Summary
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s new Ultra-Hand ability brings a sense of creation that can be found nowhere else. You will be using this feature a lot in the game, and experimenting with what works best for you. There are Zonai Devices that you can hunt down and use within your builds, and in all honesty, this is a game-changing feature.
This changes traversal completely becauseyou can now build vehicles. Link had his Master Cycle taken away during the Upheaval, and now he must use all the tools at his disposal to make his journey across Hyrule much easier. There’s so much to build in the game, planes, cars, tanks, bikes, hover bikes, and even some unique things. So, here are some of the best vehicles you can build in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom!
Updated on June 11, 2025 by Gabrielle Castania:Now that TOTK has been out for about a year, we’re updating some of our original lists for the game to enrich them with some of the content we’ve published on TOTK since launch. Now, you’ll find more info on how to build vehicles in TOTK than ever before.
You’ll need alotof Zonai Devices to make these bad boys, so be sure to stock up atone of several Zonai Dispensersbefore building!
Best For: Sky (And Land) Traversal
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It’s especially so before you’re comfortable with the physics of the game, but making a successful plane in TOTK can be a challenge. Thankfully, if you opt toattach a Minecart beneath your plane, you’ll have essentially made yourself a portable runway.
Not only can you use this to take off from a great height, but you can alsouse it as a car once you landto continue navigating the land with comfortable ease.
Best For: Making Shield Surfing Better
The Skateboard is essentially the most fun way to traverse around Hyrule, and it’s not even a proper vehicle! You probably have a bunch of Sleds on hand, and you canattach those to a shieldand effectively turn it into a Skateboard. This makes your Shield Surfing ability much more viable, especially on flat terrain.
This thing goes fast if you have enough momentum going, and it can actually take you around the map at an exhilarating pace. Not to mention, it doesn’t require many resources. All it needs is a simple shield and a Minecart that you can find almost anywhere if you go looking for it.
You can make a Skateboard with a Minecart instead of a Sled, too, if you see one lying around and want to save yourself the Zonai device.
6The Stealth Bomber
This is a hard vehicle to make, and it’s got a lot of moving parts. Once you get this plane going (which we recommend doing off the edge of a cliff for the height), there is nothing that can stop it. You can destroy enemies, and they won’t even be able to see you.
Fly this bad boy over a Bokoblin camp and watch them get annihilated. It’s not even funny how simple this can be to use, but the movement is a bit tricky to understand, and it’sheavy on the battery drain. However, once you get the hang of it, it’s an amazing vehicle to have.
If you don’t have access to the construction gear we used in our image above, you can also make this work using Minecarts or Sleds for the rectangular planks, and extra Stakes for the longer ones if needed.
Best For: Optimum Land Speed
The Speeder is an absolute masterpiece. This vehicle is great for traveling both Hyruleandthe Depths, because it only needs three parts to make and it barely drains anyBattery. It’s such an efficient long-distance vehicle that you won’t ever need togrind for the golden horse.
It’s a bit awkward to get on it, butyou can use Recall to make it stand straightagain, so that you can get a better hold of the Steering Stick.
A small wheel, aStabilizer, and a steering stick are all you need — stack them on top of each other and get moving. It can be used very well in the Depths; all you need to do is attach aBrightbloom Seedto it and you have a Speeder with a Headlight as bright as the sun. You may neverneed your horsesagain!
Best For: Hauling Resources
This truck is for those journeys where you want to carry something, but you don’t want to Ultra-Hand carry it for hours. Or, maybe there are a bunch of things you need to carry all at once. In any case, this vehicle will serve you well! Additionally, if youadd springs, you can pretty successfully make it anall-terrain vehicle, too.
you’re able to put anything you want in the back and carry stuff around; it can be logs, Zonai Devices, oreven a few Koroks. In any case, if you’ve got a delivery to make someplace in Hyrule, no matter the size, this is the truck for you.
Best For: Outright Destruction
Okay, we know this one has atonof parts to it, and you probably won’t be using this until you’ve expanded your batteries a bit, but hear us out - whysneak into an enemy encampmentout in Hyrule and carefully execute your attack when you could instead build this massive mech and storm the gates without apology?
It’s not very good at closing distances, but if you assemble this bad boy outside of an enemy camp and then crash through the gates with the device active, all those Canons you affixed to the arms of this behemoth will begin firing and taking out all those enemies with ease.
Best For: Long Flights
This jet is better than any other long-range flying device in-game, simply by adding several Batteries to a pretty standard flying device. You can control this plane with a Steering Stick and determine your path, and it can be very simple to make with very creative custom builds.
You can make this vehicle your own with even more adjustments. For example, you can add aBalloonto it or even Brightblooms or Lights to make it a more suitable device for the Depths.
Best For: Making Every Other Traversal Method Obsolete
The Hover Bike is the natural evolution of the Speeder Bike. It’s a completely different vehicle of course, but it’s similar in the sense that it drains very little battery and it has some of the easiest handling in the game. All you need are two fans and a steering stick — attach them all together and have the time of your life.
This vehicle is phenomenal for exploration essentially anywhere, from the surface of Hyrule to the Depths and even the Sky Islands. It works so well on the Sky Islands that you’dnever want to touch the ground. It can essentially make traversal completely easier for you, and that too in a fun way.
