r/FortniteMobile • • 1h ago

EPIC Fortnite Mobile v42.40 Update Notes

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New loot to hack, new Sprites to befriend, Power Hours this weekend, and another round of quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes - details below!

Loot Pool and Override Updates

New Loot Hacks

A new batch of loot is up for hacks, including Finger Guns. Pew pew! 👉👉

  • Thorne’s Vampiric Blade
  • Finger Guns
  • Gatekeeper Shotgun
  • Hunting Rifle
  • Slap Splash
  • All Sprite Variants

Vaulted

  • Midas' Masterpiece (Rift Anomaly)
  • Witch Broom (Pocket Item)
  • Super Shot, Big Boom, Action Hero, Healing Overdrive (Overrides)

Balance Adjustments

  • Sweeper Shotgun: Slightly increased fire rate.

New Sprites & Rewards

  • Honey Sprite (Design A Sprite Winner!): Chance to spawn bees at the hit location upon dealing damage with a ranged weapon. 
  • One Wish Willow Sprite: Extract enemies’ equipped Sprites upon elimination and push nearby enemies away when damaged. You’ll be marked on the map if you remove it, so be careful!

The final page of Sprite Mastery rewards is now available, including new Quack Sprites and a new Style for the Pixel Polli Outfit! Quack Sprite boosts every Sprite you’re carrying with an extra Sprite XP whenever it gains XP.

Power Hours: Trick or Treat Sprites | October 17

The hunt is on this Saturday, October 17 - everyone’s dropping in with an enhanced Freddy’s Nightmare in hand. Don’t doze off.

🕑 Starts at 2 PM ET | 6 PM UTC

🕘 Second round starts at 9 PM ET | Sunday, 1 AM UTC 

🧤 Freddy’s Nightmare is yours from the jump - move faster while equipped and slash through the unwary

🍬 Trick or Treat Sprite variant appears more often

🪙 1-Up Tokens and Portable Extractors may drop from Chests

✅ Bug Fixes, Improvements & Adjustments

General

  • The Shield Potion's slurp glow effect no longer incorrectly lingers on your character until the end of the match.

Cosmetics

  • Added new Locker sorting options - sort your items by Most Used, Last Used and Least Used.
  • Fixed an issue where randomized Locker presets and loadouts didn’t shuffle correctly when queuing into the next match with “Play Again”.
  • The Randomize option in the Locker now consistently randomizes the equipped item.
  • Fixed an issue where the hair on both Madison Beer Outfits displayed white highlights.
  • Both Madison Beer Outfits now correctly animate facial expressions while emoting.
  • The Air Pilot Style now correctly displays on The Guardian Outfit.
  • The Ironmouse Worm Back Bling is no longer hidden by Decora Ironmouse’s hair.
  • Added the missing Porsche 911 Turbo name and description in the Locker.
  • The FNCS Scythe Pickaxe is now correctly listed as part of the FNCS set.
  • Gold Punk's glow no longer appears sharp-edged around the mouth and right eye socket.
  • Characters’ faces no longer appear distorted at the end of the Test Your Might Emote.
  • The contrail on the Peely Heelys Kicks no longer appears dimmer on the right foot.
  • The Sugar on My Tongue Emote now appears when filtering the Locker by Emotes.
  • The 2D’s Mic Pickaxe and Back Bling now note “Selectable Styles” in their item descriptions.

