As you’re mining in the depths of the Overworld, you’ll occasionally come across something rare and special – an amethyst geode.
当你在主世界的深处挖矿时，你偶尔会遇到一些罕见而特别的东西——紫晶洞。
These miracles of nature are pretty incredible – formed at the dawn of time, and packed with goodies that are tough to find elsewhere.
这些大自然的奇迹非常令人难以置信——在万物形成的时候出现，里面布满了其他地方很难找到的好东西。
But there are two other rare resources here – the outside of the geode is covered with smooth basalt, and sandwiched in between the basalt and the amethyst you’ll find our block of the week – calcite.
但这里还有另外两种稀有资源——紫晶洞的外部覆盖着平滑玄武岩，夹在玄武岩和紫水晶之间，你会发现我们本周——方解石。
Calcite became a part of Minecraft in the first part of the Caves & Cliffs update in June 2021, making it a fairly recent addition to the game.
2021年6月，方解石在洞穴与山崖更新的第一部分中成为《我的世界》的一部分，使其成为游戏的一名成员。
In the second part of the update, though, we added another place to find it.
在更新的第二部分，我们添加了另一个地方来找到它。
Those more inclined to mountaineering than caving will be pleased to learn that it’s now also present in seams scattered across stony peaks.
那些更倾向于爬山而不是挖矿的人会很高兴地了解到，它现在也存在于裸岩山峰中。
As you might expect, you’ll need a pickaxe to collect calcite. And at the time of writing this block’s role in the game is purely decorative.
正如您所料，您需要一把镐来收集方解石。截止至撰写本文前，这个方块在游戏中的作用纯粹是装饰。
But it does make a decent building material – hard, somewhat blast-resistant, and inflammable.
但它确实是一种不错的建筑材料——坚硬、有点防爆和抗燃。
In fact, it’s a perfect decorative option if you want to class up your in-game bathroom.
如果您想对游戏里建造的洗浴间进行装饰，这是一个完美的装饰选择。
What do you mean your Minecraft house doesn’t have a bathroom? Where do you..? Never mind, I don’t want to know.
你的房子没有浴室是什么意思？你在哪里...?没关系，我并不想知道。 Image credit: Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com // CC BY-SA 3.0
In the real world, calcite is a fairly common mineral and one of the most stable forms of calcium carbonate – better known as chalk.
在现实世界中，方解石是一种相当常见的矿物，也是碳酸钙最稳定的形式之一——更广为人知的是粉笔。
It’s pretty soft, rating just 3/10 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, but it is quite pretty – especially in its impure forms, where it can be grey, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, or even black.
它相当柔软，莫氏硬度仅为3/10，但它相当漂亮——特别是在其不同的形式中，它可以是灰色、红色、橙色、黄色、绿色、蓝色、紫色、棕色甚至黑色。
Its combination of good looks and common occurrence means that it was often carved into artifacts by many ancient cultures, including the Egyptians who associated it with their cat-goddess Bast.
它的美貌与常见意味着它经常被许多古代文化雕刻成文物，包括将其与猫女神巴斯泰托联系在一起的埃及人。
The Vikings also used a transparent variant for navigating on cloudy days.
维京人（北欧海盗）还使用透明的变种在阴天导航。
In the natural world, the shells of marine organisms like plankton, oysters, and some sponges are made of calcite, and crystals of calcite formed the lenses of the primitive eyes of trilobites, which went extinct about 250 million years ago.
在自然界，浮游生物、牡蛎和海绵等海洋生物的贝壳是由方解石制成的，方解石晶体形成了三叶虫原始眼睛的晶状体，不过三叶虫在大约2.5亿年前灭绝了。
It’s even thought to have had a small but important role in the origin of life on Earth.
它甚至被认为在地球的生命起源中发挥了微小但重要的作用。
Today, humans mostly use calcite to stabilize and decontaminate soils, and in the repair of concrete.
今天，人类主要使用方解石来稳固和净化土壤，以及修复混凝土。
How the mighty have fallen. But given how hard it is to get your hands on Minecraft, we recommend treasuring it nonetheless.
方解石现在十分堕落。但考虑到获得《我的世界》中的方解石有多难，我们建议珍惜它。
发表于 2022-5-1 18:17:51
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