How to upgrade the Crafting Bench in Lego Fortnite

Dec. 11, 2023

The Crafting Bench in Lego Fortnite has multiple upgrade tiers that require shells, planks and more

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The Lego Fortnite Crafting Bench upgrade is one of the first tasks you’ll be working towards in the survival game, having to get 3 Shells and 8 Planks to upgrade your Crafting Bench to the second tier. Once you have that, you’ll start unlocking better tools, like uncommon pickaxes and axes, but you’ll also have another goal, with further upgrades that require rare materials found acrossLego Fortnite. With that in mind, we’ll cover how to upgrade the Crafting Bench in Lego Fortnite below, including how to find the resources needed and what you get for doing so.

Lego Fortnite Crafting Bench upgrade materials location

The first upgrade for the Crafting Bench in Lego Fortnite requires3 Shells and 8 Planks, which you can get by doing the following:

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Once you have all of them, take them back to your Crafting Bench and switch to the right-hand tab at the top of the Bench’s menu to input the materials and upgrade it into an Uncommon Crafting Bench!

There arethree tiers of Crafting Bench upgradein total, not including the “base” default model, each one of which unlocks a new tier of Axe and Pickaxe for you to craft, as well as new weapons, charms and totems. Here’s all three tiers and what you need to make them, as well as where to find those resources:

At this point the Crafting Bench should be as upgraded as it can be, capable of building any tier of tool or weapon associated with it (assuming you have the materials at hand).

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