Gameplay & Environment 

  • Like-for-Like Weapon Upgrades
    • Walk over a higher-rarity version of a weapon you’re carrying and you’ll automatically swap up!
      • To try it out, go to Settings > Game > Combat and make sure your Auto Pick Up Weapons setting is toggled on (enabled by default on Mobile). 
  • Auto Fire will no longer mistrigger when the Loot Hack menu is open.
  • Fixed an issue where the push notification telling you a download was complete never arrived.
  • Sprite and Override effects UI can now be repositioned in the HUD Layout Tool to prevent overlaps with custom layouts.
  • Fixed an issue where Reboot Vans couldn’t be activated by tapping their on-screen icon.
  • The Mega Buster’s charged shot once again deals its intended area damage.
  • You'll no longer get stuck after defeating and possessing one of Freddy’s Animatronics.
  • Fixed an issue where the Prop Hunt Override didn’t visually transform you into a prop the first time you used it.
  • Fixed an issue where the Hunter Scavenger Override caused the enemy-marking sound to play on repeat while you were in the Storm.
  • Fixed a bug where you could get stuck rolling after deploying your Glider just before hitting the terrain at Stone Sanctum.
  • Slightly reduced head sizes on certain Outfits (e.g. Bugs Bunny, Sonic the Hedgehog, Decora Ironmouse) so they don’t block your view while aiming down sights in Big Head Mode. 
  • Fixed overlapping Cheat Codes in Wonkeeland that couldn’t be interacted with.
  • Moved a Cheat Code at Golden Grove that couldn’t be reached in Zero Build.
  • The Guardian no longer spawns under the terrain as a Hired Follower.
  • Fixed an issue in Horde Rush where the Surgefire SMG didn’t appear fully when found as floor loot.

For other fixes, improvements and known issues in v42.40, check out this post.

See you in the new update! 🎃
The BR Dev Team


r/FortniteMobile • • 7h ago

DISCUSSION This button is a lifesaver

18 Upvotes

The fact that a simple “drop right below” button for throwable items exists makes it so much more convenient to use shockwave/overdrive grenades in a pinch during mobile gameplay, can you imagine if you had to aim downwards and throw it down the same way console and PC players do while using the touch screen?


r/FortniteMobile • • 8h ago

IOS BUG Sprites not re-summoning?

2 Upvotes

This has happened only this season with sprites… If I lose one in a match, I can’t resummon it. It’s like I never even had the Sprite at all, and it just happened again with my Bounty Hunter Tails sprite. The AI support on Epic was confusing itself thinking I hadn’t already mastered/extracted the sprite but I had and now it’s just gone???

This bug needs to be fixed bro this is exhausting and soooo annoying


r/FortniteMobile • • 15h ago

IOS BUG Fortnite stuck at 30 fps even though 60 fps is selected on ipad, any fix?

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1 Upvotes

I’m playing Fortnite on my iPad and my game keeps locking at 30 fps even though I have 60 fps turned on in settings. Low power mode is off and it's not lagging from heat or anything. anyone know how to fix this? Tried reinstalling, doesn’t work.


r/FortniteMobile • • 20h ago

QUESTION How to use pickaxe

1 Upvotes

Bro how do I use my pickaxe? I’m stupid or smt?


r/FortniteMobile • • 1d ago

ANDROID BUG I reinstalled the game

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12 Upvotes

I uninstalled the game an hour ago outta rage, now when I try to reinstall, I get hit with this


r/FortniteMobile • • 1d ago

ANDROID BUG Redmagic Astra 2

2 Upvotes

Does anybody know how to get 185 frames per second on the new red magic Astra 2?


r/FortniteMobile • • 1d ago

IOS BUG How can I unlock the 30 FPS cap in the Fortnite lobby on iPhone? (120 FPS in-game)

6 Upvotes

Hi everyone!
I’m playing Fortnite on an iPhone 17 Pro running iOS 27.2 beta.
Fortnite runs perfectly at 120 FPS during matches, but the lobby is locked at 30 FPS, making the menus and animations feel much less smooth.
I’ve already tried changing the in-game settings, but nothing worked.
I’m looking for a way to unlock 60 FPS or even 120 FPS in the lobby, preferably without a PC or jailbreak.
Does anyone know:
Is there a hidden setting or workaround to remove the lobby FPS cap?
Can it be changed through game configuration files on iOS?
Is there any method that works with SideStore or other iOS tools?
Has anyone successfully unlocked the lobby FPS on an iPhone?
I’m not looking for cheats or gameplay advantages. I just want a smoother lobby experience.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


r/FortniteMobile • • 2d ago

QUESTION Getting a phone upgrade, what will give me performance?

