The popular survival crafting game LEGO Fortnite is getting a big update tomorrow, numbered v28.30 and nicknamed "Gone Fishin’." As you may imagine, fishing is a big part of it.
Players will be able to craft a variety of fishing rods of increased efficacy, while the more powerful ones are harder to make, and then use them to catch a wide variety of fish.
On top of that, useful items for exploration will be added, including a compass and a spyglass.
Here's a list of the fishing rods and how you can unlock them.
- Common Fishing Rod (craftable at a Level 1 Crafting Bench)
- Unlock the recipe for the Common Fishing Rod by adding a Cord to your inventory.
- Uncommon Fishing Rod (craftable at a Level 2 Crafting Bench)
- Unlock the recipe for the Uncommon Fishing Rod by adding a Knotroot Rod to your inventory.
- Rare Fishing Rod (craftable at a Level 3 Crafting Bench)
- Unlock the recipe for the Rare Fishing Rod by adding a Flexwood Rod to your inventory.
- Epic Fishing Rod (craftable at a Level 4 Crafting Bench)
- Unlock the recipe for the Epic Fishing Rod by adding a Frostpine Rod to your inventory.
The available fish are as follows.
- Orange Flopper
- Blue Flopper
- Green Flopper
- Vendetta Flopper
- Black and Blue Shield Fish
- Purple Thermal Fish
- Raven Thermal Fish
- Silver Thermal Fish
- Blue Slurp Fish
- Purple Slurp Fish
- Yellow Slurp Fish
- Blue Small Fry
- Cuddle Jelly Fish
- Slurp Jelly Fish
- Molten Spicy Fish
Catching them will depend on the biome you'll fishing in and the weather. Legendary fish will also be available, and future updates will bring ways to display them, so you should keep them around.
A food processor will let you prepare Fish Filets with the fish you catch, while a Bait Bucket will let you create a Fishing Spot for easier catching. These come in four rarities.
- Common Bait Bucket (craftable at a Food Processor)
- Unlock the recipe for the Common Bait Bucket by adding a Fish Filet to your inventory and having a Food Processor in the world.
- Uncommon Bait Bucket (craftable at a Juicer)
- Unlock the recipe for the Uncommon Bait Bucket by adding a Common Bait Bucket to your inventory and having a Juicer in the world.
- Rare Bait Bucket (craftable at a Juicer)
- Unlock the recipe for the Rare Bait Bucket by adding a Common Bait Bucket to your inventory and having a Juicer in the world.
- Epic Bait Bucket (craftable at a Juicer)
- Unlock the recipe for the Epic Bait Bucket by adding a Common Bait Bucket to your inventory and having a Juicer in the world.
The update will let you gather sand with a shovel, and you can use it to craft glass. Glass is required to create the new Spyglass and Compass items. A basic compass lets you see the direction you're facing, while an advanced compass lets you add navigation and map markers on the HUD.
New potential villagers will be added, alongside new charms. The Reflectinon Charm will reflect some damage back on an enemy, and the Wavebreaker Charm will increase your swimming speed. Both are crafted with fish you can catch.
New outfits with LEGO style will be added, while some will let you choose between multiple styles.
- Airie
- Flakes Power
- Iron Man Zero
- Lazarbeam
- Loserfruit
- Maxxed Out Max
- Ninja
Lastly, below you can read some more improvements and bug fixes directly from the patch notes.
GAMEPLAY
- Recipes now consistently unlock in Sandbox mode
- Fixed an issue where players’ stamina wouldn’t recharge.
- Players no longer spawn inside the foundation of buildings, inside the snow, or on top of things that they weren’t on top of when they had logged out.
- Friendly Villagers accompanying you on your adventure can now jump out of the water instead of getting stuck.
- Villagers accompanying you into caves now aren’t worried that it’s raining outside.
- Daggers now consistently deal damage while underneath enemies.
- Re-centered the dynamic platform’s pivot point to be in the middle of the platform, so it now rotates and snaps correctly.
STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE
Fixed an issue that would sometimes stop players from rejoining their world.
PHYSICS
- Fixed an issue where players sometimes could not place Building Parts on dynamic foundations until they were moved.
- Fixed an issue where objects would sometimes disappear from caves.
- Resources will now consistently drop from objects destroyed by physics.
UI
- Several menus now accurately show your LEGO Style Outfit’s portrait.
- Fixed an issue where players could open the crafting menu while upgrading the crafting bench.
LEGO Fortnite is available for free on all platforms on which you can run Fortnite.
It launched a while ago as part of a series of games-within-a-game including Rocket Racing by Rocket League studio Psyonix and Fornite Festival by Rock Band developer Harmonix as part of Epic Games' attempt to turn Fortnite into a full-fledged metaverse.
Speaking of which, a few days ago Epic announced a massive deal with Disney, which will lead to the creation of a large persistent universe connected to Fortnite. To that purpose, Disney invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games.
