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Lego Fortniteis an immersive open world game that allows players to run their societies of Lego NPCs inspired by Fortnite characters. Part of this is getting them to help you with the chores around your base, which can include things like exploring or collecting resources.
There are some prerequisites before you’ll be allowed to start assigning jobs to your villagers, including recruiting them. However, once you’ve got the basics of the game, you should easily expand your settlement with the help of your loyal villagers.
How To Assign Jobs To Your Villagers
To begin assigning your villager’s jobs, you’ll first need avillage that you have upgraded to at least level two. When you unlock the first level, you’ll be able torecruit your first NPC to live in your village.
You’ll have to upgrade your Village Square to unlock additional perks, such as being able to invite more NPCs to your Village and additional job types, which we cover below.
Level One
Exploration
One villager can be brought with you on adventures and equipped with weapons or tools.
Level Two
Resource Jobs
You can either assign a villager to collect nearby resources, refine wood, or refine stone.
Level Four
Cooking Jobs
Villagers can either extract seeds, plant crops in soil plots, or cook food on a grill.
Level Six
Refining Jobs
You can assign either smelting metal, collecting gems, or making advanced textiles.
There are two main job types: ‘Let’s Explore’ and ‘Helping the Village,‘with the former being an aid as you adventure. The latterensures that your village is properly maintainedand prosperous while you’re out in the world.
You can only give villagers one task per job. For example, if you choose ‘Food Jobs’ and then tell them to ‘Cook Food’, they will only cook food and not gather seeds or plant crops.
Multiple villagers can be assigned to the same job and task.
All Available Villager Jobs
There are currentlyfour different jobsyou can assign to villagers, but there are also buffs that increase the quality of their work as you upgrade. Each one of these upgrades allows thevillagers to produce more materials of higher tiers. You’llneed new machinesfor every job that’s not Exploration.
The jobs have further specifications in how they work, and you’ll benefit from having your villagers spread across the different occupations,minimizing the work you have to doin every session. However,you need to meet their requirements.
Let’s Explore!
The ‘Let’s Explore!’ village upgradeunlocks when you build the first Village Squarealongside the first recruit slot. When you have a villager living there,you can ask them to travel with youin the world andgive them a toollike a pickaxe, a wood axe, a sword, or something similar.
How To Give Your Explorer Villager Items
If your villager is wielding the same type of harvesting tool as you are,they will try to help you harvest resources.They will only help if they have the appropriate tool. So, for example, if they don’t have a Pickaxe, they can’t help you mine. If they don’t have the upgraded Pickaxe, they can’t help you mine those rarer resources.
If you want your Explorer to protect you while you gather resources, ensure they have a Sword equipped rather than an Axe or Pickaxe as they will deal more damage.
Explorers are great for cave diving as they will light the way with a Torch (providing they have one) while you can focus on other things.
The ‘Foragers for Hire’ skill is unlocked when you level your Village Square for the first time and allows you toask your villagers to search nearby for resources, torefine wood, or torefine stone. However, unlike the exploration job,there are prerequisites before the NPCs can work.It’s selectable under the’Resource Jobs’section when unlocked.
Stone Breaker
Slabs
This is the basic job and can be a great service when you first start in your village and even later when you’re constantly running out of wood. If there are no rocks or trees close enough to your village,it affects what the villagers can bring backuntil the reach and quality of items produced increases.
When a villager has collected some resources, you’re able to collect them by speaking to them andasking “How’s your job?“after roughly a day has passed.
Then they’ll eithergive you some resourcesorexplain why they don’t have anyyet.
Food Jobs
Like most survival games, players can only continue in Lego Fortnite if they can feed themselves. Thankfully,you can offload this responsibilityonto your villagers, who cantend crops,cook food, orextract seeds. If you’re having trouble staying fed, focusing onthis field could help you succeed.
Grain Mill
Seeds for Crops
Since you’re able to assign multiple people to these jobs, it might be worth havingmultiple people work your crops, depending on how big your farm is. Having someone extracting seedswill create plenty of seeds to plant, which can let you grow your operation to a good size.
The ‘Refined Production’ skill is the last main job you’ll get, andit involves the more complex and industrial processeslikemelting metal,creating textiles, andsearching for gemsin the local area. Since this is more advanced,you’ll need some better machinesto get your villagers to complete these jobs.
Loom
Fabrics
These are higher-tier positions, andyou won’t be able to use them at first. As you explore and find new biomes, you can craft better machines. These higher-tier materialswill become invaluable to your ability to survive and thrive.
