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Not everything in the Nether is out to get you. Don’t believe me? Cast your gaze into the middle of the fiery lava lakes that populate this dangerous dimension. You see that weird blobby thing paddling around happily? That’s a strider, our mob of the month, and it’s the only friend you’ll find on the far side of Nether portal.
其实下界里面也不是所有东西都在跟你作对。不信？那就看看遍布于这整个危险维度中的灼热的熔岩湖，请把目光投向湖中间。看到那个悠悠拍击着熔岩的奇怪小点了吗？那就是炽足兽了，它是我们的本月生物，而且是你在下界传送门另一头所能交到的唯一朋友。

Striders joined the Minecraft party, alongside bastions, piglins, and a ton of new biomes, in the Nether Update which was released in June 2020. They’re not too tricky to find, though they can be difficult to attract to the shore. Why? Because they’re hot-blooded – they get chilly when they’re out of the lava, and will take damage from water and rain. Brandon Pearce, developer on the Minecraft gameplay team, shared some insights into the strider’s cold response design back in 2020.
2020 年 6 月发布的《下界更新》中，炽足兽与堡垒、猪灵以及众多新群系一道加入了 Minecraft 派对。想找到它们并不难，难的是把它们吸引到岸边。何故？因为它们平常热血沸腾，离开熔岩之后就会发冷，而且遇水和雨就会受到伤害。Minecraft 游戏团队的 Brandon Pearce 为我们揭秘了炽足兽遇冷反应背后的设计故事，那是 2020 年的事情了。

In one of my first versions their legs would just retract and they would bounce around and take damage until they died, which was kind of sad. Now people create lava pools just so they can keep Striders warm. There’s nothing that forces players to do that from a mechanics perspective – but they still feel compelled to because they’re so immersed in the world and want to be nice to these creatures. That’s so interesting from a design perspective and I hope we’ll be able to carry that into future features down the line.
在其中一个初版方案中，炽足兽（遇冷后）会缩回双腿，四处弹跳，持续受到伤害直至死去，这实在让人于心不忍。现在大家为炽足兽建造熔岩池单纯是为了让它们暖和。从游戏机制角度来看这并不必要，但大家还是这么做了，因为大家都沉浸于这个世界，希望善待每一生灵。从设计角度来看就十分有意思，我们希望今后也能延续这样的设计。

⸺Brandon Pearce

There’s one reliable way to lure a strider, and that’s to get hold of some warped fungus – their favorite delicacy. Stand on the shore and wave it in their direction, and if they’re close enough to smell it then they’ll head on over. Fairly soon, you’ll have an attentive strider standing in front of you.
有个办法可以有效吸引炽足兽，那就是拿着它们最爱的食物⸺诡异菌，站在岸边朝它们招手。如果凑得够近，它们闻到味道后就会向你走过来，马上就有一个热心的炽足兽站在你面前了。

What next? Well, there are two options. The first is to feed the fungus to the strider, and another to a different strider nearby, so that they both enter “love mode” and make a baby strider. Yay! More striders!
接下来呢？接下来有两个选择。一是给它和另一个靠近他的炽足兽喂诡异菌，它们就会进入“求爱模式”，生出幼年炽足兽。没错！越来越多的炽足兽！

The other option is to slap a saddle on that bad boy and ride him into the lava. “Wait, what?” I hear you say. That’s right – striders are your ticket to bypass all that nasty lava and reach more distant shores of the Nether. Striders can walk on the surface of lava, you see, keeping the toes of anyone riding one juuust above the point at which they’ll burn.
还可以选择给它上鞍，骑着它向熔岩行进。“啊？你认真的？”你刚才是这么说的对吧？我没开玩笑，炽足兽就是你在恼人熔岩中的通行证，你可以骑着它去到下界更远的彼岸。炽足兽可以在熔岩上行走，骑着它的人哪怕稍微弯一下腿，脚趾都会被熔岩烧着。

The tricky thing is that striders tend to just wander around aimlessly. That’s why I believe it was a smart piglin that invented the warped fungus on a stick – an easily craftable way of getting a strider to go in the direction you want it to go. To dismount, you’ll want to reach land again and then point your crosshair at the block you want to dismount to before hissing the use button.
炽足兽喜欢漫无目的地四处游荡，这一点比较棘手。因此我相信肯定是聪明的猪灵发明了绑着诡异菌的木棍，这样很容易就能让炽足兽朝着你所希望的方向前进。如果要结束骑乘，你需要靠近岸边，将准星指向着地的方块，然后再按下使用键。

Striders are uncommon among Nether mobs in that they’re perfectly happy outside of the Nether. You’re good to take your new friend through a portal and down to the depths of the Overworld, to skate across the lava lakes found there. Just remember to keep them out of the rain...
炽足兽在下界之外的地方也能玩得很开心，这在下界生物中十分少见。你完全可以领着你的新朋友穿过传送门，勇闯主世界深处，划过那里的熔岩湖。不过要记住别让它淋雨⋯⋯




【橄榄Chan（aka Olvcpr423）译自官网 2023 年 01 月 16 日发布的 Mob Menagerie: Strider；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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