Fortnite: Save the World

Gameplay[]

In Save the World, the player takes on the role of a Hero, with the task of fighting against The Storm, rescuing Survivors, building structures, and upgrading and expanding Storm Shields to shield large portions of the world. The tasks are straightforward as they mostly are made up of building around a structure and defending it.

There are 3 types of enemies the player must deal with:

• Husks: Basic melee/ranged enemies that deal low to moderate amount of damage. They are the most common type and are found in large clusters usually.
• Mist Monsters: Monsters with a purple/blue like hue with yellow eyes that have special abilities. They are a rare occurrence and generally have a high health and damage and pose a high threat to an objective.
• Bosses: Mini-Bosses can take on the form of any existing monster with a greatly amplified health and damage, with special abilities aswell. The Storm King and Mythic Storm King are the only true bosses of the game, which can be found in Canny Valley and Twine Peaks respectfully.

The player has multiple forms of progression:

• Power Level - A measure of how much the stats of your weaponry and heroes are scaled. Power Level also applies to the difficulty scaling of missions and enemies.
• F.O.R.T. Stats - Stats which scale a specific aspect of your arsenal. All 4 F.O.R.T. Stats will determine Power Level.
• Commander Level - Level that allows access to high Research Point generation and advanced upgrades, along with some F.O.R.T Stats.
• Survivor Squads - Squads of Survivors that can be customized and slotted into teams that benefit a specific aspect of gameplay and give bonuses to items and heroes.
• Storm Shield - Expanding the Storm Shield by installing more amplifiers and defending them grants access to higher-level missions. A Launch the Rocket mission will have to be completed to unlock the next region available.

The player also has progression for individual items too. Items can be evolved to the next tier to unlock new features for the item and give a significant boost in terms of base stats. All rarities & handmade material have a max tier as shown below:

• Handmade: Tier 1^[1]
• Common: Tier 2
• Uncommon: Tier 3
• Rare: Tier 4
• Epic: Tier 5
• Legendary: Tier 5
• Mythic: Tier 5

Items can also be supercharged with Superchargers, which extend the item's level beyond Level 50. For weapons, evolving to Tier 4 will give the player 2 choices:

• Ore: uses an Ore material as its primary crafting resource.
• Crystal: uses a Crystal material as its primary crafting resource, but damage increase is greater than that of the Ore Evolution path with the cost of Fire Rate and Durability.

In addition to progression, players can use one Commander Hero and 6 Support Heroes in their Hero Loadout.

• The Commander Hero is the hero that you play as. Their Commander Perk, Ability Configuration, Class, Health, Shield and other stats will be active.
• Support Heroes use their basic standard perk and contribute a portion of their health and shield to the hero; however, their ability configuration and class will not be available to use in-game.

Players can also take 3 Weapons and their Pickaxe into a mission as well. Weapons are primarily obtained by crafting them using their Schematic, but they can also be obtained through Chests, Mission Rewards and Side-Mission Loot. Weapon Schematics can have their perks be configured uniquely and be evolved and increase rarity, along with choosing their evolution path. Crafted weapons will break when their durability runs out, or can be recycled to obtain materials used to craft other items.

The player has a main campaign, Stand and Fight to progress through (Stonewood, Plankerton, and Canny Valley), with many other Event Questlines occasionally rotating in, and a filler questline (Twine Peaks). These can be bundled with a Venture, seasonal events based on the real-world season with an exclusive zone in which the player must level up their Venture Level to unlock access to higher-level missions and increase their FORT Stats. The player can only craft their traps, with them having to resort to Vending Machines to obtain weaponry and Crafting Benches to repair them.

Story[]

See also: Lore (Save the World)

The Storm came without warning, wiping out 98% of the worlds population instantly and from this mysterious storm evil was born. Humanities last hope is Homebase a base which houses all remaining survivors and the heroes which fight back against the Storm, and all of this is led by The Commander (the player).

In the beginning cutscene we see The Commander arriving at Homebase where we are introduced to Ray the one who helps The Commander fight back against the Storm, Ray was created by Dr. Vinderman who invented Vindertech. Using the technology left by Dr. Vinderman The Commander assisted by Ray sets up Storm Shields around the continent to push back the Storm creating safe zones.

It's later revealed that the main antagonist, the one who controls the Storm is a Storm King from The Last Reality and after several adventures, it's time to face him in Canny Valley. However even after facing and defeating the Storm King, involving a tragic loss along the way, it's still not the end of the story: the Storm is still there and after being defeated, the Storm King left behind a Corruption Cube seeking of dark energy and revenge. Its story is explored by event quests the sequel of which is currently awaited.

System Requirements[]

Certain platforms cannot run Save The World. Below is more detail on which platforms these are.

Supported Platforms[]

Here is a list of Supported Platforms for Save the World:

Minimum CPU Requirements[]

See also: Fortnite#System Requirements

Here are the minimum CPU requirements for running Save the World:

Release History[]

Before March 11th 2026, access to Save the World could be permanently unlocked by purchasing a Save the World Starter Pack. These packs granted permanent access to the PvE mode and usually included an Outfit, a matching Back Bling, and a Pickaxe.

Save the World Starter Packs were regularly rotated out and replaced with new ones, typically each season, with previous packs being removed from sale. However, there have been a few exceptions.^[2] Save the World was also available through Fortnite Crew during May 2021, July 2022, and August 2022.

