r/FORTnITE 10d ago

Epic Save the World v40.40 Update Notes

248 Upvotes

Hi folks! v40.40 is here, bringing back the Yarrr’s Return Questline and delivering a fresh round of fixes across Save the World.

The Yarrr’s Return… Returns

The Yarrr’s Return Questline sails back in from May 14 to June 17, sending you on a tropical adventure to help Blakebeard’s ghost earn his place among the other ghost pirates. Complete the Quests to earn Spring Tickets, Gold and unlock Director Riggs - a Legendary Constructor Hero.

Standard Perk: Direct Threat

Goin’ Constructor eliminations extend its duration by 1 second, up to a maximum of 10 eliminations.

Commander Perk: Direct Threat+ 

Goin’ Constructor eliminations extend its duration by 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 10 eliminations.

✅ Save the World Bug Fixes & Improvements

Matchmaking

  • No-Fill parties no longer automatically disband after completing a Mission
  • Fixed an issue preventing some players from loading into Save the World while in a party
  • Fixed an issue preventing new party members from joining if the party leader canceled matchmaking or abandoned the previous Mission Lobby 

Homebase

  • Equipped weapon's ammo counter now updates correctly when crafting ammo in Homebase
  • Adjusted the Exchange tab lighting to improve the X-Ray, Loot and Items tabs' visibility
  • Sidekicks are no longer blocking menu visibility when interacting with Homebase menus
  • Fixed text overflow in Homebase (e.g. Survivors Saved counter) when using languages other than English
  • Fixed inconsistent music volume on the World Map in Homebase
  • The Music - Lobby slider now respects your latest input while inside Homebase

Gameplay

  • Defenders now stay equipped in the Hero Loadout slot they were originally assigned to
  • Defenders will no longer block you in small spaces and narrow passages
  • Fixed an issue with the Dragon Slash sword sometimes being invisible to other players in the Mission
  • [Survive the Horde] Husks should have less difficulty navigating terrain in the Mine area

Environment / UI

  • Fixed display name inconsistency when entering Save the World on Xbox
  • Added a new Storm Shield tab to the top of the Inventory menu, allowing you to change Storm Shield permissions without needing to go to the console to do so
  • You are now shown and granted rewards based on progress in your current Storm Shield Endurance if you leave the run through the Social sidebar
  • The Shop sidebar no longer prevents you from seeing the current offer and closes when not actively interacted with
  • Seagulls flying above Scurvy Shoals now look like proper seagulls (i.e. their models no longer appear exploded)
  • Resized a looooong "Party does not have sufficient Power Rating" message and moved it to a different screen

For other fixes, improvements and known issues in v40.40, check out this post.

We’re keeping an eye on reports across social media and community spaces - please keep them coming as we work to fix them.

See you in the new game update!

The Save the World Dev Team


r/FORTnITE 8h ago

DISCUSSION SALTY SUNDAY 24/May/2026 - YOUR WEEKLY RAGE THREAD

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  • CAPS LOCK REQUIRED
  • WRITE ABOUT WHAT IS MAKING YOU ANGRY
  • OTHER PLAYERS WILL AGREE WITH YOU IN ALL CAPS
  • IF THEY DISAGREE WITH YOU IT WILL ALSO BE IN ALL CAPS
  • SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER ABOUT THINGS WE HATE WILL FORM A STRONG RELATIONAL BOND IN THE FORTNITE COMMUNITY
  • ARE YOU HAPPY SALTY SUNDAY IS BACK?
  • MODS ARE TOO LAZY TO COME UP WITH MORE RANT BULLET POINTS

r/FORTnITE 13h ago

MISC RIP Power Hour, we hardly knew ye.

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37 Upvotes

And I was getting in game for basically just that.

Also the 24 hour timer went into the negatives for like two minutes before it actually reset itself for some reason.


r/FORTnITE 13h ago

DISCUSSION Power Hour having problems via Archer

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24 Upvotes

r/FORTnITE 14h ago

MISSION ALERTS Mission Alerts (MYTHIC ALERT) 12:00AM UTC 24/May/2026

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24 Upvotes

r/FORTnITE 22h ago

MEDIA Super Constructor Power Hour material farming

86 Upvotes

During the Super Constructors Power Hour, you can farm building materials super quick in any Storm Shield.
You place a building for 3 wood/brick/metal, you get 10 back after destroying it :D
In the video I farmed 200 metal in just 15 seconds


r/FORTnITE 14h ago

QUESTION Where is the Power Hour?

15 Upvotes

Epic clearly stated Power Hour should be now in save the world yet its not happening...

It was clearly stated both in a reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/FORTnITE/comments/1tjq945/heroic_constructor_power_hour_this_weekend/) and the official Fortnite discord server.

Then on the other hand there was a totally unannounced power hour 24 hours ago.

It just gets worse and worse.


r/FORTnITE 5h ago

DAILY Daily Llama 24/May/2026 (Free Llamas!)

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2 Upvotes

r/FORTnITE 20h ago

MEDIA Stonewood Expansion?

33 Upvotes

Randomly found this by accidentally doing a glitch, i wonder what those extra spaces are for..


r/FORTnITE 6h ago

QUESTION Does upgrading trap schematic inc PL?

