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I love Minecraft's deserts, especially at sunset. There's nothing more beautiful than watching the rays of the red sun cast their glow over the dunes, then realising you need to flee for shelter as a zillion skeletons spawn all around you. Deserts are also home to a collection of Minecraft's handiest resources - cactuses (cactii?), bone, and our block of the week - sand!
我爱Minecraft的沙漠，尤其是傍晚的时候。还有比欣赏黄昏洒在沙丘上更美丽的事情吗？当然，如果能意识到在一大堆骷髅出现前跑路的话就更妙了。沙漠也是获得Minecraft里各种趁手的资源的地方：仙人掌，骨头，以及本周的方块——沙子！
Sand was added to Minecraft in the very earliest days of the game's development, on 28 May 2009, alongside trees, clouds and metal ores. Originally it only appeared in weird one-block thick beaches, but later it was tweaked to generate more naturally alongside oceans and as islands and deserts.
沙子在2009年5月28日与树，云和矿石一同加入到了游戏中，是最早加入到Minecraft里的方块之一。起初，沙子只会在奇怪的一格宽沙滩上出现，之后的调整让它会在海洋，海岛和沙漠附近更自然地生成。
Nowadays sand spawns naturally in four-block-deep layers in various parts of most biomes of the Overworld. You'll find it everywhere from forests, to plains, to tundra and swamps. In Mesa biomes, you'll find a variant of sand that's red and acts exactly like regular sand except that you can't use it to make concrete. Actually, that sounds like a bug. Maybe we should fix that.
现在，Minecraft主世界大多数的生物群系中都能找到天然的4格深的沙层。你在森林，平原、冻土和沙漠都能找到沙子。而在红沙滩生物群系中你则能找到变种的红沙，红沙和沙子唯一的区别是你不能拿它来合成水泥。
As you've probably noticed if you've played Minecraft for more than a few minutes, sand is unlike most other blocks because it's affected by gravity. If you plop down a block of sand and mine the block out underneath it, then it'll fall into the gap. This, you'll no doubt agree, is kind of a pain when mining.
凡是玩过几分钟Minecraft的人都会发现沙子和大部分方块都不一样——它是为数不多受重力影响的方块。要是你扔一块沙子在地上然后把下面的方块挖掉，沙子就会掉到那个坑里去。不得不说，这一点在挖矿时简直就是噩梦。
But it has useful side effects. If a block of sand falls on a player or a mob, it'll suffocate them until they dig their way out or die, making it pretty handy for a basic trap setup. Just hook up a pressure plate or tripwire to an array of pistons holding back columns of sand. Those pesky intruders won't know what hit them.
但是重力有时也能带来益处：沙子掉落到玩家或者生物上的话就会让他们持续窒息直到它们挖出去或者憋死。这个特性使沙子非常适合用来做简单的陷阱，只需要将压力板或者绊线钩连到承载着一沓沙子的活塞上就行了。那些入侵者绝对死都不知道怎么死的。
Falling sand can also be fired out of a TNT cannon, which is handy if you want to blanket a friend's base with sand after you fell victim to their entryway sand trap. Explode some TNT in water with a falling block of sand above it to fire that sand long distances in whatever direction you choose. There's a full guide to building a TNT cannon over on the Minecraft wiki .
坠落中的沙子也可以被TNT大炮发射出去，非常适合用来埋住让你掉进落沙陷阱的朋友的基地。在水里炸一些TNT就能让上面的落沙往你指定的方向飞出去老远。TNT大炮的完整教程在Minecraft维基百科上就能找到。
Dunes of Erg Awbari in southwestern Libya. Image credit: Luca Galuzzi // CC BY-SA 2.5
利比亚西南部的Erg Awbari沙漠的沙丘。图片来源：Luca Galuzzi // CC BY-SA 2.5
Occasionally, you'll find sand that's been imbued with mystical power during world generation and is levitating in the air as a result. You'll recognise them because little dust particles are falling from the bottom. But be careful around these magical floating sand areas - if you place or break blocks near them, I can't be held responsible for what happens...
你经常能发现有些沙子被注入了世界生成时的神秘力量而能浮在空中。这类沙子底部会掉落沙尘颗粒，因此你能轻易分辨出来。但是在这些神奇浮沙周围要小心了——在它们周围放置或者破坏方块的话，我也说不准到底会发生什么。。。
Block of the Week: Sand
本周方块：沙子
Going against the grain
丰收的死敌
I love Minecraft's deserts, especially at sunset. There's nothing more beautiful than watching the rays of the red sun cast their glow over the dunes, then realising you need to flee for shelter as a zillion skeletons spawn all around you. Deserts are also home to a collection of Minecraft's handiest resources - cactuses (cactii?), bone, and our block of the week - sand!
