DEEP DIVES

Dying in Minecraft isn’t that big of a deal. You drop your stuff, you respawn, you walk back to where you dropped it, you pick it up again, and get on with whatever you were doing.
在 Minecraft 中，死亡并不是很可怕的事情。东西掉了，可以重生，走过去，捡回来，然后该干嘛干嘛去。

But there are a couple of situations where it’s a bit more annoying. The first is when you die in lava. Most objects burn up in lava, so you’re not going to be picking them up again – wave goodbye to that enchanted diamond pickaxe. You can avoid this by avoiding lava. 
但有些情况则比较恼人，第一种情况是死在熔岩里。大多数物品都会在熔岩里烧毁，再无可能捡起，你也就只好跟你的附魔钻石镐说拜拜了。不过只要避开熔岩就万事大吉。

The second is when you don’t remember where you died. Maybe you popped your clogs at the bottom of a twisty cave, in the depths of a huge forest, or far from your portal in the Nether. That’s where our item of the week comes in – the recovery compass!
第二种情况是忘记了死亡的地点。你也许会在蜿蜒曲折的洞穴中、在茫茫林海的深处、在下界远离传送门的地方死于非命。这时就该我们的本周物品出场了，有请追溯指针！

The recovery compass was added in the Wild Update in June 2022, and it has one job – pointing to the location where you last died. It’ll do this constantly, unless you’ve not died or you’re in a different dimension to your death location. In these cases, it’ll just spin around randomly. 
追溯指针是在 2022 年 6 月发布的《荒野更新》中加入的，负有指向上次死亡地点的任务。追溯指针会一直起效，但如果你没有死亡过，或者是离开了死亡时的维度，它就只会四处乱指。

A recovery compass isn’t easy to craft. You’ll need to use a crafting grid to surround a regular compass with echo shards. Those echo shards are only available in ancient city chests, so be prepared to get friendly with the wardens before you venture forth.
追溯指针制作起来可不容易，需要在合成网格中将普通指南针用回响碎片围上一圈，而回响碎片只能在远古城市的箱子里拿到。所以在启程冒险前，你得做好跟监守者交朋友的准备。

Here’s an important tip – don’t take your recovery compass with you when you’re adventuring. It’s only useful in a situation where you’ve died, and if you die holding it then you won’t be able to use it to find your way back to that location.
这里有一条必备技巧：不要带着追溯指针去冒险。追溯指针只会在你死亡后派上用场，要是你带着它共赴黄泉，就别想着再用它来找回死亡地点了。

Leave it in a chest at home instead – ideally with a set of high-quality armor and a decent sword and pickaxe. This is your emergency kit in the unhappy event that you do perish, and should allow you to recover all your possessions with minimum fuss.
听我的，你应该把它留在家中的箱子里，最好再往里头放点坚韧的盔甲跟一把称手的剑和镐，做成一个应急箱。就算不幸遇难，也能靠它轻松找回身上的宝贝。

In the real world, there are no recovery compasses because dying works the same as it does in Minecraft’s hardcore mode – it’s permanent. Scientists are pretty much unanimous that there’s no coming back from death, though some major religions disagree. 
现实世界里可没有追溯指针，因为现实中的死亡就跟 Minecraft 极限模式中一样，是没法回头的。科学家近乎一致认为不存在死而复生，一些主流宗教却并不认同。

Either way, my official advice is to do everything you can to avoid dying, just in case!
不管怎样，我还是想奉劝各位不要作死，小心驶得万年船！




【橄榄Chan（aka Olvcpr423）译自官网 2023 年 01 月 19 日发布的 Taking Inventory: Recovery Compass；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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