True to its sandbox design philosophy, the latestZeldagame doesn’t force players to build anything but the simplest contraptions in order to overcome its many challenges. However, those who do choose to engage withTears of the Kingdom’sUltrahand abilitybeyond the required minimum will eventually find it to have incredible potential for both utility and tomfoolery alike.
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This newly emerged example of a working combustion engine definitely falls in the latter category, but that doesn’t necessarily make it less impressive thanTears of the KingdomKing Gleeok mechsand other imposing machinery that the fandom has been building in recent weeks. Created by Reddit user jtrofe, the contraption uses two Zonai Canons for pushing a moving piston by simply firing into its equivalent of a fixed cylinder mounted on a Zonai Spring. The plunger, in turn, rotates a makeshift crankshaft, as seen in a brief video demonstration of the machine which the author shared on June 22.
While manyTears of the Kingdomfans reacting to this feat of engineering conveyed their astonishment at the achievement, a few others were reluctant to label it as an actual external combustion engine, arguing that the contraption is more of a kinetic force converter. Not everyone shared in that hesitancy, with Reddit user senorali positing that real combustion engine cylinders could very well be considered compact canons.
Semantics aside, it’s dubious whether this creation could have a material impact on the game’s building meta; the current design already uses a double-digit number of components just to get the crankshaft turning, which inhibits its practical applications becauseTears of the Kingdomlimits players to 21 parts per a single structure before the build starts falling apart. While this was likely done for performance reasons, it’s still a hard cap on the degree of complexity that players can hope to engineer, which is not much greater than the convolutedness of this makeshift combustion engine.
Nevertheless, the building meta surrounding the newZeldagame continues to evolve at a steady pace. One of its latest milestones occurred just a few weeks ago, when a craftyTears of the Kingdomplayer turned an enemy into a rain sensor, thus proving that Zonai devices can be powered without single-use batteries and Link’s energy cell reserves.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis available on Nintendo Switch.
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