Today’s build, Nameless Castle, may not have a name, but it does have a rich and brilliantly sinister backstory.Any Minecraft player brave/foolish enough to explore this build will be taking part in an adventure, trying to find their way out of the castle’s dungeon and escape the clutches of the castle’s evil master. Meh, I’ve stayed at worse hotels. One once charged me for using the hand towels . True story.
今天我们要介绍的建筑是无名古堡，虽然无名无姓，但它的背后却有着数不尽的颇负盛名、精妙绝伦的惊悚故事。只有勇敢至极（或者愚蠢至极）的Minecraft玩家们才会有胆量踏上这惊魂古堡之旅，去寻找离开城堡里恐怖地牢的方法，同时还需要从成群结队的邪恶领主手中逃脱……切，我住过比这还恶劣的宾馆呢，有个宾馆甚至还会对我用的手巾①收费！这可是真事！
①：hand towel，擦手用的小块毛巾

“It’s a castle that’s been left abandoned for a long time,” says builder Leonarbre . The castle was once the home of a royal family, but when the family started practising dark magic, they angered the gods. “The gods teleported the mountain that the castle was built on into the middle of the sea, and the royal family died out because of this exile.”
“这是一座被遗弃多年的城堡。城堡里曾住着一个皇室家族，但当他们开始练习使用黑魔法时，他们触怒了众神。”建造者Leonarbre告诉我，“众神将城堡所在的山峰移到了茫茫大海的中央，而经过此般放逐，这个家族便尽数灭亡了。”

Only one of the original inhabitants survived; the family’s personal sorcerer, who continued his work alone, creating monsters to inhabit the castle, protecting himself from nosy neighbours, irritating door-to-door salesman and (possibly most importantly) from the angry gods themselves.
只有一个城堡原住民活了下来，他便是这个家族的私人巫师。他独自一人在城堡中继续着他的邪恶研究，他制造出的各种怪物住满了整个城堡。他不必忍受喋喋不休的邻居和挨家挨户敲门的烦人推销员，以及（可能也最重要的是）愤怒的众神们的侵扰。

As the player of this map, though, they’ll also prevent you from leaving, because you’ll have to fight these monsters to escape! At least that’s the plan - Leonarbe is still developing Nameless Castle, so you can’t download it and get trapped in it yet (maybe that’s a good thing?) But he has plenty of other nasty ideas in development.
然而作为这张地图的玩家，你也免不了受到这些怪物们阻挠，因为想要从这些怪物中间逃脱，你将不得不和他们战斗！至少计划是如此……Leonarbre仍在继续开发无名古堡，所以你暂时还不能下载这张地图，也不会被困在古堡里。（没准这是件好事？）但是要当心，他还有许多“邪恶”的想法正付诸实践。

“The player is one of the many guinea pigs that [the sorcerer] uses for his experiments,” says Leonarbre, not creeping me out in the slightest, no, no, no, of course not. “The adventure begins in a dungeon cell. The player has to explore and find secret passages to acquire things like potions and weapons.” You’ll also have to do all that while avoiding dangerous traps. On second thoughts, maybe the hand towel hotel wasn’t so bad?
Leonarbre说：“我们的玩家扮演的就是这位巫师邪恶实验中的“小白鼠”之一。”这话可丝毫吓不到我，嗯，一点都没有！“我们的冒险从地牢的一个小房间中开始，玩家需要去寻找密文来获取药水和武器等装备。”当然你还需要一边躲避危险的陷阱一边探索。仔细一想，那家“手巾旅馆”好像也没那么糟？

Leonarbre learned how to use command blocks and Redstone for this build, so he could create the sort of traps you might have seen in an Indiana Jones movie; pressure plates that set off arrows, pits in the floor, and others that are probably much more ‘fun’ to discover for yourself.
Leonarbre为了他筑作品专门去学习了命令方块和红石，这样他便能够设计出你可能只在琼斯②的电影中才见过的各式陷阱：踩到后会发射毒箭的压力板，地面上隐蔽的坑洞，以及更多“有趣”的陷阱等着你去发现。
②：印第安纳·琼斯，由斯皮尔伯格和乔治·卢卡斯合作于上世纪80年代拍摄的同名系列冒险电影的主角，共三部，电影又译作《夺宝奇兵》。该影片于2008年推出第四部，第五部预计于2021年上映。

Once you’re past all the traps and hazards in the dungeon, there’ll be one final obstacle waiting for you: one of the sorcerer’s demonic pets. If you defeat it, you’re out of the dungeon, congratulations! But now you’re in the castle itself - er, commiserations!
一旦你历经磨难，闯过了地牢中的所有陷阱，等待着你的将是最终考验：巫师的恶魔仆从之一。只要你能够战胜它，你就可以逃离这座地牢，真是可喜可贺呀！不过离开地牢之后，你就进到了这座地牢所在的城堡，嗯...还是说可悲可叹吧。

