One crafty The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player managed to build a functional mech inspired by the Transformers series' Autobots. They subsequently took online to share their feat of engineering, adding to the already long list of Tears of the Kingdom community creations that the fandom has been showing off in recent weeks.
Many impressive machines that the player base conjured up since the game's mid-May debut have come in the form of mechs, possibly because giant robots can offer tremendous utility value while adhering to the rule of cool pertinent to social media clout. And while some of those creations like the Tears of the Kingdom King Gleeok mech were inspired by the game itself, others looked toward external sources for inspiration.
One such contraption was recently authored by Reddit user Okossen, who managed to create a fully functional mech inspired by the Transformers franchise. Their makeshift Autobot consists of two separate designs, whereas the actual transformation is handled by Tears of the Kingdom's Autobuild. This Purah Pad ability allows alternating between the mech's bipedal and four-wheel forms within seconds, which makes for one extremely versatile addition to Link's arsenal of gigantic gadgetry.
A brief video demonstrating the Transformers-inspired creation in action went viral on Reddit earlier this week, prompting many fans to express their astonishment at the engineering ingenuity that went into its design. Following numerous requests, Okossen even shared a tutorial for anyone eager to build their own Autobot in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The video only details the assembly of the mech's bipedal form, but given how the two designs share parts, turning their component list into a car-like contraption should be a fairly straightforward task with plenty of possible solutions.
Since the Transformers-inspired robot's bipedal form uses Zonai Homing Carts for its feet, Link isn't actually able to control it in this configuration. Instead, he's just there for the ride while the machine plows through whatever enemy it encounters. And while some Tears of the Kingdom newcomers might point to the mech's auto-locking weaponry like the most puzzling piece of the entire design, that mechanism merely consists of Zonai Beam Emitters stuck to Construct Heads, which handle the targeting. Players are likely to stumble upon Construct Heads as soon as they start exploring the skies surrounding the game's tutorial area.
Okossen's idea to experiment with multiple mech forms using a singular component list could have wider implications for the game's fast-developing building meta. In that regard, this proof-of-concept could be as influential as the extremely clever rain sensor that another Tears of the Kingdom player shared earlier this month, proving that it's possible to power custom-built vehicles with enemies instead of batteries.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available on Nintendo Switch.
