LEGO® Fortnite Parents’ Guide

LEGO® Fortnite is a game that inspires players’ endless creativity in a familiar, safe and secure environment.

LEGO Fortnite adds the LEGO Group’s iconic minifigures as LEGO Style Outfits, bricks and elements into developer Epic Games’ Fortnite. You even download and start playing LEGO Fortnite through the existing Fortnite launcher. Simply select the LEGO Fortnite playlist tile in the Discover menu.

But LEGO Fortnite isn’t Battle Royale with minifigures. It’s an entirely new experience that combines the best of both worlds, and anyone can download and play LEGO Fortnite for free, alone or even better, with friends. We’ll explain in their own section below.

What is LEGO® Fortnite?

Instead of the Fortnite: Battle Royale you may be familiar with, LEGO Fortnite’s focus is on long-term survival, crafting and online cooperation with friends. The mix of those ingredients is up to players, which is why LEGO Fortnite includes four types of adventures — Survival, Sandbox, Cozy and Expert modes — each of which caters to a different approach to playing the game.

Every massive LEGO Fortnite world is procedurally generated and therefore unique to each player. They’re filled with mysteries to discover, scattered throughout areas like the rocky shorelines of the boulder coast and the cool shade of forests.

When players explore the wild worlds they create, they’ll discover friendly inhabitants — many characters and creatures come from Fortnite, in fact – as well as animals like cows and sheep built from LEGO bricks and elements. Players can discover less-than-friendly enemies too, like wild wolves, spiders and even pirates!

Some players will prefer to focus on adventure, harvesting elements to craft the best weapons and teaming up to explore dark and mysterious caves full of loot and enemies and tackling epic boss battles. Other players may focus on founding, building, expanding and leveling up villages, inviting visiting villagers to move in, assigning them jobs and working together to tame their wild world. Still other players can specialize in building, preferring the simple pleasures of constructing their own LEGO creations and populating the world with prefab creations that snap together seamlessly. The possibilities are as endless as each player’s creativity and imagination.

That’s why LEGO Fortnite is the best of all worlds. It combines the familiar terrain of Fortnite and the beloved bricks and elements from the LEGO Group to create vast creative playgrounds and standalone adventures for players who get to play in whatever way makes them happy.

What is a Survival world?

In a Survival world, players become the hero – gathering resources, building structures, crafting tools and weapons, fighting enemies and exploring a vast open world.

A Survival world’s built-in challenge is that players must gather and craft what they need to survive. Players take wood from trees and turn it into campfires, torches, axes and shovels to gather more resources, as well as swords and shields to defend themselves.

The more they build, the more they learn. The more they learn, the more building blueprints they unlock to build ever bigger and better things.

What is a Sandbox world?

In a Sandbox world, it’s like every player has a bottomless box of LEGO bricks and elements. Instead of worrying about wild wolves guarding the forest where they’re collecting wood, players can just build a log cabin – no collecting or fighting required.

From players’ earliest moments in a Sandbox world, it’s all about crafting and expressing themselves without fighting enemies or needing to harvest material. They can even take to the sky, superhero-style, to explore the map.

What is Cozy mode?

LEGO Fortnite Cozy mode is perfect for players seeking a balance between a mild challenge and a focus on building, farming and creating a vibrant, happy village. When players start in Cozy mode, they’ll meet a cheerful character who will guide them in establishing their Village and embarking on adventures. While combat is still part of the game, enemies are easier to defeat, making survival less of a concern.

The settings for Cozy mode in LEGO Fortnite are customizable to suit one’s preferences. With Hunger, Temperature and Stamina turned off by default, players can explore freely without worrying about food, shelter or rest, allowing you to enjoy building and adventuring to your heart’s content.

What is Expert mode?

