LEGO Fortnite makes it easy for players to create villages filled with homes and villagers to assist. Players can equip these villages with furniture, crafting benches, buildings, and other essential items crucial to survival. Although building a home base is straightforward, it requires a more tactical and strategic approach.

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Unfortunately, many players simply stack blocks and build villages without thinking about their progression in the game. As a result, they end up building other home bases from scratch, which wastes a lot of time. Here are some essential tips that come in handy when building home bases.

1 Create a Border

Borders Prevent Enemies From Entering the Home Base

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Enemies in LEGO Fortnite raid villages at night, looking for prey to kill. If a player’s home base has no border, enemies can spawn close and attack, forcing them to defend constantly. An easy way to prevent this is by building a wall that surrounds the entire village.

The build option has various walls and gates players can use to create a border. Players can also get creative and use their imagination to develop high-standing walls that enemies and wild animals cannot infiltrate.

2 Have A Main Base and Multiple Camps

Allows Players to Collect More Resources

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When building home bases in LEGO Fortnite, focus on having a main base instead of multiple ones. This saves players the time and effort to gather resources and upgrade tools for all the bases. Instead, build small camps in various biomes with essential resources like a Crafting Bench, Campfire, and a Simple Shack.

Players can upgrade the main base and build all complex blueprints like the Palace Tower to progress but focus on much smaller builds in the camps.

3 Place it Near Multiple Biomes

Makes Accessing Multiple Biomes Quick and Easy

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There’s a lot of hiking and traveling in LEGO Fortnite, and if a player’s home base is at the center of a particular biome, going to the next can be daunting. Some players build Cars and gliders to make traveling from one biome to the next quick and easy, but this can still be tiresome.

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To access multiple biomes easily, place the home base at the border of two or three biomes. For example, players can place a base between the dry valley and frostland biome or between the desert and grassland biome. Establishing a home base near multiple biomes gives players diverse access to valuable resources for game progression.

4 Plan the Layout of the Base

Increase Efficiency in the Village

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The bigger a player’s village becomes, the more difficult it is to navigate and get around. For example, if a storage chest is on one end of the village, players will have to hike a distance each time they want to add an item to their inventory. By planning the village layout, players eliminate the need to destroy buildings in the way while increasing efficiency. It also makes the village aesthetically pleasing and earns players bragging rights.

So, consider how to use the surrounding area and where to place commonly used items like crafting stations. Place crafting items under a shaded area to ensure they can be used when it’s raining (it does almost every night).

5 Prioritize Upgrading the Home Base

Upgrades Are the Main Progression System

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LEGO Fortnite has 10 Village Upgrades, and each upgrade grants players access to high-rarity weapons, better blueprints, and upgraded crafting stations. Upgrading the home base is a quick way to progress, recruit more villagers, and access powerful weapons to use against hordes of enemies.

To upgrade the home base, head to the Village Square and click the interact button to see the needed resources. Gather and craft these resources to upgrade the Village Rating and Level.

6 Recruit Villagers to Live in the Home Base

Villagers Help Defend the Village Against Attacks

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Think of the villagers as guardians of the home base—a necessary addition that will up a player's survival chances, and also provide them with help. Recruiting villagers to live in the home base is essential to surviving attacks from wild animals.

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Villagers can attack and kill skeletons who roam at night, allowing players to focus on more vital tasks like completing houses and building furniture. With the right tools, villagers can also gather resources and perform jobs in the village.

7 Feel Free to Customize Builds

Get Creative and Bring Ideas to Life

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Players don’t have to build the automatic blueprints available in LEGO Fortnite. They can get creative and craft their own homes and structures to create a beautiful and aesthetically pleasing base. Customized buildings give players the freedom to place blocks where they want and create villagers that match their personalities.

The sky's the limit when it comes to creativity and building in the game, so experiment around and see what sticks.

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Lego Fortnite

Franchise
LEGO
Platform(s)
Switch , PC , Xbox One , Xbox Series X , PS5 , PS4 , Mobile
Released
December 7, 2023
Developer(s)
Epic Games
Genre(s)
Survival