我的世界背包盘点：黏液球

Taking Inventory: Slimeball


背包盘点：黏液球
You’re in yuck!


你有糊了！

Some parts of Minecraft’s world are a little… slimier… than others. You won’t notice the difference at the surface, but far underground these areas, known to enthusiasts as “slime chunks” are home to sentient creatures that ooze out of the walls. When slain, these creatures drop balls of the purest, most disgusting slime. And those balls, I’m afraid to say, are our item of the week.
在 Minecraft 的世界里，有一些地方比其它地方更加的……黏糊糊一点。这种区别在地面上看不出来，而要深入地下才会体现。在这种叫做「史莱姆区块」的地方，生活着一些会从墙上渗出来的、具有感知的生物。击杀这些生物之后，它们就会掉落由最纯净，最恶心的黏液做成的球。非常抱歉，这些黏液球正好是我们本周要介绍的物品。

Slimeballs have a very long history in Minecraft. They were added way back in July 2010, as part of the sixth Seecret Friday update, alongside paper, books, bricks, and clay balls. Initially, they served no purpose, but over the years they made their way into several important crafting recipes.
黏液球在 Minecraft 里已经存在了有些年头了。这要追溯到 2010 年 7 月，在当时的第六次秘密周五更新中，黏液球作为更新内容的一部分加入了游戏中，于此同时加入的还有纸、书、砖块和黏土球。最开始的时候，黏液球没有任何作用。而随着时间的推移，开发人员让黏液球加入了不少重要的合成配方当中。

Let’s say you want a slimeball. Well, you could dig a hole right down to the bottom of the world, find a slime chunk, and kill some slimes. But slimeballs also drop from the slimes that spawn in swamp biomes, which might be easier to locate. Sometimes baby pandas sneeze them out, too, which is a fact that lives somewhere in the land between totally adorable and totally disgusting. I’ll let you choose where.
假设你现在想获得一个黏液球。这样的话，你需要挖一个直通地底的洞，找到一个史莱姆区块，然后击杀史莱姆。不过，击杀沼泽中生成的史莱姆，也能获得黏液球，这种方法在找地方上就简单一些。有时候熊猫幼崽会打喷嚏喷出黏液球，这其中既有可爱的地方，又有恶心的地方，就由你来说这俩各占多少吧。

Once you’ve got a slimeball or two in your inventory (don’t touch it too much), you might wonder what you’re supposed to do with it. Probably the most useful thing is that you can use it to make a lead-combining it with four string in a crafting table. Leads are a great way to collect animals from the wild and take them somewhere that you want them to go.
当你的背包装上了一到两个黏液球后（不要频繁地触摸它），你可能就想知道它能拿来做什么。或许最实用的功能就是拿来在工作台中合成拴绳，这个合成配方需要四条线和一个黏液球。拴绳可以有效地从野外捕获动物，并牵引到你想带它去的地方。

You can also use slimeballs to make magma cream, and to turn a piston into a sticky piston. Or you can combine nine slimeballs in one crafting grid to make a slime block, which can be used for nefarious bouncing purposes. Or not-so-nefarious bouncing purposes. Again, I’ll let you choose.
你也可以用黏液球制作岩浆膏，或者把活塞变成黏性活塞。又或者，你可以用九个黏液球做成一个 黏液块，实现各种恶意的反弹功能。或者不是很有恶意的反弹功能。同样的，还是由你来选吧。

You might think that slimes are only found in Minecraft-but amazingly there are living creatures made of slime in the real world too. They’re called “slime molds”, and they’re a ** only loosely-related species that sometimes live freely as individual cells but sometimes blob up into a multicellular structure when times are tough. Most are smaller than a few centimetres, but a few species can reach sizes up to several square metres, and weigh up to 20 kilograms.
你可能以为史莱姆只会在 Minecraft 里出现，但令人惊奇的是，现实中也有类似史莱姆的生物。这种生物叫做「黏菌」，它们是一群关系比较疏散的物种，有些种类是单个细胞独自生活，有些种类又会抱团，组成强劲的多细胞结构。绝大多数的黏菌只有不到几厘米小，而有些黏菌种类可以长到几平方米大，并且重达 20 公斤。

Slime molds feed on the microorganisms that live in dead plant matter, so they’re most often found in damp places like forests, soil, lawns, rain gutters, and occasionally air conditioners. Considering they’re just a bag of single-celled creatures covered in slime, they can do some amazing things-lab experiments have shown that they have the ability to learn, and even to simulate transit systems .
黏菌通过摄入死去的植物体上的微生物来获得营养，所以常见于潮湿的地方，例如森林，泥土，草坪，水洼，偶尔还会出现在空调上。虽然黏菌只是一群被黏液包裹的单细胞生物，但他们能做到许多神奇的事情——在实验中，黏菌表现出了学习能力，它们甚至能模拟交通系统。

Minecraft’s slimes aren’t anywhere near as intelligent, which is probably for the best. You wouldn’t want them building transit systems across the Overworld!
Minecraft 里的史莱姆就完全没有这么智能了，这似乎也是件好事。要是它们能在主世界里建造交通系统，那事情可就不太妙喽！

来源：SpicroGoft