The physics system in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is incredibly complex, but it’s not always accurate to real life. Since its release, players have sought to amaze with increasingly complicated and capable feats of engineering, fashioning everything from functional vehicles to Gleeok-defeating contraptions to Korok torture devices. While building is a necessary part of solving many TOTK puzzles, players are also encouraged to experiment and can draw from a deep pool of varied Zonai Devices to create any number of useful (or useless) machines.
Sharing these builds online has become a wonderful part of Zelda: TOTK, and has provided as many laughs as it has helpful tips. However, it’s not every day that a player finds a way to violate the laws of physics. Even in TOTK, a world of magic spells, floating islands, and time travel, there are certain inviolable, physical rules that reflect those of reality. An object in motion stays in motion, what goes up must come down, and something can’t be created from nothing. These are among the core tenets of the physical sciences, and, for the most part, they hold true in TOTK. These realistic rules make it all the more interesting when players find a way to break them.
A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical invention that runs without a power source, a feat of engineering that can never exist – but Redditor LunisequiouS seems to have found a way. LunisequiouS achieved the impossible by constructing a self-powering flying machine in Zelda: TOTK. With this vehicle, players can fly forever without depleting even a fraction of Link’s available battery power, theoretically using it to cross from one end of Hyrule to the other without obstruction or pause. This modern marvel is propelled by larger-than-usual Zonai fans, optimally placed to give the flying machine both lift and maneuverability. The machine also has a balanced construction and a flat bottom, making precise landings as easy as can be.
Naturally, the implications of this invention for Tears of the Kingdom players are wide-ranging – however, if they want to reap the benefits, they’ll have to build it first. LunisequiouS went on to provide a helpful guide to recreating this perpetual motion machine. This flying machine in TOTK is made without any parts that disappear after a set amount of time – players will find no rockets or batteries in this build. It generates its own power with a Shock Emitter, a Zonai Device that produces zaps of lightning.
Although Shock Emitters normally burn through battery power, this build makes clever use of a TOTK bug in which speaking to NPCs while an Emitter is on can cause it to remain perpetually active without using any energy. The Shock Emitter is then fused to a shield, and when Link stands in front of an L-shaped metallic mesh with it equipped, its current runs throughout the entire structure and powers any devices attached to it. Since it doesn’t use battery power, the potential for customization…
2023-07-13 23:00:05
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