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Every Minecraft home needs a garden. Relaxing in a calm, green space, surrounded by wildlife, is just the ticket after a long day down the mine. But because every player is different, every garden is different too –⁠ some are wild and untamed, some are simple and neat, some are grandiose and impressive. But in every garden there’s a place for our item of the week –⁠ the humble flower pot.
每位玩家的Minecraft住宅都需要一座花园。它能让你在这片静谧、被野生动物所环绕的绿色空间中得到放松，这无疑是下了一天矿后放松心情的优质选择。不过，不同的玩家所建造的花园也有所不同 –⁠ 有些花园突出一种野性，有些花园则是简洁雅致，有些花园雄伟壮阔，让人印象深刻。但无论是哪种花园，都有本周物品的一席之地 –⁠ 轻小的花盆。

Flower pots became a part of Minecraft in the Pretty Scary Update in October 2012, which also added some much scarier things, like witches and bats. They were originally suggested by Reddit user rapidpenguin, who also suggested item frames at the same time. A pretty good hit rate!
花盆正式加入Minecraft是在2012年10月的骇人更新中，此次更新中还新增了一些更骇人的事物，比如女巫和蝙蝠。这个建议最初是由Reddit用户rapidpenguin提出，他同时还提出了物品展示框的建议。他的这些建议相当受欢迎！

They’re easy to make. Pretend you’re making a bucket, but use bricks instead of iron ingots. If that’s too complicated for you, then you can also steal one from a witches’ hut, a woodland mansion, or houses in plains, savanna and desert villages. When hit, they’ll break instantly –⁠ dropping their contents separately.
花盆的制作过程很简单。像合成桶那样，只需将合成桶所需的铁锭换作红砖就可以了。如果这对你来说太复杂了，你也可以从女巫小屋、林地府邸或是从平原、热带草原和沙漠村庄的房屋里摸一个。花盆只要一被挖掘，就会立刻被破坏 –⁠ 会分开掉落花盆及其内容物。

You might think that the only thing you can do with a flower pot is to put flowers in it, but you’d be wrong. You can also put saplings, mushrooms, ferns, cacti, bamboo, azalea bushes, and nether roots in there. And guess what? If “dead bush in a flower pot” is your aesthetic then you can make that happen too. Oh and fun fact –⁠ cacti or wither roses in a pot won’t hurt you, so you can have as many around as you want without fear of damage.
你可以会认为花盆唯一的作用就是放花，但你错了。你还可以往里面放树苗、蘑菇、蕨、仙人掌、杜鹃花丛和下界菌索。你猜怎么着？如果“栽在花盆里的枯萎的灌木”符合你的审美的话，你也可以这么做。还有一个有意思的点 –⁠ 栽在花盆里的仙人掌和凋零玫瑰不会伤害到你，所以不必担心受伤，尽情地以各种角度欣赏它们吧。

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Real world flower pots have been around for at least 10,000 years –⁠ we know that the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians made them, and it’s possible they were around earlier than that too.
在现实世界中，花盆至少存在了一万年 –⁠ 我们知道的古希腊人和古埃及人都制作过花盆，这还只是在我们所知道的时间里，其真实存在的时间可能更长。

Their original use was to make it easier to move a plant from one place to another –⁠ moving temperature-sensitive plants inside during cold weather, for example, which is something that we know the Romans did. Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries also used flower pots to transport crops between continents for agricultural purposes, not realising (or not caring about) the damage they were doing in the process to local ecosystems.
它们最初的用于更方便地将植物从一个地方移动到另一个地方 –⁠ 例如，将对温度敏感的植物从寒冷的室外移动到室内，这是我们所知道的罗马人做过的事情。18世纪和19世纪的欧洲人也使用过花盆作为农业用途，用于在各个大陆间运输作物，且没有意识到（或者说根本不在乎）这个过程对于当地生态系统会造成多少伤害。

Today, you’ll find many different kinds of pot, made out of many different kinds of material –⁠ from stone, to ceramics, to plastic, to cardboard and paper. Some have a rim. Some come in fancy colours. Some have holes in the bottom. Some are decorated.
如今，你可以从市面上买到很多不同种类的花盆，它们的材质多种多样，由各种材料制作而成 –⁠ 有石头、陶瓷、塑料、硬纸板和纸张。有些精心装饰过边缘部分。有些有着花俏的颜色。有些底部有孔。有些还带有其它装饰。

But Minecraft? Minecraft just has one type of flower pot. Because we believe it’s what you put in it that counts.
至于Minecraft？Minecraft只有一种类型的花盆，因为我们坚信，花盆不重要，花盆里的物才是最重要的。




【Aikiniさん 译自官网 2021 年 08 月 05 日发布的 Taking Inventory Flower Pot；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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