How To Get As Much Loot As Possible In Fortnite: Save The World

In this guide, we'll tell you various ways to get more loot in Fortnite's PvE mode, Fortnite: Save the World.

Many missions in Save the World involve a lot of building and with rising difficulty, your builds need to become progressively stronger, which requires more and more loot. Not to mention the ingredients you need to craft your weapons and traps – the more you level them up, the rarer the required materials become.

Having to collect loot in every mission can take up a lot of time and if your teammates start a mission earlier than you're ready to, you might not get the chance to loot enough at all. But don't worry, there are various tricks that allow you to get more loot and save some time and we'll tell you about all of them:

1. Play As An Outlander

Outlanders are one of the four Hero Classes in Save the World and they are specialized in looting. They have various Class Perks that allow them to get more loot than other classes:

• Loot Llamas: Outlanders can activate Charge Fragments around the map. Purple ones create a Loot Llama that you and your allies can hit with a pickaxe, which makes it emit materials and crafting ingredients.
• Anti-Material Charge: Punch forward and destroy structures, harvesting their materials. When used against enemies, it deals 50 base damage. Can be activated while your pickaxe is equipped.
• In The Zone: After 5 consecutive hits with your pickaxe, your pickaxe damage is increased by 25% and movement speed by 7.5%. Nearby containers glow during this Perk but it ends once you switch weapons.

With these Perks, Outlanders can collect more material than other classes, in a shorter amount of time. If you usually prefer playing a different class, you could still level up an Outlander, use them as your Commander and join easier missions for a while – within a few rounds, you'll have quite some loot and then you can change back to your preferred class and continue with the harder missions.

2. Supply Drops

Supply Drops are one of the Gadgets that you can select in the "Upgrades" section of the "Command" tab in your Homebase. It allows you to manually order a loot drop every few minutes when you're in a mission and it has the following properties:

• Cooldown: 330 seconds. You can only order one every 5.5 minutes but many missions in this mode take longer, so you can usually get a couple of drops per mission.
• Originally, one Supply Drop contains 60 Wood, 60 Stone and 60 Metal but the more you upgrade this Gadget, the more loot you'll get!
• Since it drops from above, you can only use it when you're not standing under something (houses, trees, inside a cave, etc.). Make sure you stand directly under the sky.
  • When you do one of the Storm Shield Defense missions, you won't be able to use this gadget until you start the mission – your Shield covers your entire Homebase and doesn't allow Supply Drops to go through. Only when you start the mission does the Shield get disabled and you can use this Gadget.

• Bonus tip: Make sure there are no random players around you when ordering your loot drop because (unfortunately) there are people who will steal your loot.

3. Expeditions

You can send some of your Heroes on Expeditions where they'll passively collect loot for you:

• Expeditions are unlocked after you've completed the Van or Astro-van? Main Quest on Page 8 of the Stonewood Questline.
• You can use your Research Points (that you also use to level up your F.O.R.T. Homebase stats) to send Heroes on Expeditions.
• Items that can be collected in Expeditions: Crafting Ingredients, Materials, Survivors, Heroes and Schematics.
• As you progress in the story, you unlock more Expedition slots.
• The stronger your Heroes are (levelled up and evolved), the more likely Expeditions are to succeed.
• The more valuable the materials are, the stronger your Heroes need to be and the longer the Expeditions will take.

It's best to develop a routine that prevents you from forgetting about Expeditions, like starting them whenever you start Save The World, before you even do your first mission. If you remember to send them out regularly, you'll constantly passively collect loot.

4. Recycle Weapons

A question that's commonly asked by new Save the World players is "How do I repair weapons?" – unfortunately, you can only do that in Ventures (where you don't have the weapons from your backpack and Homebase) but not in your main missions. But you can recycle weapons before they break and get some of the materials back that you spent on them!

You can do that when you open your Backpack, either in your Homebase or during a mission. The option is shown at the bottom of the screen. So if you notice that your weapon is going to break soon, you can recycle it and it will give you some of the ingredients you need for a new one!

5. Kill Glowing Animals

Animals can glow in purple or gold, if you kill them, you'll get various materials, a weapon or a trap and a piece of meat to heal yourself during a battle. Golden animals drop more valuable loot than purple ones.

6. Adopt A Boar

You can adopt certain animals by jumping on their back. You'll be able to ride on them and they'll fight by your side. You can heal them by feeding them meat and revive them if they die. Also, if you specifically adopt a boar, it will regularly dig up crafting materials and ammunition for you.

7. Do Bonus Tasks During Your Missions

In your missions, there are many side objectives you can complete. These will typically grant you traps and materials as a reward. Bonus tasks you can do to get loot include:

• Storm Chests: A chest tinted in purple. If you activate it, you and your team need to eliminate as many monsters as possible within the timer you're given. The more monsters you eliminate, the more rewards you'll get.
• Saving survivors: Shown with a blue person-shaped symbol on the map. If you save a survivor in a mission that isn't specifically a Rescue the Survivors Mission, you'll get loot as a reward.
• Husk Encampments: Will spawn a wave of Husks once you get close, defeat them for loot rewards.
• Building Radar Towers: They're spread out across the map, recognizable by a holographic blueprint. Build it the way the blueprint shows it (they can require Wood, Stone or Metal) and you'll get crafting materials as a reward. Also, activating the towers will make treasure chest locations show up on your map, so you'll get even more loot.
• Shadow Orbs: One per map, found in a cave and marked with a round, dark blue symbol on the map. As you get close, Husks and a Shadow Monster will spawn. Defeat them for loot.
• Anomalies: Floating purple shards. You can attack them, which will make them spread out the Anomaly pieces in a certain radius. If you collect all of the shards, you're rewarded with loot.
• Target Practice: Basically trap shooting, can be done by the whole team. The more targets you hit, the more loot you'll get.

So, this is how to get bonus loot in Fortnite: Save the World! What else would you like to learn about this mode? Tell us in the comments!