A clever The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player built a fully-functioning catapult. Tears of the Kingdom provides players with a wide range of tools and materials they can use to bend and even break the game’s puzzles and environmental hurdles.
Tears of the Kingdom has a map similar to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's but with some significant additions, like Sky Islands and a vast underground cave system. Perhaps its biggest change comes in the way players interact with the world. It does so with a set of abilities unique to Tears of the Kingdom. The new powers push players to become creative problem solvers as it asks them to construct weapons and machinery to overcome obstacles or even over-engineer solutions for minor challenges if the player sees fit. It’s a creative playground that wants players to play however they want, no matter how silly or impractical the solution is.
While some players are building complicated flying death machines, others are keeping things practical. Using some of the basic wooden planks found around the world, a Zonai stabilizer weight, and the Ultrahand ability, a Redditor named Ganjanator21 found a way to get some big air by building a catapult. They attached three wooden beams end-to-end, then a small wooden plank to that, and a larger one to that. All the way at the base, however, is the Zonai device that makes the catapult possible: the Zonai Stabilizer.
By attaching the top of the Stabilizer to the bottom of the lowermost wooden beam and positioning the contraption so the Stabilizer was lying on its side, Ganjanator21 makes great use of the stabilizer’s primary function. When struck, the Stabilizer quickly stands upright. Attaching a long train of wooden materials to it with a large paddle at the opposite end meant all Ganjanator21 had to do to make Link soar through the air was activate the Stabilizer with an arrow. Alternatively, Stabilizers can be used in vehicle crafting, or even as an extra foothold to get Link to those hard-to-reach areas.
While it has all of Breath of the Wild’s vast expanses, Tears of the Kingdom's emphasis on verticality makes having a catapult on hand not just a good idea, but close to a necessity, especially once players unlock the ability to save designs to be auto-built later. But, when all else fails, Tears of the Kingdom players should remember to just use the Ascend ability.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available now on Switch.