Hey you! Yes, you. Do you want a zombie? Or a skeleton? No? How about an illager? Not that either? Err... maybe a pig? What do you mean you can get a pig anywhere? Okay okay. How about a shulker, mooshroom, or a panda? Yeeees! You can have one, right here and now. All you need to do is get hold of our item of the week – the spawn egg.
嘿!就是你!想要一只僵尸吗?……一只骷髅?不是的话……一只灾厄村民怎么样?那也不是?Emm……一只小猪?你说小猪几乎随处可见?好吧。那么一只潜影贝、哞菇或者熊猫如何?没错!你可以拥有它,就在此时,就在此地。你所需要做的一切,便是拿到我们本周介绍的物品——刷怪蛋。
Alright you got me. The spawn egg isn’t one item – it’s 69 different items at the time of writing, one for each different kind of thing you can spawn. Nice. But it makes sense to lump them together into one item because spawn eggs all do one thing, and do it expertly. They spawn creatures.
好吧,被你逮到了。刷怪蛋不仅仅是一种物品——截至本文编写时,他们包括69种不同的物品,每一种都对应着它们可以生成的不同生物类型。这很不错,不过将它们合并成同一种物品也很合理。因为刷怪蛋们专精于唯一一件事情——生成各种生物。
Let’s back up a moment - where did these things even come from? Spawn eggs were added to Minecraft all the way back in Minecraft version 1.1, which is one of very few Minecraft versions that does have a fancy name like “The Adventure Update” or “Caves & Cliffs”. It was released in 2012, and – fun fact – is the only major release of the game that didn’t actually introduce any new blocks. Not sure how we let that one through. 让我们退一步说——这些玩意儿从何而来?刷怪蛋自从Minecraft version 1.1起,便被添加到了Minecraft之中。那可是极其罕见的拥有像 “冒险更新” 或者 “山崖与洞穴”这样响当当大名的版本之一。这个版本于2012年发布,并且有趣的是——这是唯一一次没有带来任何新方块的大版本发布。不知道我们是如何让它过审发出来的。
Spawn eggs are impossible to get hold of without using cheats or Creative Mode, but they’re pretty easy to use once you have one. Just hit the use button while aiming at any surface, and the mob in question will spawn immediately. You can’t throw them like regular eggs, but you can put them in dispensers for automatic mob-spawningusing redstone circuitry. 刷怪蛋是一只不可获取的物品(除非你作弊或者开了创造),但是当你能搞到一个的话,使用它却极其简单。只需对准任何一个表面按下使用键,对应的生物便会在一刹那间出现。虽然你并不能把他们当做普通的鸡蛋扔出去,但是你可以将其放入发射器中,从而实现基于红石的全自动生物生成系统。
Perhaps you’re feeling like you want something cute in your life and you want *baby* animals to spawn. No problem. Aim at an existing mob with your spawn egg, hit use, and you’ll get a baby version. Adorable! Oh, and if you’re lucky enough to find a spawner in a dungeon or something, then you can use a spawn egg on it to change what creature spawns. Yes, you can fill adungeon with chickens. 也许你更喜欢生活中有更多的萌物,并且想生成一些“幼年”的生物?没问题。使用刷怪蛋瞄准一只已有的生物,并按下使用键,随之而来你将得到一只生物的宝宝。好可爱鸭!如果能有幸在地牢之类的地方发现一个刷怪笼,你便可以使用刷怪蛋来改变它的生成内容。没错,你可以在地牢里面塞满小鸡!
Almost all animals in the real world also have spawn eggs. Some of them, like birds and spiders, lay those eggs and you can pick them up and hold them and have them on toast. Some, like mammals (including humans), keep their eggs inside their bodies and give birth to babies instead.
在真实世界中,几乎所有的生物都拥有自己的卵。其中的一部分,就像小鸟和蜘蛛,可以产下那些可以被捡起、把玩甚至夹在两片面包里吃掉的蛋。而另一部分,就像哺乳动物(包括人类),将卵子保护在身体之中,并产下后代。
The largest recorded eggs come from whale sharks, which measure 30cm by 14cm by 9cm and generally hatch inside the mother. The smallest known bird egg is that of the bee hummingbird - it weighs half a gram – though the eggs of reptiles, fish, amphibians and insects can be far, far smaller.
当前人类已知最大的卵来自于鲸鲨,尺寸为30*14*9厘米,并且一般在母体内部孵化。当前已知最小的鸟蛋来自于蜂鸟——他只有0.5克重。但是,爬行动物、鱼类、两栖动物以及昆虫的卵还能更小,更小……
Eggs are an important part of human culture all around the world, representing life and rebirth, healing and protection. Decorating eggs is very common too, for the same reason. Egg collecting was once a popular hobby in Europe, but collecting wild eggs is now banned in many places because it threatens endangered and rare species.
蛋是全世界人类文化的重要组成部分,代表着生命与新生,治疗与保护。正因为此,装饰蛋也是十分常见的。收集各种动物的蛋曾经是欧洲地区的一大流行爱好。但是在很多地区,收集野生动物的蛋现在已经被禁止了,因为这将会威胁到濒危和稀有物种。 In Minecraft, there are rare mobs but none are endangered. So go ahead and collect as many spawn eggs as you want to!
不过,在Minecraft中,尽管有许多稀有的生物,但是没有濒危物种。所以尽管去收集想要的刷怪蛋吧!正如你所愿!