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Frogs love to eat small slimy things. In most situations, that means Minecraft’s slime mobs – which frogs will attack by using their sticky tongue to pull them into their mouth. Once the digestive process takes its course, the result is slimeballs.
青蛙热衷于吞食黏糊糊的小东西。一般情况下，这就是指 Minecraft 里的史莱姆 ——青蛙会使用它们粘粘的舌头捕捉它们并拽进嘴里。而当消化过程结束后，黏液球就出现了。

But there’s something else that comes out of the business end of a frog. No, not that. I’m talking about the froglight! Which by a mysterious coincidence just so happens to be our block of the month?
但还有从青蛙嘴里出来的东西。不是你想的那个。我是在说 蛙明灯！它能成为我们本月方块或许只是一个神秘的巧合？

Froglights were added to Minecraft not all that long ago. They became a part of the game alongside mud, goat horns, and mangroves when we released the Wild Update in June 2022. These new discoveries are still being investigated by Mojang’s top scientists, but here’s what we know so far.
蛙明灯加入 Minecraft 的时间不算太早。它们与泥巴、山羊角以及红树一起在 2022 年 6 月发布的 荒野更新 中加入游戏。Mojang的顶尖科学家门仍在研究着各种新发现，但迄今为止我们知道的有这么多。

First, how to get a froglight. You might have noticed, while wandering around the Nether trying to find your portal again, hopping beasts known as Magma Cubes that look a bit like slimes but on fire. That’s pretty much what they are. Here’s former Mojang Studios developer Alexander Östman explaining what happened next.
首先要考虑的，就是如何获得一盏蛙明灯。你或许已经注意到了，当你下界四处游荡，并试图找到传送门离开时，有一些看起来像着了火的史莱姆一般的弹跳生物，它们被称为岩浆怪。同时这就是它们的本质。下面我们有请 Mojang 工作室前开发者 Alexander Östman 来进行说明。

We figured that if the frogs ate small slimes, they could also eat the small magma cubes since they’re very similar in appearance. Basically, if a frog sees a small magma cube it thinks it’s a small slime and thinks to itself “Yeah, I know those are yummy!” and eats it. Once it realizes its mistake, it spits out a cool shiny block!
我们认为如果青蛙吃小史莱姆，那它就会吃小岩浆怪，因为它们的外观非常相似。基本上青蛙们在看到小岩浆怪之后会把它认作小史莱姆，然后一面想着 “好吃”，一面就直接吞进肚子里了。而一旦它发现了自己的错误，它将会吐出一个酷酷的闪闪的方块！

—— Alexander Östman

That’s neat, but it turns out that wasn’t the original plan:
这个解释说得通，但它不是我们一开始的计划：

The original idea was for them to eat fireflies, but when the community let us know that they can be poisonous to many real-world frogs, we started working on a new source of food – slime and magma cubes. We did something similar with parrots back in the day. They originally ate chocolate chip cookies, but you should never feed a parrot chocolate in real life because it’s very poisonous to them.
最初的计划是让它们吃萤火虫，但社区告诉我们，萤火虫对现实很多种青蛙来说其实是有毒的，因此我们开始并最终成功开发了新的食物来源 —— 史莱姆和岩浆怪。这个处理和我们以前对鹦鹉的一样。它们最早是吃巧克力碎曲奇的，但你不能在现实世界里喂鹦鹉吃巧克力，因为巧克力对它们来说有毒。

—— Alexander Östman

There are different kinds of frogs in Minecraft, which have different digestive processes. This creates different froglights. You can get a pinkish “pearlescent” one from frogs found in warm biomes, a yellow “ochre” one from those found in temperate biomes, and a green “verdant” one from frogs found in cold biomes.
Minecraft 有若干不同种类的青蛙，它们有的消化过程略有不同。并因此生成了不同的蛙明灯。你可以从温暖生物群系长大的青蛙那里得到粉色的 “珠光” 蛙明灯，从炎热生物群系长大的青蛙那得到黄色的“赭石”蛙明灯，以及从寒冷生物群系长大的青蛙那里得到绿色的“青翠”蛙明灯。

Each one emits a light level of 15, which is the highest possible – and the same as the light emitted from glowstone, jack o’lanterns, beacons, redstone lamps and sea lanterns. They’ll drop as an item when broken using any tool or by hand, so don’t worry about accidentally smashing them.
每一盏蛙明灯都能发出 15 级的光，这是游戏内最高的亮度 —— 和荧石、南瓜灯、信标、红石灯和海晶石灯发出的光一样。当用任何工具或空手破坏它们时，它们都会完整掉落，所以不需要再担心不小心打碎了它们。

Any last tips, Alexander?
Alexander，你还有要补充的提示吗？

We didn't really have that many light-emitting blocks of different colors in the game, so I think froglights will come in handy as a cool decorative block that acts as a light source as well. I’m envisioning players gathering frogs to use them to get lots and lots of froglight blocks for their builds.
我们在游戏中并没有那么多不同颜色的光源方块，所以我认为蛙明灯作为一个酷酷的装饰性方块的同时还可以作为光源方块。我建议玩家去收集青蛙，用它们获取大量的蛙明灯以便于建筑。

—— Alexander Östman

You heard the man. Go forth and gather frogs!
听到了吧。现在去收集青蛙吧！




【氘氚人 译自官网 2023 年 02 月 23 日发布的 Block of the Month: Froglight；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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