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Bug
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Resolution: Unresolved
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1.20.20.20 Preview, 1.19.30.21 Preview, 1.19.20.23 Preview, 1.19.20.22 Preview, 1.19.0.35 Preview, 1.19.0.34 Beta, 1.19.10.20 Preview, 1.19.0.33 Preview, 1.19.0.32 Beta, 1.17.30.23 Beta, 1.17.11 Hotfix, 1.17.0.50 Beta, 1.16.220.50 Beta, 1.16.210.60 Beta, 1.16.210.59 Beta, 1.16.100.58 Beta, 1.16.100.57 Beta, 1.16.0.67 Beta, 1.16.0.64 Beta, 1.16.0.63 Beta, 1.16.0.61 Beta, 1.16.0.59 Beta, 1.16.0.58 Beta, 1.16.0.55 Beta, 1.15.0.54 Beta, 1.14.30.51 Beta, 1.14.2.51 Beta, 1.14.0, 1.14.30 Hotfix, 1.14.60 Hotfix, 1.16.0, 1.16.1, 1.16.10, 1.16.21, 1.16.20, 1.16.40 Hotfix, 1.17.0, 1.19.0, 1.19.10, 1.19.30.20 Preview, 1.19.20.24 Preview, 1.19.11 Hotfix, 1.19.20, 1.19.21 Hotfix, 1.19.41, 1.20.1 Hotfix, 1.20.62 Hotfix, 1.20.80.21 Preview, 1.20.73 Hotfix, 1.21.10.22 Preview, 1.20.81 Hotfix, 1.21.30.21 Preview, 1.21.21 Hotfix, 1.21.30.25 Preview, 1.21.22 Hotfix
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Confirmed
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Multiple
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309578, 1041840
The translation of ALL languages in Bedrock Edition is of low quality.
Let me take Simplified Chinese for example, while other languages have the same situation. (p.s: The following zh-cn problems have nothing to do with Minecraft China Version)
To name a few wrong translations in Simplified Chinese :
Origin | Current Simplified Chinese | Suggested Simplified Chinese | Reason |
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End Crystal | 末影水晶 | 末地水晶 | inconsistency with end |
Lightning Bolt | 闪电 | 闪电束 | the current one means lightning |
Sheep | 羊 | 绵羊 | the current one means caprini with may be confused with goat |
Sniffer | 嗅探器 | 嗅探兽 | the current one means sniffing tool |
Zombie Villager | 怪人村民 | 僵尸村民 | at entity.zombie_villager_v2.name inconsistency with zombie |
Unknown Feature | 未知功能 | 未知结构 | the current one means unknown function |
Illager | 灾厄村民 | 灾厄 | the current one means omen |
X Bed | X床 | X色床 | the suggested one is more fluently to read |
Camera | 摄像机 | 相机 | the current one means video camera |
Can break: | 会损坏: | 能破坏: | the current one means will break |
dropped | 丢弃 | 掉落 | the current one means discard |
Warped Fungus on a Stick | 诡异真菌钓竿 | 诡异菌钓竿 | inconsistency with warped fungus |
Leather Tunic | 皮革胸甲 | 皮革外套 | the current one means leather chestplate |
Warped Door | 诡异门 | 诡异木门 | inconsistency |
Gold Horse Armor | 黄金马铠 | 金马铠 | inconsistency with gold |
XX Spawn Egg | XX生成蛋 | XX刷怪蛋 | inconsistency |
Light Gray Shield | 浅灰色盾牌 | 淡灰色盾牌 | inconsistency |
Light Blue Shield | 浅蓝色盾牌 | 淡蓝色盾牌 | inconsistency |
Mining Fatigue | 开采疲劳 | 挖掘疲劳 | the suggested one is more fluently to read |
Haste | 急速 | 急迫 | the suggested one is more fluently to read |
Jump Boost | 跳跃增强 | 跳跃提升 | not consistent with Java transltion which has widespread use |
Resistance | 抗性 | 抗性提升 | not consistent with Java transltion which has widespread use |
Sculk | 潜声 | 幽匿块 | at tile.sculk.name inconsistency with sculk |
Packed Mud | 填充泥浆 | 泥坯 | the current one means fill mud |
Raft with Chest | 带宝箱的的竹筏 | 运输竹筏 | inconsistency with chest |
Trail Ruins | 小径废墟 | 古迹废墟 | the current one means path ruins |
Birch Hanging Sign | XXX悬挂告示牌 | 悬挂式XXX告示牌 | the current one translated hanging as a verb instead of a adjective |
Calibrated Sculk Sensor | 已校准潜声感测器 | 校频幽匿感测体 | inconsistency |
Respawn point set | 重生点设置 | 已设置重生点 | the current one means respawn point settings |
