One curious and dedicated Tears of the Kingdom fan worked out Link’s weight using apples and a makeshift scale, and it turns out he’s one tiny hero. Reddit user RecommendationOk6824 posted a video showing the scale in action before using it to see just how weighty Link is.
The scale itself is pretty ingenious, as is basically every Tears of the Kingdom creation in the Hyrule Engineering subreddit. RecommendationOk used some of the building materials available at one of the dozens of Hudson construction sites in the Zelda game, two Traveler’s Swords, a stabilizer Zonai device, and some mops, where the mops act as the scale arms, the swords join the platforms together, and the stabilizer keeps it all from moving until you activate the device.
Working Scale – Guess Link’s Weight
by u/RecommendationOk6842 in HyruleEngineering
They tinker a bit with a Korok, because of course they do, and then decide to see how much Link weighs. The answer is 10 apples, and it’s kind of mind blowing. The world’s biggest apple weighed in at about four pounds, so if you multiply that by 10, the hero of Hyrule clocks in at a whopping… 40 pounds.
Assuming he’s in his early 20s as some players deduced and is roughly 5’2”, as others calculated, that’s about 100 pounds shy of what’s considered a healthy weight.
Then again, Zelda spent 100 years holed up in Hyrule castle keeping Calamity Ganon in check and, presumably, didn’t stop for a light dinner or a midnight snack, and she turned out okay. Maybe Hylians are just built different.
Either way, the engineering community is more excited over the discovery of a working scale, since it means they can find reference points for how heavy Tears of the Kingdom considers certain items to be, which makes figuring out complex builds easier.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
