Factory Reset

The other day, I was just walking through town when I heard a loud crash. I thought maybe something had exploded, but I was wrong – it was a house being demolished! So, being the kind of person who loves seeing things get knocked down, I decided to sit down and watch. It was extremely cool: hearing the wood splinter and the windows crack and smash was a sensation not unlike biting into a delicious, juicy burger. Except it was a burger for my eyes and ears. 

My point is, machinery is extremely cool. There's a reason kids all love diggers and trucks, and adults love watching How It's Made, right? It's because we all love to see big machines doing big jobs that humans can't do.

"Making the powderiser arms alone required close attention to the reference images," says Hytherdel, "but it was worth it in the end, because it made the machine look so much more unique!" 

Once the coal is dustified, it makes it over to the boiler, which, uh, boils things (I'm a writer, not an engineer) and, finally, the heat from the coal will turn the turbines, which generate electricity, which presumably provides heat and light to all the Minecraft homes in the area. Move over, redstone – there's a new energy source in town!

Surprisingly, this is the first time Hytherdel has built in this industrial style, and the whole project came from him messing around with shapes! "I made a cylinder-shaped asset that I thought looked beautiful," he says, "and it ended up progressing from there." Three months and tons of cyan stained clay later, and the cylinder was a factory. "I hope people can see the hard work I put into it," says Hytherdel. "I hope they get inspired in some way."