Fortnite Creative

• Title — Fortnite Creative • Developer — Epic Games • Publisher — Epic Games • Composer — * Rom Di Prisco • Pinar Toprak • Series — Fortnite • Engine — Unreal Engine 5 • Platforms — * Android • iOS • macOS • Nintendo Switch • PlayStation 4 • Windows • Xbox One • Xbox Series X/S • PlayStation 5 • Nintendo Switch 2 • Genre — Sandbox • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer

In the Creative "Hub", players use an in-game virtual console device to make new worlds or islands and join the islands by teleporting to them via entering the Rift portal beside the device. Up to four players can join a single hub, and the number of teleporter devices depends on the number of players in the Hub. This allows multiple players to edit creative worlds simultaneously. • Illustration — A player building in Creative In a Creative world, players can create structures on a "private island" or a baseplate and play them with up to 100 players (including the owner) for various multiplayer game modes with customizable rules. Players can edit the world using a "mobile phone" tool that their character holds in the hand. It allows them to place, copy and paste, move and erase objects, including ground tiles, items, buildings, and whatever asset is inside the in-game library. They can place objects from a palette with items of their choice, and can also choose to build from predetermined structures like buildings. There is an imposed limit to the amount of structures that can be placed on a world. This is done to ensure that every device that supports Fortnite is able to run the game smoothly. Each player has a limit of 50 private islands or worlds that they can own and build on. Creative allows the player to fly and toggle phasing through objects while editing. After a player finishes building a world, they can start a game session by pressing a Start button on the escape menu that starts the game. The players can then play their island in the way they built it to. After playing, the player can end the game session by pressing the End button in the escape menu. This causes the island to be reset to its original state before the game started. Back in December 2018, Creative islands could previously be nominated to appear in The Block, a 25 × 25 tile area in Fortnite Battle Royale, which replaced Risky Reels in the top right corner of the map in Chapter 1 Season 7. In Chapter 1 Season 8, The Block was moved to the northwest of the map, replacing the motel. After 4 years, Fortnite announced The Block 2.0 during Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2. This replaced Tilted Towers, which is in the center of the map. Many players created their own versions of "The Block 2.0" in Creative. The Block no longer exists in Battle Royale.

During the development of Creative mode, Epic Games prioritized quick completion over creating a proper mode upon release. Because of this, there were many bugs present in the game upon release. Due to their focus on speed, Epic Games did not properly add every asset during the release. Epic Games was able to launch Fortnite Creative earlier than planned. Epic has updated creative mode several times since it was launched, fixing bugs, adding new buildings, and new island types. Fortnite Creative was eventually succeeded by UEFN, also known as Creative 2.0, which caused Epic Games to drastically reduce the amount of updates to Creative 1.0 due to the shift in focus. Creative now remains a somewhat buggy sandbox game, which only receives updates such as new items whenever new items or devices are added to Battle Royale. While Epic has used Fortnite: Battle Royale to perform a number of promotional events, such as virtual concerts, Epic partnered with Time to create a special Fortnite Creative area dedicated to celebrating the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 2021. In August 2023, Epic approved a virtual holocaust museum designed by Luc Bernard; its release was delayed following concerns from the comments of Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.

A revamped system of Fortnite Creative, known as Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), or colloquially as Creative 2.0, was initially ideated in a presentation during Christmas in 2020. Data miners found hints of code mentioning the system in early 2022. As quoted by Tim Sweeney, it combines the creation tools from Fortnite Creative with the Unreal Editor, such as custom props and models, animations, sounds, terrain generation, and much more complex mechanics that cannot be achieved in the simplicity of Fortnite Creative 1.0. UEFN was originally planned to release by the end of 2022, but it was delayed until January 2023. On March 16, 2023, it was announced that UEFN would arrive on March 22, 2023, and be available from the Epic Games Store. Epic and Unity Technologies announced a collaboration in November 2025 that will allow games developed within the Unity engine to be used within Fortnite, while Unity Technologies' cross-platform commerce platform will see Unreal Engine integration.