Unsurprisingly, it won’t get easier from there.
不出所料，想离开这里也没那么容易。

“The castle is divided into many zones,” says Leonarbre, “which connect in a central hub. There is no real order to complete the zones in, but at the end of each one, there is a boss.” Each boss has a key, and you’ll need all the keys to open the final door. Unlock it, fight the boss and win your freedom from the cursed castle!
Leonarbre告诉我们：“城堡分为许多区域，它们都与城堡的核心中枢相连。区域间并没有顺序之分，但每个区域最终都有一个boss需要战胜。”每个boss都有一把钥匙，而想打开最终之门，你需要集齐所有区域对应的钥匙。打开大门，打败最终boss，之后你就能逃离这座被诅咒的古堡，重获自由。

One of the bosses, a giant spooky skull, is the one you’ll have to fight to get out of the dungeon. “For the moment,” says Leonarbre, “it is one of the most complex structures of the game.” Although the skull doesn’t move during the fight, it’s able to attack you with fire, flaming arrows, and summoning its demon friends to help take you out. How are we supposed to get past that?!
在逃出地牢的过程中，你必须打败这样一个boss——一只巨型恐怖骷髅。“目前为止，它拥有游戏中最复杂的机制。”Leonarbre说道。尽管这只骷髅在战斗期间并不会移动，但是它将使用燃烧着的火焰箭来攻击你，它还会召唤它的恶魔伙伴来助战，誓必要夺走你的性命。我们究竟该如何战胜它呢？

Leonarbre tells me I’ll need to – spoiler warning – “pierce it with several arrows.” Easy! Except once you’ve hurt the skull enough, it will summon a spirit version of itself to attack you. Oh super . But once you’ve defeated that, you’ll get the key!
Leonarbre告诉我了打败它的秘诀：（剧透警告！）“用几根箭去刺穿它”。挺简单的嘛！不过就是每当骷髅受到一定量的攻击，它就会召唤一个灵魂状态的分身来攻击你。其实还挺不容易的，不过只要你能打败它，你就能拿到那把钥匙了。

“The story is very much inspired by Dark Souls and Bloodborne,” Leonarbre admits. “I was really inspired by the temples and castles in the Dark Souls series, notably the Archdragon Peak in Dark Souls 3 .” This is a secret area in the game that’s fairly hard to reach: a ruined temple on top of a very tall mountain, with dead trees and a dragon and a king to fight. The king is known as the ‘Nameless King’, which might be where Leonarbre got the no-name inspiration from!
“黑暗之魂和血源诅咒这两款游戏为我的故事提供了大量的灵感，”Leonarbre说道，“黑魂系列的各式庙宇和城堡深深启发了我，尤其是黑魂三中的古龙之顶③。”古龙之顶是游戏中的一个隐藏地点，一般情况下非常难以到达。高耸的山尖坐落着一座破庙，上面布满了枯死的树木，还有一条恶龙和一位国王等着你去战胜他们。这位国王被称为“无名之王”，也许Leonarbre就是从这里得到“无名”这一灵感的！
③：Archdragon Peak（古竜の頂），黑魂三中的场景，一般译为古龙之顶或古龙顶端。

Leonarbre considers Nameless Castle an ongoing project. “For the moment, I’m building the dungeon, which is the starting area. I will then start to build the central hub and a new part of the castle.” Even though the castle is not yet done, it’s an exciting work-in-progress that everyone should explore!
Leonarbre将无名古堡视为一个长期更新的项目。“目前我正在建造地牢区域，未来我会继续建设城堡的核心枢纽以及一个全新的区域。”尽管这座古堡还未完工，但这也是一个惊险刺激的半成品，你绝对不容错过！

Minecraft.net takes no responsibility for all the Minecraft players who will soon be trapped in Nameless Castles’ dungeon now that Kate has encouraged them to explore it. No, we don’t know how she sleeps at night either.
声明：即便本文作者Kate推荐了玩家们去探索这座古堡，Minecraft.net依旧不会对那些即将困在无名古堡地牢之中的玩家负任何责任。当然我们也不知道，Kate做出了这样的事，晚上怎么会睡得着。




【p405 译自官网 2018 年 09 月 20 日发布的 A Most Sinister Structure；原作者 Kate Gray】
【本文排版借助了：SPX】

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CULTUREA Most Sinister Structure
古堡惊魂