我爱Minecraft的沙漠，尤其是傍晚的时候。还有比欣赏黄昏洒在沙丘上更美丽的事情吗？当然，如果能意识到在一大堆骷髅出现前跑路的话就更妙了。沙漠也是获得Minecraft里各种趁手的资源的地方：仙人掌，骨头，以及本周的方块——沙子！
Sand was added to Minecraft in the very earliest days of the game's development, on 28 May 2009, alongside trees, clouds and metal ores. Originally it only appeared in weird one-block thick beaches, but later it was tweaked to generate more naturally alongside oceans and as islands and deserts.
沙子在2009年5月28日与树，云和矿石一同加入到了游戏中，是最早加入到Minecraft里的方块之一。起初，沙子只会在奇怪的一格宽沙滩上出现，之后的调整让它会在海洋，海岛和沙漠附近更自然地生成。
Nowadays sand spawns naturally in four-block-deep layers in various parts of most biomes of the Overworld. You'll find it everywhere from forests, to plains, to tundra and swamps. In Mesa biomes, you'll find a variant of sand that's red and acts exactly like regular sand except that you can't use it to make concrete. Actually, that sounds like a bug. Maybe we should fix that.
现在，Minecraft主世界大多数的生物群系中都能找到天然的4格深的沙层。你在森林，平原、冻土和沙漠都能找到沙子。而在红沙滩生物群系中你则能找到变种的红沙，红沙和沙子唯一的区别是你不能拿它来合成水泥。
As you've probably noticed if you've played Minecraft for more than a few minutes, sand is unlike most other blocks because it's affected by gravity. If you plop down a block of sand and mine the block out underneath it, then it'll fall into the gap. This, you'll no doubt agree, is kind of a pain when mining.
凡是玩过几分钟Minecraft的人都会发现沙子和大部分方块都不一样——它是为数不多受重力影响的方块。要是你扔一块沙子在地上然后把下面的方块挖掉，沙子就会掉到那个坑里去。不得不说，这一点在挖矿时简直就是噩梦。
But it has useful side effects. If a block of sand falls on a player or a mob, it'll suffocate them until they dig their way out or die, making it pretty handy for a basic trap setup. Just hook up a pressure plate or tripwire to an array of pistons holding back columns of sand. Those pesky intruders won't know what hit them.
但是重力有时也能带来益处：沙子掉落到玩家或者生物上的话就会让他们持续窒息直到它们挖出去或者憋死。这个特性使沙子非常适合用来做简单的陷阱，只需要将压力板或者绊线钩连到承载着一沓沙子的活塞上就行了。那些入侵者绝对死都不知道怎么死的。
Falling sand can also be fired out of a TNT cannon, which is handy if you want to blanket a friend's base with sand after you fell victim to their entryway sand trap. Explode some TNT in water with a falling block of sand above it to fire that sand long distances in whatever direction you choose. There's a full guide to building a TNT cannon over on the Minecraft wiki .
坠落中的沙子也可以被TNT大炮发射出去，非常适合用来埋住让你掉进落沙陷阱的朋友的基地。在水里炸一些TNT就能让上面的落沙往你指定的方向飞出去老远。TNT大炮的完整教程在Minecraft维基百科上就能找到。
Dunes of Erg Awbari in southwestern Libya. Image credit: Luca Galuzzi // CC BY-SA 2.5
利比亚西南部的Erg Awbari沙漠的沙丘。图片来源：Luca Galuzzi // CC BY-SA 2.5
Occasionally, you'll find sand that's been imbued with mystical power during world generation and is levitating in the air as a result. You'll recognise them because little dust particles are falling from the bottom. But be careful around these magical floating sand areas - if you place or break blocks near them, I can't be held responsible for what happens...
你经常能发现有些沙子被注入了世界生成时的神秘力量而能浮在空中。这类沙子底部会掉落沙尘颗粒，因此你能轻易分辨出来。但是在这些神奇浮沙周围要小心了——在它们周围放置或者破坏方块的话，我也说不准到底会发生什么。。。
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Actually, that sounds like a bug. Maybe we should fix that.
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