BLOCK OF THE WEEK: TUFF
本周方块: 凝灰岩
An ash-ionable choice
因火山碎屑物而诞生
An ash-ionable choice
因火山碎屑物而诞生
在靠近基岩世界的地方，你会发现该处的热量和压力塑造出了一些极其罕见并且十分特殊的东西。
At the bottom of the world, close to the bedrock, you’ll find that the heat and pressure at these depths produce some pretty rare and special things.
钻石一直是大多数人的挚爱，但这并非全部。在岩浆湖和深板岩的堆积之中，你还会发现一些青金石、红石矿，以及我们本周的方块 - 凝灰岩。
Diamonds are what most people go looking for, but that’s not all. Amongst the lakes of lava, and deposits of deepslate, you’ll also find veins of lapis lazuli, redstone, and our block of the week – tuff.
2021年6月《洞穴与峭壁》的第一部分更新中，凝灰岩与其他新的岩石方块一并被添加到《我的世界》，如方解石、深板岩和钟乳石。它因火山灰被压缩成地下深处的一种石头而得名。
Tuff was added to Minecraft alongside a bunch of other new rocks like calcite, deepslate, and dripstone, in the first part of the Caves & Cliffs update in June 2021. It’s the name given to volcanic ash which has been compressed into stone deep underground.
在《我的世界》中，凝灰岩看起来有点像鹅卵石，但 稍带绿色，且很容易用任何镐子来开采。用铁镐、石镐，甚至木镐来开采都效果不错 - 尽管现在仍是老样子: 镐的等级越高，开采速度越快。
In Minecraft, tuff looks a little like cobblestone, but tinted slightly greener, and is pretty easy to mine with any kind of pickaxe. Iron, stone, and even wood pickaxes will give good results – though as usual, the higher-tier pickaxe you use, the faster the mining will go.
在我提笔写这篇文章时，它仅仅是一个装饰方块。但在以亚美尼亚主题的建筑中，它看起来格外的美丽。这种石头在亚美尼亚的建筑中被广泛使用，比如该国首都埃里温(耶烈万)的建筑几乎完全是用这种材料建造的。
It’s solely a decorative block at the time of writing – but it would look particularly good in an Armenian-themed build. The stone is used widely in Armenian architecture, and the country’s capital, Yerevan, is constructed almost entirely out of this substance.
当然，这不仅是亚美尼亚人对凝灰岩情有独钟。事实上，这是一种相对较软的岩石，因此这意味着凝灰岩自古以来就被用于建造。例如，拉帕努伊人用它来制作复活节岛上的大部分雕像；在意大利，这种岩石的使用也十分普遍。
But it’s not only the Armenians who are wild about tuff. The fact that it’s a relatively soft rock means that tuff has been used for construction since ancient times. The Rapa Nui used it to make most of the statues on Easter Island, for example, and it’s also very common in Italy.
其次，凝灰岩有一个独特的功能 - 记录时间。火山爆发时，凝灰岩很快就会覆盖在一大片区域上，因此地质学家可以利用它(借助碳测年法)快速计算出一块特定的岩石有多古老。
The other thing that tuff is very useful for is marking time. Because tuff is laid down over a large area very quickly when a volcano erupts, geologists can use it (with the help of carbon dating) to quickly figure out how old a particular bit of rock is.
但我喜欢的原因是，古罗马人把它雕刻成块用于建筑中 - 就像在《我的世界》一样！罗马著名的“塞维安墙”也几乎完全是在公元前4世纪早期用凝灰岩砌成的，以保护这座城市免受入侵。
But my favourite tuff fact is that the ancient Romans carved it into blocks for construction purposes – just like in Minecraft! Rome’s famous “Servian Walls” were built almost entirely out of tuff blocks in the early 4th century BC to protect the city from invasion.
所以下一次当你在我的世界面临僵尸入侵的时候，可以效仿古罗马人那样，建一堵凝灰岩墙来阻挡成群的僵尸 - 这已经足够应付他们了。
So next time you’re facing an invasion of zombies in Minecraft, take a tip from the Ancient Romans and hold off the hordes with a wall of tuff. It should be tuff enuff.
原文链接: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/block-week--tuff
原文出自: Duncan Geere
发布日期: 2021年9月10日
翻译者: Glorydark
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