【翻译】[DEEP DIVES]本周方块：哭泣的黑曜石

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DEEP DIVES
BLOCK OF THE WEEK: CRYING OBSIDIAN
本周方块：哭泣的黑曜石

Read it and weep
读懂已是泪千行

Dying in Minecraft is pretty bad, but dying in the Nether is worse. Not only do you have to trek all the way back from your home base in the Overworld, but you also run the risk of your kit getting burnt up in fire or lava.
在我的世界中死亡是相当糟糕的，但在下界中死亡则更糟。你不仅要从你在主世界的出生点一路长途跋涉，而且你的装备有被火或熔岩烧毁的风险。

We can’t do much about the latter, but in the Nether update we’re trying to make the former a little less frustrating by adding a way to set your spawn point in the Nether. And it requires our block of the week – crying obsidian.
我们对后者无能为力，但在下界更新中，我们试图通过增加一种在下界设置出生点的方法来使前者的结局不那么令人沮丧。而这需要我们本周方块——哭泣的黑曜石。

Crying obsidian can be acquired from a ruined portal – an ancient structure, found in both the Nether and the Overworld, that once allowed transport between the two, but has succumbed to the ravages of time. We added these structures to give new players, who might not know about the Nether, a hint that there was somewhere else to visit. Java Developer Brandon Pearce explains:
哭泣的黑曜石可以从废弃传送门中获得——这是一个古老的结构，在下界和主世界上都可以找到，它曾经可以让生物在两个维度之间进行传送，但已经屈服于时间的蹂躏。我们添加这些结构是为了给那些不了解下界的新玩家一个提示，告诉他们还有别的维度可以探索。Java版开发人员Brandon Pearce解释：

Initially, ruined portals were actually half destroyed and toppled over, but from an onboarding perspective I wanted to change it so they retained their shape to teach players what a portal looked like. Cracked obsidian was the ideal solution - retains the portal shape, but makes some of it cracked for players to "repair". 最初，废弃传送门被设计为被破坏了一半并被推翻了，但从新手的角度来看，我想改变它，保留其形状，以教导玩家传送门的样子。破碎的黑曜石是当时的解决方案--保留了传送门的形状，其部分裂纹供玩家“修复”。 While the respawn anchor was being developed, however, I remembered the classic crying obsidian that never made it in - a block that was meant to set your spawn point. So I thought why not bring these ideas together: cracked obsidian became crying obsidian, and it can be used to craft the respawn anchor. Win win! 然而，在制作重生锚的时候，我想起了哭泣的黑曜石，它从来没有出现过——也是一个用来设置出生点的方块。所以我想为什么不把这些想法结合起来：破碎的黑曜石变成了哭泣黑曜石，而且它可以用来制作重生锚，加起来就是一举两得！ —— Brandon Pearce

If you’re a Minecraft super-fan, then you might recognise what Brandon’s talking about. Crying obsidian was added to Minecraft’s texture library by Jeb in Beta version 1.3. The idea was that it would be a way of setting a respawn point, but then we added beds instead, and crying obsidian was removed again in Beta version 1.5.
如果你是我的世界的超级粉丝，那么你应该知道Brandon Pearce所说的内容。哭泣的黑曜石纹理是Jeb在Beta1.3中添加到游戏的纹理库中的。当时的想法是让它成为一种设置出生点的方块，但后来我们增加了床，哭泣的黑曜石便在Beta1.5中又被移除。

As well as acquiring crying obsidian from portals, you can also barter with piglins and find it in chests in bastion remnants. But the developers played with other ideas too:
除了从废弃传送门获得哭泣的黑曜石外，你还可以与猪灵进行交易，并在堡垒遗迹的箱子里找到它。但开发者也想过其他开玩笑的想法：

Initially we thought it would be interesting to create crying obsidian by either throwing normal obsidian through a portal, or normal obsidian being struck by lightning. Later in development, however, we wanted to make it so Piglin bartering was useful, so we made sure that you could only obtain it through bartering or stumbling upon a ruined portal. 最初，我们认为通过将黑曜石扔进传送门，或者黑曜石被闪电击中来将其转化为哭泣的黑曜石会很有趣。然而，在开发的后期，我们想让猪灵的以物易物变得有用，所以你只能通过与猪灵以物易物或发现废弃传送门来获得它。 There was a prototype made where crying obsidian would randomly teleport around if you ignited it with fire. In the end though, we felt this didn't add any real functionality to the block, so we decided to scrap the idea. 其实还有个初始设计，你用火点燃哭泣的黑曜石，它就会随机传送。但是最后我们觉得这实际上并没有让这个方块有什么新的功能，所以我们放弃了这个想法。 ——Brandon Pearce

So next time you’re gallivanting through the Overworld, keep an eye out for ancient portals – and if you find one then be sure to harvest its crying obsidian. Otherwise it won’t be the obsidian that’s crying the next time you die in the Nether. It’ll be you.
所以下一次你在主世界里探索的时候，请留意废弃传送门——如果你找到了一个，那么一定要收集哭泣的黑曜石。否则下次你死在下界的时候，哭泣的就是你，不是黑曜石了。


原文章作者：Duncan Geere
译者：@782
原文章链接：https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/ ... ek--crying-obsidian



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