Minecraft's very own battering ram!
屬于 Minecraft 的攻城“山羊”!

What’s this? A new series on Minecraft.net? That’s RIGHT! We cover blocks, we cover inventory items, we cover biomes (though we’re starting to run out of those, so we’ve been pestering the dev team to add more). But we recently realized that we were totally neglecting the living creatures that roam around Minecraft’s various dimensions. Welcome, dear reader, to Mob Menagerie.

這是什么？是 Minecraft.net 上的一個(gè)新系列？是的！我們討論過(guò)方塊（本周方塊），我們討論過(guò)物品（背包盤點(diǎn)），我們還討論過(guò)生物群系（群系漫游）（這些欄目快沒(méi)有東西寫了，因此我們正在催更開(kāi)發(fā)團(tuán)隊(duì)，讓他們多加點(diǎn)內(nèi)容）。但我們最近意識(shí)到，我們完全忽視了在 Minecraft 游戲中各種各樣維度內(nèi)游蕩著的生物們。所以歡迎，親愛(ài)的讀者們，來(lái)到這生物圈欄！

We’re kicking things off today with a relatively new entry in our animal canon. This horned screamer was added to Minecraft in the first part of the Caves & Cliffs update, and patrols the highest parts of the world. Do you know who we’re talking about? That’s right – the star of our first Mob Menagerie column is the?goat!

我們今天要討論的是游戲生物圈里的一個(gè)較新的成員。這個(gè)頭上長(zhǎng)角的尖叫生物是在“洞穴與山崖”更新的第一部分被加入了 Minecraft，隨后它們開(kāi)始在世界的最高處進(jìn)行閑逛。知道我們?cè)谟懻撌裁磫?？回答正確 —— 我們“生物圈欄”專欄里第一位登場(chǎng)的大明星便是——山羊！

Goats spawn during the daytime in groups of two or three in the uppermost reaches of mountain biomes – that means snowy slopes, jagged peaks, and frozen peaks. Generally, they just hang around in these inhospitable places, munching on what grass they can find and leaping over obstacles.

山羊會(huì)在白天以2-3只為一群?[1]?生成于山地生物群系的頂峰 – 那意味著積雪的山坡，尖峭山峰，和冰封山峰?[2]。通常情況下，它們會(huì)在這些較為貧瘠的地方游蕩，啃食它們可以找到的青草，并且跳過(guò)各種障礙。

[1] 正式版本中，山羊生成是以1-4只為一群；
[2] 正式版本中，積雪的山坡事實(shí)上并不是山地群系的山頂變種，而山地的溫暖山頂變種裸巖山峰不會(huì)生成山羊。

Here’s Alexander ?stman, who was part of the team who created the goat, explaining how this jumping-between-blocks behavior was implemented:

這里是Alexander ?stman，創(chuàng)造出山羊的小組中的成員，由他來(lái)解釋山羊在方塊間跳躍的行為是如何實(shí)現(xiàn)的：

"When trying our code out, we usually placed a goat on a single block up in the air and another block nearby to verify that the goat would jump between the two. Here we encountered a number of funny bugs! For instance, one of the first times the jump-force math was off, so the goat skyrocketed up and up, only to fall to its demise! Another time the rotation calculation was off so the goat jumped backward into empty air instead of forwards to the other block! Eventually though, we were able to find the right math and the goats now (almost) always manage to jump to their desired target block!”

“當(dāng)我們測(cè)試代碼時(shí)，我們通常會(huì)把山羊放在暴露在空氣中的單一方塊上，同時(shí)旁邊會(huì)有另一個(gè)方塊，從而驗(yàn)證山羊會(huì)在這兩者之間跳躍。這里我們就遇到了一系列有趣的?bug（特性）！例如，靠前的某一次內(nèi)，跳躍力相關(guān)的運(yùn)算沒(méi)有發(fā)揮作用，因此山羊被“彈射”上了天，只能等它自己想降落吧！另一次測(cè)試時(shí)，跳躍旋轉(zhuǎn)角相關(guān)的運(yùn)算又不起作用了，結(jié)果山羊向后跳了個(gè)空氣，而不是向前跳到另一個(gè)方塊上！不管如何，最后我們總算是找到了正確的運(yùn)算方式，現(xiàn)在山羊（幾乎）總是能成功跳到它們想跳到的目標(biāo)方塊上！”

—— Alexander ?stman

Warning: when goats see other creatures, they can get a little ornery – and a small number are particularly unfriendly. They’ll charge and ram any intruders in an attempt to scare them off. If that intruder is you, then here’s my advice – keep an eye on the goat, and as soon as it lowers its head and starts stomping, move out of the way. The goat won’t notice, and will charge at the place where you were, rather than the place where you are.

