我的世界本周方块：哭泣的黑曜石

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. 
在游戏里死亡确实很糟糕，但是死在下界的话更糟。你除了要从主世界的据点拼了命的赶回去，还有把装备和物品全部掉落在火或者熔岩里的风险。

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.
东西被烧掉这个情况其实我们没办法改善很多，但是在下界更新之中，我们能让上文所述的前一种情况稍微好那么一点。这也就是本周本栏目的主题——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:
哭泣的黑曜石一般可以被发现于废弃传送门——它是一种古老的结构，在下界和主世界都能被找到。这说明了两个维度之间曾经互通有无，但经历了时间的打磨，最终销于无迹。我们给游戏加入这种结构的目的在于提醒或许不知道有下界维度存在的玩家仍有一个维度等待他去探索。Java版开发者布兰登·皮尔斯解释道：

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”. 
最初废弃传送门的设计基本上是半毁且倒塌的状态。但是从新手的角度看的话，我想要改成玩家能够恢复其形态的状态，玩家可以通过它推测出传送门的形状。理想情况下还有破碎的黑曜石的加入——保持了传送门的形状，但是给玩家留了一些需要修复的地方。

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! 
然后重生锚正在开发出来的时候，我突然就想到了有一个从没做成的经典方块，哭泣的黑曜石，它也是设计成重设出生点的，所以我就想了，为什么不把这些点子串起来：把破碎的黑曜石改成哭泣的黑曜石，而且哭泣的黑曜石可以用来合成重生锚。加起来就是我赢了两次！

– Brandon Pearce
—— 布兰登·皮尔斯

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狂热粉丝的话，你或许应当知道布兰登在说什么。Beta版本1.3中，jeb将哭泣的黑曜石材质加入了游戏的材质库。我们当时是在想借此重设出生点，不过后来我们有了替代用的床。在Beta1.5版本中我们就将哭泣的黑曜石移除了。

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:
出了从传送门上挖哭泣的黑曜石，你还可以通过比如与猪灵交易获取，也可以在堡垒遗迹的箱子里翻到它。开发者们对此还有其他想法。

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.
在最初的时候我们觉得亲手制作哭泣的黑曜石会很好玩，方式可以是把普通黑曜石丢进传送门，或者让雷劈普通的黑曜石。但是在那之后的开发工作中，我们想让猪灵的交易好歹起点作用，所以我们将其的获取方式限制为了物物交换或者是刷在废弃传送门上。

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
—— 布兰登·皮尔斯

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.
所以下次你下次在主世界冒险的时候，一定要留意有没有废弃传送门——如果找到了，那就挖下上面的哭泣的黑曜石吧。要不然下次你死在下界的时候，哭泣的就不是黑曜石了，而是你了。

来源：北海上

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