Is there no escape from Leonarbre’s creepy castle?
在Leonarbre的诡异城堡中，你是否能够逃出生天？


Today’s build, Nameless Castle, may not have a name, but it does have a rich and brilliantly sinister backstory.Any Minecraft player brave/foolish enough to explore this build will be taking part in an adventure, trying to find their way out of the castle’s dungeon and escape the clutches of the castle’s evil master. Meh, I’ve stayed at worse hotels. One once charged me for using the hand towels . True story.
今天我们要介绍的建筑是无名古堡，虽然无名无姓，但它的背后却有着数不尽的颇负盛名、精妙绝伦的惊悚故事。只有勇敢至极（或者愚蠢至极）的Minecraft玩家们才会有胆量踏上这惊魂古堡之旅，去寻找离开城堡里恐怖地牢的方法，同时还需要从成群结队的邪恶领主手中逃脱……切，我住过比这还恶劣的宾馆呢，有个宾馆甚至还会对我用的手巾①收费！这可是真事！
①：hand towel，擦手用的小块毛巾


“It’s a castle that’s been left abandoned for a long time,” says builder Leonarbre . The castle was once the home of a royal family, but when the family started practising dark magic, they angered the gods. “The gods teleported the mountain that the castle was built on into the middle of the sea, and the royal family died out because of this exile.”
“这是一座被遗弃多年的城堡。城堡里曾住着一个皇室家族，但当他们开始练习使用黑魔法时，他们触怒了众神。”建造者Leonarbre告诉我，“众神将城堡所在的山峰移到了茫茫大海的中央，而经过此般放逐，这个家族便尽数灭亡了。”

Only one of the original inhabitants survived; the family’s personal sorcerer, who continued his work alone, creating monsters to inhabit the castle, protecting himself from nosy neighbours, irritating door-to-door salesman and (possibly most importantly) from the angry gods themselves.
只有一个城堡原住民活了下来，他便是这个家族的私人巫师。他独自一人在城堡中继续着他的邪恶研究，他制造出的各种怪物住满了整个城堡。他不必忍受喋喋不休的邻居和挨家挨户敲门的烦人推销员，以及（可能也最重要的是）愤怒的众神们的侵扰。


As the player of this map, though, they’ll also prevent you from leaving, because you’ll have to fight these monsters to escape! At least that’s the plan - Leonarbe is still developing Nameless Castle, so you can’t download it and get trapped in it yet (maybe that’s a good thing?) But he has plenty of other nasty ideas in development.
然而作为这张地图的玩家，你也免不了受到这些怪物们阻挠，因为想要从这些怪物中间逃脱，你将不得不和他们战斗！至少计划是如此……Leonarbre仍在继续开发无名古堡，所以你暂时还不能下载这张地图，也不会被困在古堡里。（没准这是件好事？）但是要当心，他还有许多“邪恶”的想法正付诸实践。


“The player is one of the many guinea pigs that [the sorcerer] uses for his experiments,” says Leonarbre, not creeping me out in the slightest, no, no, no, of course not. “The adventure begins in a dungeon cell. The player has to explore and find secret passages to acquire things like potions and weapons.” You’ll also have to do all that while avoiding dangerous traps. On second thoughts, maybe the hand towel hotel wasn’t so bad?
Leonarbre说：“我们的玩家扮演的就是这位巫师邪恶实验中的“小白鼠”之一。”这话可丝毫吓不到我，嗯，一点都没有！“我们的冒险从地牢的一个小房间中开始，玩家需要去寻找密文来获取药水和武器等装备。”当然你还需要一边躲避危险的陷阱一边探索。仔细一想，那家“手巾旅馆”好像也没那么糟？

Leonarbre learned how to use command blocks and Redstone for this build, so he could create the sort of traps you might have seen in an Indiana Jones movie; pressure plates that set off arrows, pits in the floor, and others that are probably much more ‘fun’ to discover for yourself.
Leonarbre为了他筑作品专门去学习了命令方块和红石，这样他便能够设计出你可能只在琼斯②的电影中才见过的各式陷阱：踩到后会发射毒箭的压力板，地面上隐蔽的坑洞，以及更多“有趣”的陷阱等着你去发现。
②：印第安纳·琼斯，由斯皮尔伯格和乔治·卢卡斯合作于上世纪80年代拍摄的同名系列冒险电影的主角，共三部，电影又译作《夺宝奇兵》。该影片于2008年推出第四部，第五部预计于2021年上映。


