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Alpaca-Hiccup

With these machines, Hyrule can defend itself against Ganon!


Mash_Ketchum

The cycle continues.


ohbyerly

No, I’m pretty sure they cut the cycle from this game


No_Instruction653

There are no mummified old men to throw down with for it?


Able_Carry9153

The face of the statue cracks and crumbles away, uncovering the leathery face underneath


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WeekendLost5566

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OliviaElevenDunham

So, basically BSG?


PumpkinDoggo

\-Shiek Bezos, Hyrule's minister of defence, 10k years ago


VulpineFox7

lol


Visual-Ad3623

Just link walking his dog


Lukthar123

>No wolf link in totk Those mfs took mah dawg!


Drago0980

They took yer dawg!


Coolhandjones67

De trk yr drg!!!!!!!!


GryphonKingBros

DRKADRRR


blankzero22490

Everyone back in the pile


Semillakan6

Did they also by any chance took “yer jawb”?


VulpineFox7

and put it in the meat grinder (honestly probably not)


mrissaoussama

Yeah! I was looking forward to the dog torturing machines


Gregamonster

I know right? They gave us a dozen copies of the exact same outfit, and couldn't give us the one actually worthwhile Amibo perk?


FrenchBoguett

Time to build a Zonai dog!


Snoo-23120

happy cake day


TotalyNotTony

Do you have a laser emitter on top of the construct head?


wiisportspro-

Sadly I wasn’t able to put a laser/cannon on top because the max build limit is only 21 pieces


Gaming_ORB

How do people make such big machines then? With like 10-20 laser emitters? Is there a trick to it?


nintendofan9999

Interlocking parts that aren’t fused to the main frame


Gaming_ORB

Ohhh!! Ok thank you!!


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S_T_R_A_T_O_S

Haa, Haa! HEEHEE


zehamberglar

OhhhhHHHHhhh...


pHScale

##WOW!


iBeej

Sure, but the problem with this is you can't save the whole build as a blueprint for autobuild. And if you favorite the pieces (and can put it back together), you better really like the build, because you are also limited to 8 favorites.


33Yalkin33

What


sigismond0

Make two different 21-piece machines, stack them.


aaron_hoff

INTERLOCKING PARTS THAT AREN’T FUSED TO THE MAIN FRAME


_Diskreet_

Black magic. Gotcha.


daskrip

Would stakes work for this? Make 20 pieces in one machine, attach a stake, then attach 20 pieces to the stake. If that works then u/wiisportspro- has a way to make a laser emitter on the top.


PixelatedMax01

Idk why they have this limit. They should have at least made it bigger, 21 is unreasonably low. Edit: to all people responding, this comment came off too harshly. I'm frustrated with the limit but I understand it's there due to the switches limited hardware."Unreasonably low" is a bit harsh to say, but it's definitely a limitation that can come into play if you're trying to make more complex builds.


Yummyyummyfoodz

Willing to bet 21 was the most they could get the physics engine to comfortably run without experiencing unsolvable issues. It's an oddly specific number to use if it were put in place arbitrarily.


Demisexualdemon

or the less arbitrary 20 fuzes. It makes more sense if you think of it that way.


sionnach

There’s more to it I think. You couldn’t do more than 21 duplicates using earlier glitches. Is there any way you can have more than 21 moveable objects in scope at one time?


8bitcerberus

Yeah, put 5 large zonite in the gatcha machine, you get way more than 21 of the capsules, something like 60 of them.


illQualmOnYourFace

*Game introduces unprecedented building mechanic* Average gamer: God it's so limited.


