When an item or gameplay mechanic causes an issue in Fortnite: Battle Royale, developers are able to disable it, removing player's abilities to use said item or mechanic to prevent abuse.
Description[]
As Fortnite: Battle Royale is a huge game with many players and item interactions, oftentimes game-breaking bugs can slip through the cracks and enable players to have an unfair advantage in the game, or accidentally lock themselves out of normal gameplay. In order to combat this, items or mechanics can be disabled, stopping players from accessing them and enabling the game to return to normal whilst the issue is removed.
List of Disabled Features[]
This list does not contain the routine disabling of Gamemodes for Live Events or downtime.
| Item | Icon | Date of Disabling | Length | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Items | ||||
| Shockwave Hammer and The Ageless Champion's Shockwave Hammer |  |
January 9th 2023 | 1 day | Exploit allowing the player to not consume charges, allowing for infinite bouncing. |
| The Dub in Competitive and Tournaments |  |
January 7th 2023 | TBA | In low gravity modes, players could reach max height with ease, and stay there for a long time with maximum ammo. |
| Deku's Smash, alongside My Hero Academia Supply Drops and associated Vending Machine. |  |
December 20th 2022 | 26 days | Unclear, possible exploits. Essentially Vaulted during this time. |
| Alteration Alter and Howler Claws |  |
October 22nd 2022 | 2 days | Players could become invincible. |
| Reality Seed |  |
October 12th 2022 | Unknown (Did return) | Bug with the Explosive Goo Gun where you could get infinite loot. |
| Launch Pad, except Arena. |  |
May 4th 2022 | 14 days | Launch Pads would ping every player on the map when placed. |
| Tents |  |
April 25th 2022 | Less than 1 day | Unknown. |
| Healing in Tents | December 10th 2021 | Less than 1 day | Players could infinitely heal in The Storm using a Tent. | |
| As a result, Players can no longer heal in a tent with another player, they have been removed from Team Rumble and now take 25 damage instead of 3 per second in The Storm. | ||||
| Guzzle Juice (Arena) |  |
January 29th 2022 | Unknown (Did return) | Players could infinitely heal in The Storm using Guzzle Juice. |
| Icy Grappler, Grappler, in Team Rumble. |  |
November 3rd 2021 | Unknown (Did return) | Players could not shoot if they were eliminated whilst using a Grappler, as the game registered them being mid-shot upon respawning and prevented firing. |
| Shotguns in Team Rumble. |  |
October 12th 2021 | 7 days | Players could not shoot after being eliminated whilst using a Shotgun. |
| Spider-Man's Web Shooters |  |
December 11th 2021 | Less than 1 day | The items release caused the game servers to crash due to the amount of people trying to play. |
| Shadow Stones |  |
November 24th 2021 | 10 days (Rest of the Season) | Players who entered a Salvaged B.R.U.T.E. would become invisible when exiting one after being in Shadow form. |
| October 9th 2018 | 23 days | Players became invisible when using Shadow Stones | ||
| Bandage Bazooka |  |
November 9th 2019 | Unknown (Did return) | 'Syncing Issues' |
| Glitched |  |
September 20th 2019 | Permanent | Unknown, but was due to Shadow Stones. |
| Shadow Stones removed from the Glitched Rotation. | ||||
| Port-A-Fortress |  |
May 24th 2024 | Currently Disabled | Unkown |
| Gas Can |  |
May 29th 2024 | Currently Disabled | Exploit allowing players to glitch through the car vault which contained the Behemoth/Lockjaw. |
| Vehicles | ||||
| Motorboat in Tournaments. |  |
November 5th 2021 | Unknown (Did return) | Players could re-enter a boat to remove the Missile Cooldown. |
| November 6th 2019 | 6 days | An issue allowed players to fly with the Motorboat. | ||
| Motorboat in Arena and Tournaments | ||||
| Shopping Cart |  |
June 20th 2018 | 6 days | Due to an issue where players could clip under the map in specific spots. |
| Cosmetic Items | ||||
| Cobalt Snowfoot in Competitive |  |
December 15th 2024 | 2 Days | Lack of Footstep audio. |
| Air Jordan 1 High OG 'Black Toe Reimagined' |  |
November 13th 2024 | 9 Days | Visual Issues on some Outfits. |
| Stripes |  |
August 6th 2024 | 1 Day | Showed unreleased Epic Games decal for the McLaren 765LT instead of the Stripes decal. |
| Jack Skellington |  |
November 3rd 2023 | Unknown | |
| Dance Monkey Jugglin' Whipcrack Make It Plantain Capoeira Blanka Backflip Three Wise Monkeys Monkey Mosh Go Ape Go Primal Bananas Banana Badge Bobo's Watching Bananope Peely Parade FNCS 2:8 Call Me J.B. Nanner Jam Bonenana Peeled Wings Agent Nana Nana Dance Peely Popper Here Comes Trubble Peely Drop in Competitive |
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June 14th 2023 | Racist TikTok trend. | |
| Burn Bright |  |
