Tears of the Kingdom's portable Cooking Pot is a tool that, as its name suggests, was originally designed for fixing up food on the go. However, a Reddit user recently discovered its additional hidden functionality as an excellent ball-and-socket joint, giving Zonai designs super cool elasticity and allowing the individual parts to fit together in a remarkably pliant manner.
Just a few days ago, a Reddit user named OneRunNoita shared a video showing all the amazing uses of this new concept. We can see how the tires become more 'springy' in their video by making the pots act like rubber joints between the tired and the platform they're connected to.
We can also witness how the tires equipped with cooking pots are now able to 'absorb' or 'adapt' to the pressure with ease and revert back to their position easily with perfect, bouncy movement.
These joints can even be used on car control sticks, making it a breeze to steer the car in any direction. They also make sure that multiple wheels in the same structure can rub against each other and keep on truckin' without any hiccups or jamming, all thanks to the flexibility of the 'jointed' cooking pots. In addition, cooking pots can also be used as car suspensions, a feature that Zonai-designed vehicles desperately need, as we have discussed earlier.
This video by k0mbine is a perfect demonstration of how suspension can totally change the way a vehicle moves in Tears of the Kingdom. Before adding the pot-suspension, the car was sliding up, but the tires wouldn't adapt or adjust to the upward movement, continuing to face forward as they were on a flat surface. Once the player added the necessary suspension parts from the auto-build feature, the car began to slide in any direction the player wanted without much resistance from the ground or the vehicle.
There are some special tricks to making this possible, as k0mbine was kind enough to explain. The pot must be installed upside down. Players also need to glue the hubs or yellow circles of each small wheel to both pot handles, on top of attaching a stabilizer and a wooden wheel to the control stick for balance.
We are also provided with reference pictures, but the most peculiar is probably how the user also designed some sort of vert ramp? Maybe some dedicated fans will end up turning Zelda into their own racing/skating game, and Hyrule is certainly big enough for that prospect.