Expert mode offers a challenging experience designed to test players’ abilities. This mode elevates the difficulty of the standard Survival mode, presenting tougher enemies and incorporating a permanent elimination feature. In LEGO Fortnite Expert mode, the difficulty is significantly increased: regular enemies become more formidable, and players face the additional threat of encountering dangerous Storm-Wild enemies. A majority of the default settings in this mode cannot be altered to reduce the challenge. For example, the Enemy Difficulty level is set to Hard throughout and Hunger, Temperature and Stamina settings are always enabled so that players are aware of the need to recover their resources.

Equipping yourself with the Totem of Return will help prevent players from being permanently eliminated from Expert mode. If a player is eliminated in this mode, they are not permanently eliminated from all of LEGO Fortnite. Players can still explore other non-Expert worlds or create a new Expert world to try again.

What is a LEGO Island?

LEGO Islands are a new feature that arrived in LEGO Fortnite a few months after the games’ release in late 2023. Instead of focusing on survival or building in vast open worlds, they offer new ways to play the game in smaller, more focused and directed experiences. And some of those experiences come directly from the LEGO Group.

For example, in the LEGO Group’s LEGO Cat Island Adventure, players arrive on what the game describes as the ‘purr-fect place to explore with a furry friend.’ All players need to do is run around, find their adorable cat and make them happy. Players and their furry little friends can explore the beach and waterfalls – all while deepening their bond. Learn more about LEGO Islands in a separate guide.

What are LEGO Kits?

LEGO Kits arrived in LEGO Fortnite with an early 2024 game update. They’re an optional part of LEGO Fortnite available for purchase. They include creative items inspired by LEGO Building Sets and Fortnite. Players can even share purchased LEGO Kits and their cosmetic add-ons with up to eight of their friends’ worlds per week.

What they do not offer is any gameplay advantages.

LEGO Kits include three broad item types:

• Builds refers to generally large items like buildings.
• Building Parts refers to materials like the walls, floors and windows that make up the included Builds.
• Decor items include themed decorations.

We can use one of the first LEGO Kits as a way to explain how they all work. The Beachside Boulevard Bundle includes 8 Builds (and all of the Building Parts that make up the Builds) and 44 Decor items. The optional purchase includes the Beach Pavillion building, a Beach House and a Lifeguard Tower. The Shore Shack Build looks like a beach shed. It’s the perfect compliment for Decor like beach chairs, surfboards and umbrellas.

LEGO Fortnite purchases use Fortnite’s in-game currency, called V-Bucks. No matter what platform you buy something on, content purchased with V-Bucks is available on all devices where you’ve linked the account through which you made the purchase.

Each platform processes its own payments. For example, the transaction to purchase V-Bucks on an Xbox Series X uses Microsoft as the payment processor. Android (Google Play), PlayStation®, Xbox, Nintendo Switch™ and Windows have parental controls settings. Epic Games’ Parental Controls settings help you manage purchases from a child’s account in the Epic Games Store.

As a parent, you can set limits and rules to control your kid’s in-game purchases, like LEGO Kits. LEGO Kits are optional decorative add-ons, and there is plenty of free content in LEGO Fortnite.

New physical sets include bonus digital item

LEGO Fortnite has been brought to life with the launch of four physical sets: Battle Bus, Peely Bone, Supply Llama and Durrr Burger. These are the first-ever LEGO sets based on characters, locations and items from the game, blending digital and hands-on play.

As a bonus, each set comes with an additional digital item – the Operation Brite Starter Pack – for use in the LEGO Fortnite game! Read on to find out how you can redeem it.

Where can my kids play LEGO Fortnite?

LEGO Fortnite is available for your kids to enjoy on a variety of platforms, including popular gaming consoles like PlayStation and Xbox, as well as mobile devices, Android globally and on iOS and iPadOS in the European Union. Whether your child prefers gaming on a console or using a mobile device, LEGO Fortnite is accessible and offers engaging gameplay experiences across these platforms.

How can my kids download LEGO Fortnite?

