Fortnite Guide

Welcome to the Fortnite guide which will help you get through arguably one of the best Battle Royale games that’s ever released, it’s certainly up there as one of, if not the most popular free to play game out there!

• Platforms: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC.
• Trophies: 46: Platinum: 1, Gold: 3, Silver: 10, Bronze: 32.
• Achievements: 45: 1,000 G.
• Release Date: 21st July 2017.
• Missable: None.
• Glitched: None.
• Online: Every trophy is online based.
• Difficulty Rating: 5/10 With Co-Op. 7/10 No Co-Op.
• Approx. time to 100%: 600-1,000 Hours (Skill dependant, also dependant on how much you combine things and follow the little time saves).

An updated guide is necessary as some things have changed over the years. Whether a feature got altered, or completely removed, this guide will provide more up to date information and tips for conquering this grindy platinum trophy.

There are a lot of little things you can do to speed up the grind that I only learned from playing myself that other guides don’t compile in a list. Following these can SAVE OVER 100 HOURS of grind. The game has a lot more depth than is required for the trophies.

This guide will be in relation to what you should know for the trophies and mostly from the perspective of a person playing by themselves in random lobbies that may or may not have other people in it.

Some notes about the game and general tips:

• Trophies will NOT unlock until AFTER the mission ends and you get your reward. Do not panic if you are in the middle of the mission and searched your 300th chest without the trophy popping.
• Most of the trophies will unlock naturally as you progress through the story. You really only need to care about the 5 grind trophies.
• The difficulty really doesn’t hit until you get halfway through Canny Valley.
• I mostly refused to do Twine Peaks by myself. I would play during times when I knew people would be playing, and if I didn’t find anyone after a few minutes, I would do something else.
• I start every mission by circling the map, getting the zone exploration done and usually a few mist monsters.
• You can carefully slot your survivors to match each other, or you can turn autofill on and the game will handle that for you. I prefer autofill, but the option is there.
• Defenders are entirely optional, but shouldn’t be overlooked, especially if you play by yourself. Be aware that you have to supply them with weapons and ammo. Though I didn’t use them outside of the storm shield missions.
• Some powerful guns to look out for are the plasmatic discharger, popshot, and the vacuum tube bow. There are plenty of other weapons to use, but these are the main ones I used throughout.
• Keep a certain amount of building material at all times (I typically save 500 if I’m grinding and 1,000 if I’m doing the story). Some crafting items or weapons or ammo will require building materials as well as other resources.
• Figure out what your playstyle is and learn what you’ll need as far as resources go so you can keep a lookout for things.
• There is a text chat in the game, don’t be afraid to ask people for help or to trade. If no one answers, they probably didn’t see. There are a lot of times I didn’t notice someone messaged me until after the mission ended.
• In the llama shop (which you do not need to spend actual money in) there is a section for “items” that always has the same items (along with others) in the weekly section. You should start buying the evolution material (drops of rain, storm shards, lightning in a bottle, eyes of storm) once a week when it resets as soon as you can.
• You’ll need a lot of these resources for survivors, heroes, weapons, traps, and defenders. Best to start saving so you can have a good stockpile when you need them. You should keep enough gold in case there are other things you might want to buy, but I never ended a week with less gold than the previous week. So unless you frivolously spend, you should be fine.
• If you go to a mission well below your Power Level, your health, shield, and pickaxe damage will reduce to match it. Your weapons stay the same (AVOID using weapons outside of missions that match their power level, you do not want to waste durability of a good weapon on a low level mission).
• Weapons break over time, while it is good to have overpowered weapons, focus on schematics so you can actually craft them whenever you want.
• Weapons have branching upgrade paths that require different resources. Do not put all your weapons into one path or you will likely run out of the necessary resources to craft them. Once you evolve a weapon from 3 stars to 4 stars it’ll start the branching paths.
• If you like the battle Royale mode, then this is good to play as you will get a lot of battle pass XP, as well as some bundles of StW coming with a V-bucks quest line that. can give you enough to get the battle pass. Mostly from playing StW, I would typically reach level 350 in battle royale by the end of each season (100 being the end of the battle pass and 200 being the end of bonus rewards).
• The resources for upgrading weapons into their branching paths (obsidian, shadowshard, sunbeam, and brightcore) can be found in Canny Valley or Twine Peaks. A good way to get these is to get the rewards from doing encampments and searching caves and finding crystals on the walls.
• You’ll only get material from breaking it yourself, it will not drop material from kitchen appliances if you only destroy the kitchen floor. But items will automatically get destroyed if there is no floor. Break everything before breaking the floor. Same concept applies to anything hanging on walls.
• There is an ability under the outlander class type that will allow you to punch a wall to destroy it and collect its materials. However, I found this class to not be good at all and unnecessary for the building trophy.

With that all said, let’s get into the guide below and if you need anything else for the game, drop a comment below and we’ll do what we can to help you out or jump into Discord where we have a lot of Fortnite players as well as the Author of this guide who is a very active member of our Discord community.