*INFINITE WINGS HAVE BEEN FOUND!* Video by Timber: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gbqolbCCyq_MnqM.html Also, I was sick while recording most of this. So, apologies if my voice is weird in a few spots! (Weirder than normal that is...)

The wings having such a short despawn time seems like one of the most bizarre development choices nintendo made. Proper working wings are my favorite thing in every setting and they went and ruined it

If the wings used battery power, that’d be a cool way to make them useful and still have them balanced early game

You truly can't beat the low cost, extreme longevity, and high maneuverability of a fan bike. "Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game." Which, as far as travel methods go, happened about a week after the game came out.

nintendo shouldve made the despawn timer based on how big your battery is. that way early game wings and balloons arent op but theyre still able to be useful later in the game

The shrine wings last longer because all zonai devices (except rockets) can’t despawn in shrines. Probably the same for the moragia fight ones. They aren’t different, I think the shrines just change how they work. You can still use the wings as a disposable parachute for your builds though :)

The worst part are that balloons also decay rapidly making them fairly useless outside of certain instances.

Aside from despawning, my biggest problem with wings is the handling. If you are just gliding and controlling them by shifting weight they work great. However, when using a steering stick and fans it feels like you’re flying an ocean liner. I wish they were more maneuverable and fun to control.

The mask bonus is actually crazy and I hate how much building material you miss out, the more you progress in the game

The wings really said ‘no one cared who I was til I put on the mask’

Okay but that title intro to "the water method" was so good XD

Wait... fans can disappear?

I don't think it's anything about the *Wings* in those specific areas/scenarios, but rather the areas/scenarios themselves. I'm pretty sure you can spawn your own Wings to use in them without the Wings despawning.

I actually did use water as a runway for a wing once! I needed a fresh file for some early game footage and got stuck on the other side of a fairly wide river with no good way of crossing and no convenient teleport spots ^^' Had to get creative and ended up pulling out a wing out of my inventory as a boat base. Worked really well! Also, I freaking love the transitions you made for this one, they cracked me up! :D

I'm doing a run where I can't carry around traversal based Zonai devices, and thats made every device I find in the world valuable. Wings are a blessing.

It’s crazy what the community has come up with when it comes to wing enhancement. Great video. Link clearly has good taste in Star Wars quotes as well.

Despite its flaws, I still really enjoy my wing based builds over the hover bikes, just something about is more fun to me

i like the wings mainly for gliding, but i still havent played much of totk, so this video was very helpful

I always thought wings shined best when just used as a simple cheap glider rather than a vehicle base. I find it relaxing to just ride them around.

I am SO thankful for you adding a list of the music you used in the video, it happens so often that i watch a video like this and hear the Background music and have the feeling i heard it before, it's just so satisfying to look it up after watching the video.

Completely by accident I favorited my preferred wing build as the one for menerus quest line. Explains why it always felt longer

My first day playing totk my wing timed out and i was so disappointed. Initially i was incredulous and assumed I did something wrong. Then I realized it was just the developers hating on me.

Man, TOTK is so fun. The wings are pretty useless if you have fans and stuff but i agree, they should maybe upgrade or it. It really just depends the terrain or where your at in the world because 75 seconds is pretty long actually, but compared to fans there's no use. Loved this video and keep it up❤💪🏼.

Btw the answer to the last method on why use wings: wings do in fact glide which means you can regen your battery which also means it lasts way longer and tbh i would be perfectly fine with that as i dont need to 100% air travel hyrule after i get where i need to i just warp which deletes the build anyway

First video I've seen from you and I wanna say: this was super well put together and detailed without having it be in your face and obnoxious like others who milked the game dry. I actually learned something instead of having it explained in less than a minute. Well done!

I deeply respect putting spoilers up still.

This is my favorite video of yours. Very informational, I’ve been trying to figure this out.

When I was first playing I used wings all the time, but ever since I got enough battery to travel long distances on a hoverbike I've hardly used them.

Working theory: the next evolution in totk wing devices is to make a contraption, that while riding on top of in the air will be able to catch the zonai wing from a capsule, which all you would then have to do is attach, even tho it's in the slot just not locked in place.

This video should qualify for a pilot's license

You never fail to amaze me bread! Keep it up man

I love your videos, they are so creative! You should have at least 1 million subscribers by now!

