A highly creative The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player built an impressive contraption that shoots wooden beams and reloads them automatically. Tears of the Kingdom has set itself apart from the rest of the Zelda canon by offering players a set of tools that allow them to build whatever elaborate machines they can imagine, even if it doesn’t really serve much purpose at all.
Tears of the Kingdom gives players a set of abilities early on that give them a chance to unleash their creativity. By using Ultrahand to pick up nearly any object in the game, players can start combining different things to create anything from a car powered by the energy emitted by Electric Lizalfos to an elaborate barbeque that roasts adorable and friendly Koroks.
A Reddit user who goes by the name of ManufactuerOk8154 posted a video clip in the Tears of the Kingdom subreddit showing off the third in a series of what they call “Elaborate contraptions.” All three complicated machines they’ve built serve no real practical purpose in the game. They mostly exist to prove that Tears of the Kingdom’s various systems are so complex they can be used to build complicated machinery. Such is the case with the machine that ManufactuerOk8154 describes as an Automatic Reloading Wooden Beam Shooter. It is, in essence, a mechanized, automatic catapult, similar in function to the catapult one player built to launch Koroks.
The device is made of wooden planks of various lengths and widths. At the back end of the machine, ManufactuerOk8154 attached a Zonai Spring to one of the planks with a wooden beam connected to the center of the springboard. At the front end, they’ve built what functions as a large machine gun clip that’s filled with the wooden construction beams that can be found throughout Hyrule. By activating the device using the ever-useful Zonai Steering Stick, a wooden beam drops from a slot in the clip into a chamber fitted with wooden wagon wheels that aligns the beam with the one attached to the Zonai Spring. The spring launches forward, firing the wooden beam in the chamber like a bullet.
The machine isn’t mobile, so it can’t be aimed at an oncoming enemy on the fly, making it less than ideal for combat unless bombs were attached to the beams. In the comments of the post, ManufactuerOk8154 says that while adding bombs works, they can only add a couple since the device starts to run up against the game’s limit of pieces that can be attached together. While it isn’t as useful as a Hover Bike in Tears of the Kingdom, it’s still a very impressive machine.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is currently available on Switch.