Prior to June 29th 2020, players could only gain access to Save the World by purchasing Founder's Packs. These packs granted exclusive rewards such as Heroes, Schematics, and V-Bucks earned from Quests. With the release of v13.20, Founder's Packs were officially discontinued as the game left early access and were replaced by Save the World Starter Packs, which were then phased out in favor of the free-to-play release.

Packs[]

The packs in order were:

Standard

Deluxe

Super Deluxe

Limited

Ultimate

Standard

Deluxe

Super Deluxe

Limited

Ultimate

Metal Team Leader

Metal Team Leader

Samurai Scrapper

Samurai Scrapper

Powerhouse

Machinist Mina

Machinist Mina

Robo-Ray

Lok-Bot

Lars

Robo-Kevin

Mecha-Pop

Skate Park Royalty

Skate Park Royalty

Crossmark Operative

Crossmark Operative

Fully Realized

Ned the Eternal

Full Clip

Untask'd Courier

Quest Pack

Rogue Scout

Vinderman 2.0

Natural Constructor

Scrap & Burn

Ghoul Punk

Cuddle Buns

Ninja Sarah

Hexed & Haunted

Metal Team Leader

Metal Team Leader

Samurai Scrapper

Samurai Scrapper

Powerhouse

Machinist Mina

Machinist Mina

Robo-Ray

Lok-Bot

Lars

Robo-Kevin

Mecha-Pop

Skate Park Royalty

Skate Park Royalty

Crossmark Operative

Crossmark Operative

Fully Realized

Ned the Eternal

Full Clip

Untask'd Courier

Quest Pack

Rogue Scout

Vinderman 2.0

Natural Constructor

Scrap & Burn

Ghoul Punk

Cuddle Buns

Ninja Sarah

Hexed & Haunted

May 2021

July 2022

August 2022

May 2021

July 2022

August 2022

See Save the World Starter Packs for a full timeline history, including release (or return) dates, as well as the number of days each pack remained available.

News Tab[]

• In-Game
• Twitter

Image	Description	Date
	Item sharing is now disabled in modes with carry-over inventory (e.g. Campaign, Storm Shield Defense). Items dropped in these modes are now visible to the player who dropped them. All loot is now only visible to the player it’s meant for. Nearby teammates get extra copies of the loot when: - Opening containers - Eliminating enemies - Harvesting resources - Harvesting Loot Llamas Item sharing is now enabled in seasonal modes: - Hit the Road - Dungeons - Frostnite - Survive the Horde	September 7th 2024
	Play Save the World for Free - April 16 Before the Bus, there was the Storm. On April 16, Save the World is going free-to-play! Current Save the World owners will earn in-game rewards and all players can pre-register to earn in-game cosmetics plus a Hero. Get details at fn.gg/stw-f2p	March 11th 2026

Image	Description	Date
	Homebase is calling, your next (or first) mission awaits. Here’s a snapshot of what’s awaiting you in Save the World: Free to Play on April 16. Plan accordingly ✍️	April 13th 2026
	THANK YOU existing Save the World players for holding down the fort for the last nine years! Your well-earned loot is now available 🎉	April 18th 2026

Gallery[]

• Trailers
• Former Icons

Fortnite Trailer

Defending the Fort - Fortnite Gameplay

Fortnite Experience Trailer

Fortnite - E3 2017 Gameplay Trailer

Fortnite - Launch Cinematic Trailer

Fortnite - Launch Gameplay Trailer

Survive the Storm Update - Trailer

Playlist Thumbnails[]

Playlist Icon (Before January 10th 2024)

Chapter 5 (January 10th 2024 – November 23rd 2024)

Frozen Fjords (Since November 23rd 2024)

Flannel Falls (Bugged; Before February 18th 2025 @ 7 PM EST)

Flannel Falls (Since February 18th 2025)

Scurvy Shoals (Since April 2nd 2025)

Blasted Badlands (Since June 18th 2025)

Hexsylvania (Since September 5th 2025)

Free to Play Teaser (March 11th 2026)

Free to Play (April 16th 2026)

v40.30 (April 30th 2026)

Logos[]

Logo (Before January 10th 2024)

Logo (Before March 11th 2026)

Alternate Logo (March 11th 2026)

Trivia[]

• Fortnite was announced on July 12th 2012, to be the first game to utilize Unreal Engine 4. It was originally stated by the developers that the game would only released for PC and/maybe next Gen consoles because Unreal Engine doesn't support 7th generation consoles.
• The game mode was expected to be Free-to-Play at the end of 2018 but it remained paid and the main Campaign was cut short due to many of Epic Games' employees preferring to develop on Battle Royale and Creative rather than Save the World, causing development to slow down.
• This game mode was not available in the "Performance" mode graphics settings prior to Update v19.30.
• It was the first Fortnite game mode, and prior to the release of Battle Royale, making it to be referred to as just "Fortnite".
• A spin-off, titled Fortnite World Explorers was planned and developed before Save the World was released^[3]. Eventually, it was repackaged and remade into Battle Breakers^[4].
• The Flannel Falls playlist icon for the game mode was added on February 19th 2025, nearly a month after the Frozen Fjords season concluded.
  • From January 22nd 2025, until then, it continued using the outdated Frozen Fjords playlist image in Discover.
• A portion of A.C.'s face was missing from the Frozen Fjords and Flannel Falls versions of the playlist image, likely due to a background removal tool being used to replace the original background, which mistakenly deleted the brightly lit part of A.C.'s face.
  • This was later fixed, and the Flannel Falls image was remade a day after the change.
• Given that the global population was 7.6 billion as of 2017, this means that there are about 152 million people left.

References[]