Its kinda funny how the game has whole groups of people in a union all working together to come up with stuff like the korok space program and hyrule engineering

I would just like to say that the structure of this video is top notch

Thanks to this video, my go-to Wing creation for medium-length flights are as follows: A 2-fan wing w/ control stick, and Balloons w/ Flame Emitters on each wingtip. The balloons generate lift until they expire, saving the wing's durability for later in the flight. They have just enough flight time to get to each King Gleeok arena from the respective nearest archipelago with max battery and Zonai armor.

I think a main reason why they put a timer on the wings can be seen in Xenoblade Chronicles X. In that game, after a certain point in your story you unlock the flight pack for your giant robots called Skells. You are technically limited by your “fuel” in that game, but fuel refills as soon as you exit your robot and even when the game is closed. So ultimately, you can fly anywhere without any real limitation. The issue that I at least noticed was that once you got the ability to fly anywhere on the map, the exploration got a whole lot less interesting. There wasn’t much satisfaction for reaching the top of a mountain when it took little effort and no resources in your Skell. I don’t really remember much about the last few areas in the game since by that point, I could just fly anywhere. Exploration kinda got unrewarding, and with that in mind, I guess the whole reason for putting a timer on Wings makes sense. Though not sure why the fan timer is so much longer.

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In the short time I had to play this game, the coolest thing I built was a takeoff dolly for a powered wing. I was surprised with how smoothly it worked, although it was very impractical since I only had enough battery power to stay in the air for about 5 seconds. I wonder if sticking 2 wings together at a dihedral angle would extend their life at all. That should reduce the amount of lift generated by each individual wing somewhat. Although I guess whether or not it works depends on if the wing timer is limiting the total lift generated or the time spent generating lift.

(i found out this one just a few minutes ago so there may be some flaws to this way and someone-else may have also found this but anyways, also potential spoilers for some. also ignore my english.) By fusing the wings with Mineru on the back part, the wings do work however they still fade if used for too long, but Mineru if stopped at the right time, essentially works as pause button for the timer of fading for the wings, 2 other cool benefits is that 1. Mineru allows you to not get any fall damage unless you're near a hub and forget to use your glider when landing. and secondly, she makes the wings easier to glide (atleast for me.). the only flaw i see with her is that she's a bit slow.

You can chain better by taking out a wing while still being on the first wing. Then you jump up to the second wing.

A good way they could fix this is by making wings add their timers when combined, so a contraption with 4 wings would fly for 300 seconds. the same thing could apply to balloons as those suffer the same problem as wings

I had unknowingly used that "zero lift" method myself at one point. I started with my hoverbike+ design that I use for cargo and started flying around in the depths, but eventually I decided to try stopping at all the little depots I found and just adding stuff while still being able to fly, and eventually tossed on a wing, expecting it to just fall off, but I was actually able to fly all the way from underneath the tabantha region to underneath the gerudo region without it breaking

Excited for the after show!

I gave up on wings pretty much immediately. I've been using a twist on the basic ATV quad, but instead of big wheels attached to the 2x4 board, it's four fans, pointing down, angled 45 degrees up, so that the fans propel forward and up at the same time. You can land and takeoff from water since the board floats and it can take you really far mid-late game when you have plenty of battery and the Zonaite armor.

Great Idea. Every single Piece gets a timer and by putting pieces together the times of all pieces gets added and starts couning down when you start the machine.

Of course, even with the last method, it still doesn't even come close to beating the 1-fan hoverbike with the right-leg depot rail for a stabilizer. Especially if you use the vertical configuration instead of the horizontal one. The vertical configuration can self-correct from just about any amount of knocking around. And, of course, it still has the benefit of the great battery life you get from only using 1 fan. You can pretty much cross any 2 areas in Hyrule on a single full battery charge with that thing.

I just modded the game to prevent despawning. It's so much fun flying around Hyrule like a fighter jet.

