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, so that anyone who already has Fortnite downloaded can play LEGO Fortnite for free – LEGO Kits offer optional in-game purchases, which we’ll explain in their own section below – alone, or even better, with friends.

What is LEGO® Fortnite®?

Instead of the Fortnite 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 three types of adventures — Survival Worlds, Sandbox Worlds and LEGO Islands — each of which caters to a different approach to playing the game.

Every massive LEGO Fortnite Survival and Sandbox 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 Lush 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.

Every LEGO Fortnite player can take a break from building and decorating and surviving their world to explore LEGO Islands, which are smaller, self-contained adventures, accessible from Fortnite’s Play menu. They’re less about exploring and building in a vast world and more about accomplishing a fun, focused goal like befriending a cat or surviving a LEGO pirate’s cannonball attack in a gigantic bathtub.

LEGO Islands arrived in Fortnite with adventures created by the LEGO Group using Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). Other creators can also make LEGO Islands using UEFN, too. We’ll talk about both and how they’re safe for the whole family below.

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

What Is an Expert Mode?

Expert mode offers a challenging experience designed to test players' abilities. This mode elevates the difficulty of 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. The mode has the hard difficulty settings by default, which cannot be altered to reduce the challenge. To name a few, enemy difficulty is hard; hunger, temperature and stamina are always enabled making players constantly aware of the need to recover one’s resources.

Though Player Elimination is permanent in Expert mode, if players are eliminated and lack a Totem of Return, they are not permanently barred from the game. They 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.

LEGO Raft Survival is an action-packed adventure featuring the iconic LEGO Pirates theme set up in a bathtub. Players must stay afloat on rafts as they’re bombarded by cannonballs. They can also build rafts and rescue teammates. Players just need to make sure that they don’t fall into the water, or the sharks will get them!

Players can access these smaller adventures from the ‘LEGO Islands’ section of Fortnite’s Play menu. Take the following steps to see all of LEGO Group’s island creations.

1. On Fortnite’s Play menu, scroll down to the “LEGO Islands” section.
2. Click on one of the islands that we mention here, including LEGO Raft Survival, LEGO Cast Island Adventure. It’ll say “created by thelegogroup” if it comes from us.
3. Click on the three-dot icon and select “View Creator” to see more.

There will be more island experiences from the LEGO Group inside Fortnite in 2024 and beyond.

Creators outside of the LEGO Group can also design and publish their own LEGO Islands within Fortnite. For players in the United States, every LEGO Island must have an ESRB rating of E10+. For players in most of Europe, they must have a PEGI rating of 7. You can find the ratings of each LEGO Island just beneath its icon on Fortnite’s Play menu.

What are LEGO Kits?

LEGO Fortnite’s safe and secure design includes limits and rules that grown-ups can set to control in-game purchases like LEGO Kits from children's accounts.

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 four 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 like beach chairs, umbrellas and surfboards in the Beachside Boulevard Bundle LEGO Kit.

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 Game Store.

LEGO Fortnite remains fundamentally free, even with these optional purchases, and free content continues to arrive in the game constantly.

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. LEGO Islands designers can support various numbers of players. Some more intimate experiences are designed for four, while others call for 16 or 20 players at a time.

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 Sandbox or Survival 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!

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.

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 inside of there.

You can also sign them in with an existing LEGO, 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 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 20.40 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.