LEGO Fortnite 28.30 Gone Fishin’ patch notes: Fishing Rod, Sand, Glass, Compass, more

❘ Published: 2024-02-22T12:05:33

LEGO Fortnite v28.30 Gone Fishin' patch update

Epic Games

LEGO Fortnite’s 28.30 patch update Gone Fishin’ has arrived, bringing Fishing Rods, fish, Sand, Glass and even a Food Processor. Here is everything you need to know.

LEGO Fortnite has released its biggest content update yet with v28.30’s Gone Fishin’ patch for Chapter 5 Season 1.

The first v28.10 hotfix update brought along Launch Pads, and v28.20 added the Hunting Dagger. Despite them both also adding new Villagers and various gameplay improvements, the lack of major changes has been criticised by players.

Now, Epic’s LEGO Fortnite v28.30 update: Gone Fishin’ has introduced a whole heap of fishing-related additions. These include the teased Fishing Rods finally joining, complete with fifteen fish to catch, new resources of Sand and Glass, Charms, a Food Processor, and much more.

Here’s all the patch notes from Epic Games for LEGO Fortnite’s Gone Fishin’ update.

LEGO Fortnite 28.30 Gone Fishin’ patch notes update

Fishing Rod

Epic Games has added the Fishing Rod as a brand-new tool, which you can use to catch various fish in the game. It can be crafted from a Crafting Bench, and you can make four strength rarities, which are all shown below:

Common Fishing Rod (craftable at a Level 1 Crafting Bench)
- Unlock the recipe for the Common Fishing Rod by adding a Cord to your inventory.
Uncommon Fishing Rod (craftable at a Level 2 Crafting Bench)
- Unlock the recipe for the Uncommon Fishing Rod by adding a Knotroot Rod to your inventory.
Rare Fishing Rod (craftable at a Level 3 Crafting Bench)
- Unlock the recipe for the Rare Fishing Rod by adding a Flexwood Rod to your inventory.
Epic Fishing Rod (craftable at a Level 4 Crafting Bench)
- Unlock the recipe for the Epic Fishing Rod by adding a Frostpine Rod to your inventory.

Fish

Different fish can be found based on the biome and water you’re fishing in, and also the weather and time of day. You can also catch a rare Legendary version of each fish, and there will be a way to display them in a future update.

Here are all fifteen fish you can catch with your trusty Fishing Rod:

Orange Flopper
Blue Flopper
Green Flopper
Vendetta Flopper
Black and Blue Shield Fish
Purple Thermal Fish
Raven Thermal Fish
Silver Thermal Fish
Blue Slurp Fish
Purple Slurp Fish
Yellow Slurp Fish
Blue Small Fry
Cuddle Jelly Fish
Slurp Jelly Fish
Molten Spicy Fish

Compass

You can now craft and equip a Compass, which adds basic navigation to the HUD.
Unlock the recipe for a Compass by adding Glass to your inventory and having a Crafting Bench in your world.

Bait Bucket

Bait Buckets have also been added, which you can craft to help you catch fish easier. You can use the bait from each bucket to throw into water and create a Fishing Spot. This will make fish flock to you much faster.

You can craft Bait Buckets with four different strength rarities, which are all shown below:

Common Bait Bucket (craftable at a Food Processor)
- Unlock the recipe for the Common Bait Bucket by adding a Fish Filet to your inventory and having a Food Processor in the world.
Uncommon Bait Bucket (craftable at a Juicer)
- Unlock the recipe for the Uncommon Bait Bucket by adding a Common Bait Bucket to your inventory and having a Juicer in the world.
Rare Bait Bucket (craftable at a Juicer)
- Unlock the recipe for the Rare Bait Bucket by adding a Common Bait Bucket to your inventory and having a Juicer in the world.
Epic Bait Bucket (craftable at a Juicer)
- Unlock the recipe for the Epic Bait Bucket by adding a Common Bait Bucket to your inventory and having a Juicer in the world.

Food Processor

You can now build a Food Processor Station:

You can use the Food Processor to turn fish you catch into Fish Fillets as a food source.
Unlock the Food Processor recipe by crafting or using a Lumber Mill.
You can also use a Gril to make dishes, such as Smoked Fry Fish and Black and Blue Shieldfish Sushi.

Sand and Glass

Sand and Glass have been added as new resources:

Sand – can be dug out of the ground in sandy areas with a Shovel.
Glass – can craft Glass with Sand by using a Crafting Bench
Spy Glass – can be unlocked by adding Glass to your inventory and then you can use the Glass to craft one at a Crafting Bench.

Charms

New Charms have been added that require different fish to craft each Charm:

Reflection Charm – deals some of the damage you take back at your attacker when you get hurt.
Wavebreak Charm – increases your swimming speed, making you faster the more Wavebreak Charms you have equipped.

Villagers

Turk, Outcast, and Bob can be recruited as fishing Villagers.

LEGO Style Outfits

Here are all the Outfits in Fortnite that have now received a LEGO Style:

Airie
Flakes Power
Iron Man Zero
Lazarbeam
Loserfruit
Maxxed Out Max
Ninja

Gameplay

Increased the number of Villagers you can have to 20, meaning you can now have 4 Villages with 5 Villagers in each.
Players can now sit in chairs!
Recipes now consistently unlock in Sandbox mode.
Fixed an issue where players’ stamina wouldn’t recharge.
Players no longer spawn inside the foundation of buildings, inside the snow, or on top of things that they weren’t on top of when they had logged out.
Friendly Villagers accompanying you on your adventure can now jump out of the water instead of getting stuck.
Villagers accompanying you into caves now aren’t worried that it’s raining outside.
Daggers now consistently deal damage while underneath enemies.
Re-centered the dynamic platform’s pivot point to be in the middle of the platform, so it now rotates and snaps correctly.
Fixed an issue that would sometimes stop players from rejoining their world.

Physics

Fixed an issue where players sometimes could not place Building Parts on dynamic foundations until they were moved.
Fixed an issue where objects would sometimes disappear from caves.
Resources will now consistently drop from objects destroyed by physics.

UI

Several menus now accurately show your LEGO Style Outfit’s portrait.
Fixed an issue where players could open the crafting menu while upgrading the crafting bench.

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