Tears of the Kingdom’s best ability is its most hidden
By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.
If you’re 20 or so hours into Tears of the Kingdom and you don’t have Autobuild, you’re doing it wrong.
Last week, there was a tweet going around asking that now Tears of the Kingdom’s been out a few weeks, what advice would you share? Lots of people left valuable nuggets of information like fusing rubies to your equipment that can keep you warm during the Rito quest-line (just, y’know, don’t fuse ‘em to anything wooden). Another good piece of advice: use Ascend more! Are you using Ascend already? Great! Use it 1,000 percent more!
I shared that unless your Purah Pad’s power wheel is complete, you are not done with the tutorial, emphasizing that Autobuild is an easy-to-miss but life-changing ability. My mentions were then flooded with people saying, “Wait...what? What the hell is an Autobuild?”
Oh. No.
Autobuild is a Tears of the Kingdom ability that is essentially a 3D printer for Link’s Ultrahand. It stores your builds, allowing you to quickly remake anything you’ve made recently if you have the materials handy, or, if you don’t, it will make them at the cost of some chunks of zonaite.
Autobuild will only store a handful of your recent builds, deleting them as you make more stuff. But you can favorite builds, allowing you to remake them whenever you want. It’s handy if you need to make quick utility builds like a two-fan hoverbike or a quick battle robot.
As you progress through the Depths, you will occasionally run into items called schema stones. They are found either within Yiga Clan strongholds or doled out from steward constructs and are essentially blueprints for
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