Kingdom Tears player builds a car powered by frozen meat

We’ve seen a lot of cool Zonai-powered cars in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and we’ve even seen cool electrically powered devices. But what about a car powered by… meat?

Reddit user u/Superruub61 posted on the Hyrule Engineering subreddit today What they refer to as “a new breakthrough in cutting-edge, futuristic technology that no one thought possible.” Attached is a 23-second video of Link riding a cart made of four super-handy platforms held together in a triangle shape, with chunks of “ice flesh” wedged to the bottom. When Link hits the side of the cart, the force propels it forward, and frozen meat attached to the bottom allows it to slide for longer distances.

Unfortunately, the frozen meat cart isn’t particularly steerable, as it doesn’t have wheels or a steering stick, but it’s a very simple device that seems capable of moving across flat terrain at an acceptable speed. Most importantly, is its complete lack of use of Zonai or electric power. You don’t need a single battery or fancy electric motor to run this frozen meat cart forever.

Non-powered vehicles may be the next big thing for the Kingdom’s Tears community – u/bozokartoffl3 has previously posted Interesting raft no power It can move through the water at decent speeds, albeit with some steering difficulties akin to a meat cart. But what makes these two cars possible is a very specific build material: the fender. Found in a very specific place in Kingdom’s Tears, these ultra-lightweight platforms have unusual characteristics such as slow fall speed, unusual buoyancy, and survivability even if they came into being via Autobuild, which means they’re ideal for Strange building experiences.

Icy Meat has other uses, too, as some fans have discovered on Twitter.

Not only is Icy Meat in Tears of the Kingdom a good option for boosting your armor surfing, but it’s also fun to stick to the bottom of a car to allow it to slide into the road more easily.#TearsOfTheKingdom pic.twitter.com/dAtu1qHBb9

– Warp Star Main (KirbyAirRideFan) July 12, 2023

Tears of the Kingdom players have come a really long way from just building bigger and bigger bridges to solving their problems. We’ve seen helicopters that can fly without limits, and even had the Kerbal Space 2 developers launch some Koroks into orbit with us.

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Rebecca Valentine is a senior reporter at IGN. You can find her on Twitter @employee.