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OneThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomplayer managed to expand Link’s Tarrey Town house with a floating floor. The building mechanics in the follow-up toBreath of the Wild, allowingTears of the Kingdomplayers to create machines for farming enemies, unicycles that tower into the sky, and all manner of interesting creations.
WhileBreath of the Wildonly offered home furnishing,Tears of the Kingdomallows players to build a custom housefor Link from the ground up. And though the game’s home construction mechanics come with limitations, plenty of fans have already managed to put together some extremely creative housing since the game hit store shelves on May 12.
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The latest example of such inspired engineering was authored by Reddit user Bagel_enthusiast_192, who found a way to construct a floating house by pushing the limits of theTears of the Kingdomhomebuilding mechanics. Following some experimentation, the player realized that the game imposes a hard cap on how tall a given house can be. However, that limit is only enforced after Link submits the building layout to Granteson. Once that happens, the game will simply delete any floors that are too high despite the fact that Granteson won’t object to the submission.
Bagel_enthusiast_192 realized that they can use this to create a floating floor by building an upright hook-like shape whose top goes over the height limit. Doing so makes the game delete the bent part of the construction, leaving its previously hanging floor suspended in midair. Based on the brief gameplay clip showcasing this design in action, it would appear that the maximum allowed housing height is equivalent to six vertically stacked 2x1 blocks. Therefore, constructing a hook-like shape that’s seven such units tall should be sufficient to recreate this engineering feat.
SinceTears of the Kingdomlimits custom homes to 15 housing blocks, this technique should allow constructing floating floors that contain up to six rooms. The downside of this method is that it further restricts Link’s house to 12 units, seeing how three of them will always be deleted upon submission. Bagel_enthusiast_192 also confirmed that the floating floor will immediately crash upon re-entering the game’s building mode. Additionally, accessing the airborne part of the house seems to be fairly inconvenient, as it requires usingTears of the Kingdom’s Ascend abilityfive consecutive times before the player is able to jump over to that section.
Then again, the 15-unit limit will by itself already force most players wanting to build tall houses to design their homes with Ascend in mind. This was previously illustrated by anotherTears of the Kingdomplayer who built an impressive three-story housewhose premises featured plenty of amenities, but only included a single staircase, thus requiring Link to Ascend to its third floor.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis available on Switch.
