本帖最后由 璀璨星河丶 于 2021-9-3 19:09 编辑

Seasoned Minecraft players will be well aware of soul sand – the screaming brown block that lives in the fiery caverns of the Nether. Not sounding familiar? Have a read of the Block of the Week column on the subject that my erstwhile colleague Marsh wrote a couple of years back.
经验丰富滴 Minecraft 老玩家都很清楚灵魂沙 —— 那是一种惊悚的、生成在燥热的下界洞穴里的棕色方块。听起来不熟悉吗？读一下 几年前我的同僚 Marsh 写的关于灵魂沙的每周方块吧。

In the Nether update, released in June 2020, we totally rebooted Minecraft’s warmest dimension to add a bunch of new biomes. The new biomes include the Warped Forest and Basalt Delta, but it also includes the Soul Sand Valley where you can find oodles of soul sand, obviously, but also a new block – soul soil, which also happens to be our block of the week.
在2020年6月发布的下界更新中，我们重做了 Minecraft 中最炎热的维度，并加入了成堆的新群系。我们加入了包括诡异森林和玄武岩三角洲在内的若干群系，同时也包括能够找到大量灵魂沙的 灵魂沙峡谷 ，很明显，还有一种新方块 —— 灵魂土 ，也就是我们的本周方块！

Soul soil and soul sand have some similarities and differences. They’re both brown, for starters. They’re both found in the Nether. They both create soul fire when they catch alight, and can be used to craft soul torches and soul campfires. They can also both be used to summon a Wither, which is a terrible idea. Under no circumstances should you place four soul soil blocks in a t-shape and then put three wither skulls on top.
灵魂土和灵魂沙有一些相似点以及不同点。首先，它们都是棕色的；其次，它们都可以在下界被找到；当它们被点着时，都会冒出灵魂火焰；并且都可以用来合成灵魂火把和灵魂篝火。它们还都可以用来召唤凋灵，一个很糟的想法。在任何情况下，你都不要用四个灵魂沙摆成一个T字形，并置三个凋灵骷髅头于其上，否则...

But! There are differences too. Soul soil has a bit more internal structure, making it easier to walk across. You won’t slow down when you’re on top of it. It also doesn’t create bubble columns underwater like soul sand does. So what does it do? Well, it’s a key component of basalt – when lava flows on top of soul soil and is cooled by blue ice, it’ll turn into basalt. Nifty! Especially if you need a lot of basalt in a hurry.
但是！它们也有不同之处。灵魂土的内部稍微致密一点，使得更容易在其上行走。走在灵魂土上，你并不会减速。它也不能像灵魂沙那样制造气泡柱。那么它是用来做什么的呢？原来灵魂土是创造玄武岩的关键元素 —— 当岩浆流淌在灵魂土的表面，并且接触到蓝冰时，灵魂土将转变为玄武岩。当你急需大量玄武岩时，这毫无疑问是一个漂亮的方法！

So how do you get some? Well, the easiest wayis to track down a soul sand valley biome and dig it up with a shovel. But in a pinch you can also craft a soul campfire with some soul sand and then break it. It’ll drop soul soil, thanks to the way that the soul fire ash fertilises the sand.
所以你要怎么得到灵魂土呢？这最简单的方法就是寻找一个灵魂沙峡谷，并且用一把铲子去挖掘它们。但是在紧要关头，你可以用灵魂沙去合成灵魂篝火，然后破坏它，它会掉落一些灵魂土，多亏了灵魂火焰所产生的灰烬作为肥料，灵魂沙才得以转变为灵魂土。

In the real world, the closest thing we have to soul soil is peat. Peat is made up of partly-decayed vegetation and other organic matter, and accumulates in huge peat bogs that once covered large areas of land. It’s useful stuff – very good for growing plants in, a handy fuel, and it’s also the most effective natural carbon store on the planet.
在现实世界中，与灵魂土最像的，莫过于泥炭了，泥炭是由部分腐朽的植物和其他有机物演变而来的，它们被堆积在曾经覆盖了大量陆地的泥炭沼泽里。泥炭是一种很好的物质 —— 对植物而言是出色的肥料，也可以作为一种不错的燃料，而且泥炭也是地球上最有效的碳储存。

But all that decaying vegetation gives off flammable gases (called marsh gas), and sometimes those gases ignite, creating blue-ish flames, depending on what the gas is made of. This, not surprisingly, terrified people travelling through marshlands at night – who gave it all kinds of names, most popularly will-o’-the-wisp.
那些腐朽的植物还会释放出一些易燃易爆的气体（也就是沼气），有时这些气体会燃烧，产生蓝色火焰，其颜色取决于沼气是由什么组成的。在夜晚经过沼泽的人们常常因此而害怕，这也就不足为奇了。这些人们给它们起了各式各样的名字，最常见的，就是“鬼火”了。

In Minecraft, there are no will-o’-the-wisps, so if you’re exploring a Soul Sand Valley and you see something approaching through the darkness, then it’s probably a good idea to turn around and run. You never know what it might be...
在 Minecraft 中可没有什么鬼火，因此，如果你在探索灵魂沙峡谷的过程中，突然发现黑暗中有什么东西在向你袭来，这时，掉头撒腿就跑将会是你最好的做法。因为没人知道那是什么...




【璀璨星河丶  译自官网 2021 年 08 月 12 日发布的 Block of the Week: Soul Soil；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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灵魂土做成的灵魂火炬有一个bug，那就是打掉后变成了灵魂沙，所以灵魂土等于灵魂沙吗？

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本帖最后由 Water_Bell 于 2021-8-22 15:18 编辑

按照以往的文章副标，这里的"nether"会不会双关“neither”？

原来是这样来的

也就是说，灵魂土其实是灵魂沙燃尽后的产物？

类似这样的语段一般都是官方为了解释某些游戏效果（特性）而编出来的故事
比如 这篇文章中


文章中用类似的语段巧妙的解释了为什么唤魔者自己不用图腾，而是掉落图腾

就跟这篇类似，用“烧火”的方式解释了破坏灵魂篝火为什么掉落的是灵魂土而不是灵魂沙

peat 是 泥炭/泥煤 是还没完全变成煤炭的煤

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

li灵魂土燃烧的产物哈哈

我就记得有个灵魂沙啊。。这是什么时候出的

灵魂土得配合凋零骷髅头或者地狱疣才有用

和灵魂沙都能搞凋零

我怎么觉得其实灵魂土和灵魂沙差别不大
而且走着会更舒服