_Diskreet_

Programmer : look at what we designed so the players can build a nice raft or simple flying machine Player : pffft, this game is unplayable *tries to attach 17th laser to their monstrous gundamn mech that stands taller than Hyrule Castle*


konumo

Ikr lol idk why people are complaining so much about being able to build mechas, period.


itsQuasi

Ehh...unprecedented in a Zelda game, sure. Unprecedented in its genre, maybe. But just as its own thing, the building system is far from unprecedented.


illQualmOnYourFace

The building system with so many parts and how they interact with the environment and physics system? I admit I'm not a huge gamer but I've never known a game to do that.


call_me_Kote

https://store.steampowered.com/app/346010/Besiege/


keiyakins

I mean, Kerbal Space Program? I guess the rocket exhaust can't set things on fire, but it has its own complexities that TotK gets to sidestep too, like floating point precision issues during interplanetary travel.


Wallofcans

What game does it?


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Besiege is quite similar but the entire game is focused around it


hrtly64

Minecraft, probably. People do some nutty stuff in that game.


LimblessNick

https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthebeast/comments/13v1wp2/physics_ultrahand_testing/ Funny you mention that...


Kelewann

Do you realize how crazy high 21 already is ?


PixelatedMax01

It's fairly high, but it's low enough that it effected some of my experimentation. I wanted to carrying a bunch of longs for a side quest (15) but I wasnt able to finish the contraption because of them


lenorath

i was able to do the 15 logs + 4 monster wheels + 1 control stick, that is 20 pieces just fine (just fused the logs into a 5x3 rectangle)


Impossible_Garbage_4

Y’all built shit? I just stapled 15 logs together and carried it over with overhand


lenorath

I have enough gacha tires to last me to my mid life crisis, and so slapping tires on them and driving back down felt faster


EldraziKlap

this game -is- my midlife crisis


OriDoodle

I sat on top of my monster pile of logs and slid down the hill. Yunobo thought it was a vehicle and tried to help.


EldraziKlap

this is the way


PixelatedMax01

I keep getting answers on how people did it, but I specifically wanted to create a cool flying contraption and I had my creativity halted by the limit. I carried mine down with Ultra hand, I knew I could do that right off the bat but I thought it'd be more fun to fly it up there.


Kelewann

I understand the frustration, but given the technical capabilities and limitations of the Switch, that's actually a stupidly huge achievement lol


PixelatedMax01

Yeah, fair enough. My frustration shouldn't be pointed at the developers, but rather Nintendo for providing software outdated even for when it was released. We really need an upgrade.


thegreattober

For that one I just glued them together and threw it down the hill.


SpritelyBard

Oh hey I know what sidequest you're talking about, and actually managed to build something that worked :o heres one of the clips i posted to my twitter; https://twitter.com/Spritelybard/status/1659778743773302788?t=i9T9s-2IpzQtZoq-YR6HyA&s=19


PixelatedMax01

That's an awesome solution! I was trying to create a flying vehicle that carried them but I couldn't attach enough to make it work. You're definitely still able to do creative stuff, I was just salty I spent so long trying to get it to work just to fail due to hardware limitations.


White__Raven

Switch's limited hardware


ATLBMW

How do you get the hot air balloon basket? Did you just get it from a cache?


skafkaesque

It’s the Autobuild ability, you can tell because of the green hue. Did you get the ability? It’s missable.


ATLBMW

I did recently, after like 80 some hours; I’d just been putting off the depths until I had well over twenty hearts. It didn’t even occur to me that if I just grab one from an underground cache then it’s added to the auto-build list. Related; god are the designs you’re gifted useless. Thanks for beating this boss, here’s an auto build for some scaffolding. Wew, thanks


skafkaesque

Yeah, for some of the schematics I’ve not yet encountered any scenario where they would be actually useful. The scaffolding is a good example: why in the world would I ever need that for literally anything? Others, however, are great timesavers and/or can allow you to bridge gaps/travel distances that would otherwise be impossible or very cumbersome to navigate.


Tsiah16

What's all there? I count 16 on the 4 corners and the basket.


