was a table made of wooden planks in the center of the room with what looks a cake on the top of it. There were blocks hanging from the celing and overall the room was fit for a party. Rarity came out from behind the table and spoke to her friends "Hello! While you were gone Pinkie and I were setting up this party for the success of surviving this far. I read the next chapter of your book Twilight, and Pinkie set out to make this cake. She apparently got an Achievement, so I made the table larger so all of us can create cakes."
Pinkie came back with the supplies needed to make cakes and soon all of the ponies have made delicious cakes. For the rest of the day, the friends had fun at the party. Twilight eventually decided to look at the things made from sugarcane, and used some of it to create some paper. Twilight was trying to reach for something to write with when she forgot to bring some quills. She facehoofed herself and decided to just hang onto the paper she made. She walked back upstairs and kept on having fun until the day was over.