DEEP DIVESAROUND THE BLOCK: FROZEN RIVER
群系漫游：冻河

Frosty flow
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In the coldest parts of the Overworld, where snowflakes fall from the sky, sheep huddle together for warmth, and your breath turns to vapour as you exhale, you won’t find much surface water. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t rivers – all that snow has to go somewhere eventually, right? The solution is our biome of the month – the frozen river .
雪花自天空缓缓飘落，羊群依偎在一起取暖，连呼出的气体也会化为白雾。在这主世界最寒冷的地方，地表上并没有多少水源。然而，河流并非在此绝迹——毕竟雪花们终要有一处归宿。这就是冻河，我们本月的生物群系。

Frozen rivers pop up in place of normal, soggy rivers in snowy biomes. They’re covered with a top layer of ice, but you’ll find liquid water a single block below – so it’s still possible to fish if you cut a hole, or melt the ice with a heat source of some kind.
在积雪的生物群系里，冻河会取代一般河流的位置。河面被一层冰块覆盖，但冰块下都是液态的水。因此，如果凿个洞或是靠热源融化冰块，在这里仍可以钓鱼。




Frozen rivers were added to Minecraft in the Adventure Update in November 2011 – the same update that added brewing, enchanting, and The End. Their generation algorithm was tweaked quite a lot, though, in the second part of the Caves & Cliffs update in November 2021 – exactly ** later.
2011 年 11 月，冻河在冒险更新中被加入 Minecraft。在这次更新中一同到来的还有酿造、附魔以及末地。2021 年 11 月，在洞穴与山崖更新的第二部分中，它们的生成算法被进行了大量微调——这之间过去了整整 10 年。

Despite their unwelcoming appearance, you’ll find both salmon and squid are plentiful in frozen rivers. That’s the good news. The bad news is that you’ll also often find drowned, skeletons, and many other nasties hanging around in the water at night. Unlike regular rivers, seagrass doesn’t grow in a frozen river and sugar cane will generate alongside the riverbank but will quickly uproot itself as it needs liquid water to survive.
好消息是，尽管冻河外表“冷漠”，但其中却潜藏着大量的鲑鱼和鱿鱼。坏消息则是，当夜色降临时，河附近时常能发现溺尸和骷髅的踪迹，其它许多敌对生物也会在此生成。有别于寻常的河流，海草在此了无踪迹，岸边虽会正常生成甘蔗，但却会因缺少液态水的滋润瞬间掉落。




On planet Earth, frozen rivers are a seasonal phenomenon, rather than a permanent one.It takes pretty cold weather for a river to freeze, because the movement of the water makes it harder to form a network of ice crystals. But once a river freezes it tends to stay frozen for an entire winter before thawing again in the Spring.
在现实中，冻结的河流为时令现象，而并非常年如此。流动的水体使得冰晶的联结更加难以形成，因此河流冻结所需的温度相当低。然而，一旦冻结，大多数河流整个冬天都会封冻，直至来年春天才开始解冻。

In the town of Nenana in Alaska, residents bet each year on the exact moment when the ice in their river will break up. This practice, called the Nenana Ice Classic, began in 1917 and has been going strong ever since then. The winner can receive as much as $300,000 in prize money.
在坐落于阿拉斯加州的 Nenana 镇里，居民们每年都会为河冰何时破裂打赌。这一活动名为 Nenana 河冰传统，自 1917 年诞生以来不断壮大。获胜者的奖金高达 30 万美元。

My advice to you though, is not to bet on when a frozen river in Minecraft will break up. The game’s lack of seasons means you’ll be waiting for a very...... very...... very..... long time.
不过，我可不建议你指望 Minecraft 里的河冰会破裂。游戏中并无四季更替，故而你要等很…………长……很长时间。




【Eymbre 译自官网 2023 年 11 月 28 日发布的 Frozen River；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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