Summary
- One Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player built a crash-proof airplane costing just 27 Zonaite.
- Dubbed the Hylian Explorer, the aircraft combines wooden cartwheels with carefully angled fans in order to scale landscape.
- The airplane can take off from pretty much every somewhat flat surface, including water.
One crafty The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player built an incredibly clever airplane that's immune to crashing into landscape. Their unique contraption adds to the list of genius Tears of the Kingdom inventions that Nintendo's fandom put together since the Switch exclusive hit the store shelves back in May.
While the average player will take up to 80 hours to beat Tears of the Kingdom's main quest, many fans have been tinkering with the Ultrahand ability for much longer. The incredible versatility of the game's building mechanics has so far yielded countless incredible contraptions, including mechs, autonomous drones, and various recreations of Star Wars-inspired aircraft, among many other creations.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Fan Builds Incredibly Fast Plane
A crafty Tears of the Kingdom player raises the bar for speedy aircraft with an incredibly fast plane that can surpass 200 miles per hour.
The latest such design comes from Reddit user KrisCraig, who recently managed to put together a crash-proof airplane. Dubbed the Hylian Explorer, the 27-Zonaite aircraft consists of a Zonai Steering Stick, four Zonai Fans, two wooden cartwheels, and a pair of guard rails from the Tears of the Kingdom Construct Factory dungeon in The Depths. As the lightest known components in the entire game, the railings make the Hylian Explorer fairly agile in the air, and help offset some of the bulk added from the two cartwheels, which KrisCraig described as surprisingly heavy.
The pair of wheels attached to the frontmost two Zonai Fans, is the key to making this recently shared aircraft crash-proof, allowing it to reliably scale everything from modest slopes to the steepest cliffs. The airplane retains this trait even after collision, making it next to impossible to crash, unless it gets stuck in something like an alcove. An extended video demonstration of the Hylian Explorer that KrisCraig shared on social media shows the airplane easily scaling mountains and hopping around the Hyrule Castle's many platforms.
Tears of the Kingdom 'Hylian Explorer' Parts List
- 1 Zonai Steering Stick
- 2 guard rails from the Construct Factory Right Leg Depot
- 4 Zonai Fans
- 2 wooden cartwheels
As an added bonus, the front-mounted wheels also help reduce the airplane's ground friction, thus consistently helping it generate enough speed for liftoff. KrisCraig opted to position the included Zonai Fans at a 45-degree upward angle, presumably to account for the added bulk from the wooden wheels, which increases the propulsion force requirement for getting off the ground. The angle of the fans also limits the airplane's top speed, which helps with making it crash-proof, as high-speed impacts would make landscape scaling needlessly difficult. Finally, angling the Zonai Fans slightly upward also allowed this Tears of the Kingdom vehicle to even remain mobile in water.
The Hylian Explorer is far from the first amazing contraption that the game's fandom put together this fall; a comparably impressive design emerged online back in September, arriving in the form of a genius Tears of the Kingdom vehicle that uses 3 steering sticks.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 95 /100 Critics Rec: 97%
- Released
- May 12, 2023
- ESRB
- Rated E for Everyone 10+ for Fantasy Violence and Mild Suggestive Themes
- Developer(s)
- Nintendo
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo
- Engine
- Havok
- Cross-Platform Play
- N/A
- Cross Save
- N/A
WHERE TO PLAY
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the sequel to the beloved open-world adventure, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This installment once again sees Link and Zelda battling to protect Hyrule from falling to Ganondorf. This new adventure takes place in the same land of Hyrule as Breath of the Wild but sees something called the Upheaval, which allows link to travel to Sky Islands, as well as deep into the Depths beneath Hyrule. Players can use special abilities to fuse together weapons, and build items to help them progress through the release.
- Franchise
- The Legend of Zelda
- Platform(s)
- Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2
- Genre(s)
- Adventure, Action, Open-World
- How Long To Beat
- 59 Hours
- Metascore
- 96
