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One inventive player has devised a clever way to build an entirely airborne Tarrey Town house inThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Making matters even more impressive is that their method doesn’t rely on any major glitches, but merely leveragesTears of the Kingdom’sexisting building mechanicsand physics.
The newZeldagame replaces the simple home furnishing activity fromBreath of the Wildwith a much more powerful system for creating entirely custom homes. Doing so requires visiting Tarrey Town, whereTears of the Kingdomplayers can buy a plot of land and build a house.
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And while the fandom has so far managed to engineer a wide variety of original home designs, few have been as impressive as the floating house that was recently showcased by Reddit user fghhjjjiiioooop. Following some experimentation, this inventiveTears of the Kingdomplayer realized that they can lift their home in the air with enough Zonai Rockets, then use Zonai Hover Stones to keep it suspended for long enough to submit the floating construction to Granteson.
The resulting sky house isn’t particularly accessible, but that doesn’t make it any less impressive. The home-launching technique also offers much more flexibility than the only other knowntrick for building floating Tarrey Town houses inTears of the Kingdom, which only allows Link to suspend a small subsection of the entire layout. The previously discovered method relied on a hard-coded limitation that would see the game delete floors that are too high, allowing players to create floating units by building hook-like constructions. However, the newly surfaced rocket technique suggests that this restriction only applies to the overall number of vertically stacked blocks instead of the altitude of the final layout.
Thisgravity-defyingTears of the Kingdomcreationcould consequently have a major impact on the game’s homebuilding meta, not least because it allows players to build maximally spacious houses in the clouds. For context, Tarrey Town homes can contain up to 15 housing units, but the older method for suspending them in the air required sacrificing the majority of their layouts as scaffolding, ultimately only allowing some half a dozen rooms to stay airborne after submitting the design to Granteson.
Players eager to experiment with this newly refined approach to building floating houses should first make sure to stock up on Zonai Hover Stones and Zonai Rockets. The inventor of this clever method used ten of each device to lift their spacious home in the air, although a smaller launch mechanism would also do the trick if the goal was to build a floating house at a lower altitude.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis available on Nintendo Switch.
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