XXX Stained Glass | XXX色玻璃 | XXX色染色玻璃 | the current one means XXX glass |
XXX Stained Glass Pane | XXX色玻璃板 | XXX色染色玻璃板 | the current one means XXX glass pane |
Wither Rose | 凋零玫瑰 | 凋灵玫瑰 | inconsistency with the given context |
Frosted Ice | 冰霜 | 霜冰 | the current one means ice frost |
Lantern | 灯 | 灯笼 | the current one means light |
Soul Lantern | 灵魂灯 | 灵魂灯笼 | ditto |
Sniffer Egg | 嗅探蛋 | 嗅探兽蛋 | inconsistency |
Waxed Block of Copper | 涂蜡铜方块 | 涂蜡铜块 | the suggested one is more fluently to read |
Cut Copper Stairs | 切制铜块楼梯 | 切制铜楼梯 | the current one means cut copper block stairs |
Cut Copper Slab | 切制铜块台阶 | 切制铜台阶 | the current one means cut copper block slab |
Wither Rose | 凋零玫瑰 | 凋灵玫瑰 | according to given context, wither here should be translated the same as entity wither |
Clock | 钟 | 时钟 | Bell and Clock should use different translations |
Snow Layer | 顶层雪 | 雪层 | the current one means top snow |
Milk Bucket | 牛奶桶 | 奶桶 | generalise cow milk bucket to milk bucket |
commands.replaceitem.failed | 无法将 %s 号物品栏的物品 %d 替换为 %d * %s | 无法用%4$s个%3$d替换%1$s的第%2$d个槽位 | the current one means Unable to change number (slot type) inventory's item (slot number) change to (n) * (item) |
commands.replaceitem.success | 将 %s 号物品栏的物品 %d 替换为了 %d * %s | 已用%4$s个%3$d替换了%1$s的第%2$d个槽位 | the current one means Made number (slot type) inventory's item (slot number) change to (n) * (item) |
commands.replaceitem.success.entity | 已将 %s 的 %s 槽位中的 %d 替换为 %d * %s | 已用%5$s个%4$s替换了%3$s的%1$s的第%2$d个槽位 | the current one means Made (slot type)'s (nth) slot's (playername) change to (n) * (item) |
Operators (hbui.RealmsStories.members.operators) | 运算符 | 管理员 | the current one means math operators instead of administrator |
commands.ride.summonRide.skipped | 对于已拥有游乐设施的以下实体,不会召唤游乐设施:%1$s | 坐骑未召唤,由于以下实体已拥有坐骑:%1$s | the current one translated "rides" as "recreational facilities" |
Breach | 突袭 | 破甲 | the current one means raid |
Density | 密度 | 致密 | the current one is a physic quantity |
Chiseled XX | 錾制 XX | 雕纹XX | the current one uses old Chiseled translation of Java Edition. |
Trial Chambers | 试炼室 | 试炼密室 | the current one means trial room |
Book And Quill | 书和羽毛 | 书与笔 | the current one means book and feather instead of book and pen |
Sculk Sensor | 潜声传感器 | 幽匿感测体 | indicates that sculk sensor produces sounds instead vibration |
Host Armor Trim | 主导盔甲纹饰 | 雇主盔甲纹饰 | the current one means dominant armor trim |
Chainmail Boots | 链甲靴 | 锁链靴子 | the current one means chainmail armor boots, confirmed in 1.21.30.24 |
Chainmail Chestplate | 链甲胸甲 | 锁链胸甲 | the current one means chainmail armor chestplate, confirmed in 1.21.30.24 |
Chainmail Helmet | 链甲头盔 | 锁链头盔 | the current one means chainmail armor helmet, confirmed in 1.21.30.24 |
Chainmail Leggings | 链甲护腿 | 锁链护腿 | the current one means chainmail armor leggings, confirmed in 1.21.30.24 |
Bamboo Fence | 竹制围墙 | 竹栅栏 | please read Fixed translation section |
Bamboo Fence Gate | 竹制围墙大门 | 竹栅栏门 | ditto |
Trial Explorer Map | 试用版探险者地图 | 试炼探险家地图 | the current one means trial edition explorer map |
Mason | 梅森 | 石匠 | at entity.villager.mason, according to context this is a type of villager professions, confirmed in 1.21.30.24 |
And, I recently noticed that a Bedrock Marketplace translation survey was carried out in Win10 Xbox Insider. Yes, someone did take notice of this problem, however a recently released Marketplace content "Original Bed Wars" was translated to something with pornographic meaning. (We all know that "Bed War" (起床战争) is a proper noun, but your translators don't, and translated as "床上大战").
