Our LEGO Fortnite Village Guide will go over how to create and upgrade villages. We'll also show how to recruit more villagers as your settlement expands.
Villages are a critical part of Fortnite LEGO, giving you a place to return to and refine your resources, but also a bit of automation with the villagers you can recruit.
At max level, your villagers can craft and collect both basic and high-level resources and items.
Making a Village
Starting a LEGO Fortnite Village requires you to place a Village Square. This is done via the build menu (default Q key on PC), after you've collected the resources Wood and Granite.
With 10 of each in your inventory, place down a Village Square where you'll want to create your new settlement. You're given a few options for customising the village's icon, though its name will be based on the player that created it.
Village bonuses are mostly the same between biomes, though villagers in Dry Valley or Frostland biomes will equip an accessory that reduces the effect of each area's extreme temperatures. This means they wont take damage over time (you'll still need to make an accessory for yourself however).
- Tip: Build your first village near one of the other Biomes to speed up your ability to get higher level materials later on.
Getting More Villagers
Villages in LEGO Fortnite start off with no residents. To add more, you must first have a spare bed somewhere in the village — these do not need to be in separate buildings, or even in buildings at all.
Then, talk to the explorers that visit the village each night. You can talk to them, and then add them to your village. However, villages must be upgraded to unlock more villager slots. At level 10, villages can hold a total of 5 villagers.
After moving in, villagers can be asked to follow you. They'll fight enemies or gather resources, though their tools can break over time.
With further village upgrades, villagers can also be given tasks such as refining materials or cooking food. All they need is the relevant crafting station (i.e. a crafting bench to make gathering tools or a grill for cooking), and they do not use up any materials in chests.
Upgrading Villages
Interacting with a placed Village Square will show you the village's current residents and its level. Village levels go up to 10, with the xp meter increasing as you place new objects inside the build area (represented by a glowing square around the village when building).
To upgrade a village to the next level, select the "upgrade village" option after interacting with the Village Square. This will show you the materials you need to upgrade the village, which changes depending on the biome you're building a village in.
All LEGO Fortnite Village Upgrades
You can build multiple villages on your map, and with the ability to build them across multiple biomes, you'll find that each biome has different requirements to max them out at level 10.
Grasslands and Shore Village Requirements
| Level | Unlocks | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | +1 villager slot, explorers start visiting. | Automatically unlocked after placing the Village Square. |
| 2 | Villagers can be asked to forage or refine stone and wood. | 15 Wood, 15 Granite. |
| 3 | +1 villager slot, villagers can give gifts. | 10 Planks, 20 Granite. |
| 4 | Villagers can be asked to cook, gather seeds, or water crops. Villagers can also gather more types of wood. | 10 Knotroot, 15 Planks, 25 Granite. |
| 5 | +1 villager slot, rarer explorers start visiting, villagers get stronger. | 15 Knotroot, 20 Planks, 15 Marble. |
| 6 | Villagers can be asked to smelt metal, refine textiles, and collect gems. Villagers assigned to gathering stone also gather more types. | 20 Knotroot, 30 Granite Slabs. |
| 7 | Villagers can gift unique recipes. | 20 Knotroot Rods, 20 Marble Slabs. |
| 8 | +1 villager slot. | 30 Marble Slabs, 10 Rough Amber. |
| 9 | Villagers can now gather from other biomes, letting them get more types of wood and stone. | 15 Flexwood, 15 Obsidian, 10 Cut Amber. |
| 10 | +1 villager slot. | 15 Flexwood Rods, 30 Obsidian Slabs, 20 Cut Amber. |
Dry Valley Village Requirements
| Level | Unlocks | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | +1 villager slot, explorers start visiting. | Automatically unlocked after placing the Village Square. |
| 2 | Villagers can be asked to forage or refine stone and wood. | 20 Wood, 25 Granite. |
| 3 | +1 villager slot, villagers can give gifts. | 10 Knotroot, 10 Planks, 15 Marble. |
| 4 | Villagers can be asked to cook, gather seeds, or water crops. Villagers can also gather more types of wood. | 15 Knotroot Rods, 30 Granite Slabs. |
| 5 | +1 villager slot, rarer explorers start visiting, villagers get stronger. | 25 Knotroot Rods, 20 Marble Slabs. |
| 6 | Villagers can be asked to smelt metal, refine textiles, and collect gems. Villagers assigned to gathering stone also gather more types. | 25 Marble Slabs, 15 Rough Amber. |
| 7 | Villagers can gift unique recipes. | 20 Flexwood, 30 Marble Slabs, 15 Cut Amber. |
| 8 | +1 villager slot. | 30 Flexwood Rods, 20 Obsidian, 10 Rough Ruby. |
| 9 | Villagers can now gather from other biomes, letting them get more types of wood and stone. | 20 Obsidian Slabs, 10 Copper Bars, 15 Cut Ruby. |
| 10 | +1 villager slot. | 30 Obsidian Slabs, 20 Copper Bars, 30 Cut Ruby. |
Frostlands Village Requirements
| Level | Unlocks | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | +1 villager slot, explorers start visiting. | Automatically unlocked after placing the Village Square. |
| 2 | Villagers can be asked to forage or refine stone and wood. | 25 Wood, 30 Granite. |
| 3 | +1 villager slot, villagers can give gifts. | 15 Knotroot, 15 Planks, 20 Marble. |
| 4 | Villagers can be asked to cook, gather seeds, or water crops. Villagers can also gather more types of wood. | 20 Knotroot Rods, 25 Marble Slabs. |
| 5 | +1 villager slot, rarer explorers start visiting, villagers get stronger. | 25 Flexwood Rods, 30 Marble Slabs. |
| 6 | Villagers can be asked to smelt metal, refine textiles, and collect gems. Villagers assigned to gathering stone also gather more types. | 20 Obsidian Slabs, 10 Copper Bars. |
| 7 | Villagers can gift unique recipes. | 20 Frostpine, 15 Copper Bars. |
| 8 | +1 villager slot. | 25 Frostpine Rods, 20 Malachite, 15 Iron Bars. |
| 9 | Villagers can now gather from other biomes, letting them get more types of wood and stone. | 25 Malachite Slabs, 20 Iron Bars, 20 Rough Sapphires. |
| 10 | +1 villager slot. | 30 Malachite Slabs, 25 Iron Bars, 30 Cut Sapphires. |
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