Not everything in the Nether is out to get you. Don’t believe me? Cast your gaze into the middle of the fiery lava lakes that populate this dangerous dimension. You see that weird blobby thing paddling around happily? That’s a strider, our mob of the month, and it’s the only friend you’ll find on the far side of Nether portal.
Striders joined the Minecraft party, alongside bastions, piglins, and a ton of new biomes, in the Nether Update which was released in June 2020. They’re not too tricky to find, though they can be difficult to attract to the shore. Why? Because they’re hot-blooded – they get chilly when they’re out of the lava, and will take damage from water and rain. Brandon Pearce, developer on the Minecraft gameplay team, shared some insights into the strider’s cold response design back in 2020.
在2020年6月发布的下界更新中,炽足兽与堡垒、猪灵和一大堆新生物群落一起加入了《我的世界》。找到它们并不是太难,尽管它们很难被吸引到岸边。为什么?因为它们是热血生物——当它们离开岩浆时就会变得寒冷,并且会受到水和雨的伤害。《我的世界》游戏团队的开发人员布兰登·皮尔斯(Brandon Pearce)在2020年分享了对炽足兽寒冷反应设计的一些见解。
In one of my first versions their legs would just retract and they would bounce around and take damage until they died, which was kind of sad. Now people create lava pools just so they can keep Striders warm. There’s nothing that forces players to do that from a mechanics perspective – but they still feel compelled to because they’re so immersed in the world and want to be nice to these creatures. That’s so interesting from a design perspective and I hope we’ll be able to carry that into future features down the line.
There’s one reliable way to lure a strider, and that’s to get hold of some warped fungus – their favorite delicacy. Stand on the shore and wave it in their direction, and if they’re close enough to smell it then they’ll head on over. Fairly soon, you’ll have an attentive strider standing in front of you.
有一种可靠的方法可以引诱炽足兽,那就是拿一些真菌——它们最喜欢的佳肴。站在岸边,朝他们挥手,如果他们离得足够近,可以闻到气味,那么他们就会立即冲过去。很快,就会有一个痴迷的炽足兽站在你的面前。
What next? Well, there are two options. The first is to feed the fungus to the strider, and another to a different strider nearby, so that they both enter “love mode” and make a baby strider. Yay! More striders!
The other option is to slap a saddle on that bad boy and ride him into the lava. “Wait, what?” I hear you say. That’s right – striders are your ticket to bypass all that nasty lava and reach more distant shores of the Nether. Striders can walk on the surface of lava, you see, keeping the toes of anyone riding one juuust above the point at which they’ll burn.
The tricky thing is that striders tend to just wander around aimlessly. That’s why I believe it was a smart piglin that invented the warped fungus on a stick – an easily craftable way of getting a strider to go in the direction you want it to go. To dismount, you’ll want to reach land again and then point your crosshair at the block you want to dismount to before hissing the use button.
棘手的是,炽足兽往往只是漫无目的地四处游荡。这就是为什么我相信是个聪明的家伙发明了在钓竿上挂真菌——一种让炽足兽朝你想要的方向前进的简单巧妙的方法。为了下鞍,想再次到达地面,你要在发出使用按钮的嘶嘶声前将十字准星对准你想要下来的方块。
Striders are uncommon among Nether mobs in that they’re perfectly happy outside of the Nether. You’re good to take your new friend through a portal and down to the depths of the Overworld, to skate across the lava lakes found there. Just remember to keep them out of the rain...