LEGO Fortnite Takes Survival Crafting to a Whole New Level

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LEGO Fortnite is out now and it’s a brand new survival crafting game built in the world of Fortnite in LEGO style. Everything in the game is procedurally generated for each world you create and it’s even built in Unreal Engine 5 using Chaos physics and destruction to break LEGO bricks apart just like in real life.

This play experience is a new long term partnership between Epic Games and the LEGO Group that is speciailzing in a new open world game to let players of all ages build their own worlds with LEGO bricks digitally.

Niels B Christiansen, CEO of The LEGO Group, said, "Our partnership with Epic Games is

focused on developing digital play experiences that are designed to be fun and safe, and have

the potential to bridge the worlds of physical and digital play to inspire kids. Together with Epic

Games, we are building digital worlds designed with kids in mind from the outset - we hope

other creators and brands are inspired to do the same."

Turning over to gameplay, here's everything you need to know before diving into the survival crafting game, LEGO Fortnite.

In LEGO Fortnite, you can invite up to 8 friends total for each world. You can choose between creating a sandbox world (where you don’t have to farm for resources or worry about survival mechanics) or survival (where you have to manage your character and find resources).

If you share the world’s key with your friends, they can access it even when you’re offline. You can also have multiple worlds created at once. There are over 1,200 existing Fortnite skins that will become LEGO-ified when you select one to enter LEGO Fortnite with100 special emotes for LEGO.

When you drop into your new procedurally generated world, you’ll have to pick up some rocks and wood so you can