Update: After 2 years this was partially resolved, but there are still half of "bed war" contents like "BED WARS CLASSIC" that use the wrong translation.
The aforementioned wrong translations are only a small proportion of the whole mess. Just fixing those translation does not solve the whole problem.
A more detaied list of unsynced translation can be found on Chinese Minecraft Wiki
I've made a corrected version of Chinese Simplified translation at MCLangCN , if you want a full list of the poor translation of Chinese, just head there and compare the current one with what I have corrected.
There's also another project called Translations for Minecraft (Bedrock) , which is created by Russian proofreader of Minecraft Java Edition Crowdin project, and consists of more languages. It has 1.95M downloads on curseforge and 500K on Google Play, so it's self-evident that masses of players are unsatisfied with the translation of Bedrock Edition.
And this is a widely affected problem among ALL languages provided in Bedrock. To list a few bug reports (also consider their duplicates):
Brazilian Portuguese: MCPE-50174
Simplified Chinese: MCPE-51997
Dutch: MCPE-35098
German: MCPE-12142
Greek: MCPE-38541
Japanese: MCPE-15805
Korean: MCPE-30684
Polish: MCPE-22243
Russian: MCPE-40591
Turkish: MCPE-21719
Most of the translation bug reports have been unattended and were marked as resolved since they hadn't been updated for 1 year+.
As a game played by millions of users, Mojang and Microsoft should care more about user experience of localization.
The translation problem started from Pocket Edition 0.x version and is being continuously reported, but it's Bedrock 1.21 today and the problem is still not solved.
It's weird that you have assigned the work to those whose translation work is even worse than an online machine translator's.
And don't forget that Bedrock translation is used in Minecraft Education Edition and Minecraft Earth. (And their exclusive contents are exactly translated by the same group of people as Bedrock Edition, inferred from the language files.)
Possible solutions:
1. For a temporary solution, adopt the aforementioned translation from community-based project.
2. Make translation of Bedrock a subproject of Minecraft Crowdin Projcet so that experienced proofreaders of Java Edition can have access to them. (Recommended)
3. Make Translations for Minecraft (Bedrock) an official project and use translation in it (which is also contributed by the community).
4. Assign the work of translating Bedrock Edition to another group of translators. (As far as I know, translator of other Microsoft projects are far better.)
Translation is a big barrier for the synchronization of Java Edition and Bedrock Edition. I hope this issue can make you attach importance to this long-lasting problem.
(P.S. I personally think this maybe the most difficult problem the solve during the contents sync between Java and Bedrock.)
