Come and take a swim with me, through Minecraft’s deep and bountiful oceans. To your right: a nest of glow squid, twinkling in the darkness. Just ahead: an enormous ocean temple filled with ancient guardians. Behind: a forest of kelp and seagrass. And finally, as you pass the reef to your left-hand side, you’ll spot our block of the week – beautiful pink, yellow, red, and blue coral blocks.
来吧，和我同游于MC中这广大深邃的海洋中。发光鱿鱼的巢穴在你右边的黑暗中闪着光，前方巨大的海底神殿中有着古老的守卫者，而身后是一片由海带和海草组成的森林。穿过左手边的礁石，最终，你会注意到我们本周的方块——粉色、黄色、红色以及蓝色的漂亮的珊瑚块。
Coral joined the briny depths of Minecraft’s oceans in the Update Aquatic, released in July 2018, but it had long been a request from players. The devs expressed interest in adding it to the game way back in 2009, very early in development. Then it was teased in 2012 in a fake snapshot, alongside “fish blocks”. It took a while longer before it actually made it into the game, but it’s here now.
玩家们长时间地请求，使珊瑚在2018年7月发布的水域更新中加入了Minecraft的海洋——这一有咸味的深渊。其实早在2009年，开发人员就有兴趣向游戏中加入珊瑚。后来珊瑚与“鱼块”一同在2012年的愚人快照中被测试。实际上又过了很长一段时间珊瑚才正式被加入游戏，正是现在。
Coral blocks spawn naturally in coral reefs, found covering on the seafloor in warm ocean biomes. These reefs come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, with coral blocks topped with coral, and sometimes coral fans and sea pickles. Brain corals form in lumps, while fire corals create beautiful, branching trees.
珊瑚块会自然生成于珊瑚礁——一种可以于暖水海洋生物群系的海平面上被发现的结构。这些礁石形态各异，珊瑚堆着珊瑚，有时珊瑚扇和海泡菜也会堆于珊瑚之上。脑纹珊瑚成块出现，而火珊瑚通常聚集成有分支的树状。
In order for coral blocks to stay alive, they need to be immersed in water – otherwise their beautiful colours will fade to grey. It doesn’t need a lot of water though – you can get away with just one of its sides touching a water block. Which means that you can still use it as a building material if you have a hidden irrigation system keeping it damp.
要想使珊瑚块保持活力，它们就必须被浸在水中——否则美丽的颜色就会消褪为灰色。其实并不需要太多的水，仅需让珊瑚块的一面挨着水源。这就意味着，如果你拥有一系列隐蔽的湿润系统来使珊瑚块保持湿润，那它仍然可以用作建筑材料。
In the real world, coral reefs can also be found in warm oceans – and coral itself is actually an animal, distantly related to the jellyfish. The animals live in colonies made up of identical clones, each called a “polyp”, a few centimetres long with a mouth at one end and a hard exoskeleton at the other. Over centuries, these exoskeletons build up, and you get a reef.
在现实世界中，珊瑚礁存在于暖水海洋中——事实上它本身也是一种动物。这种动物叫做珊瑚虫，是水母的远亲，它们长数厘米，在身体的一端有嘴，另一端有坚硬的外壳。它们营群居生活，长相一模一样。几个世纪以来，它们的外壳聚集起来，组成了礁石，正是你所看到的部分。
It gets weirder – living algae called “zooxanthellae” grows inside the bodies of most reef-building corals. The coral gives the algae a protected environment, and all the chemicals it needs to grow, while the algae give the coral oxygen and food. It’s a win-win situation for both of them.
这是一个很有趣的现象——一种叫做“虫黄藻”的藻类住在大部分由礁石组成的珊瑚中。这种珊瑚给予虫黄藻以保护和生长所需要的所有物质，而虫黄藻用氧气和食物回报珊瑚。对于它们来说，这是一种双赢的举措。
When the water around the coral gets too hot, however, the corals get stressed and they react by expelling the algae from their bodies. This not only makes the coral appear grey/white, or “bleached”, but it also kills the coral if it goes on too long. Unfortunately, as climate change warms our oceans, this is happening more and more often. In 1998, about 16% of the world’s reefs died. In just **, it’s expected that about half of the world’s coral reefs will be dead.
当珊瑚周围的水温过热时，珊瑚也会“焦虑”，它们通过驱逐自己体内的藻类来回应刺激。这种情况不仅使珊瑚呈现出灰色或者白色，甚至“漂白”。但是假如这样的情况持续时间过长，珊瑚就会死亡。不幸地，由于气候变化导致海洋变暖，这种情况发生地越来越多。在1998年，全世界百分之十六的珊瑚死亡了。有人预测，十年内全世界半数的珊瑚礁会消失。
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