[本周方块]南瓜灯

燃起来！

        万圣节即将来临！作为一年中最为令人毛骨悚然的节日让我们庆祝僵尸、蜘蛛、女巫和骷髅节日快乐，当然还有Minecraft中最恐怖的方块，它就是南瓜灯。让我们继续读下去吧，只要你敢的话...

        现在从技术上讲，我们早在2017年介绍南瓜的时候就提及了一下它。但实际上，我们在那篇文章并没有谈论太多南瓜灯在Minecraft的作用，所以让我们在今天就解决这个问题吧！

        早在2010年10月，南瓜灯就被添加到Minecraft的万圣节更新中，它们好像就要满十周岁了。生日快乐，南瓜灯！它们还和一些其它可怕的东西一起加入到了游戏。就像...呃...下界。还有日出。还有鱼。

        南瓜灯很容易制作。找到一个南瓜 — 要么去外面的世界，或者在沉船遗迹中，或者和那些“良心商人”交易，或者用你自己不知道在哪找到的种子，种下去，从种子里长出来 — 然后再用剪刀在南瓜的前面刻一张吓人的脸。最后，在合成栏中给它插上一支蜡烛来点燃它。

        或者，你可以去狩猎。你偶尔会在针叶林和白雪皑皑的针叶林的村庄中的南瓜堆里发现一个预先制作好的南瓜灯。它们在晚上最容易被发现，因为南瓜灯会发光，即便在水下也是如此，而且还可以融化周围的冰雪。

        除了照明，南瓜灯还被用来制作傀儡—雪傀儡和铁傀儡。一旦你将所需的雪块或铁块按正确方式放置，在上面放一个南瓜灯，然后等待神奇的魔法让你所创造之物活过来。专业提示：尖叫“它活过来了...它活活活活活过过过过过来来来来来了！“可能会加快生成进程。

        我以前的同事Alex在2017年解释了为什么南瓜灯被称为“杰克灯”这一令人毛骨悚然的故事，所以我就不提起这个起源了。但我要告诉你，早在21世纪初，美国宇航局的斯皮策太空望远镜就发现了一个像南瓜灯的星云，中心的一颗恒星照亮了它。

        这颗巨大的恒星，其质量大约是太阳的15到20倍，这可能是造成这种宇宙中令人感到可怕的画面的原因，它喷出的辐射和粒子穿透了周围的气体和尘埃。对那些诞生在南瓜灯星云的恒星的研究婴，有助于天体物理学家弄清靠近星系中心的恒星能否形成得更快。

        回到Minecraft，你不用担心这个问题。但你需要担心僵尸会在晚上造访你的小家，所以点上一盏南瓜灯，把它放在门外，这样至少可以看到那些不速之客慢慢靠近...

作者：Duncan Geere
原地址：https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/ ... eek--jack-o-lantern

BLOCK OF THE WEEK: JACK O'LANTERN
Pump it up!

Hallowe’en is almost upon us! The spookiest holiday of the year lets us celebrate zombies, spiders, witches, skeletons, and – of course – the most terrifying block that Minecraft has to offer. It’s the Jack o’Lantern. Read on, if you dare...

Now teeeeeeechnically speaking we wrote a bit about the Jack o’Lantern when we covered pumpkin blocks waaaaay back in 2017. But we didn’t actually talk much in that article about the role that Jack o’Lanterns play in Minecraft, so let’s fix that today!

Jack o’Lanterns were added to Minecraft in the Halloween Update, way back in October 2010, making them a little under ten years old. Happy birthday, Jack! They were added alongside a handful of other scary things. Like... er... the entirety of the Nether dimension. And sunrises. And fish.

They’re pretty easy to make. Find a pumpkin – either out in the world, or in a shipwreck, or from a trader, or by growing on yourself from seeds – then use shears on it to carve a spooky face into the front. Finally, stick a candle inside in a crafting grid to light it up.

Alternatively, you can go hunting. You’ll occasionally find a pre-made Jack o’Lantern in the piles of pumpkins which generate in taiga and snowy taiga villages. They’re most easily found at night because Jack o’Lanterns will glow brightly – even under water – and melt snow and ice around them.

As well as lighting, Jack o’Lanterns are used to make golems – of both the snow and iron varieties. Once you’ve stacked up the requisite number of blocks of snow or iron in the right configuration, pop a Jack o’Lantern on top and wait for spooky magic to animate your creation. Pro tip: screaming “It’s alive... IT’S ALLIIIIVEEE” may speed up the process.

My erstwhile colleague Alex explained the creepy story of why Jack o’Lanterns are called Jack o’Lanterns back in 2017, so I won’t repeat that. But I will tell you that back in the early 2000s Nasa’s Spitzer Space Telescope discovered a nebula that looks uncannily like a Jack o’Lantern, including a star at the centre lighting it all up.

The star, which is huge – about 15 to 20 times more massive than the Sun – is probably responsible for sculpting this cosmic terror, spewing out radiation and particles which cut through the surrounding gas and dust. Studying the baby stars living in the Jack o’Lantern nebula is helping astrophysicists figure out whether stars nearer the middle of the galaxy grow faster or not.

Back in Minecraft, you don’t need to worry about that. But you do need to worry about zombies approaching your home at night. So do yourself a favour and light a Jack o’Lantern and put it outside your door. That way you’ll at least see them

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凉月 发表于 2020-11-2 23:51
大佬大佬

然而在群里我修改了很久（自闭）