One inventive The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player found an incredibly clever way to one-shot a silver Boss Bokoblin by leveraging the game's building mechanics. They promptly took to social media to share this seemingly impossible achievement, having done so just as another Tears of the Kingdom fan was showcasing their all-terrain troupe train.
The new Zelda game expands on nearly every aspect of Breath of the Wild, including enemy variety and AI. Both of those are underlined by the addition of Boss Bokoblins, giant monsters capable of organizing Tears of the Kingdom's Bokoblins into a much greater threat than the sum of its parts.
But as recently found by Reddit user Switcheroo11, even those imposing creatures can be downed with a single hit, so long as the impact comes from a sufficiently massive object. A recently shared gameplay video demonstrating this discovery shows Switcheroo11 dropping a gigantic "hammer vehicle" onto an unsuspecting silver Boss Bokoblin patrolling the Tears of the Kingdom's Cap Cresia, killing it instantly.
The enormous contraption used in the video consists of some fairly obscure components, including a heavy stone block that can only be found in the Hebra skies on the opposite side of the map. Yet the underlying technique for one-shotting enemies should be fairly straightforward to reproduce, with Switcheroo11 theorizing that any object of sufficient weight would do the trick, as long as it's dropped with enough angular momentum. This is precisely why the player shaped their mammoth construction like a hammer, allowing ample time for its concrete head to accelerate after being dropped.
The disposal method reportedly works on even the most dangerous Tears of the Kingdom enemies outside of bosses, including Lynels and—despite their name—Boss Bokoblins. As such, the technique could be used for farming enemy drops in a manner that's much more efficient than conventional combat, not least because constructing a viable hammer with Autobuild would at most waste a few Zonaite pieces instead of weapon durability. That said, Switcheroo11 already demonstrated an even cleverer alternative, which is to make the hammer double as a vehicle used for driving from one mob farming spot to the next, thus minimizing unnecessary tool (re)building.
This isn't the first time that the fandom found a new use for the game's Ultrahand ability this month. Just a few days ago, another Tears of the Kingdom player managed to build a working combustion engine by leveraging Link's versatile power of object manipulation.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available on Nintendo Switch.
