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Beds are great. They're warm, soft, and sleepy. They're the reason I make sure I get at least twenty-three and a half hours of sleep a day. They're available in whatever colour fits your home decor. And they keep you safe from the denizens of the night. We highly recommend them. But to make one, you'll need to go hunting for our block of the week - wool.
床是很棒的东西。他们又温暖又柔软，让人容易入睡，大打哈欠。他们就是我一天睡上二十三个半小时的原因。无论你的家里怎样装饰，都有合适颜色的床与之搭配。在晚上，床让你远离怪物的侵扰。我们十分推荐这些。但是，如果想要造一张床出来的话，你就需要去寻找我们的本周方块 —— 羊毛。

Wool was added to Minecraft a looooOOOong time ago - in June 2009 during the game's "Classic" development phase. It was originally called cloth and came in sixteen different colours that aren't quite the same colours we have today. Knowing that wool was originally cloth helps to explain why you use it to make paintings - I don't know anyone who paints on wool in the real world. Leather armour was also originally made using cloth and called cloth armour.
羊毛早在远古时期就已被加入到 Minecraft 中来了 —— 2009 年七月，游戏的 Classic 开发时期^[1]。最开始被称作布料，并且那时的 16 种颜色与现在的并不完全一致。知道羊毛一开始被叫做布料有助于你解释为什么可以用羊毛来制作画 —— 我可不知道现实世界里谁会在羊毛上作画。皮革盔甲一开始也是使用布料来制作的，叫做“布甲”。

Today, though, it's wool. Most players acquire it from sheep - which have a chance to drop a single piece of wool when they die. But it's actually better to use a pair of shears on them, which yields one to three wool blocks instead. Even better, the sheep will then regrow the wool after munching on grass for a while, so you can shear it again. Endless wool!
不过到了今天，我们称之为羊毛。绝大多数玩家会从羊身上去得到它 —— 在羊死亡时，有可能获得一块羊毛。但事实上，对着羊使用一副剪刀或许是更好的选择，这样会得到一到三块羊毛。更棒的是，吃了一段时间的草之后，羊会重新长出羊毛，这样你就可以再次剪毛了。无穷无尽的羊毛耶！

If sheep are hard to come by in the biome that you've chosen to call home, there are some alternatives. You can craft a single wool block out of four bits of string arranged in a square in a crafting grid. Or you can buy it off shepherd villagers. Or, if you're feeling a little mean (but not mean enough to kill a sheep) then you can find it in various generated structures - street lamps in villages, and woodland mansions. You thief.
如果在你选择称作“家”的地方的生物群系很难找到羊，还有一些备选方案。你可以将四根线在工作台中摆成一个正方形来合成一块羊毛。或者你也可以从牧羊人那里交易得到。再或者，如果你确实有点小气 (但是还没刻薄到杀只羊的程度) ，那么你可以在各种各样的生成建筑里找一找 —— 比如村庄的路灯，以及林地府邸。你个小偷！

Beds aren't the only use for wool. Banners, carpets and the aforementioned paintings also use wool in their recipes. Wool was once a favoured choice for builders despite its flammability and low blast resistance, thanks chiefly to the amazing range of colours that you can dye it into, but the recently-added concrete has now largely replaced it. So what are you going to do with all the wool you had lying around? Well, in the java version at least, you can burn it in a furnace to smelt exactly half an item per block. Toasty.
造床不是羊毛的唯一用途。旗帜，地毯以及前文提到的画，这些物品的合成表中都有羊毛的身影。尽管羊毛的耐火性和抗爆性并不理想，但因为羊毛可以被染成各种各样的颜色，它一度成为建筑师的首选。不过最近添加的混凝土块已经在很大程度上取代了它。那么打算拿你满地的羊毛干什么呢？呃，至少在 Java 版里，你可以在熔炉中将羊毛当作燃料，每块羊毛可以熔炼半个物品出来。羊毛正在以另一种方式提供温暖。

图片作者: Rob // 以 CC BY 2.0 协议共享

Real-world wool is - alongside cotton - one of the most common natural textiles on Earth. It's sheared from sheep like in Minecraft, but also commonly from goats, musk ox, rabbits and camels. Woollen clothes are popular, especially among firefighters and soldiers, for several reasons. Its natural curliness means that it's bulky and holds air in, making it a good insulator while still being pretty lightweight. It's quite waterproof too, and unlike Minecraft, real-world wool doesn't actually burn very well.
在真实世界中，羊毛——和棉花——是地球上使用最广泛的天然织物。像在 Minecraft 里一样，毛是从绵羊身上剪下来的，不过通常也可以从山羊、麝牛、兔子和骆驼身上取得。出于各种原因，毛衣非常受欢迎，尤其是在消防员和士兵之间。羊毛天然的翻卷意味着他体积很大，能容纳不少空气，使其具有良好的绝缘性，同时非常轻便，也非常防水。但不像 Minecraft 里那样，真实世界的羊毛并不那么容易燃烧。

What you probably didn't know is that humans are the reason why sheep are so woolly. Wild sheep, tens of thousands of years ago, were more hairy and were actually bred by humans in what is now the Middle East into the delightfully woolly creatures they are today - producing almost two million tonnes of the substance every year. That's a lot of wool. Thanks sheep!
你可能不知道的是，人类的存在才是绵羊长出那么多毛的原因。数万年前的野羊比现在羊的毛还要多，并且事实上是由位于现中东地区的人们喂养成为现在这些毛茸茸的生物的 —— 它们每年产出约 200 万吨羊毛。这可真是不少了。快说：谢谢绵羊！

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• [1] 关于 Java 版的 Classic 开发时期：https://minecraft.fandom.com/zh/wiki/Java%E7%89%88Classic
  

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【苦力怕553 译自官网 2017 年 11 月 17 日发布的 Block of the Week: Wool；原作者 Duncan Geere】
【本文排版借助了：SPXX】