Mastering Creative 2.0: A Guide to Unlocking Your Inner Creativity in Fortnite
Exciting news for Fortnite fans! Creative 2.0 has arrived, bringing a whole new level of creativity and fun to the game.
But how can you access this latest feature? What devices are compatible with Creative 2.0?
And what are the amazing new features included in this update?
From island templates to customizable hubs, there is so much to explore.
Find out how to use Creative 2.0, get tips for creating, and learn how to share and play with friends.
Let’s dive into the world of Creative 2.0 in Fortnite!
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Key Takeaways:
What is Creative 2.0 in Fortnite?
Creative 2.0 refers to the most recent overhaul of the Creative Mode feature introduced in Fortnite’s Chapter 3. Fortnite’s Creative Mode is used for building, practicing, and playing custom maps made by the community.
Five major changes were made to Creative Mode in the introduction of Chapter 3. These include the introduction of Quests and the consolidation of maps and worlds into one giant “Island”. Creative Mode now includes a Party Mode to play games already on the hub, Quests where players can get rewards in the form of Creative Tokens, a redesigned home base referred to as “Home Island a new storyboard system, and a more easily sortable inventory.
Players can now transition fluidly between Hub Islands where they can play maps from the creative community, their Home Island where they can build and keep their items, and other featured islands with the new matchmaking capabilities.
How to Access Creative 2.0?
To access Creative 2.0, you can follow these steps whether you want to access Fortnite Creative through the game or FCHQ.com.
- Launch Fortnite.
- Press Select Game Mode.
- Select Creative with a press of a button.
- After Fortnite’s Chapter 2 Season 6 update in March 2021 and the v16.00 update, this is the new Fortnite Creative Hub.
- Go to the FCHQ homepage (FCHQ.com).
- Browse deathruns, adventure maps, and box fights.
- Select the map you want to play. Click the Play in the bottom portion of the code window. If you’re a part of a pre-made team, they’ll receive a special code to join.
- Paste the code into Fortnite or the FCHQ Play! Button to access the island.
What Devices are Compatible with Creative 2.0?
Here are the devices that are compatible with Fortnite’s Creative 2.0:
- Windows computer: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit, Intel Core i5 or AMD equivalent, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA, AMD GPU or Intel DirectX 11 GPU equivalent with at least 2 GB VRAM, and internet of at least 25 Mbps.
- Mac computer: macOS Catalina (10.15.14), Intel Core i3, 8 GB RAM, and internet of at least 25 Mbps.
- iOS: One of the devices below running iOS 12.2 or later:
- iPhone 6s, SE, or newer
- iPad Air 2 or newer
- Mini 4 or newer
- iPad 5th or newer
- iPad Pro
- iPad 2017 or newer
- Android: One of these supported devices according to the Epic Games website:
- Asus ROG Phone 3
- Galaxy A10e (2019)
- A5 (2017)
- A20/A30
- A21 (2020)
- A30/A40/A41
- A50/A30s/A31
- A50s/A70/A71/A80
- A7 (2017)
- A8/A80/A8s/A90
- Galaxy Fold
- Galaxy M10 (2019)
- M20/M11 (2020)
- J2 (2018)/J2 Core
- J3 Top/J3 Emerge/J3 Eclipse
- J4 (2018)/J4+(2018)/J4 Core
- J5 (2017)/Pro/J5 Prime/J5 (2016)/J5 Prime (2016)
- J6/J6+/J6 Prime/J7 (2018)/J7 (2017 Refine)J7 Dual (2017)/J7 Pr…
- J7 Pro/J7 Prime
- J7 V
- J3 (2017)J7+/J5 (2017)J7 Max
- J2/J5 (2016)J7 (2016)/J7 J7 Prime (2016)/J7Moto E5
- E6
- E6 Plus/E6s
- E7 Plus
- E^ G^ Power (2021)
- G^ Play (2021)
- G^ Fast
- LTE(LTE (2020))
- Motorola Edge (2020)
- E7 Play
- G9 Plus
- Z4
- One Macro
- One Hyper
- One Zoom
- One Ace (2021)
- RAZR (2020)
- G8 Plus
- X Force
- X Style
- X Play =Droid Maxx 2
- Droid Turbo 2/Droid Turbo
- DoCoMo
- Galaxy S20/S20 (5G)/S20 (LTE)-
- Galaxy Fold/ S20 FE-/S10/S10+/S10e/S10(+ 5G)/S10 Lite
- S9/S9+(Galaxy Note 9)Galaxy A32/Galaxy Nexus
- A3/A5/A7/A8/A9 2017
- Alpha/Feel/A41/C9 Pro/C7 (2017)
- C5+; Galaxy A6(+)/A3(2017)Q Galaxy(NXT)J (SCV32,SC-02K,SC-02L,SC-02M,SGH-N075,SHW-M585D)
- A9 Pro
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- Galaxy S10 (Lite)Active (2016)
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- Galaxy S/J500(Galaxy J5)/J320/Galaxy On7/Galaxy J2 (2018))On5(J520 (2017)(2017)
- A6 Plus (2018)/A7
- M10
- J7 J6/J4
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- Gamer’s Edition/Pro/M20/On Nxt/A6s/A9(2018, Galaxy A9s)
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- On8 (2018)Galaxy A10/A2 Core(M20 2019)
- Galaxy A8
- S/J3 C9 Pro (2016)/C7 J7 Pro (2017)(2017)
- J7 Prime (2017)Galaxy S7/J5 Prime/Galaxy On8
- On6
- Gamer’s Edition/On5 Pro/J6+
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Fornite Creative Mode 2.0 is not available on either Xbox or PlayStation. Although there may be other devices that have been used with the mulitplayer game and developer tools, these are the officially supported devices from Epic Games. The document entitled, Fortnite Creative FAQ – Updated 17.03.20, specifically mentions that Fortnite is not available on Apple and Android devices. It has been removed from official app stores, although the game still functions if you already have it installed (It’s Spamsy).