警告：當(dāng)山羊看到其它生物時(shí)，它們可能會(huì)變得有點(diǎn)暴躁 —— 少數(shù)還會(huì)變得相當(dāng)不友好。它們將沖刺并撞向任何入侵者，試圖把它們嚇走。如果你是哪個(gè)入侵者的話，這里是我的忠告 —— 留意盯著山羊，一旦它低頭并開(kāi)始跺腳，就離開(kāi)你和山羊連成的直線。山羊并不會(huì)發(fā)覺(jué)，只會(huì)沖向你原本的位置，而不是你現(xiàn)在的位置。

If you don’t move out of the way in time, you’ll be knocked back a huge distance. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem, but the terrain you’ll tend to encounter goats in is rather precipitous, and there’s every chance you’ll be knocked off the mountain entirely. Which hurts.

如果你沒(méi)有及時(shí)躲開(kāi)，你將會(huì)被擊退相當(dāng)遠(yuǎn)的距離。通常情況下這并不成問(wèn)題，但你遇到山羊的地方往往是地勢(shì)較為陡峭的，導(dǎo)致存在可能你被撞飛到山外邊。那可真疼。

Goats, as I’m sure you know, exist in the real world too. They’re actually a type of antelope which was domesticated about 10,000 years ago in what is now Iran. Since then, humans have been raising them for milk, meat, fur and skins.

顯然你知道的，山羊在現(xiàn)實(shí)世界同樣存在著。它們作為一種羚羊在10,000年前的伊朗地區(qū)就已經(jīng)被人們馴化了。從那時(shí)起，人們就開(kāi)始飼養(yǎng)它們，以獲取羊肉、羊奶和毛皮。

The total world population of goats is about a billion, according to the United Nations, and this is largely because they’re fairly easy to look after. They’re highly curious creatures, and will taste just about anything that remotely resembles a plant to see if it’s worth eating – including cardboard, clothing, and paper.

據(jù)聯(lián)合國(guó)的統(tǒng)計(jì)，世界上山羊的總數(shù)約有十億多，之所以數(shù)值這么大，是因?yàn)樗鼈兿喈?dāng)容易照看。它們是一種非常好奇的生物，會(huì)品嘗任何遠(yuǎn)觀像植物的物品來(lái)確認(rèn)是否值得充饑 ——?這包括紙板、衣物和紙張。

As well as curiosity, goats are known for their agility – able to climb and balance in precarious situations. They often climb trees, and are notorious for being able to escape almost any enclosure – often just for fun. In some studies, they’ve been found to be as intelligent as dogs, even asking humans for help solving puzzles.

與好奇心相同，山羊在敏捷度上也非常出名 —— 它們可以在危險(xiǎn)的情況下攀爬并保持平衡。它們經(jīng)常爬樹(shù)，同時(shí)令人相當(dāng)不爽的是它們經(jīng)常能夠從幾乎任意一個(gè)圍欄逃脫 —— 大多數(shù)時(shí)候還只是因?yàn)檫@很有趣。在一些研究中，山羊被認(rèn)為和狗一樣聰明，它們甚至在解決謎題時(shí)向人類尋求幫助。

In Minecraft, our goat sounds are maximally authentic – recorded from real goats. So if there are none near where you live, then head in-game, trek up a mountain, and enjoy the chorus of screams.

在 Minecraft 游戲中，我們的山羊叫聲是盡可能真實(shí)的 —— 因?yàn)槭菑恼嬲纳窖蚰卿浿频摹Ｋ匀绻愕淖√幹車鷽](méi)有山羊的話，你可以打開(kāi)游戲，登上高山，然后享受一場(chǎng)尖叫的大合唱吧。

譯：Don Trueno

本文發(fā)布時(shí)間：2022 年 08 月 29 日

原作者：Duncan Geere

原文鏈接：https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/mob-menagerie--goat