Fixed translation:
Origin | Current Simplified Chinese | Suggested Simplified Chinese | Reason | Internal Ref. | Status |
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围墙 | 栅栏 | the current one means wall instead of fence | |||
围墙大门 | 栅栏门 | ditto | |||
带有命令块的《我的世界》 | 命令方块矿车 | Minecart was once mistranslated as Minecraft | |||
深色像树叶 | 深色橡树叶 | typo | |||
区块 | 方块 | the current one means chunk | |||
老守卫者 | 远古守卫者 | the current one means Old Guardian, neglecting its original meaning | |||
导管 | 潮涌核心 | the current one means tube | |||
快速冲锋 | 快速装填 | the current one means run quickly | |||
正在治愈 | 经验修补 | the current one means curing instead of mending with experience | |||
命令块 | 命令方块 | not consistent with Java transltion which has widespread use | |||
链 | 连锁型 | the current one means iron chain instead of series of things | |||
锐箭 | 药箭 | the current one means sharp arrow instead of potion arrow | |||
重力压力板 | 测重压力板 | the current one means gravity pressure plate | |||
边框 | 边界方块 | the current one means frame | |||
线锯方块 | 拼图方块 | the current one means string and saw (tool) instead of puzzle block | |||
建筑空隙 | 结构空位 | the current one means building gap | |||
光明方块 | 光源方块 | the current one means bright block instead of light source block | |||
观察者 | 侦测器 | the current one means witness (person) instead of Dectector | |||
末地棒 | 末地烛 | the current one means end stick instead of end candle | |||
记录 | 唱片 | the current one means take down (verb record) instead of disc | |||
可疑的炖肉 | 谜之炖菜 | the current one means suspecious fracissee | |||
Wheat | 农作物 | 小麦 | at tile.wheat.name, the current one means crop | ||
泥土小径 | 土径 | the current one means dirt path | |||
角色创建器/角色创造者/角色生成器 | 角色编辑器 | the current ones are inconsistent | |||
Frogspawn | 青蛙生成 | 青蛙卵 | the current one means frog spawning | ||
Mangrove | 红树林 | 红树木 | the current one means mangrove jungle instead of mangrove plant | ||
Warden | 循声守卫 | 监守者 | the current one indicates that warden attacks by hearing sounds instead of feeling vibration | ||
Lightning Rod | 雷霆之杖 | 避雷针 | the current one means the artifact from Minecraft Dungeons called Lightning Rod instead of lightning conductor |
- is duplicated by
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BDS-3223 Translation
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MCPE-51997 Some mistakes in English to Simplified Chinese
- Resolved
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MCPE-63623 German translation of dark oak sign is inconsistent with other dark oak items.
- Resolved
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MCPE-64718 Translation error of Cape in Chinese
- Resolved
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MCPE-65656 Some Turkish translations are wrong.
- Resolved
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MCPE-75183 Japanese translation is wrong
- Resolved
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MCPE-78303 Minecraft translation into Russian
- Resolved
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MCPE-78597 The Japanese display of "Blackstone" is strange
- Resolved
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MCPE-79311 Error in translation
- Resolved
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MCPE-79763 Wrong translation 错误的翻译
- Resolved
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MCPE-81162 Japanese translation of the item is incorrect
- Resolved
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MCPE-83512 Korean translation didn't match with Java Edition.
- Resolved
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MCPE-85871 Translation mistake
- Resolved
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MCPE-86886 There is a Japanese typographical error
- Resolved
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MCPE-87642 Chinese Letter Wrong
- Resolved
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MCPE-99000 Translations Erros between Java and Bedrock Edition!
- Resolved
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MCPE-118617 In the bedrock edition, "避雷针(Lightning Rod)" is called"雷霆之杖(the Rod of Thunder)".
- Resolved
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MCPE-119581 Creeper
- Resolved
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MCPE-126646 Errors in Chinese Translation
- Resolved
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MCPE-130758 翻译错误/translation error
- Resolved
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MCPE-132410 Language translation errors
- Resolved
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MCPE-155857 Translation error of Allay
- Resolved
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MCPE-157296 wrong translation
- Resolved
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MCPE-159753 Chinese Translation
- Resolved
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MCPE-159914 Chinese Translation
- Resolved
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MCPE-160429 Some items are not translated properly in Chinese
- Resolved
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MCPE-161698 About the Chinese translation of new items in version 1.19
- Resolved
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MCPE-172770 Simplified Chinese translet error
- Resolved
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MCPE-179465 The Translate bug
- Resolved
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MCPE-180615 Sniffer is translated as sniffer
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MCPE-182490 The Chinese Simplified Chinese translation of Bedrock Edition has serious rigor issues
- Resolved
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MCPE-185005 Wrong Chinese Translations
- Resolved
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MCPE-94952 Ukrainian translation of Minecraft Bedrock is of Low Quality
- Open
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MCPE-182394 Simplified Chinese translation of Vault and Trial Spawner is incorrect
- Open
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MCPE-123806 Inconsistency with Java version and translation errors (russian translation)
- Reopened
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MCPE-58789 Polish language has some incorrect translations
- Resolved
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MCPE-74762 "Piglin", "Hoglin" and "Zombified Hoglin" are translated incorrectly in some languages
- Resolved
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MCPE-74906 The Korean translation is not working properly.
- Resolved
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MCPE-80031 Blackstone-related items are incorrectly called Базальт in Russian translate of Minecraft Bedrock
- Resolved
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MCPE-181839 Simplified Chinese translation error of Trial Key
- Resolved
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MCPE-181907 Simplified Chinese translation of Wind Charge is incorrect
- Resolved
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MCPE-170794 Traditional Chinese translation issues Part 1
- Open