What are the New Features of Creative 2.0?
The new features of Creative 2.0 in Fortnite include these enhancements:
- User-facing quality of life improvements such as visual upgrades and advance prefabs.
- Advanced UI that allows you to easily track and understand player-performances, as well as displaying preferred play areas.
- Improved building performance and physics so that prefabricated structures behave more like they do in the battle royale part of Fortnite for better pseudo-realistic battles.
- Enhancements within the island management system to create and manage games much more quickly and efficiently, and for players to spend less time waiting for islands to load.
- for players to more easily find the right play experiences.
Island Templates
In Creative 2.0, island templates are where players start creating their space. If you want to get into Creative 2.0 in Fortnite, the first step is to create an island template. Island templates can be created from scratch or based on one of Epic’s own island templates. These can be quickly accessed, where they can be then tweaked and modified into whatever you need for your project or mode then saved as one of your templates for later use.
Islands are the focal points from which you build your project or mode. Be it a tournament or a parkour map, a mini-game, an adventure or tycoon game, an e-learning environment, a block party, a creative showcase, or any other digital 3D space. It is from islands that you start building to your specifications.
Advanced Settings
You can get into Create 2.0 in Fortnite via Advanced Settings on dedicated Creative servers. These settings are designed to bring the best performance possible to your custom game experiences but can’t be changed outside of custom games. They can affect everything from Lag Compensation (i.e the time delay between the mouse/keyboard input and the time the game registers and visually animates what you’re doing) to HUD settings and allow players to reduce calculated visual fidelity to improve performance.
The Fortnite Create 2.0 community is experimenting with advanced settings options to see how the gameplay can change. In a Reddit thread about hosting Creative 2.0 today, a Fortnite user named rory said Advanced Settings that changed Lag Compensation could result in a Creative-like game mode where everything can’t be deleted by the player. You’ll have to wait and see if the community is able to create a Creative 2.0 game mode with advanced settings or if Fortnite themselves will integrate this into the Creative experience going forward.
Prefabs and Galleries
Fortnite has served as a haven for creators because it offers a wide range of building materials and prefab structures to work with at a cost less than physical world build projects. Prefabs are hand-made structures in the game that can be plopped onto the prefab gallery floorpieces to create complex structures. There are the Deco Gallery and Shark Gallery to give paint schemes to walls. Some prefabs are taken from in-game locations, such as Kevin the Cube’s ruins.
Prefabs are versatile, and fit many different use cases. If you are making an escape room, then a prefab house gallery on the blank canvas size of a no-background Gallery B floor may be useful to put the puzzles in. Alternately, players constructing a waiting area for their games may find the Ice Cream Stand prefab gallery useful.
Customizable Hubs
According to this video by LokiLikesToTalk, Customizable Hubs refers to the idea of different people and creators having their own units within any hub. This would be in contrast to the monolithic custom creative hub displayed in Loki’s screenshot. In this new and improved vision from Loki’s conversation with creative mode developers around November 2021, Creative hubs are divided into custom units that can represent individual creators.
This is a proposed simplification of the current game model of Creative Mode where Fortnite has a central monolithic Hub where players can choose which hub they want to visit from a series of teleporters. Loki explains that the concept of personalized hubs within the central hub is important for helping discoverability of creators. He gives the example that these hubs could be customizable to represent the theme and creators of the hub itself, which allows creators to showcase their best work in the most attractive way. It appears this idea was kicked around in conversation with Epic’s main creative guy. How Customizable Hubs for Open Creative 2.0 will work is not exactly clear but it appears to be high on the list for the next Fortnite Creative iteration. The softer release of bots in fortography contexts were supposed to test the notion of Customizable Hubs that give more power to individual users in a friendlier and more controlled way according to additional reporting included in the same video.
