Meet the inventors making Hyrule’s most complicated contraptions

polygon.com:

When Nintendo first started showing footage from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Hyrule’s hero navigated the world with simple vehicles and gliders. I would have never imagined that Link would eventually cruise around in a hot rod that spits flames — and instead of killing the environment with gas emissions, that car goes old-school and simply sets everything on fire. Nor did I imagine I’d see Link flying around on a helicopter made up of wood planks and fans stuck together with magical glue, resulting in a creation that would hardly pass inspection.

And yet, those are exactly the sorts of inventions that fill the Hyrule Engineering Club, a Reddit forum that’s more than 20,000 members strong and constantly growing at an estimated 1,500 members per day. In the posts that fill this subreddit, Link’s got a mech suit that shoots lasers, a Segway, and a Star Wars podracer; you’ll see designs for Bokoblin traps, rechargeable Zonai batteries, and lawnmowers for harvesting Hylian rice. The inventors of the Hyrule Engineering Club are playing 4D chess, while I’m out here still trying to build a large bridge.

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The Hyrule Engineering Club was created several days before Tears of the Kingdom’s release date by A.J. Muncill, a pharmacy tech and Twitch streamer. In the days after Tears of the Kingdom’s release, the community grew exponentially as players realized just how flexible the game’s building mechanics were. Hyrule Engineering Club quickly became a place not only for showing off creations, but for engaging in collaboration and collective creativity.

“The community itself is amazing,” Muncill told Polygon. “Every post of a build has a debate of how to make it better in the comments. It is so much fun to see