【翻译】[DEEP DIVES]盘点：紫水晶碎片

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DEEP DIVES
TAKING INVENTORY: AMETHYST SHARD
盘点：紫水晶碎片
Crystal clear!
晶莹剔透！

In the first part of the upcoming Caves & Cliffs update, Minecraft is getting a lot of exciting new underground features.
在洞穴和山崖的第一部分，《我的世界》更新了许多令人兴奋的新东西。

One of those is the amethyst geode ⁠– an uncommon geological formation that contains a new resource ⁠– amethyst shards, which just so happens to be our item of the week. What a lucky coincidence!
其中之一是紫晶洞——一个罕见的地下结构，包含新的资源——紫水晶碎片，恰好是我们本周的物品。多么幸运的巧合！

Here’s how they work. Geodes spawn underground and are surrounded by smooth basalt blocks.
它们是这样的：紫晶洞在地下生成，被一层平滑玄武岩包裹着。

They’re also always partially submerged in some kind of solid block – usually stone.
它们也总有一部分淹没在某种方块中——通常是石头。

Dig through that, or find a crack in the surface, and you’ll uncover a layer of calcite ⁠– another new mineral.
挖开它，或者在表面找到裂缝，你会发现一层方解石——另一种新的矿物。

Inside the calcite layer, you’ll find something rather special ⁠– a mix of amethyst and budding amethyst blocks ⁠– as well as clusters of amethyst that when broken drop amethyst shards.
在方解石层内，你会发现一些相当特别的东西——紫水晶母岩和紫水晶块——以及当破坏时掉落紫水晶碎片的紫水晶簇。

Here’s a pro tip ⁠– don’t break the amethyst blocks that have an x-pattern marked on the surface of the block ⁠– the “budding” ones.
这是一条专业诀窍——不要破坏在方块表面标有“X”图案的紫水晶块——紫水晶母岩。

Why not? Because over time they’ll spawn more clusters of shards for you, but they’re destroyed when broken (or moved by a piston) ⁠– even if you use a silk touch tool.
为什么不呢？因为随着时间的推移，它们会为你产生更多的紫水晶簇，但即使您使用精准采集工具，它们也会在破坏（或被活塞移动）时被摧毁消失。

That’s not a bug, it’s intentional! I’ll let Minecraft developer Cory Scheviak explain:
这不是“特性”，而是刻意为之！《我的世界》开发人员Cory Scheviak解释：

It was important to us that amethyst was not just another ore that you can mine once and take home to grow. 对我们来说，重要的是，紫水晶母岩不是你可以开采并带回家让它产出紫水晶簇的矿石。 By confining the amethyst cluster growth to the budding amethyst block, which you can only find where geodes generate and cannot be moved, we ensured that players have a reason to return to the geode over and over. 通过将紫水晶簇生长限制在紫水晶母岩上，你只能在紫晶洞生成和无法移动的地方找到，我们确保玩家有理由一遍又一遍地前往紫晶洞。 -- CORY SCHEVIAK

So when you find a geode, it’s a good idea to remember the location somehow, because you’ll want to come back to it again and again to harvest clusters. How will you mark it? Well, that’s up to you.
因此，当你找到一个紫晶洞时，记住这个位置是个好主意，因为你会一次又一次地回到它那里获得紫水晶簇。至于你如何标记它，这取决于你。

Once you’ve got a nice collection of shards, you might be wondering what to do with them.
当你收集了紫水晶碎片，你可能会想知道它们能做些什么。

At the time of writing, there are three recipes. Four shards in a crafting grid will create a block, one shard and two copper ingots will create a spyglass ⁠– more on that in the coming weeks.
在撰写本文时，有三种关于紫水晶碎片的合成。工作台中的四个紫水晶碎片将合成紫水晶块，一个紫水晶碎片和两个铜锭将合成一个望远镜——在未来几周内会更多。

And finally, surrounding a piece of regular glass with four amethyst shards will let you make tinted glass ⁠– which blocks light while still allowing you to see through it. Handy for creating mob farms!
最后，四块紫水晶碎片和一块普通玻璃，可以让你合成遮光玻璃——这可以阻挡光线，同时仍然可以让你看透它。方便制作刷怪塔！

Image credit: JJ Harrison // CC BY-SA 3.0

In the real-world, amethyst is also a purplish crystal, and it’s actually a variety of quartz. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek word “methysko”, meaning “drunk”,  and the prefix “a”, meaning “not”.
在现实世界中，紫水晶也是一种紫色的晶体，它实际上是各种石英。它的名字来自古希腊语单词“methysko”，意思是“醉酒”，前缀“a”，意思是“不”。

So a literal translation would be “not drunk”. This all stems from the Ancient Greek belief that wearing a necklace made of amethyst, or even in some cases carving a cup from it, would protect the drinker from getting drunk.
因此，字面翻译将是“不醉的”。这一切都源于古希腊人的信仰，即戴一条由紫水晶制成的项链，甚至在某些情况下用它雕刻一个杯子，可以防止饮酒者喝醉。

It doesn’t do that. At all. My theory is that by the time someone realised it didn’t work they were probably so drunk that they couldn’t remember the next day, and the myth persisted.
它不会这样有效，一点也不。我的想法是，当有人意识到这行不通时，他们可能已经喝醉了，以至于第二天不记得了，所以神话仍然存在。

The purple colour comes from iron impurities and having been irradiated at some point in its long history, and it’s most commonly mined in Siberia, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Uruguay, and the Far East.
紫色来自铁的杂质，在其漫长的历史中被辐照过，最常在西伯利亚、斯里兰卡、巴西、乌拉圭和远东开采。

Just like in Minecraft, it’s sometimes found inside geodes ⁠– which exist in real life too ⁠– though not usually as large as the ones in Minecraft.
就像在《我的世界》中一样，它有时会在紫晶洞中被发现——这些紫晶洞也存在于现实生活中——尽管通常没有《我的世界》中的那么大。

Now, prepare yourself and get ready to hunt down a geode!
现在，做好准备，准备前往紫晶洞！

原文章地址：https://www.minecraft.net/zh-han ... ory--amethyst-shard
原作者：Duncan Geere

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