How to Use Creative 2.0?
Top Fortnite Creative 2.0 is used in the same way as the original Fornite Creative. The basic difference is that you can now create and play with larger maps more easily, and there are a vast array of new tools and innovations to use. To use Fortnite Creative 2.0, you need to follow these steps:
- Build a mural for the Fortnite Creative you have made, post it complete and make it available for others to rent or use in their projects.
- Support creators through the Epic Games Creator Program by supporting a creator.
- Enter the Creative 2.0 hubs and explore new creations.
Choose an Island Template
To get into Creative 2.0 in Fortnite, select an island template. Once you have chosen your opened template, access weapons, vehicles, etc. via the Hotbar or the Action Device gallery. Arrma the action button to add, interact with or use this content on your island. Once you have opened your island, access it via FORTNITE LAUNCHER ON PC/MAC, Main Menu on PlayStation, or Freeplay on Xbox.
These steps are part of an article on the Standard Operating Procedure for Fortnite Creative 2.0 announced by Epic Games.
Customize Settings
Customize your settings in Creative 2.0 by adjusting 4D Input functionality, manipulating axis settings, changing your controller enter build mode behavior, switching your blocks to free place physics, adjusting structures to destroy behavior and switches, and adjusting dynamics behavior.
The following are some critical settings to change from their default value. Make these and other adjustments for Creative 2.0 via the Settings -> Controller Input -> Default interface.
You are able to adjust most features automatically based on previous and current settings, as well as seeing all the changed settings in the HUD Layout Tool. Additionally, you can add various keybinds and assign functions to certain buttons. These are some of the primary settings to adjust for Creative 2.0 functionality:
- Disable 4D Input Functionality: This makes sure that multi-selecting items is not a default function and eases refinement and preciseness of selectability of items.
- Interp. Time Snap Behavior: Default should be when disabling 4D input functionality for making it easier to line up your blocks.
Add Prefabs and Galleries
Fully embrace creative by adding building prefabs that are a collection of pre-built parts that users can use to build like all of the examples above and others. These could be simple building prefabs or entire themed escape rooms with scripted elements. Add item galleries or creator testimonials to the front page that offer improved discoverability and add incentives to build given that good creative builds have a chance of being featured on the front of the creative hub.
Create a Hub
The Fortnite Island code marketplace allows users to create and share unique spaces. If you have the startup venture budget that you want to create on the platform, you can showcase it in more ways than YouTube or Instagram videos.
If you want to go with the lower budget to test the waters, you may create one of the very small experiences on your hub piece, then lead people back to your website with gallery content and opportunities to sign up for alerts and scheduled promotional events. Content marketing to push to your website where fans can sign up for additional CTAs to product offerings is a strategy used by nearly all Fortnite proponents. The goal is simple conversion, to build your audience and send them to a hub where you can engage with them more precisely and personally, enableing them as ambassadors for your creative 2.0 offerings.
Whales is perhaps the most famous of the FortnHub – an ideal location for wholesome meets, peaceful self-reflection or expressing your love of our marine friends. It is a perfect place to meet like-minded people for great conversations and chats. It also leads back to the primary creator’s main website where you can browse and purchase every manner of whale clothing imaginable.
Tips for Creating in Creative 2.0
Fortnite recommends a medium to slow internet speed of at least 5mpbs in order to enjoy most of the Fortnite creative mode games. Your mileage may vary. For problem-solving network issues and connecting with gaming peers, Fortnite has provided guidelines for troubleshooting network connectivity issues. Since most of the issues are too variable to standardize guidelines for, they have defined network troubleshooting as taking the necessary steps to diagnose and resolve network issues within Fortnite including problems with connectivity or latency. Network troubleshooting often involves one or more of the following practices combined with troubleshooting steps for network issues within the home or location where you are playing.
Utilize Advanced Settings
Inside the creative tab in Fortnite, advanced settings allows creators to do things like adjust player start height, gravity fields, and so on. You can also add new settings to an existing creative mode. Watch community collab#2 Using Advanced Settings in the Creative Mode! from discoverplatformcreative (9:00) to better understand the value of the advanced settings features.
In the Advanced Tab, you can set Gameplay Devices which allow you to adjust things like when the storm will start moving after the round begins and the damage of Storm Phases in certain Tryouts. You can also set variable gravity, rift speed boosts, rotation speeds, movement options for Mutator Zones, and create personally tailored game rules around elimination scoring and requirements. For more information, consult the Fornite Creative documentation.
When you are ready to get started, select one of your preferred pre-built servers from the Rift located near the Creative Hub or make your own server. Select the Phone Booth featured in older Creative Hubs to pull up the devices list and begin adding advanced settings and creating new attacks.