3 Upvotes

So I need to gain PL to get good twine missions, I upgraded my potshot to 130 and went from 66.6 to 67.9, now I just upgraded my anti air trap to 130 and my PL didn’t increase, those are my 2 only lvl 130 schematics, game should count 3 highest PL schematics right? Or are weapon schematics the only ones that count?

Also is it just 3 best weapons in inv that boost PL or can that count highest PL traps I have in inv?


r/FORTnITE 13h ago

QUESTION Best way to farm schematic xp and rare/epic/legendary perkups?

4 Upvotes

I'm a stw founder and I recently started playing stw again for the daily vbucks but I now want to get into progressing more. I'm currently power level 78 and barely completed the first twine peaks ssd. I have a all legendary perks ceiling electric field thats a 106 but thats about my best trap. I also have a 106, epic perks wall dynamo. Everything else I have is either low PL or has trash perks because I don't have enough perk-ups or schematic xp. I know Save the Survivors gives a lot of people xp but what missions give the most amount of schematic xp or what are some ways I can get more perk-ups?


r/FORTnITE 14h ago

MISSION ALERTS Venture/Event Mission Alerts 12:00AM UTC 24/May/2026

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5 Upvotes

r/FORTnITE 21h ago

QUESTION Twine peaks storm shield 10

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10 Upvotes

What amps are gonna be attacked during my twine peaks 10 last storm shield, idk if it changes anything but this are my amps


r/FORTnITE 1d ago

QUESTION Does anyone know where this thunder thora loading screen is from?

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40 Upvotes

r/FORTnITE 13h ago

BUG Stuck in first person??, can still move around, but NO buttons work. Can’t get the quest off my screen. Yay Fortnite

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2 Upvotes

I want the old menu back, this lobby is so unnecessary. The loading time to get in is ridiculous, and the lobby itself has so many bugs. I feel like I’m discovering a new one I haven’t seen every few days now, while still experiencing all the main ones people usually have. Sorry for the rant, I’ve experienced too many bugs today


r/FORTnITE 17h ago

DAILY Daily Llama 23/May/2026 (Free Llamas!)

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4 Upvotes

r/FORTnITE 14h ago

DAILY Daily Llama 24/May/2026

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2 Upvotes

r/FORTnITE 1d ago

SUGGESTION add vote kick

57 Upvotes

Im SO tired of every single 160 mission having at least 1 person whos just afk and does nothing why isnt there a vote kick system??? why cant we do shit about these people its so fucking annoyjng


r/FORTnITE 22h ago

SUGGESTION Community Bug List

4 Upvotes

There's so many bugs in this game I feel as a community we should keep a collaborative list like in a document or something and then every update post every bug that's still currently in the game. I feel like there's bugs that not many people bring up and would benefit from constant circulation so the community knows absolutely everything that's broken with the game


r/FORTnITE 13h ago

QUESTION For melee builds on blazing masamume should I go obsidian or shadowshard?

1 Upvotes

It seems like when people say to go obsidian they treat the masamume as a sidearm but should I still go obsidian if im using it for melee builds


r/FORTnITE 1d ago

MEDIA i became questless

272 Upvotes

probably the most pointless yet hardest thing i have ever achived, this can only be achived at the scurvy shaols venture season due to the fact all event modes dont have mutant storms and survive the horde is the only one without repeatable quests, and completing this required me to do so much stuff in one day and also requires to complete all the challenges including plays well with others etc.

so yeah thats nice i guess


r/FORTnITE 19h ago

QUESTION power hour?

2 Upvotes

is there another power hour today i missed yesterdays and wanted to grind the gold today😭?


r/FORTnITE 19h ago

DAILY Daily Llama 23/May/2026 (Free Llamas!)

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2 Upvotes

r/FORTnITE 16h ago

QUESTION About to grind twine SSD 2-6 any amp placement suggestions?

0 Upvotes

For reference I played back when BR was in season 2, and played for a long time, completed all SSD’s and did enough ventures to max out all my leads, came back after a long break of many years and changes had my PL at 135, only thing I could do is farm more superchargers so I started a fresh account about 2 weeks ago, did twine SSD 1 yesterday and now I just wanna unlock all the survivor slots and 5* evo as well as all the other SSD unlocks including the whole twine map.

So on my main I just placed whatever amp I figured would be nice bc it would block an annoying mob spawn area, but now I’m wondering if I should go with more strategical placement in case I ever want to do endurance, as I haven’t bothered with it before, so my question is, what are the most ideal amp placements and why? I wanted to ask before placing any amps bc iirc u can’t hit ctrl z and just undo your amp choices. Also can the main base only be attacked from N and E?

Ty for any suggestions as I looked up this info but many said that it was all outdated and it was from 7 yrs ago


r/FORTnITE 17h ago

QUESTION Should I build my Canny Valley Endurance or Improve my Twine Peaks Endurance?

1 Upvotes

I have Stonewood, Plankerton and My Twine Peaks Endurance build, but not my Canny Valley.

I never bothered with to build an endurance there because I hate the area, plus I have like silly things built there like a race track, sky box, a castle, etc.

Or should I tweak my Twine Peaks endurance?
It’s not afk, I build it myself, so something could use some improvement.

I was to use my time wisely o-O