The craziest constructions from "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom"

No other game gives me as much creative freedom as "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom" when it comes to exploring the game world and solving puzzles. Link's new "Ultrahand" ability in particular is a real game changer. It allows me to pick up various game objects, rotate them and stick them together.

I played the game for 100 hours for my review. I actually felt like I was being creative with my Ultrahand constructions. However, the crazy "Zelda" community proved me wrong just one week after release.

Flying infernal machines

In the course of the game, you unlock more and more so-called Sonau machines - relics of a long-gone civilisation. Many of these gadgets are perfect for making flying machines.

While I'm out and about with boring aeroplane constructions, the "Zelda" community is making flying machines from hell, which they use to commit all kinds of war crimes against Bokoblins, Moblins and the like.

User SkysOutThighsOut builds a combat helicopter with rotor blades and laser cannons and writes in his Reddit post: "I love the smell of Zoanite in the morning".

trung_anh dispenses with rotor blades and builds a manned drone with automatic firing cannons that bomb away bokoblins.

An even more elegant solution is this unmanned drone on Twitter, which automatically takes to the skies and kills the dragon Gleeok by itself.

Cars

"Zelda" fans are also travelling in creative vehicles on the ground. For some reason, trucks seem to be trending.

@Schlobster builds a huge truck and plays "The Legend of Zelda: Trucker of the Kingdom". Is the truck useful? No. Nevertheless, the lonely trucker life in Hyrule seems to be fun.

The death truck from @ArmandoSionosa is a little less peaceful. He builds a two-storey killing machine with flamethrowers and laser cannons. Instead of parcels, this delivery van brings death and destruction. The only thing the user still has to work on is controlling the Transformers-like killer device.

Boats

No-Frogs has developed a device with huge paddles. The big advantage: the paddles use far fewer batteries than the small wind turbines that are usually used on boats.

GtaHov builds a flying boat by accident. The user sticks a glider to the underside of his boat and suddenly takes off.

Korok's torture machines

For some reason, the "Zelda" community has conspired against the cute little Koroks. In "Tears of the Kingdom", the little critters are tortured in creative ways.

Do you like the little Koroks?

The little creatures get on the nerves of many players. What do you think of the leafy creatures?

• I love Koroks!
  67%
• I hate Koroks (and I am a bad person)!
  33%

The competition has ended.

The Koroks are crucified...

. glued together to form a "Korok Centipede" https://www.reddit.com/r/tearsofthekingdom/comments/13i33gz/welcome_to_the_koron_trail_ladies_and_gentlemen/...

. and even grilled! Is a korok skewer like this actually vegan?

All this violence against the cute critters makes my heart bleed

Mechs and robots

Okay, now it's really getting crazy. With all the mech creations from the "Zelda" community, you'd think the robot action game "Armored Core 6" had already been released.

TikToker SoulBanana, in particular, goes on a rampage with the creation of giant manned robots. He has already built flying killer machines and "Gundam"-like robots for fighting on the ground.

Twitter user @ZAKUYA_BOTW also has a genius idea. He is building a flame-spitting penis robot. Why? Because he can.

Small, practical transport options

After the absurd constructions, I'd like to introduce a few practical machines that will make it easier for you to get around Hyrule. I'm annoyed that I didn't come up with these ideas myself

Jtneagle presents an extremely simple hoverboard that consists of just one steering element and two fans. I used the construction to explore Hyrule's underground world and I am thrilled. It allows you to move through the game world incredibly efficiently. It also costs very little to make (only nine Sonanium) and uses few batteries.

In the predecessor "Breath of the Wild", Link was already able to surf or snowboard on his shield. "Tears of the Kingdom" expands on this idea and gives you the opportunity to build a skateboard. Simply stick a mine cart to your shield and suddenly you're playing "The Legend of Tony Hawk's". Yes, even grinding is possible. And silly me, in over 100 hours of gameplay, I never thought about it.

Another surprisingly efficient construction was created by user championplayuh. Take a Sonau wheel, a steering element and a stand-up man and glue them together with the Ultrahand. The result: an amazingly fast Segway device that I can use to whizz around Hyrule like a lazy tourist. So simple. So good.

Other ingenious (?) ideas

Catching horses can be quite tedious in Tears of the Kingdom. Reddit user FeedbackUpper6182 has the solution for lazy cowboys. The "Horse-Catcher 3000". The horse trap consists of just a few pieces of wood glued together. He puts these over a wild horse that can no longer escape. I've always said it: laziness fosters creativity.

About the horse. TheMatt has made a Trojan horse. Link reaches the inside of the construction with his ceiling jump. Absolutely useless, but ingenious nonetheless.

Enough about horses. Did you know that you can only defeat enemies in "Tears of the Kingdom" with wood, stones and Link's new ability "Time Reverse"? This video shows you how. The fact that the device looks like a phallus is probably just a coincidence.

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What absurd, ingenious or useful constructions have you made? Which handicrafts from other users have impressed you?

You can see my rather boring constructions compared to the ones mentioned above in my game review: