CULTURE

You may remember Adam Aequotis Berry from his role in the creation of the shiny metropolis of Westpoint - his latest effort, called Catalné, spurns the modern world for a vanished past, and an idealised world of quiet rural life.
你或许还记得Westpoint那座闪亮的大都市吧，它的作者之一亚当·爱柯蒂斯·贝利在其中可是花了不少功夫——其最新的作品叫加泰罗尼亚。这里完全没有现世的喧嚣，反倒像是消失在时间的长河之中，成为一座宁静的乡村。

“Medieval is a massive interest of mine,” says Adam. “Ever since I was a little kid, I was interested in making bows and arrows, making model castles. I kind of realised one morning, ‘Hang on, I can make this sort of stuff in Minecraft as well!’ It has re-awoken my childhood a little bit.”
“中世纪是我最感兴趣的建筑风格了，”亚当和我们说道，“我还小的时候，我就痴迷于制作弓箭以及城堡模型。有一天早上，我忽然意识到，等一等，我其实可以在我的世界里复现这些东西嘛。这让我好似回到了童年。”

“It’s kind of based upon a bit of a childhood fantasy,” he continues. “It’s a massive forest - extremely tall, very dense - you can get lost easily in it. There are little villages dotted within, little streams, lots of detail - the kind of things a child might imagine but recreated in a realistic way, so it’s got realistic architecture, realistic farms and such.”
“这座建筑其实有一点我童年时期的想象的影子在里面，”他接着和我们说道。“这大片大片的森林非常的茂密，你很容易就迷失在其中。森林之间点缀着村庄、小溪和其他细节——或许这些东西是孩子的想象，但是重现他们需要用非常现实的方式。所以地图里有着现实的建筑、农场还有诸如此类的东西。”

He’s not kidding about the detail. “Make sure you walk, and make sure you look at the floor,” he advises. “Everywhere you look I’ve put detail – there might be a little bird hidden away behind a bush. I’ve got these little bees which fly around, and, in another area, I’ve got a log pile with axes stuck in the wood and a cluster of items round a little campfire. Inside the houses, I’ve put a lot of detail into furniture, things on tables, picture frames and items just lying around. Little life details. It feels like you’re walking through an actual place.”
有关细节的事情，他是相当认真的。他建议说：“确定你能走动，再看看四周，你看见的每一处我都有仔细打磨——比如说会有小鸟躲在灌木丛里，也可能其他地方会有嗡嗡飞的蜜蜂。有一处，我堆了一堆柴火，而且木头上还扎了一把斧子，围着篝火的还有很多其他东西。至于房屋内饰，我对家具非常严格，把控桌上的物品、相框还有其他随地放置的物品。这些细节保证你能从中感到一种生活感。”

A lot of this is made possible by Adam’s use of the Conquest Resource Pack - which expands the number of blocks available, and rethemes the game with a medievalist’s eye (and you can read our interview with its creator, MonsterFish, here).
其中不少地方能够实现的原因是亚当加载了Conquest资源包——这个资源包扩展了很多能够使用的方块，并且将游戏的主基调一下子就转向了中世纪，你可以在这里阅读我们对其作者MonsterFish的采访。

But it’s not just the textures which make Catalné feel like a credible and romantic location - it’s Adam’s method: starting with the landscape - a rolling terrain of heavily forested hillocks and open plains, tiny streams carving through the lot - and having that inform how the human settlements have grown.
但是呢，并非仅有材质本身才使得加泰罗尼亚扎实又浪漫——亚当是这么做的，从景观入手，地形起起伏伏，在上面再涂抹上丰茂的森林与丘陵，再推出开阔的平原，细小的小溪从中穿过，这些都明确告诉我们人类在这里是如何聚居的。

It feels less like the rugged landscape of Yorkshire, where Adam lives, and more like a scene from southern Europe. Adam says he took Catalonia as an inspiration - in honour of a close friend’s homeland.
这里和亚当家乡，崎岖的约克郡，大不一样。这里反倒有一丝南欧的风味。亚当说，这加泰罗尼亚其实算是为了纪念一个亲密朋友的祖国。

“It’s a place known for its independence and free thinking,” says Adam. “So I thought: That works nicely!”
“那里以独立自由思考而闻名，我觉得，这挺不错的！”亚当说到。

It certainly does! Go take a stroll into a perfect medieval past yourself.
确实如此！快去下载地图漫步吧！

【爱茨林 译自官网 2017 年 06 月 17 日发布的 Past Master；原作者 Marsh Davies】
【本文排版借助了：SPX】