【Deep Dives】本周方块：凝灰岩

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At the bottom of the world, close to the bedrock, you’ll find that the heat and pressure at these depths produce some pretty rare and special things.
在世界的底部，差不多靠近基岩的地方，你会发现这些深处的热量和压力会产生一些非常罕见和特殊的东西。
Diamonds are what most people go looking for, but that’s not all. Amongst the lakes of lava, and deposits of deepslate, you’ll also find veins of lapis lazuli, redstone, and our block of the week – tuff.
大多数人去寻找钻石，但这还不是全部的人。在熔岩湖和深板岩中，您还会发现青金石(笑死都在0层附近)、红石和我们本周的方块儿——凝灰岩。
Tuff was added to Minecraft alongside a bunch of other new rocks like calcite, deepslate, and dripstone, in the first part of the Caves & Cliffs update in June 2021. It’s the name given to volcanic ash which has been compressed into stone deep underground.
在2021年6月洞穴与悬崖更新 第一部分，凝灰岩、方解石、深板岩和滴水石锥等其他新废石一起被添加到《我的世界》中。这是火山灰的名字，火山灰被压缩成地下深处的石头。
In Minecraft, tuff looks a little like cobblestone, but tinted slightly greener, and is pretty easy to mine with any kind of pickaxe. Iron, stone, and even wood pickaxes will give good results – though as usual, the higher-tier pickaxe you use, the faster the mining will go.
在《我的世界》中，凝灰岩看起来有点像圆石，但颜色略带“绿色”，并且很容易用任何种类的镐挖掘。铁、石甚至木镐都会产生良好的效果——尽管像往常一样，您使用的镐越是高级，挖掘速度就越快。(废话)
It’s solely a decorative block at the time of writing – but it would look particularly good in an Armenian-themed build. The stone is used widely in Armenian architecture, and the country’s capital, Yerevan, is constructed almost entirely out of this substance.
在写这篇文章时，它只是一块用于装饰的方块——但在亚美尼亚的建筑中，它看起来特别好看。这块石头在亚美尼亚的建筑中被广泛使用，该国首都埃里温几乎完全由这种石头建造。
But it’s not only the Armenians who are wild about tuff. The fact that it’s a relatively soft rock means that tuff has been used for construction since ancient times. The Rapa Nui used it to make most of the statues on Easter Island, for example, and it’s also very common in Italy.
但不仅仅是亚美尼亚人对凝灰岩很着迷。它是一块相对柔软的岩石，这意味着凝灰岩自古以来就被用于建筑。例如，拉帕·努伊用它来制作复活节岛上的大多数雕像，在意大利也很常见。
The other thing that tuff is very useful for is marking time. Because tuff is laid down over a large area very quickly when a volcano erupts, geologists can use it (with the help of carbon dating) to quickly figure out how old a particular bit of rock is.
另外凝灰岩在标记时间方面上是十分有用的。由于火山爆发时，凝灰岩很快就会铺设在大片区域，地质学家可以使用它（借助碳测年法）来快速计算特定岩石的年龄。
But my favourite tuff fact is that the ancient Romans carved it into blocks for construction purposes – just like in Minecraft! Rome’s famous “Servian Walls” were built almost entirely out of tuff blocks in the early 4th century BC to protect the city from invasion.
但我最喜欢的凝灰岩事实是，古罗马人把它雕刻成砌块用于建筑目的——就像在《我的世界》中一样！公元前4世纪初，罗马著名的“赛尔维安城墙”几乎完全由凝灰岩块建造，以保护这座城市免受入侵。
So next time you’re facing an invasion of zombies in Minecraft, take a tip from the Ancient Romans and hold off the hordes with a wall of tuff.
因此，下次你在《我的世界》中面临僵尸入侵时，请从古罗马人那里吸取经验，用凝灰岩墙挡住您的家。

原帖地址: https://www.minecraft.net/zh-hans/article/block-week--tuff
没想到吧，这篇文章写于2021年9月