Building Vehicles with Ultrahand in Tears of the Kingdom
The promotional material for Zelda Tears of the Kingdom emphasizes the possibility of building cars, boats, and flying machines. In the promotional material, Link crafts his own vehicles using the Ultrahand ability, piecing them together from pieces to form various forms of transportation. We’ll explain more about that below, as well as some of the best vehicles we’ve seen so far in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Vehicles
As it appears in The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, vehicles are entirely constructed from pieces that can be moved and glued together with Ultrahand. As opposed to building towards a specific design, players appear to be able to arrange pieces and parts in a way that feels improvised, rather than fixed, to create a vehicle that appeals to them. They can be controlled in rudimentary ways, usually by manipulating fans, sails, etc. Once constructed, they can be controlled in rudimentary ways.
You might want to keep in mind that this isn’t the same as the Fuse ability, which enhances and merges weapons for better results in combat. To learn more, see our page on Zelda Tears of the Kingdom fusions.
How to Make Vehicles in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom
As a new ability in Tears of the Kingdom, Ultrahand allows you to assemble vehicles. When you use Ultrahand, you can move objects through the air and glue them together, which is how you make vehicles. With Ultrahand, you attach parts and objects together to create one vehicle that can take you anywhere. Some vehicles can even handle both at the same time, such as a boat that takes off when four turbines are engaged simultaneously.
Based on our observations so far, we have some information about vehicle construction:
- If you want your vehicle to move, find fans, sails, wheels or similar parts, depending on what you want. Different parts will allow you to move the vehicle at different speeds.
- You can rearrange the pieces if necessary. Ultrahand has no penalties and you can detach pieces as much as you like, so keep mixing and rearranging until you get it right.
- A gameplay trailer showed that when Link reaches a big lake, there is no boat, but there are parts scattered around to make one.
All Vehicles in the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
As we have seen in the promotional material, there are a variety of vehicles represented, and while there are probably so many combinations of parts that it is nearly impossible to count them all, we have noticed several trends in their design and layout.
Cars
Cars, or land vehicles generally, have probably had the least amount about them shown of all the vehicles, though given that horses will be available again in Tears of the Kingdom, they might also be the least necessary kind of vehicle. According to the land vehicle shown above, it had headlights, two types of wheels, a steering mechanism, and a battery or power source on the back. It’s certainly more complex than the simple logs and sticks we’ve seen some vehicles made of.
Boats
We have seen two important variations of boats lately – sail-powered boats and fan-powered boats. Clearly the former depends on the wind, but the fans can be turned on by hitting them with a weapon. This temporarily makes them turn and push the vehicle they’re attached to. Of course, that doesn’t just mean boats.
Air vehicles
Considering all of the floating islands across Hyrule, air vehicles are arguably the most exciting, and necessary. A link has traveled across the sky in hot air balloons and platforms powered by the turbines mentioned above. These turbines fire downwards to lift the link.
Is the “Master Cycle Zero” Motorcycle in Tears of the Kingdom?
The only proper vehicle in this era of Hyrule (other than rafts and giant Divine Beasts) was the Master Cycle Zero motorcycle, which was added in DLC and used Guardians parts.
The Master Cycle Zero hasn’t been mentioned in promotional material, so there’s no reason to believe it’ll be back – it might make a lot of vehicles unnecessary for players. In the meantime, it looks like the bike has been put back in the shed – but we’ll update this page if more information emerges.