LEGO Fortnite: How To Find Flexwood (& Recipes)

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Flexwood is a major resource in used to craft items like wheels and looms. While it is hard to obtain early on in the game, it is essential to craft the Glider, one of the most important tools in the entire game. While you'll need to put in the effort to develop a consistent method of harvest, there is a useful trick to quickly harvest flexwood.

To take full advantage of Flexwood, you'll need a Lumber Mill at your disposal. Lumber Mills help turn various types of wood, like Knotroot and Flexwood, into Rods that are then used in more recipes. The more you upgrade your village, the more Rods you can make. Flexwood and Flexwood Rods are key upgrade resources in the later stages of building your village, making them even more important to harvest.

While the name suggests that Flexwood could be harvested from a tree, that is not the case. Rather, Flexwood comes from cacti growing in the Dry Valley, aka the desert biome. The Dry Valley changes location in each playthrough, requiring some exploration to find. If you want to cut down cacti in , you'll need the right tools. Cacti can only be chopped down by a Rare Forest Axe crafted from a twice-upgraded Crafting Bench.

The first upgrade for a Crafting Bench asks for 8 Planks and 3 Shells. Planks can be crafted from Wood with the Lumber Mill while Shells drop from rolling crabs that wander the Grasslands. The second Crafting Bench upgrade, meanwhile, asks for 12 Knotroot Rods, 15 Marble Slabs, 6 Sand Claws, and 3 Sand Shells. Knotroot Rods are crafted with the Lumber Mill and Marble Slabs come from a Stone Breaker after mining Marble. Sand Claws and Sand Shells are enemy drops from Sand Wolves and Sand Rollers, respectively, in the Dry Valley.

Once the Crafting Bench is upgraded,