June 9th 2023 | 47 days | Possible contribution to crashes on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Xbox. |
| Chrome Conjurer Digitized Bench Upgrade Blade Breaker Snikt! Snikt! FearlessFlight FrozenReality Snikt! Assassin's Strike Viking War Cry Conjure Weapon Get Flakey Hand-Forged |
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April 12th 2023 | Few hours | Stability issues |
| Caper & Alias |   |
March 25 2023 | Crashed game. | |
| Shhh. Emote in Arena |  |
November 28th 2022 | 16 days | Invisibility Glitch for the 2nd time. |
| Siren in Competitive |  |
September 20th 2022 | 4 days | Chrome effect caused the skin to be completely black. |
| Slurp Legends Pack |  |
September 2nd 2022 | Less than one day (5 days for Slurp Bandolette) | Players using one of these outfits alongside a Shadow Bomb would remain invisible after the duration of the bomb, aside from the head of the outfits. |
| Bushy's Bulb |  |
June 27th 2022 | 2 days | Game had the potential to crash whilst the Backbling was equipped, especially during the quest in which it was gained. |
| Dragon Rune Lance |  |
June 13th 2022 | 8 days | The Dragon Rune Lance removed all Footstep audio whilst the player had it equipped. |
| Street Shine |  |
April 19th 2022 | 7 days | The Harvesting Tool accidentally had an extra style added. |
| The new style eventually released as Sulfuric Street Shine | ||||
| Show Your Style in Arena |  |
February 23rd 2022 | Unknown (Did return) | Unknown |
| Brutus TNTina Meowscles Skye Midas |
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January 15th 2022 | 3 days | Using any of these outfits with Spider-Man's Web Shooters caused a large amount of lag and stability issues. |
| Synced Emotes in Arena |  |
October 12th 2021 | 8 days | Players could perform a trick with a synced emote that enabled an instant reload, ignoring all reload time statistics. |
| Bear Hug Emote |  |
August 6th 2021 | 8 hours | Players could crouch whilst using the emote to cause NSFW imagery between two players. |
| Boundless Set in Arena |  |
June 23rd 2021 | 111 days | Same bug as before reappeared. |
| Players can no longer have black on black or white on white outfits, permanently. | ||||
| February 3rd 2021 | 13 days | Players could change the outfits to have a full black on black aesthetic, making the outfit very hard to see in low light. | ||
| Players can no longer have black on black or white on white outfits. | ||||
| Orbital Abductor |  |
June 29th 2021 | Unknown (Did return) | Harvesting tool reacted when an opponent near you performed many completely silent actions, such as reviving and slow crouching. |
| Bunnywolf |  |
June 16th 2021 | 6 days | Outfit and Backblings repeatedly flashed when not intended. |
| Llion |  | |||
| Heart Grid |  | |||
| Diamond Grid |  | |||
| Bash Burner in Arena. |  |
May 27th 2021 | Unknown (Did return) | Harvesting Tools swung faster than others enabling faster attacks and resource harvesting. Both tools also had an extended range compared to other tools. |
| BB's Beast Bat in Arena. |  | |||
| Suit Up Emote in Arena |  |
April 29th 2021 | Unknown (Did return) | The emotes turned players invisible at random. |
| Shhh. Emote in Arena | | |||
| Honey Hitters |  |
October 13th 2020 | 8 days | A new style was available to players before release. |
| Dragacorn |  |
May 7th 2020 | Unknown (Did return) | The deploy animation of the glider made it difficult for players to shoot those deploying it. |
| The deploy animation was changed to be less mobile. | ||||
| Riot Control Baton |  |
May 5th 2020 | Unknown | The Riot Control Baton removed all Footstep audio whilst the player had it equipped. |
| Codaxe |  |
April 3rd 2020 | 5 days | Longer range on attacking opponents and structures. |
| Polar Legends Pack on iOS |  |
December 23rd 2019 | Less than 1 day | Incorrect Pricing |
| Star Wand |  |
September 11th 2019 | Unknown (Did return) | Harvesting Tools dealt 56 damage per hit, and could randomly deal critical damage for 85 (20% chance). Also dealt 80 damage to structures instead of 50. |
| AC/DC |  | |||
| Marshmello |  |
February 20th 2019 | 8 days | 'Stability Issues'. |
| Waypoint |  |
June 6th 2019 | Less than 1 day | Outfit appeared as only a floating head, with the rest of the outfit missing. |
| Zoey |  |
October 29th 2018 | Unknown | Players using the outfit could use an exploit to become invisible. |
| Goalbound Outfits |  |
October 3rd 2018 | Unknown | 'Partying Issue' |
| Game Modes | ||||
| Arena |  |
June 3rd 2022 | Less than 1 day | Players were being placed in Division 10 when their Hype rating did not match this number. |
| Mechanics | ||||
| Rift-jector Seat Augment |  |
February 17th 2023 | TBA | Unknown |
| Mechanical Archer Augment* |  |
February 14th 2023 | TBA | Bows were vaulted. |
| Bow Specialist Augment* |  | |||
| Shadow Striker Augment |  |