For consoles, you can find LEGO Fortnite by visiting the respective digital stores and searching for LEGO Fortnite on these platforms to get started:

• PlayStation®
• Xbox
• Nintendo Switch™
• PC
• Android

• iOS (EU only)

For playing on mobile devices, you can download LEGO Fortnite from the Epic Games Store.

LEGO Fortnite safety

Creating LEGO Fortnite worlds

LEGO Fortnite’s Survival and Sandbox worlds allow eight players to jump in simultaneously in one world, and having a community is the best way to play the game. Players cooperate to build, harvest, gather and overcome challenges. Each player is stronger and better with friends.

When players first create a world in Survival and Sandbox modes, it’s fully private, which means no other players will be able to join unless the world owner invites them. There are no ‘public’ worlds in LEGO Fortnite, and there’s no way to join someone else’s world unless a player gets an invitation from one of their friends. While many LEGO Islands are designed as public multiplayer experiences to be enjoyed with friends, they can also be played solo.

Before players can invite other people to join them in their Survival and Sandbox worlds, they need to be friends in Fortnite. World owners can also invite their friends to be a ‘key holder’, which means their friends can access and edit the world anytime, even if the owner is offline. Remember: guests can build or tear down any creations, so it’s important to have a good think before your child decides which friends they want to share their world with!

We expect everyone to play responsibly and follow Epic’s rules, which means no offensive content in LEGO Fortnite worlds. If players see something inappropriate in a world, we encourage them to report it using Fortnite’s easy-to-use reporting tools so Epic can take action against content and players that violate the rules.

Setting up Parental Controls

Fortnite has extensive in-game parental controls that allow adults to manage their child’s experience in the game. Each platform on which the game is available – for example, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and Windows – also offers its own parental controls.

With Epic Games’ Parental Controls, you can manage access to social features (such as voice chat), require a Parental Controls PIN for purchases and set up additional controls. You can access them online in the Epic Account Portal and also in-game using the Fortnite Parental Controls menu. Here’s how to access that menu in-game:

1. Launch Fortnite.

2. Open the main menu (which looks like three horizontal lines), and select the gear-shaped icon.

3. Select Parental Controls from the menu that loads.

From the Account Portal, parents and guardians can customize their Parental Controls to create an age-appropriate experience for every member of the family. Notable Parental Controls include:

• Voice and text chat permissions: You can manage who your child is able to speak with using Epic’s voice and text chat. You can select options like ‘Friends Only,’ which only allows your child to speak with other players in their Epic friends list and platform friend list, or disable chat entirely.
• Purchasing settings: You can choose to require your Parental Controls PIN to be entered before real money purchases are made using Epic payment.
• Require your PIN for friend requests: You have the option of requiring your PIN to be entered in order for your child to send or accept Epic friend requests. With this control, you can manage who your child is able to interact with in LEGO Fortnite, since worlds are private to players and their invited friends.
• Fortnite content ratings: In Fortnite, every island has an age rating, and you can determine which islands your child can visit based on those ratings.

Note: If your child is playing on a console, then you may also need to set controls for purchasing, communication limits, friend requests and more in that ecosystem. For example, if you turn off voice chat in Fortnite, your child may still be able to access voice chat using the chat system built into their console.

Epic Parental Controls require you to set up a six-digit PIN through the Epic Account Portal or the Fortnite Parental Controls menu. The PIN ensures that only you can make changes to your settings. Fortnite’s voice reporting feature allows anyone to submit audio evidence, so Epic can take action against other players using voice chat to bully, harass or engage in other inappropriate behavior. For players under 18, the feature is automatically activated in voice chats. You can also see voice reporting settings in-game through Fortnite’s audio menu.

Getting started

An Epic Games account is required for your child to play LEGO Fortnite. When creating an Epic account, if a player indicates they are under 13 or their country’s age of digital consent (whichever is higher), their account will be a Cabined Account. A Cabined Account is an Epic account that’s designed to create a safe and inclusive space for younger players. Players with Cabined Accounts can still play LEGO Fortnite but won’t be able to access certain features such as voice chat until their parent or guardian provides consent.