Elevater rails incorporated into the hoverbike give outstanding maneuverability, almost infinite life before despawn, excellent efficiency ( 2 fans), good korak transport, and only cost 12 zonaite in autobuild. Lots of how to videos available.

don't...all zonai stuff...last forever in shrines? except when they're intented to run out (the water bubles)

So, I'm another member of the Hyrule Engineering group (CalyxGoblin) and I hit on a combo that works very nicely with the wings EARLY-game, that I like to call the "Flappy-Bird Flyer" and combines it with the OTHER severely-limited-use lift generating Zonai device -- the balloon! Better yet, it uses built-in snap points and the durable parts all stay together as a single module you can slap fresh wings/balloons to when they run out periodically. You can go about 1444 in-game meters on a single wing and two balloons this way! The core: •Take out 1x fan •Stick a flame emitter to either side of it, facing left and right respectively •Now stick a control stick on the front of the fan. The replaceable flight module: •Take out 1x wing •Stick a balloon to the snap points in the middle of each wing of the...er...Wing. Now glue the fan to the central snap point of the wing (the "feet" medallion.) Each flame emitter is now pointing at a balloon. When you hop on the stick, the flame emitters generate tremendous lift and operate the fan to give you horizontal motion. The lift of the balloons is sufficient to not use up any of the wing's lifespan. When your first whole battery cell (the starting 3x base wells) run down, step off the stick to recharge your battery. This causes the wing to glide for more horizontal travel, using up some of its lift. Alternate these two modes to fly FAR, and control the lifespan of both the wing and the balloons so that ideally you use up the balloons before the wing, then glide down to replace them with fresh parts and take off again. For an even more basic version to save parts, a rig can be put together without the wing. Just a flame emitter stuck on the back of a control stick, a fan on top of that, and the balloon glued to the front of the emitter. Doesn't handle as well or go as far, but uses even fewer parts. The great thing is that other than having to get to Tarrey Town for control sticks, both of these builds use parts that can be found on the Great Sky Island itself!

I’m pretty low on the Keene wings etc, so sticking the wings to my arrows is wonderful for fighting Colgera and sniping long distanced with bows that rent meant for it.

Thank you for your service

Thanks for the info!

This vid does bring up a question: Why did the Zonai put the time limit into some of their tech?

_Looking to the heavens with the two apples and five loaves he gave thanks and broke the loaves-_ *SPEEDRUN COMPLETE*

Thank you for this!

Icarus definitely approves.

very cool - hope you had fun at Shibby Rob's

The other thing about wings is that they seem to reduce the effects of gravity on your craft, which means that you can make flying machines with reduced power requirements, leaving more capacity for things like turrets or an electric engine instead of a Zonai one

When you mentioned the wings in the shrines, using ultra hand if you attach it to something else it will appear in your auto build and retain its ability to last a long time.

Something you didn’t mention on the video is if you use more wings, the time span extends, but not by very much.try it.

The yiga must know something about wings we don’t know about.

Wings are great to fuse to shields for instant arrow-time by jumping and executing shield surfing.

At 3:53 I was thinking, maybe you could use auto build to get it out of the shrine? This goes the same with the Moragia boss fight as well, not sure if that’d work but just a thought. 🤔

i found 3 interesting facts that you could use in your next video you can see the batterys on links hip drain and recharge! bloodmoons dont happen in the depths and zonaite weapons have a unique sound when drawn and stown (aka unsheathed and sheathed)

I didn't even know fans had a despawn timer. Must have been a shock for the first person to find that out.

Me who completed the line with the masks but don’t want to start over my save… darn it

A newly discovered glitch lets you attach a battery which gives you unlimited power for your flying machines, it only requires a battery big or small doesn't matter, and you need a Zonai Control Stick, as it's very essential for the glitch to work. It's amazing how broken this game can be because of the Zonai Control Stick. The glitch only remains active while you're on the control stick, and if you disengage or jump off the control stick the glitch will end and you have to do it all over. So basically you build your flying contraption and finally attaching a battery with precise timing between the battery being glued and you taking Control of the Control Stick, it's a brief moment between the glue appears on the device and grabbing the Control Stick at the same time, and the result should be that the battery doesn't glow when everything is powered on and thus getting infinite power. It seems to be the only way to get this to work though it seems with the use of the Control Stick.

