Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Player Builds Lynel

One crafty The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player builds a clever machine for farming Lynels in a merciless fashion.

One adventurous The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player managed to bring Lynel farming to the next level with a machine that automates the process of taking down these otherwise menacing creatures. They later took to social media to share their feat of engineering, having done so just as another Tears of the Kingdom player was showcasing their unicycle design.

The building mechanics featured in the latest Zelda game have ushered in a huge influx of impressive community creations ranging from all sorts of vehicles to machinery such as Tears of the Kingdom combustion engines and rain sensors. And while some players prioritized pilotable machines with their designs, others focused on experimenting with autonomous weaponry that helps them defeat some of the game's most difficult enemies.

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The latest such piece of engineering was authored by Reddit user moose_VI, who devised a complex contraption for mowing down Lynels in the Floating Coliseum, one of the most dangerous locations in Tears of the Kingdom. The central piece of their design is a dome consisting of five Zonai Sleds that's meant to be mounted on a wall via a single Zonai Stake. That makeshift platform hosts three Construct Heads, two of which are equipped with four Beam Emitters each, while the final head that's perpendicular to the floor wields a single Zonai Cannon. The general idea behind the design is for the Beam Emitters to push through damage, while the cannon is used for stun-locking Lynels, thus preventing them from destroying this makeshift turret with their ranged elemental attacks.

The concept works fairly well in practice, as evidenced by a brief video demonstration of this machine that moose_VI recently shared on Reddit. And while the turret's body could feasibly be much smaller by using something like shields instead of Zonai Sleds, its author presumably opted for the bulkier Zonai devices because those provide better cover against Lynels' arrows.

The current version of the machine incorporates 18 components in total, which leaves enough room for a bit of extra weaponry. For context, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom allows players to join together up to 21 parts before their structures start falling apart.

Overall, moose_VI's contraption is a worthwhile addition to one's Lynel-farming arsenal, not least because these creatures are widely considered as some of the most dangerous enemies in Tears of the Kingdom. Strategic deployment of this turret should hence help the players farm some of the rarest equipment pieces and monster parts in the game while preserving the durability of their hard-earned weapons and shields.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available on Switch.

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