Most people find it quite challenging to reach such places, and I am among them. I can’t drive a car or even ride a bicycle. Sometimes, it’s hard for me to motivate myself to get up and walk around. However, I’m actually pretty good at moving, but only when I’m shedding some weight. How do I get to work? The most universal method is to fall down and cry loudly until someone gives me a lift to the Mojang office.
Recently, I’ve been reflecting on my lifestyle, aiming to leave my lazy habits behind and learn how to fly an airplane. Now that I’ve seen Wisa’s Steampunk Flying Machine, I felt like falling again and crying until Wisa invited me aboard and promised to hand over the keys. Unfortunately, he had nothing ready yet since he hadn’t finished them.
Fortunately, once I finally pulled myself together and stopped crying, he began discussing his amazing airship creation in Minecraft. Hooray!
“It’s really tough to stick to one framework and maintain a single style,” Wisa tells me. “I’m always drawn to something new,” he responds when asked what inspires him to create such structures.
Saying this, Wisa sat there for quite a while, simultaneously watching the anime Laputa. He was so engrossed that it seemed he could watch standing up. The film features a massive airship, which soon inspired Wisa to design his own flying machine.
“I transferred my ideas onto paper because it greatly helps in creating anything, and then I got to work.” 
Wisa sent me these sketches of his original design. Wait, can he draw and build well? That’s not fair! I might get jealous!
“Minecraft Bedrock feels more like a graphic editor than a game. It’s comparable to a blank sheet of paper where you can realize any idea, even if it doesn’t always turn out great,” Wisa explains.
“In this case, there’s no pencil; blocks take its place.” 
So what about the steampunk theme that attracted Wisa?
“Steampunk is a very detailed and rather specific style. Perhaps that’s what draws me in? All those pipes and steam engines create a feeling that you’re in a place where two worlds intertwine. Where old technologies and new ones merge into steampunk and arrive in harmony!”
For Wisa, steampunk seems like a fun blend of “old times,” when people wrote about mechanical creations only in books, and when technology was too primitive to bring those ideas to life. It also reflects more modern times when locomotives became an integral part of daily life.
“I’d love to see something like that in real life, but for now, I can only admire steampunk as realized in art.” Yes, we also want to see Steampunk ships in reality! Calling all the billions of engineers reading Minecraft Pocket Edition, get on it!”
A railway on an airship? Brilliant!
Wisa spent three weeks developing the ship, and that’s considering everything didn’t go smoothly. “The tracks kept changing radius when I tried to lay them in a perfect circle,” he explains. This is a common issue developers face when trying to create circles in our blocky game.
The cage presented a unique problem—what poor creature should be inside? “It took a long time to figure it out. I thought about parrots, various mechanical animals, and even insects. But in the end, I chose a Phoenix; it became the first and last inhabitant of the cage.”
I particularly like some of the added touches! The Phoenix is a fire bird, so Wisa cleverly decided to incorporate magma blocks into the sculpture.
Wait, a cage? Did you say cage?
“Yes, it resembles a prison ship. But it doesn’t hold prisoners in form,” assures us the builder. Phew! So what’s the purpose of the ship then?
“This ship transports dangerous creatures to other, new habitats. They save their species from extinction.” Until they land near my house. That thought makes me a bit uneasy.
Wisa’s portfolio stands out on Planet Minecraft and truly impresses, definitely worth checking out. He certainly plans to stick with the steampunk style.
“I want to create a fox sculpture made of a biorobot. Part of it will be organic, and part will consist of mechanisms. There’s still much to do, but it’s worth it.”
A robotic steampunk fox? This project sounds like it’s worth the wait.
