Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Player Builds Controllable Bird

Summary

One Tears of the Kingdom player showcases their creativity by constructing a functional and pilotable mechanical bird using the game's Ultrahand ability.
Artillery and vehicles are the most popular creations with the Ultrahand ability, but pilotable mechs can serve as both, leading to many fans experimenting with controllable machines.
The recently developed giant winged mech in Tears of the Kingdom resembles a real bird and utilizes various in-game components such as guard rails, Zonai Portable Pots, wooden wagon wheels, and Zonai Construct Heads for flapping motion.

One particularly imaginative The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player managed to leverage the game's Ultrahand ability to construct a giant mechanical bird that's not only functional but pilotable. Their incredible mech is just the latest example of the endless creativity that Tears of the Kingdom fans are showing in their attempts to take to the skies.

Artillery and vehicles are the two most useful things that players can build with Tears of the Kingdom's Ultrahand ability. Since pilotable mechs can act as both, many fans have been experimenting with controllable machines ever since the game's May 12 launch.

Yet few have succeeded with such flair as Reddit user divlogue, who recently managed to construct a giant winged mech that appears to fly by flapping its wings, just like a real bird. The mechanical bird's wings consist of guard rails from Tears of the Kingdom's Construct Factory, Zonai Portable Pots, wooden wagon wheels, and Zonai Construct Heads which control the actual flapping motion. The author of the contraption explained that their goal was to replicate the "biological and smooth movements of birds" as best they could, which was also the likely reason why they decided to build the machine out of guard rails.

For context, the guard rail found in the Construct Factory is the lightest known component in the game, having originally been discovered in early July. Since then, this uniquely floaty object has been used to improve the classic Tears of the Kingdom hoverbike design and helped pioneer many other types of gravity-defying vehicles. Thanks to its unique properties and one Zonai Steering Stick, this newly surfaced mechanical bird is not merely controllable but extremely agile in the air.

Making matters even more impressive is that controlling the bird is only an option, not a requirement. Namely, the machine can even fly off into the sunset by itself, as confirmed by a brief video demonstration that its creator shared on Reddit. The gameplay footage also revealed that the mech is fairly battery-efficient, largely thanks to the fact that its central components barely weigh anything and hence don't require a lot of energy to keep airborne.

This impressive piece of engineering is just one of many types of aircraft that were only made possible by the discovery of the floaty guard rail. Another such machine surfaced online just last week in the form of a Tears of the Kingdom replica of history's first successful plane.