8 tips and tricks to know before starting Lego Fortnite
Fortnite now has its very own survival crafting game mode,Lego Fortnite. There’s tons to do in the game, but knowing where to start can be hard.
Whether you’re just trying to build a neat village or you want to take on big baddies, loading into the world for the first time can be massively overwhelming. A fresh new survival game can be hard to dip your toes into, but we got you covered.
Below, we list out a bunch of tips and tricks we wish we knew before starting Lego Fortnite and sprucing up our villages.
Lumber will be plentiful, but your methods of grabbing granite from bigger rocks will be limited. In our playthroughs, the large granite deposits never respawned, even though the trees around them did. With that in mind, plan accordingly!
As you add NPCs to your village, you can assign them to adventure alongside you. When given tools and weapons, the NPC will fight baddies for you and help you collect materials. The latter is helpful, especially when you’re spelunking in caves.
Unfortunately, you can’t pick up and move buildings, machinery, furniture, or anything else you build. If you want to move stuff, you’ll have to break it down and rebuild it. Not all hope is lost, as you do recoup the costs of the material when you break stuff down, but it is a pain in the butt.
You’ll learn this as you create building from blueprints, but the secret to building good structures is to be flexible with your foundations. Don’t just place the biggest square foundation down and start building off of that. You need to add smaller slices of foundation around those bigger squares to fit walls, corners, and pillars in correctly to your builds.
As you build around, you’ll need to constantly farm materials: wood, granite, marble, etc. It
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