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All Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 codes and how to use them. In a totally unprecedented move, Fortnite has added lobby hacks or cheat codes to the game for Chapter 7 Season 4. Never before has this been possible, but you can now input codes for different things. It is rather fitting for the season that's all about gaming, as cheat codes and hacks have been a part of this industry for decades. Here are all the codes as well as how to input them. All Fortnite codes. Photo via Epic Games In gaming, cheat codes are often used to unlock secret levels, hidden characters, and other fun advantages. In Fortnite, they don't provide any in-game advantages, but you can get some cosmetics, XP, and fun Easter Eggs. Thanks to @iFireMonkey on X, World Intersports Network, Inc. know all the lobby hacks for Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4: * Tetris Lobby Transformation: LetsBlockAndRoll and DontBlockMe * 2,000 Sprite Dust: Perlimpinpin, Magilume, Chispambo, and Chispambo * 40,000 XP: OverrideXP * Cosmetics: BeMoreAlien (Override Ready Loading Screen) and ReachYourImpossible (Block Party Loading Screen) * Cheat Master Sprites: Born2Play (Adventure Sprite), 8BitBlast (8-Bit Sprite), IWannaFlyHigh (Tails Sprite), and GottaGoFast (Sonic Sprite) * Gizmos: O2Override (Llama Supply Drop and Portable Extractor), TakeYourHeart (2 Extraction Accelerators), PerfectOrder (4 Spicy Tacos), SurviveTheNight (2 Cheat Code Extractors), and FindItChat (2 Cheat Code Locators) The codes can be used once, so you cannot simply input the XP code to level up and max out the battle pass. You'll have to earn Sonic, Grace Crowne, and Geno the old-fashioned way. How to use the codes. This is the first time Epic Games has allowed the use of codes in Fortnite, so it is an unfamiliar process. Most gamers have never considered it, and it might not be immediately apparent how to enter these codes. Here is a step-by-step guide: * Log in to your Fortnite account * Visit the Battle Royale lobby * Find the .../ admin panel on the right (for both PC and console) * Open this panel * Type the code exactly as it is and press submit This should redeem all rewards to your account. If you've been playing Chapter 7 Season 4 already and have some of the Sprites, do not worry. Redeeming a code for a Sprite you have simply grants 10,000 Sprite Dust. Featured image credit: Epic Games Zachary Roberts About Zachary Roberts Zachary Roberts is an avid gamer and writer that loves to merge those things. He's been featured on VideoGamer, ComicBook, New Leaf, Esports.net, and Sportskeeda as well as the On SI network of Sports Illustrated and Sporting News.

Fortnite servers down? Game goes down for scheduled Chapter 7 Season 4 update, sparking wave of outage. Epic Games rolls out major update with planned server downtime. Published 08/20/26 AT 5:25 PM AEST Fortnite players reported widespread access issues early Thursday, according to outage-tracking service Downdetector, though the disruption appears tied to a planned, scheduled server downtime rather than an unexpected technical failure, as Epic Games rolled out its long-anticipated v42.00 update launching Chapter 7 Season 4. Downdetector posted on its official account on the social platform X that "user reports indicate problems with Fortnite since 1:54 AM EDT," tagging the post with the hashtag #FortniteDown and directing users to its outage-tracking page for further updates. The post had drawn more than 2,100 views within a short period after being published. According to gaming outlet Insider Gaming, Fortnite's servers were scheduled to go offline at 2 a.m. ET Thursday to accommodate the major seasonal update, a timeline that closely aligns with the spike in user complaints Downdetector began tracking at 1:54 a.m. ET. Fortnite's regular update cadence has made server downtime a familiar experience for longtime players, but major seasonal transitions such as this one typically require a longer maintenance window than the platform's routine weekly patches. While Epic Games had not officially confirmed an exact return time for the servers as of the outage's early hours, Insider Gaming pointed to a promotional post on X advertising the start of Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 at 6 a.m. ET, suggesting that timing likely indicated when servers were expected to come back online. The outlet cautioned that the timing was not a formally confirmed schedule and that delays or unexpected complications during the update process remained possible, a pattern that has occurred during past major Fortnite content transitions. Epic Games' official status page listed the Fortnite downtime for the v42.00 update as an unresolved incident as of the early hours of the outage, according to StatusGator's tracking of the company's public status dashboard. That same status tracker noted the platform had experienced several additional, smaller incidents in the days leading up to Thursday's scheduled downtime, including a warning-level issue involving errors when installing or updating games through the Epic Games Store that had persisted for more than a day and a half, first reported on Aug. 17. Separately, StatusGator's records showed brief Fortnite login issues on Aug. 14, lasting between 10 and 20 minutes, along with a short matchmaking and parties disruption earlier that same day. Epic Games' public status dashboard also flagged an active investigation into a separate issue affecting the Epic Games Launcher, in which users were reportedly unable to see Fab plugins they had previously installed, an issue the company said it was working to resolve as of Aug. 19. That issue appeared unrelated to Thursday's scheduled Fortnite downtime but reflected a broader stretch of minor technical issues affecting various components of Epic Games' platform in the days surrounding the major seasonal update. Independent monitoring tools offered a mixed picture of Fortnite's technical status heading into Thursday's downtime window. UptimeRobot, which continuously checks Fortnite's core web infrastructure from multiple global locations, reported that its most recent automated check, conducted at 07:13 GMT Thursday from North American infrastructure, did not detect any unusual response times or error codes, a reading that would have been taken before or around the start of the scheduled downtime window depending on the precise timing of the check relative to Epic Games' maintenance start. Scheduled downtime for major Fortnite updates has historically varied significantly in duration depending on the scale and complexity of the changes being introduced. According to GamesRadar, routine weekly Fortnite maintenance windows typically begin around 1 