Raids have finally been introduced in Fortnite: Save the World, and it seems like they’re here to stay. The event is over, yet the Dungeons pin stays on the main in-game map, allowing you to access four types of Dungeons of different power levels: Crypts, Inferno, Labyrinth, and Grotto. Each has its tilesets with unique advantages, bosses, and missions in the Quests tab. This Fortnite: Dungeons Guide will cover everything you need to know about this mode.
Types of Dungeons in Fortnite
There are four unique types of Dungeons:
1. Labyrinth
This is the most accessible Dungeon, with a simple smasher, The Pusher, as the final boss. Take advantage of this boss by building to the ceiling and damaging the boss. You can even solo PL 140 Dungeons using this method.
2. Crypts
Trying to jump off buildings will kill you. Be careful around these parts; otherwise, your team may have to carry the load until you are respawned. The final boss in the crypts is Vlad, a Taker. Dealing damage to Vlad and taking his health bar down by half will make him vanish for one minute. Use this minute to clear trash mobs, set traps, and campfires.
3. Inferno
Unlike the Twine Storm Shield Defense, jumping in lava will not kill you. However, it will damage you, and it’ll surely be better to build over this area. Singe, a smasher, is the final boss in this zone.
4. Grotto
Watch out for the poison plants! They are incredibly annoying and will explode and kill you if you stay in them for too long. The final fight has four (yep, you read that right) blasters: Surge, Murk, Flood, and Sog. The bottom of the Grotto ship has a high chance of spawning a legendary chest.
What Happens If You Die?
Dying in Dungeons turns you into a ghost for a while. You can find an altar to revive yourself, or one of your teammates can do it. However, not using a statue to revive counts as an entire squad revive. You might want to save it until you are at a severe disadvantage, like if your main DPS guy is dead or only one to two players is left.
If a player is at the statue on your active floor and someone enters the next floor triggering the team teleport timer, use the statue to revive the dead teammates before the timer runs out. This makes it so that you have a fully revived squad on the next floor and a fresh revive statue. The most common way for teammates to die is by being overwhelmed by husks. Destroy the purple totems to avoid that; otherwise, they will keep spawning.
How Do I Dominate Dungeons?
One word: Carbide. With energy damage upgrades and cooldown reduction perks, a Carbide Lefty & Righty build is strong right now. The beams bounce off walls and demolish the purple totems with such ease that your teammates won’t be able to match your DPS at all. It is insane, and if you have your Mythic pistol with you, you’ll be reducing your cooldown even further.
The Best Strategies for Fortnite Dungeons
Always play in a group. Organized groups will make it easier, as with all missions. Make sure you use your abilities enough. In the beginning, put a turret up and go for the Shadow Key. Eliminate the husks quickly and obtain the Husk Key as well. The purple torch should lead you to the door, where you can find the Shadow Key for that level. Instead of clearing trash mobs, seek the Key and aim for the Shadow Key.
Watch out for floor, wall, and ceiling traps. They will damage, trap, or teleport you in annoying ways. Simply building over them will solve the issue.
When you enter a new door, all of your teammates will be teleported to it within a few seconds, so the focus should be on progressing through these doors. Follow them to discover unexplored areas if you spot active, purple flames in the dungeon.
Destroy urns to obtain ammo and gold. The coins you obtain here will be sent to the item shop gold when the level ends. Treasure chests also offer excellent rewards such as high-level, epic, legendary weapons and plenty of coins.
What Do Traps Do?
The first arrow is a trap out of the four circles in the dungeon. The roof arrow indicates that something will fall on you and damage your health. The second one, the one with the eye, teleports you to the beginning (yeah, the absolute beginning of the level). Avoid it like the plague as it’s very annoying. The third one traps you in a place and spawns a troll around you that you must kill as you do in regular missions for the BluGlo prize. You can’t move at all, and husks will be trying to swarm over you, so it might be wiser to avoid that.
Rewards Available for When Completing Dungeons
Dungeons require you to select a loadout that you can’t change through the mission like all other modes. You run through four floors of the selected tileset facing various enemies and wall traps but cannot craft your weapons like at the start of Frostnite. You run with your team and progress through the level, find a key on each floor, find a key drop from eliminated husks, and find the exit for that floor, which teleports you to the next one. On the fourth and final floor, you encounter a boss. Rewards include:
- Loading screens
- Two new heroes (Mermonster Ken and Swamp Knight, both fantastic Commanders)
- Unique banners
- Unique lobby music
- Perk up
- Gold
- Tickets
