Donation Station

Donation Stations are a Gameplay Mechanic in Fortnite: Battle Royale. The mechanic was introduced in Chapter 2: Season 8.

Description
Donation Stations can be interacted with by the player to contribute to a global goal, alongside donations from other players. Players can donate 50 Bars at a time to aid the donation effort, receiving 3 Small Shield Potions per donation. Players can donate as many Bars as they want, until they have less than a multiple of 50.

The UI will show a global percentage tracker of how close the donation goal is, with a percentage rounded to two decimal places (0.01%). Once the donation reaches 100%, the reward will be unlocked for all players, live in game.

Chapter 2: Season 8

 * Update v18.00: Introduced Donation Stations.
 * September 16th, 2021: The Turret at Boney Burbs was successfully funded.
 * September 17th: Turrets at Weeping Woods and Pleasant Park have been successfully funded.
 * September 18th: Turrets at Misty Meadows, Stealthy Stronghold and Corny Crops have been successfully funded.
 * Second Turrets at Corny Crops and Pleasant Park have both been successfully funded.
 * The Turret at Catty Corner has been successfully funded.
 * September 19th: The second Turret and Weeping Woods has been successfully funded.
 * September 21st: A Turret at Holly Hedges was successfully funded.
 * September 22nd: Both Turrets at Retail Row have been successfully funded.
 * September 23rd: A Turret at Believer Beach was successfully funded.
 * September 24th: The Turret at Sludgy Swamp was successfully funded.
 * October 2nd: A Turret at Dirty Docks was successfully funded.
 * October 3rd: The Turret at Steamy Stacks was successfully funded.
 * The second Turret at Holly Hedges has been successfully funded.
 * October 10th: The second Turrets at Believer Beach and Dirty Docks have both been successfully funded
 * October 12th: The Turret at Craggy Cliffs was successfully funded.


 * Content Update v18.00: The decision is now between the Shockwave Launcher and the Rift-To-Go.
 * October 1st, 2021: The Shockwave Launcher has defeated the Rift-To-Go and is now successfully funded and spawns in chests.


 * Update v18.20: Players can now choose between the Combat Assault Rifle and the Combat SMG.
 * October 15th, 2021: The Combat Assault Rifle has defeated the Combat SMG and is now successfully funded and spawns in chests.


 * Update v18.30: Players can now choose between the Boogie Bomb and the Combat Shotgun.
 * October 29th, 2021: The Combat Shotgun has defeated the Boogie Bomb and is now successfully funded and spawns in chests.


 * Update v18.40: Introduced the Salvaged B.R.U.TE.
 * November 16th, 2021: Players can now fund the Salvaged B.R.U.T.E.
 * November 17th, 2021: A Salvaged B.R.U.T.E. at Pleasant Park was successfully funded.


 * Content Update v18.40: Players can now choose between the Proximity Grenade Launcher and the Flint-Knock Pistol.
 * November 27th, 2021: The Flint-Knock Pistol has defeated the Proximity Grenade Launcher and is now succesfully funded and spawns in chests.

Trivia

 * For the Turret and Salvaged B.R.U.T.E. Stations, percentage trackers were exclusive to each board, meaning 100% of the funding had to be done at each location to complete the donation.


 * On introduction, Donation Stations would remain at 0.01%, despite being donated to by many players.
 * This was later fixed with a hotfix.
 * J.B. Chimpanski gave a Quest which required players to donate to a Donation Station.
 * This quest was temporarily auto-completed, as well as the Questline disabled shortly after the Rift-to-Go vs Shockwave Launcher goal.
 * The Quest was then completely changed to just Spending Bars in Update v18.21.
 * Despite dialogue referring to the weapon as a choice to be 'Unvaulted', the Shockwave Launcher was a new weapon added to the game, enabled by the Donation Station.
 * A similar weapon, Kit's Shockwave Launcher was in the Vault, but the weapon has a different rarity, name and statistics.
 * A similar mechanic to the Donation Station is Community Choice, which allowed players to directly interact with the game to choose the introduction of something, however in its case, it was an Outfit Bundle.
 * The Unvaulting Event also had a similar mechanic as players can choose which items to unvault. However, it was a single round with a choice of 6 items.
 * When the donation hits 100%, a tune will play nearby the Donation Stations and 4 items, which were chosen to be unvaulted, will spawn next to each Station.
 * When the Salvaged B.R.U.T.E. hit 100%, the board disappeared and spawned sandbags, and the Salvaged B.R.U.T.E. tied to it's specific board spawned similarly to how it's Season X counterpart did and landed in the middle of it's sandbag-marked spawn zone.