a.m. Pacific time, or 4 a.m. Eastern time, and generally last between two and three hours. However, major seasonal transitions, such as Thursday's shift into Chapter 7 Season 4, have historically required considerably longer maintenance windows given the scope of new content, gameplay systems and Battle Pass changes typically introduced alongside a new season. Fortnite has experienced longer-than-expected downtime during past seasonal transitions on occasion. During the March 2024 launch of Chapter 5 Season 2, subtitled "Myths & Mortals," Epic Games encountered an unexpected technical issue partway through scheduled maintenance, forcing the company to extend the game's downtime by at least eight additional hours beyond its original estimate. At the time, the official Fortnite Status account on X apologized to players for the extended wait, stating that "the team is working through this as quickly as possible" as engineers worked to resolve the unforeseen complication. Fortnite has also experienced fully unscheduled, unplanned outages in the past unrelated to routine content updates. During one notable incident in January 2019, the game experienced a widespread, unplanned outage affecting logins, matchmaking and the in-game store, with Epic Games' official Fortnite account confirming at the time that the company was "aware that players are experiencing issues when attempting to use Epic Games services" and was actively working toward a resolution. That particular incident was resolved within several hours, according to a follow-up post from the same account confirming that the game and all associated features had returned to full operation. For Thursday's scheduled downtime tied to the Chapter 7 Season 4 launch, the primary source of official updates has remained the Fortnite Status account on X, which the game's developer has historically used to communicate both scheduled maintenance windows and any unexpected delays that arise during the update process. Players experiencing the "servers not responding" error message commonly displayed during planned maintenance windows have generally been advised that this is expected behavior during scheduled downtime rather than an indication of a broader, unplanned technical failure. As of this report, Epic Games had not indicated any significant delays affecting Thursday's rollout of Chapter 7 Season 4 beyond the originally anticipated maintenance window, though the company's official status page continued to list the update-related downtime as an unresolved, ongoing incident, consistent with standard practice for tracking planned maintenance periods until services are fully restored and confirmed operational for all users.

Fortnite August 20 downtime: when Chapter 7 Season 4 Override servers return. Fortnite went offline at 2am ET on Thursday, August 20 (6pm NZST / 4pm AEST) as Epic Games rolled out update v42.00, the transitional patch that closes out Chapter 7 Season 3 and launches Chapter 7 Season 4, subtitled Override. Epic's own status page listed an unresolved incident tagged "Fortnite: Downtime for v42.00 Update" once maintenance began, confirming the outage was scheduled rather than an unplanned crash. Fortnite began going down for maintenance the evening of Wednesday, August 19, with servers officially going dark at 11 pm Pacific Time, which is 2 am Eastern Time on Thursday, August 20, according to Forbes. That timing lines up with reporting from Vice, which noted Fortnite downtime would start at 11 PM PT on August 19 or 2 AM ET on August 20. Update v42.00 downtime window explained. As with every seasonal transition, matchmaking was switched off roughly half an hour before the full shutdown, giving players a last chance to finish matches before Battle Royale, Zero Build and other modes went dark. Forbes cautioned that downtime will last around four hours, though this isn't set in stone and servers could be back online earlier or later than the following times, calling it just a rough estimate. Vice's reporting, citing information pulled from Epic's own site, suggested the wait could stretch even longer. According to the official Epic Games website, Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 was set to start on August 20 at 4 AM PT or 7 AM ET, meaning server maintenance was expected to last around five hours after downtime began on August 19. Epic itself has a track record of these windows slipping when a season carries heavier map or engine changes, so players were advised to treat any single number as a guide rather than a guarantee. Epic's public status dashboard is the most reliable real-time check during any Fortnite outage, since it reflects the company's own incident tracking rather than third-party estimates. During the August 20 window, the page listed the downtime as an active, unresolved incident tied specifically to the v42.00 rollout, matching the timing reported elsewhere. Players who saw a "Server Offline" message under the Fortnite tile in the Epic Games Launcher were simply seeing the expected result of matchmaking being disabled ahead of the shutdown, not a separate fault. This is a normal part of any major Fortnite season launch. Big transitional updates that overhaul the map, Battle Pass and core systems typically take longer than the two-hour maintenance windows seen for routine weekly patches, because Epic is deploying new assets across every platform simultaneously. What NZ and Australia players should expect. For players across New Zealand and Australia, the 2am ET start translates to roughly 6pm NZST and 4pm AEST on August 20 - a Thursday evening slot that meant most local fans watched the shutdown happen live rather than waking up to it. Going by the four-to-five hour estimates being floated by outlets tracking the rollout, a return to service was expected somewhere around midnight to 1am NZST, or 10pm to 11pm AEST, though exact timing depended entirely on how smoothly Epic's deployment went. As always, the safest way for local players to confirm whether servers are back is Epic's own status page rather than a fixed clock time, since any hiccup in the rollout pushes the whole window later without much warning. The wait ties directly into the launch of Fortnite Override, the new Chapter 7 season built around a wave of high-profile crossover characters. Forbes reported that the incoming roster includes K1TTYW1NS, Phantom, Grace Crowne, Geno, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mali, Wrixel, and Bastian, giving players plenty to explore once the update finally lands. Whatever the exact minute servers flip back on, this is one of the bigger transitions Fortnite has staged this year, and the downtime itself is the price of admission for a season built around some of gaming's most recognisable guest stars.