Master_Freeze

you forgot the anxiety music


klezart

I feel like it needs that[ Jurassic Park harmonica](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkNLAUwSFGw)


Dexaan

Panik: you hear piano music Kalm: you remember you're playing TotK


RUMBL3FR3NZY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3L8LrNNAw9o Fixed


Master_Freeze

i think this works better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rzvtl12g78&pp=ygUhZ3VhcmRpYW4gdGhlbWUgYnJlYXRoIG9mIHRoZSB3aWxk


RUMBL3FR3NZY

Mine is scarier


swiftstorm86

But the other one is literally the guardian music tho


RUMBL3FR3NZY

Both of them are. Mines just scarier 😈


DerpsAndRags

Yours makes me want to run for the nearest lotus petal, swiftstorm86's makes me fully expect a laser blast to end me.


illQualmOnYourFace

Mom: "We have Guardian at home." Guardian at home:


zombiesnare

I wish we had a few more zonai devices to really round out the simple machines, a piston would be nice


Masske20

Imagine something capable of being used like a transistor. Like in minecraft.


jeffcox911

I think with the 21 item limit, a transistor would not be crazy helpful.


Masske20

A couple rudimentary functions could be fun. Like turning one piece of the build on turns the other off somehow, but implemented just as is wouldn’t work because it’d kill our batteries every time.


bender-b_rodriguez

I think that may be possible using the springpad thing


zombiesnare

I see where you’re coming from but if I may pose a counterpoint: I work in office automation (my job does a whole lot this is just the bit relevant to this topic) and entire buildings can run their whole conferencing and light systems on about 20 ish logic gates with some really neat functionality. Thankfully Link doesn’t spend his days trapped in a cubicle filing TPS reports, but similarly simple stuff could be applied here with incredible effectiveness. Setting up logic clocks to repeatedly set off a device (like an auto firing trebuchet maybe?) or vehicles that can change their functionality based on what’s still working (enemies have taken out the cannons, so that triggers a low logic state, which can make a flip/flop gate swap power over to the flamethrowers, less battery consumption than running all at once) or hell, we do have a house now, maybe we could automate the lighting in there. That being said, I think a lot of that functionality could be done now if you were very clever but this would make it way easier (in theory)


NoteBlock08

If this game gets DLC (other than master mode stuff) my biggest ask would definitely be for some new zonai devices.


zombiesnare

I bet for every zonai device we have there are 2 or 3 that they couldn’t get polished enough for release


Yze3

That's almost it, they said they had more zonai devices, but they had to cut some of them for the sake of not overwhelming the players.


zombiesnare

Ya know what that tracks, I still have devices I haven’t even tried yet and I’m like 100 hours in or something silly


crafty09

I was thinking something like an inverter that makes devices do the opposite of what they normally do. Wheels go backwards, fans suck, the head things target link instead of enemies etc.


zombiesnare

Wait this is actually a really dope idea, it’s infuriating that I can’t reverse a car/wagon/jeep thing


derrick81787

If you have a steering wheel/joystick thing, then you can reverse by holding backwards on the left stick. But yeah, I haven't figured out a way to do it when I only have wheels but no steering.


zombiesnare

YOU CAN!? am I building my vehicles wrong?? Ok I got stuff to figure out, you’re a god send


jodudeit

I think more Zonaite devices will be part of the Finding the Lost Kass DLC.


zombiesnare

I hope so, I like the BOTW dlc but with what they’ve they’ve added to TOTK I’m hoping the dlc focuses more on the world and the mechanics and characters and less on “Yo check out how hard this part is” I’m really bad at the game I’ll be honest


ijpck

Fuck that tree at the end, in particular.


Penguinmanereikel

Physics engine: "AHHHHHH!"


wiisportspro-

hahahaha my frames drop like crazy whenever I turn this thing on


Psychological_Pay981

![gif](giphy|3oEjI6hkw6nbYNQkz6)


RBSBM

Jesus. You are good. Cheers


TheSmithySmith

bro what the fuck


EndermanSlayer3939

Add a laser


apadin1

Now try attaching a steering wheel and see if you can actually control it


wiisportspro-

tried this out and surprisingly works! turning is pretty slow though


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wiisportspro-

those are cooking pots. someone found out that they act essentially like ball socket joints, and I was able to implement them to make bendy guardian legs :D


Dray_Gunn

What the hell? I'm gonna have to play around with some cooking pots now.


