By 2026, Hyrule’s monsters have learned to dread one sound above all others—and it’s not the clang of the Master Sword. It’s the soft, mechanical thump of 20 bombs launching skyward from a homemade mortar tank, followed by the sort of orchestrated chaos that would make even a Lynel reconsider its life choices. While the broken Kingdom of Hyrule has seen many wild contraptions since the Ultrahand ability turned every player into a part-time military engineer, one creation stands out as the undisputed champion of overkill: a Gloomdredger-turned-tank that can unleash a volley of bombs in a single salvo, all while a Conga turret cheerfully shreds anything that gets too close.

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The brains behind this rolling apocalypse belong to YouTuber Chesepuf, who looked at the Gloomdredger—that weird Yiga Clan death-trap on wheels—and thought, “Needs more explosives.” The tank starts life as a repurposed launch pad, still capable of flinging Link into the air, but its true calling is as a mobile artillery platform. Two springs connected to a rail system guide each bomb with eerie precision, while the Conga turret at the front uses twin small-angle pulsing heads to track and obliterate anything with a health bar. Spikes line the sides because, honestly, why not? A Boss Bokoblin and its entourage were the first to experience the tank’s charm; the bombs fanned out mid-flight and turned the entire group into a rapidly expanding puff of smoke.

And it doesn’t stop at grunt-level foes. The same tank has been recorded casually erasing Lynels, wiping Bokoblin camps, and even staring down a three-headed Gleeok without breaking a sweat. Watching a Lynel charge heroically at Link, only to be met by a swarm of glowing bombs before it can swing its sword, is the kind of poetic justice usually reserved for myth. Chesepuf’s video highlights how the tank can be tweaked for different missions—swap out parts for mountain traversal, adjust the turret’s aim, or just add more spikes because the laws of Hyrule apparently have no upper limit on spikiness.

The tank’s beauty lies in its accessibility. Since any player can snag a Gloomdredger from the Yiga Clan Hideout and mess around with Ultrahand, the barrier to entry is more “mild research” than “forbidden dark arts.” The construction details are out there, and the community has already started iterating on the design, because if there’s one thing gamers love more than building a death machine, it’s building a better death machine. Some have added cannons, others have slapped on a few more bombs, and at least one lunatic is probably trying to make it fly. In the three years since Tears of the Kingdom released, Ultrahand creations have evolved from simple rafts to divine-beast replicas, flying battleships, and now this—a tank that blurs the line between “Zelda” and a military simulation.

If Ganon had a group chat, it would be 90% frantic texts about a blonde elf driving a tank. The Gloomdredger mortar tank is, by any measure, the most efficient murder machine yet built in Hyrule’s history. It’s a monument to player ingenuity, a reminder that the only limit in this game is how many bombs you can carry at once, and possibly the best argument for why the next Zelda game should include a Geneva Convention expansion pack. Meanwhile, some poor Moblin somewhere is looking at a distant hill, seeing a tiny Link silhouette, and wondering why the sky suddenly smells like gunpowder.