Experiment with Different Prefabs and Galleries
Experiment with different prefabs and galleries to plan and expand a build structure, for example a house in Creative mode in Fortnite. Structures like the Flat Grid Gallery, Hoop Gallery, or one of the various building galleries can help in understanding spatial relationships between basic forms and compositing shapes more quickly. Standing on a large cube to lay down a floor grid, for example, can communicate how wide the house will be. ArtStation recommends starting with very simple shapes, then slowly beginning to integrate other elements like the Spiky Stadium and Tropical Trees into an overall build sculpture in Creative mode.
Collaborate with Others
Collaborating with others to get into Creative 2.0 in Fortnite is as simple as meeting them. You can meet others through Discord and by joining a random server to see who is there. Check out Youtube or visit ForniteCreativeHQ to browse hubs or game islands to find other players to collaborate with. Collaborating with others on the map can lead to greater idea development as users can offer various input to the project.
To share a creative map or island code with others, any player can do the following with Fornite Creative 2.0 in the Island Royale or official Fortnite Creative portal. Find and access the island on the play devices. Copy the island code. Share the island code with others either by giving it directly or by publicly sharing social media posts. Ask other players for a code to try out their creative works.
You can get into Creative 2.0 in Fortnite by sharing codes with other people looking for a map. The code sharing tool is the fastest and most efficient way for Creators and players to locate a specific map. Creators can use the code sharing tool to share maps with each other. Limited resources and certain islands are required for these social features. To utilize game templates and share them in BHE 1v1 build fight maps in the hub shared by password, Creators must have at least one island. According to the Fortnite Creative Patch Notes, map codes are shared and input from the Code Menu found at the My Island’s Interactive Menu archetype, which can be accessed any phone booth to sports center tenenna, moves to associated Quick Chat, or shared in chat with Island Settings.
Play with Friends
Playing with friends is a great way to get into Fortnite Creative 2.0. Whether you have a squad of buddies that love the game, or you play with viewers from Twitch or the Creative Code discord channel, Fortnite Creative is highly multiplayer.
Your friends will all have their individual tastes in terms of which games they enjoy the most, and what kind of experience they’d like to have. By playing with friends, you can discover the best maps for their taste. Playing with friends often means talking with them about the game after you’ve played it together, sharing ideas, and getting the opportunity to help and advise one another. To play with friends in Creative mode:
- Find a shared Creative server.
- Invite them to play your favorite Fortnite Creative 2.0 map, or go exploring in a world none of you have played.
Participate in Community Events
An easy way to get into creative 2.0 in Fortnite is to participate in community events. These are special activities held in Fortnite Creative hubs, or by Fortnite Creative content creators, where players can play games, attend tournaments, and often play games with developers.
Fortnite Creative Featured Hubs is a choreographed experience using community servers to play games with friends that the Fortnite team has highlighted. These hubs are typically only up for a few days so that the community high-traffic area rotates between game creators. For instance, if you go into Fortnite Creative mode and approach the large central rift to begin playing featured content in the central rift, it will port you over to one of these hubs.
These events are promoted on YouTube and via the Fortnite social media platforms. Some community events are ongoing and never end, which allows all players to participate anytime. Other events only last a weekend or even a couple of hours. BHE 1V1 Build Fight Tournament begins every hour via the BHE Creative server. Event information is available by joining the donor entrance discord server. Special Fortnite Creative channels like FNGold, and the relatively new community platform Collide Creators, announce new tournaments and events daily. Players can join for free and easily find events whenever they wish.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Creative 2.0 in Fortnite?
Creative 2.0 in Fortnite is an updated version of the Creative mode in the popular battle royale game, Fortnite. It allows players to design and build their own custom maps and mini-games using various in-game assets.
How do I access Creative 2.0 in Fortnite?
To access Creative 2.0, simply select the “Creative” option from the game mode menu in Fortnite. This will take you to the Creative hub where you can start building and designing your own map.
What new features does Creative 2.0 offer?
Creative 2.0 offers a variety of new features, including improved UI, a new island template with a bigger build space, and the ability to easily copy and paste objects. It also introduces the concept of “islands” which allows players to have multiple maps and switch between them seamlessly.
How can I improve my building skills in Creative 2.0?
One way to improve your building skills in Creative 2.0 is by participating in community challenges and completing tutorials within the game. You can also watch tutorial videos and practice building different structures on your own.
Can I play with my friends in Creative 2.0?
Yes, you can invite your friends to join you in your Creative 2.0 map or join their maps as well. You can also collaborate on building projects and play mini-games together.
Is Creative 2.0 available on all platforms?
Yes, Creative 2.0 is available on all platforms that support Fortnite, including PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices. This allows players to access and build on their maps no matter what device they are playing on.