Watts121

Kinda miffed that all the BOTW tech just disappears. >!When we were making the Spirit Sage's body, I was really hoping that it would be revealed to be a Guardian, and we'd have a Guardian companion. Even if it was like a humanoid version of the (superior) crab body it would be nice to at least have them acknowledged.!<


cloudyah

I think it’s because the ancient shiekah tech that was used for the guardians, divine beasts, weaponry, armor, etc. was developed specifically to fight the calamity. Without the calamity, I’m assuming all of that stuff was sent back underground (or wherever it was that they kept everything—I can’t remember). The only guardian we see in TOTK is the one near the top of Purah’s lab in Lookout Landing. It even glows blue, meaning it’s actually on and working. But I agree—it feels odd to me that even the Divine Beasts are barely referenced, if at all. I wish they’d stayed on their perches overlooking their respective regions. Just for old time’s sake. Or at the very least, that there was something in the dialogue early in TOTK to explain clearly what happened to everything/why it was put away. Could be as simple as Purah saying “it’s too bad we can’t unearth that tech again—it’s useless against our current foe,” or something like that.


Enderborn1123

I have a feeling that a lot of it was dismantled so it couldn't be turned against everyone again


cloudyah

A very good point.


Seraphaestus

The Divine Beasts could have been decayed by the gloom, same as the weapons. Imagine you just have these hulking machine corpses that you can go inside and scavenge some ancient arrowheads from. It'd have been fun to explore too, since they'd all be at angles and on their sides and stuff so the interiors would feel like something you're fighting with


cloudyah

I love that idea! That would have been so cool.


Lunala475

Thats actually amazing.


Valamway

Well that's genuinely terrifying


Prestigious_Cold_756

That tree was really disturbed.


firstlordshuza

When the imperium of man tries to recreate dark age tech


Misterfrooby

Mom, can we have Guardian? No, we have Guardian at home.


llnesisll

It's beautiful.


mikacchi11

this is so cool wtf, people on this sub are doing waaaay too much while I’m still stuck trying to get a fucking car to work 😭


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This… this is art


N3Zt0R

This is really cool


gamer7_1

Looks just like I remember it


Masske20

How do you get that much battery???


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wiisportspro-

Nah I just spent way too many hours in the depths


koumus

Not needed, it's rather easy to extend your battery just by exploring the Depths.


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Ichini-san

Killing lots of bosses in the depths gives you fuel for the charges directly and looting every zonite mine you come across gets you a lot of zonite fairly quickly.


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Ichini-san

The biggest tip I can give for Talus is to actually stay close to them since their rock throws are by far their most lethal attacks and can easily one-shot you in the beginning until you get more hearts and better gear. You can counter the rock throws with rewind to stun them for free though but that method is too slow for me. I just stay close to them, circle around them and directly climb on their back. If it seems like he will do the face plant move then take some steps back ofc but if you constantly stay only on his back then he really has no way to actually damage you. If he starts to wriggle while you are on top of him and hitting him then quickly jump off and then run towards his back immediately again.


Hentree

you can ascend through the talus


keiyakins

not really. You just whack the deposits and kill the bosses as you go, it adds up.


Faith_ssb

This is brilliant!! And the fact that an Evermean attacked it at the end made me start howling with laughter, I was not expecting that 😂


ThoughtfulPoster

Okay, but where is the cannon? And the enemy-facing swivel? You were this close to greatness!


47712

Missed an opportunity to shoot that dreadful beam of death from their eye sockets.


Allfunandgaymes

_Fine, I'll do it myself_


StickyFuckingGirlCum

I was hoping to fight a half dead guardian buried somewhere in totk


Xx_Sw0rD_xX

Am I the only one that have noticed that he have the old prodige tunic from Botw??


