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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.
老实说，没有人特别喜欢圆石。在玩生存模式时，尽管圆石在几乎所有建筑中都有一席之地——放进更漂亮的方块间当填料，但你终究会很快厌倦堆积如山的圆石。

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.
不过，圆石也在MC中担当了至关重要的角色——它是一整套工具和武器的基础材料，这就成了我们在设计下界更新时的主要问题：我们希望人们的惯用装备（石质工具）可以自给自足，尤其是在火狱之中长途跋涉时；不过下界没石头，因此我们需要新办法，有请我们的本周方块，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.
黑石只会在下界中自然生成，可以在熔岩海底部，堡垒遗迹内部，世界底部的矿脉，以及玄武岩三角洲全境中找到，用木镐就能挖出来。啥，没镐就没法搞？你可以和猪灵交易嘛！某些猪灵会乐意用黑石换金子的。

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.
你可能好奇怎么处理这些黑石，对，我们郑重承诺它们能用来做工具和武器，也能制作熔炉和酿造台，还有楼梯，墙和台阶。此外，黑石还能染色和磨制，在Java版中它甚至可以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.
但是黑石比普通圆石更硬脆，所以不能用来制作有复杂活动构件的东西，比如拉杆，活塞，发射器，投掷器或者其他红石部件。它也不能做成安山岩或者闪长岩，因为后两者是主世界的矿物。实在抱歉，地质学就这样。

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.
现实世界中，“黑石”不是某种具体材料的名字，而是英语世界中的地名、公司名和姓氏，这个名字在芝加哥尤其普遍，有黑石银行、黑石宾馆和黑石图书馆。

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.
但世界上最奇怪的“黑石”可能是芝加哥魔术师哈里·布莱克斯通（Harry Blackstone，1885-1965，其子小哈里·布莱克斯通获得了1978年魔术城堡“年度魔术师”奖项，刘谦则于2011年获得该奖项，特此注明），令20世纪初的民众惊叹不已。他表演了“消失的鸟笼”“把女人锯成两半”等魔术，最引人瞩目的是他的标志性作品“漂浮的灯泡”，在这个魔术中他把灯泡从灯座上拿出来，让它漂浮起来但仍在发光，穿过一个小铁环，然后飞过观众的头顶。

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!
所以要是你很有创造力，想要在MC服务器中惊住你的朋友，大可以试试用命令方块和红石灯复现布莱克斯通的魔术，一定能给他们留下深刻印象！




【森林蝙蝠 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】

黑石是好东西，废墟常用建材（迫真）

质感不错,我喜欢

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堆积如山的圆石基本都拿去垫脚了

至少，黑石可以使玩家能在下界合成石质工具。这大大提高了玩家生活在下界的可行性

Magic！魔法，故事不错

另一种原石

It can be polished up into polished blackstone 是磨制

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It can be polished up into polished blackstone, which can then also be chiseled.
话说polish在我的记忆里是抛光的意思吧

石制工具用处不大啊

比原石更硬脆做的工具耐久还和原石做的工具耐久一样的屑黑石