If your child already plays Fortnite, then they already have what they need to play LEGO Fortnite. Just open Fortnite, and look for LEGO Fortnite in there.

You can also sign them in with an existing LEGO account or an Epic Games, Nintendo®, PlayStation or Xbox account. If they don’t have one, we suggest creating a LEGO account and linking that to create your Epic Games account. You can also link an existing LEGO account to an existing Epic Games account. Either way, linking your Epic and LEGO accounts unlocks LEGO Insiders or LEGO Insiders Club (for younger players) and bonuses like the Explorer Emilie Outfit, including the LEGO Style for your child’s connected accounts.

You can also sign into an account through the official Epic Games site to let Epic know who your child is across the many places where they can play LEGO Fortnite, like consoles and mobile devices.

When you have the account set up and connected, adding friends is a simple process.

1. Launch Fortnite and sign into your child’s account.

2. Select your child’s circular avatar icon in the upper right of the screen.

3. Select the icon with the plus button on the menu that appears, which brings you to the Add Friends menu.

4. Enter the Epic account name or email address of your child’s friend in the box provided.

LEGO Fortnite has a feature called crossplay, which allows people to join in a match of the game no matter what platform they are on – including PlayStation, Mac, PC, Nintendo Switch or Xbox. Crossplay is enabled by default, so it doesn’t matter what hardware your child and their friends have. They can all play together.

LEGO Fortnite is a playground for players of all ages, whether they set out on daring adventures or spend their time building castles in the air. It’s all about fostering imagination and creativity. Playing together is the ultimate social experience in LEGO Fortnite.

Whether solo or with friends, you can play LEGO Fortnite for free*. The journey is only just beginning with new world-building, gameplay features and more LEGO Styles arriving in updates starting from early 2024.

* Optional in-game purchases available.

LEGO Star Wars™ update

In May 2024, LEGO Fortnite expanded with a galaxy’s worth of content in the 29.40 update.

When players launch the game, a Rebel visitor to their Village will lead them to a new island. It’s connected to but separate from the Survival and Sandbox worlds that we discussed above. Star Wars™ content flows from this free new island, which will remain available even after the 29.40 update.

The LEGO Star Wars update adds enemies like Imperial Stormtroopers and iconic weapons like blasters, thermal detonators and Lightsabers™. Players can craft many weapons at the new Rebel Workbench, but they’ll have to earn their Lightsabers.

There’s also a new Rebel Village to build, defend and upgrade. It’s like a classic LEGO Fortnite Village but with a Star Wars twist. New buildings like the Rebel Farm and the Rebel Stables sport the insignia of the Rebellion and fences are made of lasers instead of wood. And the minifigure friends who move in will be a combination of human, alien and droid.

Many new LEGO Styles – LEGO versions of Fortnite Outfits – are now available in LEGO Fortnite, including Darth Vader and the Mandalorian. If your child already owned those Outfits in Fortnite, they’ll be able to use them in LEGO Fortnite now, too. Outfits are also available to purchase.

The LEGO Pass: Rebel Adventure is a series of quests that arrived with the update and is available until July 22, 2024. Players complete them, earn Studs for their efforts and unlock in-game rewards with the Studs they earn. There are two versions.

1. The Free Rewards Track includes 10 Decor Bundles and the Mos Eisley Cantina Build.
2. The Premium Reward Track costs 1,400 V-Bucks (Fortnite’s in-game currency) and includes 11 additional rewards as well as the Chewbacca Outfit. In short, players complete the same quests as the Free Rewards Track, but they receive more rewards and a LEGO Style Fortnite Outfit for doing so.

For more information on optional, paid in-game content, you can also read our Parents’ Guide to LEGO Fortnite Purchases.