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The arrow struck the shield with a impactful “thud!”. Steve peeked around the shield’s edge and saw the arrow was wrapped in a note! Steve excitedly pulled it loose to see what it said…

箭有力的射中了盾牌，发出一声巨响，史蒂夫持盾一看，箭上有个条子，史蒂夫拿下来仔细一瞧。

“You’re happy you had that shield, aren’t you?”

“持盾很爽是吧?”

And yes, Steve was pretty happy.

是的，史蒂夫非常开心。

Minecraft has been updated to 1.9! It contains a lot of changes. Most remarkably, the combat mechanics have been updated to make fighting more interesting and offer more map-making options. Here’s a almost complete list of the new and changed features:

Minecraft 1.9已更新!这里有一大堆更新。值得注意的是，战斗机制发生了重大改变，使得战斗更有趣，并使得地图制作者有更多空间。这是几乎完整的特性列表：

Added shields

加入了盾

Attacking now has a “cool-down” delay, making it more important to time your attacks

攻击现有CD时间，使得攻击的时机变得更为重要

You can now hold items in both hands (default quick key to swap items is ‘F’)

现在两只手都能拿东西了

Swords have a special sweep attack

剑有特殊的横扫攻击

Axes have a special crushing blow attack

斧子也有了特殊的粉碎攻击

Added the elytra

加入了滑翔翅

New mob: Shulker

新生物，潜影贝

Expanded The End

末地更开阔了

Added Chorus plants

增加了合唱花

New Purpur blocks

增加了紫影方块

New End Rod block

增加了末地棍

Added dragon head block

增加了龙头方块

Ender Dragon can be resummoned

末影龙可以被召唤了

Added beetroot and beetroot soup (from MC:PE)

从PE版搬来了甜菜和甜菜汤

Added grass path block

增加了路径方块

Added igloos

加了雪屋

Armor protection values have been lowered

盔甲的防御程度被降低了

Added tipped arrows

Added spectral arrows

增加了药水箭和闪光箭

Added Frost Walker enchantment and frosted ice block

加了能结冰的冰霜行者附魔以及霜冰方块

Added a whole bunch of new sound effects

加了很多新音效

Added sound effect subtitles

加了效果字幕

Brewing Stand now requires Blaze Powder to activate

酿造台现在需要烈焰粉工作

Added skeleton riders

增加了骷髅骑士

We believe we’ve fixed MC-10 and a whole bunch of other issues

我们应该修复了MC-10的bug以及一大堆别的玩意

Removed Herobrine

移除那个谁

详细特性请参阅Minecraft 1.9(战斗更新)特性列表

正版启动器下载地址

Windowshttp://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraf ... er/Minecraft.exe

Mac/OSXhttp://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraf ... er/Minecraft.dmg

Linux/Otherhttp://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraf ... er/Minecraft.jar

外部来源以及详细的更新条目追踪

Mojang官方博客(英文)

Jeb的Twitter(英文，内地需翻墙)

Dinnerbone的Twitter(英文，内地需翻墙)

Grum的Twitter(英文，内地需翻墙)

TheMogMiner的Twitter(英文，内地需翻墙)

Searge的Twitter(英文，内地需翻墙)

Minecraft官方论坛(英文)

英语 Minecraft Wiki的Version history页面(英文，更新条目详细，较及时)

中文 Minecraft Wiki的版本记录页面(中文，更新条目详细，很慢)