Your First Village
Well, you’ve learned that you can take resources from the world and create things with them. What if you could use resources even more efficiently?
Taking care of your world means finding and gathering and collecting its resources so that your world can ultimately take care of you.
Just about everything you do at the beginning of LEGO Fortnite unlocks possibilities for even more to build, but what good’s a big world without anyone to share it with? That’s where your friends come in, and in LEGO Fortnite, friends can mean a couple of different things.
First are your real-world friends, who you can invite into your island, as we wrote about in our guide to playing LEGO Fortnite with friends, who can help you do just about everything faster and safer.
Your world is also populated by a bunch of in-game friends, too. The more you build around your village, the more interesting your home base becomes, and soon you’ll find that your work is magnetic.
As you build the right things, people will start visiting your village. That starts with the Village Square, a super important item that effectively makes the surrounding area a proper village. It also allows you to level up your settlement. You’ll need to do things like build from blueprints and donate resources. As you upgrade your village, you’ll receive new blueprints, the ability to add more villagers and you’ll receive occasional surprise gifts and a variety of bonuses and perks.
Make sure to talk to visiting explorers. Invite them to stay. Offer them a bed and a roof of their own. Keep getting to know them, and they’ll be happy to continue the hard work that you started.
Take care of your friends, and they’ll take care of you.
Now you have a town and friends living in it. You’re using axes to chop the wood that you punched with your hands not long ago. You’ve built machines to refine those raw materials. You’ve built tools out of what you’ve collected and refined.
You’ve come a long way, and even though you’ve only just scratched the surface of LEGO Fortnite, you already have the fundamental skills that will guide you through the rest of the game.
The more you craft, the more you can build. The more you can build, the more friends you can invite to stay. The more friends you have, the more you can all work together to make even bigger and better things from tools to buildings to adventures. This is just a small collection of your firsts. There’s plenty that we haven’t touched on and that we hope you discover on your own. You’ve got a long way to go and the tools to get you there. And there is wherever you want to be. Because in LEGO Fortnite, the only limit is your imagination.