BLOCK OF THE WEEK: HONEY 本周方块：蜂蜜
Sweet! 真甜！
Today, our block of the week is the honey block – one of the most interesting new blocks to be added to Minecraft in the last few years. It’s a multitasker that plays many different roles in many different builds. Let’s take a look at what it can do.
今天我们要介绍的“本周方块”是蜂蜜块——近几年加入Minecraft的最有趣方块之一。蜂蜜块可谓Minecraft里的多面手——它在许多的Minecraft建筑中担当着许多不同的角色。现在就让我们来看看它都能做些什么。
Honey blocks were announced at Minecon Live 2019, and added to the game late last year in version 1.15 – the Buzzy Bees update - alongside beehives, bee nests and honeycomb blocks. They’re easily crafted with four honey bottles, which you’ll have to fill from a beehive or bee nest. Watch out for angry bees!
蜂蜜块于Minecon Live 2019活动中首次出现，于去年随1.15版的“蜜蜂更新”被加入至游戏中——不仅如此，蜂箱、蜂巢和蜜脾块也一同来到了Minecraft的世界中。合成蜂蜜块十分容易——四个蜂蜜瓶即可；不过在此之前，你需要从蜂箱或蜂巢处获取蜂蜜。小心那些愤怒的蜜蜂！
Honeycomb is largely decorative, but honey blocks? They’re ridiculously useful, and I’ll tell you why. First, like hay bales, they significantly reduce fall damage. Drop onto a honey block, and you’ll only suffer 80% of the pain as you sink into the sweet, sweet goo.
多数情况下，蜜脾块只能用于装饰；而蜂蜜块呢？它可谓“滑稽价实”。让我来解释一下——首先，蜂蜜块和干草块类似，它可以显著降低掉落伤害。如果你落到了蜂蜜块上，那么，在你陷入这摊甜甜的蜂蜜时，你只需承受20%掉落带来的痛苦。（此处英文原文可能为作者笔误：按中文Wiki条目所言，掉落至蜂蜜块上时只会承受20%的掉落伤害——译者注）
Secondly, anything moving over a honey block will move much slower and be unable to jump, making them easy targets for a loaded crossbow, or even a tripwire trap. This effect works through carpets and slabs too, if you want to conceal your trap. That means you can glide along honey walls a short distance when jumping past them (just wipe yourself off afterwards).
其次，在蜂蜜块上移动的任何实体的移动速度都会下降，并且难以跳跃——这使得它们容易成为已蓄力的弩的目标，或是成为拌线钩陷阱的囊中之物。想把陷阱藏起来？没问题！这些效果不会因蜂蜜块上有半砖或地毯而消失，这意味着，当你跳着经过蜂蜜块时，你只能在其上滑行很短的一段距离——跳完后记得给自己擦擦身。
Thirdly, and most interestingly, when a honey block is moved by a piston, it’ll try to bring all the blocks and items sitting next to it – and those blocks will also push blocks they're next to. Oh, and if one of those blocks is a honey block, it'll grab the blocks and items that it's next to as well. Which means that one piston can suddenly move a lot of blocks in one go. Up to a maximum of 12, to be precise.
接下来是最有趣的一点——当蜂蜜块被活塞推动时，它会连带推动与之相邻的方块和物品——与此同时，这些方块也会尝试移动与其相邻的方块。噢，如果这些方块里面混有蜂蜜块，那么与它相邻的方块和物品同样会随之移动。这意味着，一个活塞可以一次性移动大量方块——准确来说，最多可以移动12个方块。
Being able to move blocks allows you to create all sorts of machines; conveyor belts, elevators, combine harvesters, flying machines, huge automatic doors, and much more. We compiled a list of some of the coolest examples last year, but if you've made something better since then send it our way and we'll check it out!
可以移动方块的特性让各类机器的建造成为可能：传送带、电梯、联合收割机、飞行器、巨型自动门......等等。我们去年编纂了一份有关这些炫酷玩意的目录。不过，如果你在那之后建造了比它们更好的作品，请务必告诉我们一声，好让我们来欣赏你的大作！
In real life, honey is the bee equivalent of that weird chocolate bar your uncle brought you back from holiday. When you've got a storecupboard of treats, you'll avoid it in favour of the snacks you know and love. But when supplies run low and you need something sweet, you'll eat anything.
在现实生活中，蜂蜜就好比你叔叔度假后捎带给你的奇怪的巧克力棒：当你有满满一柜子零食时，你会试着去回避它，选择那些你熟悉的、爱吃的零食；但是，当柜里的零食见底，而你又控制不住吃甜食的欲望时，你就不会挑三拣四了。
It's the same for bees. Most of the time they prefer to eat pollen and nectar, but when it’s cold or there aren’t any flowers nearby then they'll dip into the reserves of honey that they've stored for later. If tapped regularly by humans, an average hive can produce up to 29kg of honey per year.
与人如此，于蜜蜂亦然。大多数时候，它们以花粉和蜂蜜为食；而当天气寒冷，附近没有花时，它们会转而选择进食先前储存的蜂蜜。如果定期收集蜂蜜，一个平均大小的蜂箱每年最多可产出29千克蜂蜜。
How do they make it? Let's save that disgusting story for when we feature the honey bottle instead. In the meantime, all you need to know is that it involves a chain of digestion regurgitation between a ** bees that can last as long as 20 minutes. Ew.
蜜蜂们是如何做到的呢？让我们把这个可能令人感到不快的故事放到下次讲蜂蜜瓶的时候再说吧。在此期间，你需要明白的是——蜂蜜的产出涉及蜜蜂们那长达20分钟的一连串的消化过程和反刍过程......呕。
原文链接：https://www.minecraft.net/zh-hans/article/block-week--honey
原文作者：Duncan Geere
原文发布日期：2020年5月21日
文章翻译：像素君
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