🌟 Fortnite Ecosystem v41.00 Update Summary 📅 June 5,... 2026 🎮 Major Creator Updates: 1️⃣ Sidekicks as NPCs in UEFN Sidekicks are now available as scriptable NPCs in UEFN. Creators can customize how they look, animate them, script behavior with Verse, and even bring a player’s own Sidekick into an island experience. Important note: 🔹 Publishing islands with Sidekick NPCs opens July 23 🔹 Creature based islands may get new Discover opportunities 🔹 Great for monster battlers, cozy farming games, creature RPGs, companion adventures, and more 🔹 Epic plans to feature creature-based islands in a new creature-based Collection page 2️⃣ Custom Weapon Templates Creators can now use Scene Graph weapon templates for: 🔸 Pistol 🔸 SMG 🔸 Assault Rifle 🔸 Shotgun You can customize how weapons look, sound, and play, including mesh, VFX, audio, damage, fire rate, spread, and recoil. Important note: These Scene Graph entities are not compatible with older saving methods like the Save Point device. Epic says to use Verse persistence. 3️⃣ Mobile Controls Upgrade (Experimental) Big step for mobile friendly Fortnite games. 🔹 Touch Input Gestures 🔹 Custom touchscreen control layouts 🔹 Tappable custom HUD widgets 🔹 Verse API to detect touch enabled devices 🔹 New Designing for Mobile guide This should help genres like tycoons, puzzle games, menus, inventories, and mobile first UI feel way better. 4️⃣ Community Events Starting June 8, creators can create events in Fortnite Communities and share them in game. Events can show in: 🔸 Following tab 🔸 Creator Profile page 🔸 Island page 🔸 Island Lobby, if enabled Epic is also testing a Community Events row in Discover, but it will not show for all players and placement is not guaranteed. 🛠 UEFN Workflow Updates: 🔸 Push Changes now incrementally cooks only modified project parts 🔸 New Edit List Panel shows what is live and what still needs a push 🔸 Launch Session now combines multiple session actions 🔸 New Session Inspector gives better visibility into launch and Live Edit status 🔸 New Publishing Report helps catch issues before publishing 🔸 Improved Verse warning panel with direct VS Code links 🔸 New Editor Gizmo System 🔸 Physics setting moved into Island Settings 🔸 New Memory Snapshot tools help identify asset memory costs 🔸 Asset validation now warns when static meshes exceed 30k vertices at LOD0 Important Live Edit note: Live Edit is improved, but some changes can still require Push Changes. The new tools make it clearer what is already live and what still needs to be pushed. ⚠️ Important Publishing Change: Illegal Property Override warnings are now errors in v41.00. That means new or updated islands with these errors are blocked from publishing. Current published versions where the warning appeared will stay live. 👤 Follow a Developer Update: In v41.10, Epic will remove the Follow a Developer button from the Developer Profile Link device. The device itself will still be usable, and existing follower counts are not affected. If your island currently tells players to follow you through that device, update those callouts before v41.10. 🧑🚀 Hero Device Star Wars Update: More Star Wars characters have been added to the Hero device for Star Wars islands: 🔹 Luke Skywalker 🔹 Obi-Wan Kenobi 🔹 Mace Windu 🔹 Kylo Ren 🔹 IG-11 🔹 Moff Gideon 🔹 Boba Fett 🔹 Mandalorian (Pen & Ink), Clone Wars Anakin, and Clone Wars Ahsoka were also added to cosmetic-based devices 📦 New Content: 🌾 Cozy and Creature Tools 🔸 Plumpton Architecture Kit 🔸 Plumpton Farm Gallery 🔸 Pet Props Gallery 🔸 Updated foliage 🔸 Plumpton Feature Example ☕ New Prefabs and Galleries 🔹 Latte Landing Prop Gallery 🔹 Latte Landing Bun Store 🔹 Latte Landing Big Shots Cafe 🔹 Latte Landing Krunchy Krickets 🔹 Latte Landing Espresso Experiments 🔹 Latte Landing floors, walls, and roofs 🔹 More Plumpton props, plants, farm, pet shop, tavern, farmhouse, and more 🔫 New Weapons and Items: Weapons: 🔸 Vanguard Burst Rifle 🔸 The Voidblade’s Burst Rifle 🔸 Extending Focus Shotgun 🔸 Reacher Extending Shotgun 🔸 Chaos Exploder Rifle 🔸 Dark Voyager’s Chaos Rifle 🔸 Exotic Overdrive Pulse Rifle 🔸 Exotic Recon Bow 🔸 Exotic Leaping Lightning Gun Items: 🔹 Seven Sliders 🔹 Limitless Seven Sliders 🔹 Brick-a-Bunker 🏃 Player Movement Device Update: More movement settings are now available directly in the Player Movement device, giving creators better control over which players are affected. Includes: 🔸 Jump Fatigue 🔸 Slide Kick 🔸 Shoulder Bashing 🔸 Wall Kick 🔸 Roll Landing 🔸 Glider Redeploy 🔸 Player Flight 🔸 Flight Speed 🔸 Infinite Wall Kicks 🔸 Sprint and boosted jump energy costs 🧪 Experimental and Beta Updates: 🔹 Skeletal Animation in Scene Graph is now experimental 🔹 Physics remains Beta 🔹 Mobile touch controls and gesture support are experimental 🔹 Skeletal Animation in Scene Graph cannot be used in published islands yet 🛠 Community Bug Fixes: 🔸 Fixed server degradation from adding and removing entities 🔸 Fixed some Physics Materials not being exposed 🔸 Fixed some session launch cook errors 🔸 Fixed Fortnite not closing properly after launching a session through UEFN 🔸 Fixed crashes after repeated entity spawning and despawning 🔧 More Fixes: 🔹 Fixed quickbar and phone tool freezes 🔹 Fixed thumbnail capture preview actor issues 🔹 Fixed building on Instanced Static Meshes 🔹 Fixed Live Edit visual update issues 🔹 Fixed several editor crashes and performance issues 🔹 Fixed inventory UI not showing Fortnite item info correctly 🔹 Fixed multiple physics, movement, swimming, gliding, and launch pad issues 🔹 Fixed Scene Graph prefab and Verse path issuesshow more
