The Zonau Device in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom: A Minecraft-Like Computer? | Engineering Players and their Unparalleled Creations

Many people think that the Zonau device in “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom” makes the game as fun as “Minecraft”. It should be a normal civilization development for Hyrule to make computers… Well, yes, it is really a computer.

Just after the game was released last month, overseas player c7fab began to try to construct a one-dimensional computer by rotating wooden boards and lights, which may not look like a “complete” device at all.

However, the computer is basically “composed of 1 or 0 input through a logic gate that can determine the output”. The example in the c7fab video is 1 bit, so 1 + 0 is equal to 1, or 1 + 1 = 0 Carry with 1 proves that the computer can perform calculations normally (although it needs to be done manually).

In c7fab’s video, he explains how he uses mirrors as logic gates to physically determine switching inputs.

At the same time, he also introduced himself to make a “half adder” (half adder) with a rotating wooden board. This is a basic adder that adds two one-bit binary numbers. basic skills.

Yes, some people would think that “Tears of the Kingdom” can even make Gundam robots, and a simple-looking computer may not attract too many people’s interest. However, whether it is a robot or an automated cooking device, they are all applications of Zonau’s own functions, which belong to the creative field of ordinary players, but building computers is the basis for every engineering player to pursue.

In fact, when Minecraft players built a meta-computer in the game more than ten years ago, it was quite simple, but it was the unremitting research of these engineers and players. They used blocks such as redstone to really build a computer that ordinary people can understand. Even later, a wheat bar computer capable of playing games was built.

Although the Zonau device in “Tears of the Kingdom” is very interesting, it still has its limits. It should be difficult to make it like “Minecraft”, but if it can break through the limit of imagination, maybe the engineer Link players will bring Bigger surprise.