A Trip in the Mines
AJ, Rainbow, and Spike trudged up the mountain towards the mine. The sun was just sparkling at the eastern horizon, and soon they stood at the cave that the mine was in. A quick trot took them down the shaft which led deep into the earth. At the base was a small room carved into the stone with a workbench, furnace, and storage.
The team pulled out some iron picks and crafted a few more as well as filling buckets at the spring they had created. Torches were also a necessity.
Each pony and dragon took a spot along the main horizontal shaft, first Applejack, then three blocks further, Spike, and lastly 3 blocks further, Rainbow. They flourished their picks and began to dig parallel shafts aiming away from the main shaft. Applejack hollered out nearly immediately, "Ah found iron!" Spike quickly followed with "Me too! Me too!' and Rainbow with "Me three!" All three chuckled at each other as they cut away at the iron and saw each other. After filling in the holes, the ring of pick against stone echoed down the tunnels.
AJ called out; she had found some gems. She then dropped her pick with a clang. Not much farther she had found gold! But while she mined the gold, she nearly got squished by falling gravel. The others called out, and she reassured them she was fine.
"I found coal!" Called out Spike, and AJ had some from the same vein next to her shaft. Further along, Rainbow reported she had found some red dust stuff and Applejack said she found blue stones (lapis). As they mined further, more iron, redstone, gold, silver, and nickel was unearthed, as well as some tin and a large variety of gems, to the delight of Spike.. Before long they broke into a cave system that was dark but rich in ores. They scampered through the cave system, lighting it, before stripping it. As well as ores similar to what they had found before, there was lead and yellorium, and a small patch of diamonds! Spike carefully mined them out, drooling slightly as he collected the gems. The three cheered before heading out of the mine.
Critter Chaos
Twilight crafted some fences and created large gated pens and troughs, before grabbing some wheat and seeds. She headed out into the valleys with Fluttershy and showed her how to attract some of the local livestock, lead them to the pens, and care for them. Flutters proved to be exemplary at this task, and began gathering cows, sheep, and chickens. There were several different varieties she found. She tried to befriend the deer, or find out if they were sapient, but that didn't work out. Flutters then went and gathered some flowers to feed her blocklings, and made them some nice log coats.
Construction
Twilight worked with Rarity to put up more houses. It was slow work and took a lot of resources, but slowly one house after another were constructed. Rarity mostly handled interiors, as well as lighting. Eventually, 6 houses stood proudly, and an additional main storage was built.
Applejack had picked out a nice place for a barn near the fruit trees, and worked with Twilight after gathering and dyeing clay, and put up a red barn. It gleamed brightly, and Applejack surrounded it with apple trees. It was not really a Sweet Apple Acres, but it comforted her.
Rarity found the recipes for banners and began making some for each house. She went and gathered flowers aplenty, some to transplant by her house, and some to grind into dyes. It wasn't dressmaking, but she did enjoy designing the banners. She also discovered how to make chisels and bitbags. She quickly realized the potential of these bits, and knew she would spend hours, likely, making all sorts of things!
Exploration
A group went out one day, one direction. They trekked through a forest, and gathered a little wood, before they reached the far side. Before them lay a sweltering desert, and they drank from a lake before trotting into the desert. They dug up a big patch of sand, and gathered some cactus and saguaro, as well as cactus gardens. About halfway through they encountered a desert temple. Rainbow voted to explore it, and would have charged in if AJ hadn't encouraged caution. They checked out the rooms, and found them quite empty. "Ah think there might be more below, lookit that clay." She started to mine sandstone and soon caught sight of the secret treasure room with a whoop and began to mine her way down. Rainbow flapped down and nearly hit the center before Applejack screeched "NO, Rainbow, don't land!" Rainbow looked down to see what had been spotted; a strange stone platform. Spike stepped down by the platform and with careful work, mined the platform, then they could all land safely and check out the chests. The ponies felt the contents were rather disgusting but collected the bones and rotten flesh as well as the gold and a sparkling book marked Infinity. The trio returned to the surface, and Rainbow hovered, panting, over the floor of the treasure room and mined some of it up. "Whaaa... weird blocks with wires." She mined it to find the big white letters on the side that said TNT. Well, of course, they were incredibly glad that pressure plate hadn't been hit... Beyond the desert lay a jungle biome.. which they explored. Cocoa beans were harvested, and some smaller trees of jungle wood harvested of their logs. They heard a clanging noise as they chopped some wood and collected fruit, and suddenly an arrow flew past. Rainbow spun around and spotted the offender. "SKELETON!!!" She pulled out the sword from the lucky block and flew to it, quick to tear it to bits to stop the barrage of arrows. When that was dealt with, they went back to gathering some of the saplings and fruit and tropical gardens in the area as well as berry bushes which could be replanted to provide a tasty food source. Rainbow noticed her experience bar was flashing, and when she activated it, a large screen appeared in her view. All over on it appeared names of what seemed to be O&O classes. She flashed over them and selected Scout.