Taking Inventory: Stick 背包盘点：木棍
Stick around for some pointers! ”杵“待指示！
The humble stick might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the most interesting items in Minecraft. But it’s secretly one of the most important items –serving as a foundation for almost every part of the game’s mechanics.
思考Minecraft中最有趣的物品为何时，平凡无奇的木棍或许并非你的首选项。但木棍作为Minecraft中几乎所有机制的组成部分，称其为”不起眼但却最重要的物品之一“并不为过。
Consider for a moment what Minecraft would be like without sticks. There’d be no pickaxes, swords, shovels, axes, or hoes – so no mining, combat, or farming. There’d be no rails, armour stands, bows, campfires, crossbows, arrows, banners, fishing rods, levers, ladders, item frames, paintings, grindstones, signs, fences, tripwire hooks, or torches either. What’s left? Er... collecting flowers, I guess?
试想一下没有木棍的Minecraft会是怎样一番光景。没有木棍，就没有稿、剑、铲、斧、锄，也就没有挖矿、战斗和耕作；不仅如此，铁轨、盔甲架、弓、营火、弩、箭、旗帜、钓竿、拉杆、梯子、物品展示框、画、砂轮、告示牌、拌线钩、火把也都将踪影难觅。还剩下什么？呃……我猜，大概只剩下采花了吧？
As appropriate for its fundamental position at the bottom of Minecraft’s tech tree, the stick was added to the game very early on – Indev version 0.31, to be precise.
与其“Minecraft科技树的根基”的地位相适应，木棍很早就被加入了Minecraft——确切来说，是在Indev 0.31版发布之时。
You know how to make them already – two planks arranged above each other in a crafting grid. Recently, though, we added another recipe – two bamboo in the same configuration also gets you a stick. Useful if you spawn in the middle of a bamboo forest biome.
相信你早已掌握合成木棍的方法——按”一上一下“的方式在合成格里摆放两块木板即可。不过，我们在近期添加了一种新的合成方法——以相同方式摆放两根竹子亦可合成木棍。这一合成法对那些出生在竹林生物群系中央的玩家而言十分有用。
If you’re stuck in a tree- or bamboo-less wasteland, there are a few other ways to acquire sticks. You can catch them while fishing (though you’ll need a stick to make a fishing rod), they’re sometimes dropped by witches on death (though you’ll need a stick to make a sword), and they also drop from dead bushes and leaves when they’re destroyed or they decay. Finally, in a pinch, you can find them in several village chests.
如果被困在一片没有树和竹子的荒地，你可以通过以下方法获取木棍：除了通过”钓鱼“获取（尽管你需要三根木棍来合成钓竿），女巫在被击杀时也会时不时掉落木棍（尽管你需要一根木棍来合成剑）；除此之外，破坏枯萎的灌木，或树叶腐烂时，也会有几率掉落木棍；如果实在万不得已，你也可以在村庄的部分箱子里找到木棍。
How do you use them? Well, other than crafting, which is their superpower, you can burn them as furnace fuel. Two sticks will smelt one item, which is useful if you have one or two things to smelt up but don’t want to use a whole lump of coal in the process. Fletcher villagers, who make arrows, also find sticks pretty useful – they’ll buy 32 of them for an emerald.
那么你要怎么善用木棍呢？除了史蒂夫们的超能力——手搓合成之外，你还可以将木棍作为熔炉的燃料。如果你只想要烧炼一两件物品，又不想浪费一整块煤的话，那么你需要知道，两个木棍提供的热量就可以烧炼一个物品。制箭者村民也觉得木棍很有用，他会产出弓箭，所以他会使用一个绿宝石收购32根木棍。
Hey, don't be sad, dead bush. You're not completely useless! 嘿，别那么伤心嘛，枯灌木！你并非一文不值！
In the real world sticks are almost as important as in Minecraft. Our earliest ancestors, and a few indigenous cultures today, used them for digging out roots, tubers or burrowing animals, and in agriculture – making them one of the earliest tools.
木棍在Minecraft和现实世界中几乎同样重要。我们的祖先，以及部分现存的土著文明，会使用木棍掘出植物的根、茎，抑或是穴居动物；除此之外，木棍还被应用于农业——它可谓最早的耕作用具之一。
Sticks are also used in many of the world’s martial arts – the best known is probably Japanese kendo, but others include Myanmar’s banshay, Ireland’s bataireacht, Ethiopian donga, Indian silambam, Egyptian tahtib, and Algerian matrague. Sticks are useful in defence (if attacked while lightly armed) and also when training to use more dangerous weapons.
全世界的各类武术之中也可发现木棍的踪影——其中最有名应该就是日本剑道中使用的木刀。除此之外，还有缅甸的 banshay、爱尔兰的 bataireacht、埃塞俄比亚的 donga、印度的 silambam、埃及的 tahtib 和阿尔及利亚的 matrague。木棍在防御（在轻装上阵的前提下被攻击）和用作危险武器的训练替代物上大有用处。
Another common use of sticks is to help elderly people walk. The walking stick offers stability and support for people who aren’t so steady on their feet, or are crossing uneven ground. They can also be a fashion accessory – often called a cane – but their popularity in fashion peaked in the 18th century. You don’t see many fancy canes out on the streets today.
木棍的另一个常规用途是协助老年人走路。对脚板不平或在崎岖路面行走的人，手杖可以帮助他们走得更稳。木棍亦可作为时尚配件来使用——此时我们一般称之为”手杖“。但手杖的流行早在18世纪就达到了顶峰，所以，你现在很少会在街道上看见那些做工精致的手杖。
Possibly the most interesting real-world use of sticks is in ceremony – for which they’re normally called a “wand”. Traditionally made of oak or hazel, the concept of the magic wand was first used by the ancient Greek writer Homer, in his books The Iliad and The Odyssey, but they didn’t become serious part of the occult until the the 1200s latin grimoire The Sworn Book of Honorius . Today, both stage and real magicians carry them as a symbol of magical power and for reaching, pointing, and directing their audience’s attention.
木棍在现实世界中最有趣的用途应该就是用于各类仪式——这时的木棍一般被称作”魔杖“。传统的魔杖使用橡木或榛木制作而成。虽说古希腊作家荷马在《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》两本书中第一次提及”魔杖“的概念，但直至13世纪的拉丁魔法书《霍诺里厄斯宣誓书》提及它时，”魔杖“才被披上了一层神秘的面纱。时至今日，不论是舞台上的魔术师还是真正的”魔法师“，他们都将”魔杖“视为魔力的象征，用于吸引、集中、引导观众们的注意力。
Finally, musical conductors also use sticks (known as “batons”) in a similar manner to direct the attention of their orchestra. So next time you’re conducting an orchestra of note blocks, consider bringing along a stick with you to serve as a baton. It’s sure to stick in the memory of the audience.
最后，音乐指挥家也会以与挥舞魔杖相似的方式使用”木棍“（也即”指挥棒“）指挥管弦乐队。所以，下次在指挥音符盒管弦乐队时，你可以考虑用木棍指挥，这一定会在观众心里”杵“下一份难忘的记忆。
原文链接：https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/taking-inventory--stick
原文作者：Duncan Geere
原文发布日期：2020年4月2日
文章翻译：像素君
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