Once you’re past all the traps and hazards in the dungeon, there’ll be one final obstacle waiting for you: one of the sorcerer’s demonic pets. If you defeat it, you’re out of the dungeon, congratulations! But now you’re in the castle itself - er, commiserations!
一旦你历经磨难，闯过了地牢中的所有陷阱，等待着你的将是最终考验：巫师的恶魔仆从之一。只要你能够战胜它，你就可以逃离这座地牢，真是可喜可贺呀！不过离开地牢之后，你就进到了这座地牢所在的城堡，嗯...还是说可悲可叹吧。


Unsurprisingly, it won’t get easier from there.
不出所料，想离开这里也没那么容易。


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“The castle is divided into many zones,” says Leonarbre, “which connect in a central hub. There is no real order to complete the zones in, but at the end of each one, there is a boss.” Each boss has a key, and you’ll need all the keys to open the final door. Unlock it, fight the boss and win your freedom from the cursed castle!
Leonarbre告诉我们：“城堡分为许多区域，它们都与城堡的核心中枢相连。区域间并没有顺序之分，但每个区域最终都有一个boss需要战胜。”每个boss都有一把钥匙，而想打开最终之门，你需要集齐所有区域对应的钥匙。打开大门，打败最终boss，之后你就能逃离这座被诅咒的古堡，重获自由。


One of the bosses, a giant spooky skull, is the one you’ll have to fight to get out of the dungeon. “For the moment,” says Leonarbre, “it is one of the most complex structures of the game.” Although the skull doesn’t move during the fight, it’s able to attack you with fire, flaming arrows, and summoning its demon friends to help take you out. How are we supposed to get past that?!
在逃出地牢的过程中，你必须打败这样一个boss——一只巨型恐怖骷髅。“目前为止，它拥有游戏中最复杂的机制。”Leonarbre说道。尽管这只骷髅在战斗期间并不会移动，但是它将使用燃烧着的火焰箭来攻击你，它还会召唤它的恶魔伙伴来助战，誓必要夺走你的性命。我们究竟该如何战胜它呢？

Leonarbre tells me I’ll need to – spoiler warning – “pierce it with several arrows.” Easy! Except once you’ve hurt the skull enough, it will summon a spirit version of itself to attack you. Oh super . But once you’ve defeated that, you’ll get the key!
Leonarbre告诉我了打败它的秘诀：（剧透警告！）“用几根箭去刺穿它”。挺简单的嘛！不过就是每当骷髅受到一定量的攻击，它就会召唤一个灵魂状态的分身来攻击你。其实还挺不容易的，不过只要你能打败它，你就能拿到那把钥匙了。


“The story is very much inspired by Dark Souls and Bloodborne,” Leonarbre admits. “I was really inspired by the temples and castles in the Dark Souls series, notably the Archdragon Peak in Dark Souls 3 .” This is a secret area in the game that’s fairly hard to reach: a ruined temple on top of a very tall mountain, with dead trees and a dragon and a king to fight. The king is known as the ‘Nameless King’, which might be where Leonarbre got the no-name inspiration from!
“黑暗之魂和血源诅咒这两款游戏为我的故事提供了大量的灵感，”Leonarbre说道，“黑魂系列的各式庙宇和城堡深深启发了我，尤其是黑魂三中的古龙之顶③。”古龙之顶是游戏中的一个隐藏地点，一般情况下非常难以到达。高耸的山尖坐落着一座破庙，上面布满了枯死的树木，还有一条恶龙和一位国王等着你去战胜他们。这位国王被称为“无名之王”，也许Leonarbre就是从这里得到“无名”这一灵感的！
③：Archdragon Peak（古竜の頂），黑魂三中的场景，一般译为古龙之顶或古龙顶端。

Leonarbre considers Nameless Castle an ongoing project. “For the moment, I’m building the dungeon, which is the starting area. I will then start to build the central hub and a new part of the castle.” Even though the castle is not yet done, it’s an exciting work-in-progress that everyone should explore!
Leonarbre将无名古堡视为一个长期更新的项目。“目前我正在建造地牢区域，未来我会继续建设城堡的核心枢纽以及一个全新的区域。”尽管这座古堡还未完工，但这也是一个惊险刺激的半成品，你绝对不容错过！


Minecraft.net takes no responsibility for all the Minecraft players who will soon be trapped in Nameless Castles’ dungeon now that Kate has encouraged them to explore it. No, we don’t know how she sleeps at night either.
声明：即便本文作者Kate推荐了玩家们去探索这座古堡，Minecraft.net依旧不会对那些即将困在无名古堡地牢之中的玩家负任何责任。当然我们也不知道，Kate做出了这样的事，晚上怎么会睡得着。

【p405 译自官网 2018 年 09 月 20 日发布的 A Most Sinister Structure；原作者 Kate Gray】
【本文排版借助了：SPX】