By now you've probably seen hundreds of creations from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. From extra-long log bridges to outrageous flame-throwing penises, the Ultrahand ability gives you the ability not only to break the game, but also to break your own imagination. Players are making all sorts of things thanks to Link's powers and the Zonai Devices.While it's the Ultrahand that helps Link build these tools, machines, weapons of mass destruction, or whatever else you want to call them, it's the Zonai Devices that actually power them. However, despite how complex these contraptions are, creating a complex machine is a different story.Usually it's the Steering Stick that puts Link in charge, controlling the respective creation, seemingly by magic. But one player has created a textbook complex machine – a combination of two or more simple machines. Liz_Caingcoy on Twitter has stuck to this definition by essentially creating a perpetual-motion engine in Tears of the Kingdom, kind of.As you can see in the video, the engine is powered by a large Zonai wheel – one that moves on its own when struck. This wheel is stuck to a standing wooden board to create the first simple machine. Using three small wheels, one long wooden log, and a perpendicular wooden plank, they have essentially created what could be considered a piston – the second simple machine – thus completing the definition of a complex machine.
The piston goes into a rectangular wooden frame, which acts as an engine's cylinder would. All of this is held together by a common base at the bottom. However, what is a machine if it has no practical use? Liz has demonstrated how this engine can be used – by sticking spears and pikes at the end to create an automated Bokoblin stabbing machine.
Another use of this engine that they showcased is to make sure your food doesn't get overcooked. They stuck a fish at the end of one of the spears which took it over the fire and off again. Of course, there's no need to cook like that in the game, but the important thing here is the application of this engine.
Since Liz has managed to create this engine, it has opened up the floodgates for potentially the most complex machines, which can work on real Newtonian physics rather than the in-game Zonai "technology". Based on what we've seen just three days into the launch of the game, we can't wait to see what players come up with when they're given more time.
Unfortunately, not everyone is using this power for good. Many players are using Link's newfound abilities to torture the poor Koroks who've been separated from their friends. They're being catapulted across the map, launched into outer space, and even crucified.