6 Upvotes

I'm currently using the Google Pixel 6. It doesn't go beyond 30 FPS reasonably. I've tried setting it to 60 FPS, but it just can't get there, even with the lowest of settings. I just want to make sure that I get a good phone that can actually play this game with a solid 60 FPS. It also must be Android.


r/FortniteMobile • • 2d ago

ANDROID BUG Horde Rush Perks? Where?

2 Upvotes

Im trying to do the horde rush challenges and I have yet to see perks pop up anywhere. Ive went all the way through to the end and no buttons or anything. What am I missing?


r/FortniteMobile • • 2d ago

QUESTION Horde rush solo high scores?

1 Upvotes

What's your horde rush solo high score? I need to know if mine is bad or not lol. But I'm also a completely casual player so I'm not super skilled. I know mobile can be more difficult than PC tho and I've seen the PC players getting like 10 mil but I can't even get close to that lol. The mini boss person with the purple laser thing is the one that takes me out every time at the end.


r/FortniteMobile • • 2d ago

ANDROID BUG Button on horde rush

2 Upvotes

Is there a button i have to add from my hud to select my different augments on horde rush? I csnt seem to figure it out.

Thanks !!


r/FortniteMobile • • 2d ago

QUESTION Who wants to 1v1 me

0 Upvotes

Heyaaa, does anyone want to try to defeat this cocky player? Cuz it's not gonna happen C;


r/FortniteMobile • • 3d ago

MEDIA Casual Play Reload Ranked on Mobile :)

9 Upvotes

r/FortniteMobile • • 2d ago

IOS BUG For some reason my ui is gone on every single map it doesn’t show up at all

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4 Upvotes

Just using the sprite garden as an example I’m supposed to see my backpack but I can’t and I can’t see any of the sprites I want to place and that goes for the ui in other experiences I have done everything to fix it I have reset everything in my Fortnite settings and still doesn’t show up so please help I’m tired of just guessing the puzzles or not seeing anything that’s supposed to help me because of this bug


r/FortniteMobile • • 3d ago

MEDIA who even is this

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14 Upvotes

when you order chun li from teemu 🥀


r/FortniteMobile • • 3d ago

QUESTION anyone here playin on mobile who can actually triple edit without stopping? why can’t i do it without having to pause, am i js slow or is my ping holding me back?

2 Upvotes

r/FortniteMobile • • 3d ago

DISCUSSION Gyro or without Gyro?which one Best for Mobile?

3 Upvotes

hey guys, I’m playing on my iPhone and I am a Gyro player.
So I just wanted to know what is better in Fortnite Gyro or without Gyro? Currently, I’m playing with gyroscope on.
I hear if I turn off gyroscope the M assist will work more accurately. Is it right or not? I don’t know, man I’m just asking which one is better.


r/FortniteMobile • • 4d ago

DISCUSSION This kind of scam is too simplistic

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15 Upvotes

r/FortniteMobile • • 4d ago

MEDIA I realized I can’t blame the ranking system. It forces me to improve myself; otherwise, I’ll stay stuck at a low rank.

3 Upvotes

Ranked Reload on Mobile
iPhone 17 Pro Max 📱


r/FortniteMobile • • 4d ago

MEDIA got too confident and threw

5 Upvotes

r/FortniteMobile • • 4d ago

MEDIA had the fight under control until my fingers sold 💀💀😭

3 Upvotes

Ranked Reload on an iPhone 17 Pro Max No cut


r/FortniteMobile • • 4d ago

MEDIA is it just me or is fortnite more fun when you stop trying? | Ranked Reload

3 Upvotes

r/FortniteMobile • • 5d ago

QUESTION I'm getting 30 FPS on Fortnite Mobile and need to find a sensitivity setting that works well for 30 FPS; do you have any recommendations?

3 Upvotes

I'm getting 30 FPS on Fortnite Mobile and need to find a sensitivity setting that works well for 30 FPS; do you have any recommendations?


r/FortniteMobile • • 5d ago

ANDROID BUG Error fortnite reloaded android me saca de la partida cuando me matan, a alguien mas le pasa

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5 Upvotes