A Guide to LEGO® Kits and LEGO® Fortnite® Purchases

The LEGO® Fortnite® players can download and experience the survival crafting game on a host of platforms, and the free game is regularly evolving to offer new free content to enjoy.

LEGO Fortnite also includes optional in-game purchases, LEGO Styles and LEGO Kits. These cosmetic items are inspired both by Fortnite and LEGO Building Sets.

LEGO Fortnite has always offered a familiar, safe, and secure environment for players of all ages. That includes limits and rules that grown-ups set to control in-game purchases from children's accounts.

In this article, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about LEGO Kits, how optional purchases in LEGO Fortnite work, and how you can set limits appropriate for young players.

What are LEGO Fortnite Kits?

LEGO Fortnite Kits are optional cosmetic items that bring special items into LEGO Fortnite worlds. LEGO Kits offer no gameplay advantages. They’re fundamentally optional additions.

You can find them in LEGO Fortnite’s “Item Shop” menu, under the “Build with LEGO® Kits” submenu on the left side. To purchase LEGO Fortnite Kits, you need to have V-bucks, which require real currency, but can be fully controlled by parents. We will tell you more about them in the next paragraph – read on.

LEGO Fortnite Kits generally include three categories of items:

● Builds, guided blueprints of buildings

● Building Parts, prefab elements which can be used to complete a guided build of for free building. (Ex: Floors, walls, Stairs, Roofs…

● Furniture and Decor items, which are decorative items like beach chairs and surfboards in a beach-themed LEGO Kit

LEGO Kits exist alongside LEGO Fortnite’s free builds.

The first LEGO Kit Bundles launched include the following:

● Beachside Boulevard Bundle, which includes 8 Builds and 44 Decor items

● Lion Knights’ Castle Bundle, which includes 10 Builds and 65 Decor items

● Durr Burger, which includes 3 Builds and 41 Decor items

The Beachside Boulevard LEGO Kits include several buildings that players can build to create a beachside village. Those include the Beach Pavillion, which is a great gathering place, a Beach House, which is the perfect building to put beds for your village’s residents, and a Lifeguard Tower. There’s even a small building called the Shore Shack, which is like a little shed that pairs perfectly with the included Shoreside Shack Decor’s beach chairs, surfboards, and umbrella.

The Lion Knights’ Castle Bundle includes medieval-themed castle buildings and items, like regal versions of furniture, knightly banners, and decorative shields. It’s inspired by the physical Lion Knights’ Castle Building Set. And that set, which is part of the LEGO Icons series, is based on the classic King’s Castle theme from 1984.

Players can use purchased LEGO Kits in up to eight of their friends’ worlds per week, so they’re free to share with players who haven’t purchased them.

In Survival Mode, the standard rules apply. Players must gather resources like Wood and Granite before they can build what they purchase. In Sandbox Mode, players can build LEGO Kits without gathering resources.

What are V-bucks and How They Work in LEGO Fortnite

LEGO Fortnite uses a special currency called V-Bucks, which it shares with the wider Fortnite ecosystem. V-Bucks are the in-game currency that all Fortnite purchases require, no matter what platform players are on.

You can purchase V-Bucks in-game from the V-Bucks menu that appears at the top of the main Fortnite window. V-Bucks gift cards are also available.

As we detail in our LEGO Fortnite Parents’ Guide, the game and the platforms it’s available on have extensive parental controls that empower adults to manage a child’s experience.

Epic Games has a Parental Controls setting designed to help prevent unauthorized purchases from a child’s account while using Epic Games payment services. This setting requires your Parental Controls PIN to be entered to approve purchases in the Epic Games payment system. It does not, however, affect purchases made with existing V-Bucks. In other words, a child may purchase something using their existing balance of V-Bucks, but they can be prevented from purchasing additional V-Bucks using real money.

Other platforms process their own payments. For example, the transaction to purchase V-Bucks on a PlayStation 5 uses the PlayStation Store as the payment processor, while doing so on a Nintendo Switch processes payments through the Nintendo eShop.

Android (Google Play), PlayStation®, Xbox, Nintendo Switch™, and Windows have parental controls settings that can, among many other things, place controls and limits on spending.