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Cobblestone is (let’s be honest) no-one’s favourite block. During the course of survival play you end up with so much of it that it gets boring fast, even though it inevitably finds its way into almost every build, often to fill empty space in between prettier blocks.
没有谁最喜欢的方块是圆石(咱们就实话实说) 。 当你的生存游戏达到后期时，你会拥有用之不尽的圆石，所以它会在很短时间内让人觉得无聊，尽管它们总是填补其他漂亮方块的空缺，而且几乎每栋建筑都会出现它的身影。

But it does play a vital role in Minecraft – serving as the basis for an entire tier of tools and weaponry. This became a problem when we were designing the Nether update. We wanted to make sure people could still supply themselves with the equipment they were accustomed to, especially on longer trips to the fiery dimension. But there’s no stone in the Nether, so we needed a new solution. Enter our block of the week – blackstone.
但是它也是MC中不可或缺的物品之一 —— 圆石是一整套工具和武器的基础材料。这样的物品机制使得我们在更新地狱时遇到了问题：我们想确保玩家们在熔岩滚滚的炼狱中进行探险时能够用上自己顺手的装备，但是在地狱中没有能够制作装备的石头，所以我们需要一种新的解决方式。这就进入了我们今天的主题——本周方块：黑石。

Blackstone only generates naturally in the Nether. You’ll find it under the lava ocean, in Bastion remnants, in veins near the bottom of the world, and all over the place in basalt deltas biomes . You’ll need a wooden pick or better to mine it out. In a pickle without a pick? Trade with the piglins – some will happily part with blackstone in exchange for gold.
黑石只会在地狱中自然生成。你可以在岩浆海下，地狱堡垒中，地狱底部的矿脉中找到黑石，同时也能在玄武岩三角洲群系中看到黑石。想要挖掘黑石你至少需要木镐或者更高级的工具。没有镐子？和猪灵交易吧 —— 它们可愿意用黑石交换黄金了。

You might be wondering what you can do with Blackstone. Well – as promised – you can make stone tools and weapons out of it. You can also make furnaces and brewing stands, as well as stairs, walls and slabs. It can be polished up into polished blackstone, which can then also be chiseled. In Java Edition it can even be used to repair stone tools in an anvil.
你可能想知道黑石可以拿来做什么。嗯 —— 和我们之前所说的一样 —— 你可以用它们制作石质武器和工具。你也可以拿它们制作熔炉和酿造台，或者是台阶，墙，半石砖。它们可以抛光后变成磨制黑石，也可以雕刻为錾制磨制黑石。在Java版中，它们甚至可以用于在铁砧中修复石质工具。

But blackstone is more brittle than regular cobblestone, so it can’t be used to make things with complex internal moving parts, like levers, pistons, dispensers, droppers or redstone components. It also can’t be used to make andesite or diorite, as they’re Overworld minerals. Sorry, but that’s just the way that geology works.
但是黑石的质地比圆石更脆，所以它们不能用来制作可运动系统的部件，比如拉杆，活塞，发射器，投掷器或者红石部件。它们也不能制作安山岩或者闪长岩，因为它们是下界的东西。抱歉，这就是地质学的理论。

In the real world, blackstone is not actually the name of any type of mineral but it is a common place, company and family name in the English – speaking world. It’s particularly common in Chicago – which has a Blackstone Hall, Blackstone Hotel, and Blackstone Library.
现实生活当中，黑石并不是矿物的名字，但是这是一个在英语国家常见的地名，公司名，甚至是家族名 —— 尤其是在芝加哥，那里有黑石大厅，黑石酒店，还有黑石图书馆。

But perhaps the world’s strangest “blackstone” is Chicago magician “The Great Blackstone” who wowed crowds of the early 20th century. He performed the vanishing bird cage illusion, the sawing a woman in half illusion, and most notably his signature piece – the floating lightbulb, where he’d take a bulb out of a lamp and float it, still glowing, through a small hoop and then out over the heads of the audience.
但是世界上最神奇的黑石应当是芝加哥的“大黑石”魔术师了，他的表演震惊了20世纪的人们。他表演了消失的鸟类，把一个女人锯成两半的魔术，然后最神奇的一个是 —— 悬浮的灯泡，他把灯泡从电线上拿了下来，穿过铁丝圈，灯泡依旧发亮，同时他让灯泡悬浮在了空中，并且漂浮着穿过了观众们的头顶，灯泡依旧发亮。(这里找到了一个老视频就是这个魔术，感兴趣的同学可以看看https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz5l6BnmqPY)

So next time you’re feeling creative and need to wow your friends on your Minecraft server, try recreating Blackstone’s illusion with a command block and a redstone lamp. They’re sure to be impressed!
所以下一次当你想要玩点新花样让你的朋友们惊讶的话，你可以在MC服务器中用一个命令方块和一盏红石灯来重现黑石的光芒吧。你的朋友们看到一定会大吃一惊！




【Srar 译自官网 2021 年 05 月 11 日发布的 Block of the Week: Blackstone；原作者 Duncan Geere】
【本文排版借助了：SPX】

。没有镐子？和猪灵交易吧 —— 它们可愿意用黑石交换黄金了，真的可以吗？