February 3rd 2023 | 11 days | Players could be in the shadow state infinitely by sliding and jumping with good timing. |
| Wind Tunnels* |  |
January 31st 2023 | 15 days | Unknown |
| February 16th 2023 | TBA | Unknown | ||
| Shotgun Striker Augment |  |
January 21st 2023 | 10 days | Gave shield on hitting teammates with a Shotgun. |
| Party Time Augment |  |
January 11th 2023 | 20 days | Possibly due to it not letting users skydive after respawning with it equipped. |
| Aeralist Augment |  |
January 11th 2023 | 7 days | Unknown, previous reasons speculated proved to be untrue, as a bug once thought to be the reason for the disabling, still persists. |
| Hurdling |  |
December 17th 2022 | 24 days | Players would get in unintended states while moving, most notably including being launched extremely far distances, often upwards thousands of meters above the island. The second disabling of this feature occurred only 1 day after it was re-enabled. |
| January 12th 2023 | TBA | |||
| Piano (Party Royale) |  |
September 20th 2022 | Unknown (Did return) | Unknown |
| Ziplines (Party Royale) |  |
15th May 2022 | Unknown (Did return) | Players could enter an invisible zipline which caused an intense amount of visual effects.[1] |
| September 20th 2022 | ||||
| The Block 2.0 |  |
August 26th 2022 | Less than one day | Unknown, all three Block 2.0 buildings were disabled temporarily. |
| Donation Station |  |
May 4th 2022 | 1 day | Stability Issue. |
| J.B. Chimpanski Quest Line.* |  |
October 12th 2021 | 7 days | Players were required to donate to Donation Stations, but they were removed and as such the questline was disabled. |
| J.B.'s Questline was changed to Spend Bars. | ||||
| Fabio Sparklemane Quest Line. |  |
October 7th 2021 | 1 day | Players could accept his Quest to use a zipline, and immediately restart the quest line to repeat this for infinite XP, especially as Fabio spawned near a Zipline. |
| Fabio's Questline was changed to remove the Zipline Quest | ||||
| Bounty Boards |  |
September 28th 2021 | 1 day | Unknown, possible relation to Toona Fish style challenge. |
| Sideways Anomaly |  |
September 13th 2021 | 3 days | Sideways Anomalies were causing massive Lag Spikes and stability issues. |
| Abductors |  |
August 15th 2021 | Unknown (Did return) | Players could use the Alien Knockgun Launcher outside of the experiment. |
| Sand Tunneling |  |
December 3rd 2020 | 5 days | The player would de-sync with their actual location on the map, meaning their hitbox was not lined up with where they actually were. |
| December 18th 2020 | 33 days | |||
| Whirlpool |  |
July 10th 2020 | Unknown, less than 12 days | Invisibility bug |
| July 22nd 2020 | Unknown (Did return) | Invincibility bug | ||
| Splitscreen |  |
December 12th 2019 | 6 days | FPS was significantly lowered whilst playing Splitscreen |
| Daily Medal Punchcard |  |
November 8th 2019 | Less than 1 day | Cards failed to update |
| Mechanics | ||||
| Proximity Voice Chat in Impostors |  |
March 16th 2022 | Unknown (Did return) | Unknown |
| XP Gain from Accolade Device (Creative) |  |
November 10th 2021 | 13 days | Players were gaining too much XP from the device by abusing it. |
- Items/ Mechanics were intentionally disabled, but not Vaulted or removed.
Trivia[]
- Hurdling currently holds the record for longest period of being disabled at once in all modes, and total.
- It was disabled for 65 days in a row (this is still ongoing), and disabled for 89 days in total due to two separate issues.
- The Boundless set holds the record for the longest period of being disabled in one mode, being Arena.
- Shadow Stones although not disabled for the longest time, hold the record for the most disablings / bugs related to their inclusion, at 4:
- The item was disabled twice, as listed in the table above.
- A bug existed for a short time where players could use a Harvesting Tool whilst in Shadow Form via the Hand-Forged or Snikt! emote, leading to said emote being permanently removed from use with shadows.
- Shadow Bombs were disabled on launch in Chapter 4: Season 1 for an unknown reason.
- The reason Glitched is present on the list despite being permanent is because it was intended to be fully functional, and if possible, Shadow Stones would have been present in its rotation.
- This is unlike other items which are permanently altered or removed, as they are changed due to community feedback or general development changes.
- J.B. Chimpanski Quest Line was likely intentionally disabled, as the developers understood Donation Stations were not going to be available for the whole of the season.
- Despite this, FortniteStatus still reported the change.
- Despite Dragon Rune Lance and Riot Control Baton being disabled for Footstep audio being muted, Erisa when equipped with Guardian Daggers also makes no footstep noise, with the issue yet to be resolved.