The vibrant LEGO makeover applied to Fortnite's familiar battle royale landscape brings a creative new focus - gathering resources to construct an ever-growing personal village. Leveling up these build-centric settlements unlocks valuable rewards and residents. This guide covers all the essentials of LEGO Fortnite: how to upgrade your village and increase your overall village rating.
Placing the Initial Village Square
Once you enter LEGO Fortnite's sandbox-style Survival mode, your first goal should be establishing a Village Square hub. This central foundation requires 10 wood and 10 granite pieces collected through harvesting trees, rocks, and destructible objects in the environment. This is a step-by-step guide to do it:
- Open Building Menu
- Navigate to the Village section
- Select Square Foundation
- Drop your initial village set-up wherever you want your settlement to be situated.
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How to Upgrade Your Village and Increase Village Rating in LEGO Fortnite
As you build out from your initial Village Square with crafting stations, housing, and decorations, your Village Rating score steadily increases, displayed at the top of the Village Square menu.
Once it fills the meter and starts flashing, you'll get a prompt enabling you to Upgrade Village. Selecting this will inform you of the resources required to reach the next rating level and accompanying rewards.
Here are the level milestones tracked so far and what is needed to progress and increase your village rating in LEGO Fortnite:
| Level | Upgrade Requirements | New Unlocks |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Build Village Square (10 Wood, 10 Granite) | 2 Additional Residents |
| 2 | 15 Wood, 15 Granite | Foragers Villager Task |
| 3 | 8 Plank, 20 Granite | Villager Gifts, +1 Resident |
| 4 | 10 Knotroot, 15 Plank, 25 Granite | Cooking and Branching Out Tasks, +1 Resident |
| 5 | Unknown | Well Rested, +1 Resident |
| 6 | Unknown | Refined Production Task, Ready to Rock Task |
| 7 | Unknown | Unique New Recipes, Gifts Galore |
| 8 | Unknown | +1 Resident |
| 9 | Unknown | Go Forth and Forage |
| 10 | Unknown | +1 Resident |
Once you gather the necessary additional crafting ingredients by harvesting trees, rocks, and bushes, return to your Village Square and select Upgrade Village again to apply the expansion.
You can also follow these quick guides to steadily increase your Village Rating for more upgrade opportunities:
- Construct multi-part buildings with special pieces
- Add crafting stations like Grills and Workbenches
- Build walls/gates to establish village boundaries
- Place decorative items like sculptures and gardens
- Assign Villagers resource-gathering jobs
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How to View Your Village Rating in LEGO Fortnite
Interact with your placed Village Square object and select Show Info. Here you can check on current status including overall Village Rating, Resources Generated, and number of Homeless Villagers.
This Village Rating meter tracks your overall settlement progress and unlocks upgrade opportunities.
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Where To Find Specific Resources for Your Village
If you need to manually hunt down upgrade ingredients, target these sources:
- Wood - Trees, furniture, tree stumps
- Granite - Rocks, cliffs, caves
- Plank/Knotroot - Shrubs, forests, foraging spots
You can also earn resources from other villagers. It is an excellent way to accumulate upgrade materials by setting your new residents to work! Interact with Villagers and assign resource-gathering tasks. Check back later and they'll provide free crafting supplies.
Keep expanding and enhancing your personal LEGO fortress! A bustling and vibrant village awaits.
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We have more LEGO Fortnite guides if you want to check them out:
- Building Basic Tips and Tricks
- How to Create Worlds and Share with Friends
- How to Add and Remove Villagers in LEGO Fortnite
- How to Befriend Animals and Start a Farm
- How to Craft a Shortsword
- How to Craft Crafting Bench
- How to Find Food
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