I feel like a way to improve wings, as well as other items, is to increase the time they last based on progression Basically, everything starts off at a base of 80 seconds, a buff to the wing and a nerf to most everything else. Completing objectives such as the four phenomena around the world, completing shrines, doing side quests, finding Koroks, and just about everything in between can add to the time before each item decays, with each item having its own modifier to keep things balanced and each task being weighted differently. By the end of the game, every decayable item will last an hour, allowing for long term constructs that endgame players can mess around with without messing up the game balance

The day that we discover truly infinite wings... I'll finally be able to fly a real plane across hyrule

I didn't expected to be spoiled the boss in death mountain like that

I can attest that last statement. Wings are relatively far more maneuverable than other large flying vehicles build with other materials, even if you have a crap ton of fans attached. However, another major downside to using wings in air vehicles (other than the ridiculously short time limit addressed in this video) is their counter-intuitive weight distribution. If you attach objects to the pre-defined (aka "snap on") points, this *that* bad of a problem, however in most cases its useful to place fans or other devices in more ambiguous locations, but doing so will completely throw off the balance of the wing. Using fans to generate life on wings is VERY delicate, hence why the design Bread shows in this video to generate lift only uses the "snap on" points that looks odd.

I figured during testing they limited the wing duration to prevent players gliding the full map to explore quickly. The first thing I thought of is that there should be an independent side quest that allows you to upgrade them. Take that idea further for all the zonai devices. Imagine being able to grind to increase duration, durability, damage and decreased auto build cost.

8:31 Just but a cooking pot behind Link, so when his Batteries are empty simply cook and they get refilled. A U-turn with immidiate cooking removes the least amount of time from the decay timer..

It's weird to me that they made the wing timer so short that they had to artificially extend it for multiple story beats. Why not just make the timer longer than the expected time for those story moments?

What about the forbidden method with that side piece of the elevators you can findinI the depths? (most easily found in the leg depot) cause if you have to use a wing because it's light, this is extremely light and never despawn too.

30 minutes of active use, no less. You could basically get from one corner of Hyrule and halfway back with that amount of time going max speed on a Hoverbike 2.0 Maybe attach a broken railing to a backwards wing? Like with the hoverbike 3.0

Wanted to mention, for the water method, the water bubbles at the water temple might work?

if you want the wings in shrines you can fuse the wing to your sword and go to terry town and defuse the wing off your sword

I love the I expect you to die music 3:22

2:55 If anyone is curious, this song is the I Expect You To Die HQ theme.

0:17 i think the wing represents the goblin glider pretty good and i didnt have access to the Zonai controller the first hour of the game

I have a question. So you had that shrine wing you said lasted way longer right? I know it's possible to steal certain shrine only items by attaching something to them like have a sword, fuse the item to it then bring it to the goron who breaks items apart and he separates it. if you do this will the special wing in the shrine retain that property? If so this may be a means to smuggle it outside and use it in your builds!

My go to trasportation device is the hot hair baloon basket with 3 fans

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Actually if you put a skate under the wing it can last for 2-3 minutes. I have twitted it when I discovered this but nobody in the community saw it apparently

im guessing the reason the mask is the only objects that improves life time is for it to give more time for the player to get the mask feom the sky island to the depths if they are using the wing

Balloons are in the same boat honestly, their timer is often just too short to get you up high enough before they despawn. Getting to the Sky Labyrinths or out of the Depths for example is just not something balloons can do in most cases, and for short elevations a simple rocket design or just climbing is more convenient

I thought you could use dragon parts but I guess that’s just to keep zonai parts from despawning due to distance from the part.

I think the wings deapawning early game is good. But they should like scale with battery length or have a upgraded version u can unlock.

I always have to many wings I got the game on Christmas 2023 was waiting for longer than I year so 2022 November and at a point wings become very useful boats so thanks for telling me how they won't decay in the water

God I remember a moment in the game i made a giant hang glider at the water temple with three wings and a lot of stakes it was a weird shape and it worked

I think the real issue with wings is how powerful everything else is. Especially the time disparity. If the Wings lasted just a couple minutes they'd be a lot better... In a game where the fans didn't still last 15x as long

For a casual playthrough theyre fun and are a lot more intuitive than fans. And for hardcore people who look up strars, fans work amazingly well.

7:52 how did you get those fans?

I managed to find out that if you make a wing do a "flapping" motion, you can generate flight without power

I get the feeling that if wings didn’t have the strict time limit, Nintendo thought they would be Overpowered.

3:26 is there a tutorial somewhere on how to make this? I’d really love to but I can’t find it anywhere.

For the Star Wars reference link have a cookie good job

To get the wings from Shrines you can fuse them to a weapon and go to terry town and unfuse them and you get the wing