My Faithful Student Twilight Sparkle
It sounds like you are starting to flourish.
Don't forget to range out through the world, there is much to see.
Did you know you can build with blocks? Just about anything can be used, though different types of woods, stones, as well as wool and glass are more common. In fact, whole towns and castles and unmoving ships and endless other things can be built.
I suggest you shear some sheep and make beds for you all, then sleep during the night so if you die you can respawn back on the bed. Yes, you will die. A lot, But when you die, you will respawn, with your saddlebags empty. If you can return to where you died, you can reclaim your items by breaking your grave. Sounds rather gross, i am aware, but it does keep your inventory from being lost.
You will have to grow accustomed to slaying the animals and the denizens of the dark, for as i have mentioned, they drop many good things and in the case of hostile creatures, they will try to kill you. Don't attack wolves or ocelots, though, as they can be tamed into dogs and cats.
There are several different types of abandoned structures,some of which are mentioned in the tome. In them, you can find chests with good things such as music discs and magical books. These books mostly add enchantments to various tools and armor. But some rare books can be combined with emeralds to create enchanted emeralds. Anypony holding that emerald can activate the enchantment and thus cast the spell.
The book idea is a good one and i will look into it, though i have doubts about a book that being able to cross between Minecraftia and Equestria.
We have all been studying how to enter Minecraftia without the portal. There IS a way out of Minecraftia but it is difficult.
All our love
Princess Celestia
The ponies slept until the morning light shone brightly into the stony cave. With a yawn, Twilight scanned the area and lifted up a new scroll that had been lying next to Spike's sleeping form. She shuddered a bit at the princess' bluntness. Shaking off the sudden fear, she stretched out her wings and trotted outside. Not far off a new tree, dotted with fruit, stood next to the pond. Twilight marveled at the cherry tree, before jumping in a nearby river for a bath. By then the others had begun to waken, with the exception of Applejack, who could be seen, clearing away trees and replanting saplings. When the hard-working pony noticed the others emerging, she trotted over with the wood she had collected, as well as saplings and apples. "Well, howdy, yall! Took ye long enough to be up and about! Ah've gathered up a bit o'wood ever since the sun rose."
Twilight beamed at the orange pony, as she splashed around. Swimming wasn't really easy, but if one stayed in block deep water it was easy enough. After baths came breakfast. Then they split up again. Spike, Rainbow and Applejack headed for the mine. Sure, Rainbow didn't care for being underground, but there was a sense of suspense, one never knew what they would find, and it pulled her. Pinkie and Fluttershy headed out to check on the garden, and Twilight enlisted Rarity's help in shearing sheep and making beds.
When that was done Twilight pulled out some cobble and birch logs. Fluttershy and Pinkie trotted in, carrying produce and some sand that had been requested. "Oh, yay!" Twilight cheered as she waved at them. "Thanks, girls! Can you stick that sand in the furnace, please?" They nodded with smiles as they trotted into the cave. Twilight puzzled over a scroll that had come this morning that she hadn't read. To her joy, it contained various house blueprints. She picked out a nice spacious one and began laying out the blocks with care. This took some time, particularly as she got higher and higher up the walls. Her wings helped a little, but she could not fly well.
At last, as sunset began to dot the land in shadows, the area in and around the house was lit with torches and doors placed. The ponies cheered before returning to the cave one last night. Twilight showed everypony the beds. "Look, we made beds! These will be much more nice and comfy!" Twilight cheered as she hopped on one of the seven beds. Rarity happily sunk on a bed, and Spike was happy he finally had his own bed. As each of the ponies climbed onto a bed, they fell asleep and so the night passed.
The next day was spent tending the garden and sending out an expedition which was composed of Applejack, Rainbow, Spike, and Pinkie. Twilight hunted through the books for furniture and was able to move the equipment out of the cave, and build some tables and shelves and other such things. The house was rather small for all of them, but it would be not much difficulty in building everypony a house. The first house had a living room, kitchen, and two bedrooms upstairs. Fluttershy gathered more wool with shears and a nice carpet was put in, as well as some other basic furniture.The kitchen didn't have much yet but storage and a water barrel and shelves.
Rarity spent time picking flowers to put in some new flower pots and transplant outside, and turned some of them to dye which was applied to sheep.
As the sun fell into the west, the adventurers returned, running the last meters into the full house. They had found some fruits, and more gardens, and seen a variety of animals. Some rare trees had been found and wood and saplings brought back, and Rainbow had flown up to a floating colorful island that seemed made up of slime. Some strange blue slimes had been in the slimy water, and had converged on her. Quick kicks had brought them down, and Rainbow had made her first kills. Slime blocks and dirt,and slimy saplings were brought back as well, to be stored away.
Finally they fell asleep again, but not before another letter was sent off.
Dear Princess Celestia
We have been really busy! The farm has been expanded, and we have a cherry tree and a couple apple trees which are Applejack's pride and joy. I put together a house and started furnishing it yesterday, and we're going to sleep in it for the first time tonight.
Today some of us went on an exploration. It looks like they did really well, though Rainbow had an incident with some sort of blue slimes.
Dying sound absolutely terrifying, though i suppose it could be considered reassuring that we.. reappear? Is that what respawn means?
I hope we can be strong enough to protect ourselves even if it means killing living creatures...
It sounds amazing that spells can be attached to emeralds! That even earth ponies could wield magic of unicorns... I wonder why this is not a thing in Equestria?
We send our love back
Twilight Sparkle