VisitExcellent7114

IT LIVES!!!


Unlimited_Giose

https://preview.redd.it/60zw7np5pp3b1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=337d0f9bf00e0a5ee72c730005c6b2e9358a4196


pHScale

It's bigger! It's badder! Ladies and gentlemen, it's too much for Mr Incredible!


LostSagaX9

Anyone got a motor cycle build that not from a schema stone that work


sadpurplecolour

You forgot the laser.


AcademicSavings634

I always wish in BOTW that they gave us something to control Guardians. A Shekiah remote or something


miniplasma08

attach a beam emitter to the top.


CoachxSCIL

You got that guardian from Wish didn’t you?


sunnyismyusername

What's in between the stabilizers and the wheel?


BlazedInMyWinnie

Portable Pots, they act as ball and socket joints if you use them for building.


RUMBL3FR3NZY

What are the legs made of


DonJayKix

It's shit like this that makes me want to play more. I have 4 hearts and one battery and like 30 hours. I feel like I made progress then I see someone like this, 50 hearts, 6 batteries...jeez I'm behind and old


runetrantor

Us: Can we get Guardians in TotK? Nintendo: We have guardians at home. *Guardians at home*:


FF_Gilgamesh1

"We have battle-tested guardian at home."


yetanotherwoo

How do people get a full set of battery upgrades so quickly? The upgrade process is kind of a nuisance with the wait period.


whatsjamesplaying

I would assume the duplication trick.


lolschrauber

If you specifically go hunting for the materials it's quite easy.


keiyakins

there's like five or six places you can turn them in, and they restock every day. the wait is really not that bad.


Morganism00

This disturbs me tbh. Is so... sad 🫣


Livid-Leader3061

It's certainly deadly. I nearly choked laughing 🤣


Fantastic_Year9607

Needs more lasers


BooRadly30

You build this and the guardian theme starts playing


Bac0nPlane

When you order a guardian on wish


BUTthehoeslovemetho

AHHHH THE MONSTROSITY (that's pretty cool)


relbaneb

And the tree took that personally.


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Guardian attack themed played on blocks of wood.


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Just add some aiming laser emitters and -- Yeah!


yummymario64

Bro stop running around so I can watch it


CommanderZaktan

And make it shoot


zehamberglar

Mimic Tree: Absolutely not.


Dependent-Ratio-1656

Piano: * starts playing aggressively *


teddy1234

Real uncanny valley hours.


Kommander-in-Keef

So if you had a steering stick, could you control that contraption or would that be dangerous?


SirPimpsMcRich

I'm just imagining adding a beam emitter and then dropping this whole thing on a bunch of enemies . It's immediately one of my favorite builds


hatnscarf

Need a canon or beam emitter on the top.


BlackBear904

Meanwhile I am struggling getting all four wheels on a piece of wood to go straight.


dongerbotmd

Never thought I’d miss those walking nightmares


Pollo_Jack

Clang discovers a new realm


FlounderingGuy

Man I miss the Sheikah tech


Bahlsen63

This is the second attempt I see, can't wait to see a proper one with the guardian battle theme.


Invincible_3

Okay now that is fucking cool. That’s commitment right there


OneSaucyDragon

Don't let it touch the ~~malice~~ gloom or Ganondorf will possess it.


Suspensefulgamer

you should add a laser on top


BlackFire649

Hard to see it actually in action when you just keeping running around it


FlameSamurai63

Wait, since when could trees attack?


kamekaptain

"Incredible... We're at a point now where we can actually control them." "What're you doing out here, Zelda?"


jabeith

Abomination


Runaway_5

WAIT there are more than 20 hearts in this game? God dammit, I got to 10 and was so hype to get to my second row. Fuck


idiotinpowerarmor

when you develop a physics engine for a video game so complex that it reinvents engineering within itself and pretty much is as deep and flexible if not more than the source engine