BLOCK OF THE WEEK: IRON ORE
本周方块：铁矿
Ore! Huh! Yeah! What is it good for? Well lots, actually.
是矿耶！它有什么用吗？它用处可大了。
I never fail to get a little bit excited when I mine into a vein of iron ore. After a while in every Minecraft world, coal isn't really worth picking up any more because it's so easy to find when you need it. But I never miss an opportunity - even when I'm being pursued by a horde of hissing creepers - to grab a bit of iron.
当我挖到铁矿脉时，内心总是激动万分。在Minecraft世界里，煤并非值得特地去收集的材料——因为，当需要它的时候，你总是可以轻易地发现它。但我从未错过获取铁的机会——即使我后面有一群嘶嘶作响的爬行者。
Iron ore was one of the earliest materials added to the game - way back in version 0.0.14a_01 on 28 May 2009, alongside gold and coal ores. Originally each block of iron ore dropped one to three blocks of iron - a pretty good haul! Then for a while you had to toss the ore onto a fire to smelt it. Finally, on March 20th 2010, the modern smelting system was implemented. 铁矿石是最早加入该游戏的材料之一，2009年5月28日，它与黄金、煤矿一起添加进了0.0.14a_01版。以前，每采集一块铁矿都会直接掉落一至三块的铁锭——收益相当可观！不过，在之后的版本中，你需要将铁矿丢入熔炉里面来熔炼它。2010年3月20日时，现代冶炼系统成形了。
Iron ore is usually found in Minecraft in veins of eight blocks or so (though sometimes as few as four, or as many as ten), and you'll only find it up to a little above sea level - so don't go hunting for it in the peaks of extreme hills biomes! On average, there are about 77 blocks of iron ore in a 16x16 block column of the world, so if all else fails you can always just mine out an open-pit quarry all the way to bedrock. Whew - that's a lot of work! 一来说，Minecraft里的每段铁矿脉都包含八块左右的铁矿石（尽管有时只有4块，或是多达10块），你只需要在海平面以上一点的高度就可以挖到它。所以，绝对不要跑到高山生物群系上去寻找铁矿石！一个16x16方块大小的区域内（一区块的大小）大约有77块铁矿石，当其他方法都不奏效时，你大可简单粗暴地挖一个露天采石场，一直挖到基岩。哇，这工作有够累人的！ 
Real iron! We'd call it 'ore-some!' if puns weren't bad things for bad people. Photo by James St John. 这可是真正的铁！如果双关语用在坏人身上没啥问题的话的话，我们会说它“像铁一样硬！”
虽然在Minecraft里，铁只占整个世界的0.6%，但在地球的地壳中，这一比例可以达到6%。事实上，铁是形成岩石的最丰富的元素之一，你可以在许多不同颜色、不同种类的矿石中发现铁的踪迹——不管是深灰色、亮黄色、深紫色还是铁锈红色。你可以在这一段文字上面的配图中看到一块可爱的红色矿石。
Humans first discovered the joys of iron around 1200 BC, kicking off the appropriately-named Iron Age. People messed about a bit with iron they had found in meteors a little before that, but it wasn't until the 13th century that we developed the technology to reliably build hot enough fires to melt the ores into metal. Once we did, iron was cheaper, stronger and lighter than the bronze tools it replaced, so people got pretty excited! Apart from the bronze tool salesmen, of course, who were presumably FURIOUS.
公元前1200年左右，人类第一次尝到了发现铁的甜头，于是，“铁器时代”开始了。尽管人们先前在陨石中有发现过一些铁，但直到13世纪，我们才发明了通过制造足够炙热的火焰来将矿石熔化为金属的技术。当我们实现铁的冶炼后时，铁就因其更便宜、更结实、更轻的特点而取代了青铜工具，所以人们对此感到兴奋！当然，这些人里面不包括那些愤怒的青铜工具的销售人员。
Today, iron is probably the most important metal in the world - accounting for more than 90 percent of worldwide metal production. It's one of the main raw ingredients that goes into steel, which itself has 20 times more uses than all other metals put together. You'll find it in engine blocks, pipes, fittings, cutlery, the hulls of large ships, the frames of buildings and cars, and many more places. You'll even find iron in the human body - it's why our blood is red! There's about four grams of iron inside the average adult, and it's found in lots of different kinds of food - from beans and leafy vegetables to tofu and red meat. Yum!
如今，铁可谓世界上最重要的金属——它的产量占据了全球金属产量的90%以上。它是炼钢的主要原料之一，其使用量是所有其他金属的总和的20倍。你可以在发动机机组、管道、配件、餐具、大型船只的船体、建筑物和汽车的框架以及其他各种地方找到他的身影。它甚至可以出现在人体体内——这正是血液为红色的原因！一般来说，成年人体内的含铁量约为4克。豆类、绿叶蔬菜、豆腐、红肉等很多不同种类的食物里也都可以发现铁。好吃！
In Minecraft, iron is similarly versatile. It's used to make excellent mid-game tools, armour and plenty of other useful things like compasses, buckets, anvils and minecarts. It even has uses in more advanced redstone circuitry, and you can always build iron golems to defend your base.
在Minecraft里，铁同样是万能的。它可以被用来制作品质中等的工具、盔甲以及许多其他有用的东西，比如指南针、水桶、铁砧和矿车。它在高级的红石电路中亦有用武之地。除此之外，你还可以建造一个铁傀儡来保护你的基地。
Be careful with your iron, though! Iron ore is a non-renewable resource, meaning that it never comes back. To get more, you'll need to dig further out into the world or deeper underground. Though if all else fails and you desperately need iron in a pinch, you could try asking a zombie...
不过，你得小心利用铁资源！铁矿石属于不可再生资源，这意味着它永远不会再次出现。要想获得更多的铁，你需要探索得更远些，或是朝地下挖得更深。如果这些方法都不起作用，而你又恰好处于急需铁的紧要关头的话，你或许可以试着问一下僵尸，看看它们会不会给你……
原文链接：https://minecraft.net/zh-hans/article/block-week-iron-ore
原文作者：Duncan Geere
原文发布日期：2017年6月30日
文章翻译：像素君
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