Your season
How your season is made
Your season is built from your island's scan, so it only uses what your island can actually measure: the stats marked seen or likely, and the devices missions can use. A mission your island can't count never makes it into your season.
A season holds all its missions from the start. Players are served a few at a time, for example 5 daily and 5 weekly, and new ones rotate in on schedule. It starts the day you press Use on island and repeats every four weeks unless you choose otherwise on the season device (After Season: Loop or End). You don't need to do anything during the season.
Make your season in GroundZero
- Send your island. In the panel, Scan tab: Send to GroundZero (signed in). The panel says how many questions GroundZero has, and Open in GroundZero takes you to your island.
- Answer the questions about your island. Each one is an event GroundZero can count but can't interpret by itself, for example what a trigger means where you placed it. Pick what it counts as, or Not a mission if it shouldn't be used. Your answers apply to this island only, and every answer gives GroundZero more to build missions from. Most islands have two or three; GroundZero answers what it can work out from your scan.
- Generate. GroundZero first describes your island in one line, what a good round looks like and why players come back, and may ask a few short questions (the island's name and theme, how a round is won). Check that one-line description: the season is designed around it. Then it designs the season. The whole run takes about 15 minutes; you can close the page.
- Review the season. You can change titles, descriptions, difficulty, XP and turn missions on or off. What a mission counts and when it's served (daily, weekly, season, in-match) can't change, so a season can't ask for something your island can't count.
- Use on island. The season is now your island's season, and its pack is built.
XP
Missions pay Fortnite XP through your island's accolade devices, in four sizes:
| Mission points | Accolade | About |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 65 | Small | 250 XP |
| 66 to 100 | Medium | 500 XP |
| 101 to 160 | Large | 1,000 XP |
| 161 and more | Very large | 1,500 XP |
GroundZero gives each difficulty its own size (easy, medium, hard, expert). Changing a mission's points only changes what players get when it crosses into another size. The amount for each size is the XP Award set on that accolade device.
Install and publish
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In the panel, Season tab: Install season from GroundZero. The add-on checks every file against GroundZero before writing anything, then builds Verse.
If another season was installed, the add-on replaces it and removes its device. A season pack folder on your PC can still be installed with Install from a folder… at the bottom of the Season tab.
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Set up island places the new season's device. Check setup should be all green.
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Test it in a session, then publish your island as usual. Players get the season with the update.
Changing a season
Anything in a season (missions, targets, schedule) is part of your island, so a change reaches players with an island update, which goes through Fortnite's usual review. Plan changes ahead: a new season, or a planned update partway through, rather than day-to-day tweaks.
Players keep their progress when you update the island.