LEGO Fortnite villagers explained: Full list and best villagers to get

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Selecting the right villager goes a long way to building the right Village Square to fit your needs. Even then, there's the option to kick villagers out and start anew if things aren't working out. Thankfully, the procedure isn't as heartbreaking as Animal Crossing.

To figure out which LEGO Fortnite villagers are best, keep reading for the full list as well as how to recruit them.

LEGO Fortnite villagers explained

There are currently 39 known LEGO Fortnite villagers. Each one of these NPC characters will appear in your village, and you can recruit them once you have built a Village Square. Talk to a villager to recruit them and build a bed for them to stay in your settlement.

Make sure to talk to every NPC you find, and they could join you back at your village. You might even find a rare villager when exploring, just as YouTuber Kaz did when stumbling upon the much sought-after Yeti villager.

To build a Village Square in LEGO Fortnite, you’ll need 10 pieces of Wood and 10 pieces of Granite. Build a bed for a villager to stay in with 10 pieces of Wood. You will start with only one slot for villagers and begin with the Cuddle Team Leader or Brite Bomber, who gives you helpful advice. But you can have up to six villagers stay in your settlement by upgrading your Village Square up to level 10.

Have a bed ready for each villager you wish to recruit and want to stay to work for you. Once a villager has been recruited, you can assign them jobs – once you have upgraded your village and built the correct crafting stations – and they might even give you gifts, including rare crafting recipes.

You can either have a villager explore with you (equip them with a tool to help battle or mine for resources) or help the village. Jobs can be assigned to earn crafting materials while you’re out exploring caves or finding Flexwood. Just speak to your villager once per in-game day to collect the items they’ve found for you.

Given that villagers can work at Crafting Stations, cook, farm, mine and collect crafting materials, you’ll want to set them up with some work to speed up your aims in each area. It’s worth noting that you can build multiple villages in LEGO Fortnite, and each one can house up to six different villagers!

How to recruit villagers in LEGO Fortnite

Speak to a villager (you might need to speak to them a couple of times) and they’ll say they want to stay. Select the 'Live in my village!' chat option and they’ll explain what's needed to make them move to your location. Fulfil their task (usually it's just having a bed available) and the villager will stay.

It’s worth noting that some villagers might not even arrive at your village until you have met certain requirements. Meowscles, for example, needs a bunch of furniture to sit down on to even consider moving into your village. Speaking to Cuddle Team Leader or Brite Bomber should give you some handy advice.

How to kick out villagers in LEGO Fortnite

If you want to remove a villager from your settlement to make room for a new one, you’ll need to destroy their bed and any spare beds you have left over. Once this is done, speak to that villager again and they’ll tell you that they are leaving your village after a set number of days.

A handy video guide from Perfect Score on how to remove villagers in LEGO Fortnite can be seen below.

Full list of LEGO Fortnite villagers

There are currently 39 known villagers in LEGO Fortnite. The full list of villagers in LEGO Fortnite is as follows:

• Aura
• Beef Boss
• Blackheart
• Blue Squire
• Brite Bomber
• Calamity
• Carl Reef
• Cuddle Team Leader
• Crystal
• Dana
• Fishstick
• Frozen Fishstick
• Flint
• Gus
• Hayseed
• Lionbrand
• Mazy
• Hayseed
• Meowscles
• Nugget
• Otis
• Peely
• Polar Peely
• Petra
• Raptor
• Rex
• Roan
• Robin
• Salty
• Sawyer
• Skye
• Silas
• Slush
• Snow Cap
• Sparkplug
• Sprocket
• Sunflower
• Tabby
• Yeti

Each villager is better at different tasks, however, the game doesn’t make it clear what the advantages are for each recruitable NPC. Hayseed, for example, is better at farming, so it’s best to get him working in that area. Beef Boss, meanwhile, is best for cooking tasks. By speaking with each villager, their talents will be revealed via dialogue. Then you can put them to work!

Fortnite is available across PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC via the Epic Games Store.

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