Lore[]
| “ | I've been thinking about rifts lately. Those, uh, things are basically energy portals pre-attuned to the Zero Point AND the Island.
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Rifts are a very common type of portal in Fortnite, they are spatio-temporal energy portals pre-attuned to The Zero Point and connecting two or more realities. They allow travel across the entire omniverse.
They were first introduced in Fortnite: Battle Royale Season 4 during the Blast Off event and have since become very prominent and reoccurring elements in all of Fortnite.
Overview[]
A rift is a portal that can connect to anywhere, at any point in time (past-present-future), at any reality in The Omniverse. There are several ways to open a rift, but the most common one is to resonate with The Zero Point and use its energy to open one or use Rift Tech, in order to break space time and be able to travel.
In addition to allowing travel between realities or teleportation, Rifts can have other effects, such as altering Reality under a certain perimeter. These locations are known as Rift Zones. Rifts also allow time to be frozen, as it happened with the Meteor during Season X, and time travel using specific machines to control it or simply by accident as it happened with Jonesy The Secondst and Peely.
Rifts are known to have one of the strongest gravitational pull, capable of pulling anything and everything in its vicinity into the rift. Nothing can escape it, not even Batman or Doctor Doom with the power of Pandora's Box.
Appearance[]
Rifts usually appear as large crack, breaking the fabric of reality. They usually comes in bright blue and pink color. However, they can also appear under the form of Rift Gates.
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Types[]
Main[]
Rifts are divided into two categories main categories.
- Pure Portals: those rifts are born from The Zero Point itself and are also the most common and easiest to use. They are connected to all realities and can be closed at the source. Those portals were notably featured when Jones recruited the Hunters during Chapter 2: Season 5, during Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point and during Absolute Doom Event.
- Sideways Rift: those rifts are different from the pure portals, as they're not born from The Zero Point itself and aren't connected to all realities. Instead, they're opened between two and more distinct realities and take a long time to close (or have to be closed from all sides at once thanks to special devices). Those portals were notably featured during Blast Off and Season 5, as well as during Batman/Fortnite: Foundation.
Others[]
Other type of Rifts.
| Image | Description |
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Rift Butterfly Sentient rifts taking the form of Butterflies. |
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Beta Rifts Half-corrupted rifts leading to Storm King's Realm. |
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Sideways Anomalies Corrupted rifts that capture people around to trap them in The Sideways. |
Rift Devices[]
| Image | Description |
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Seven's Rift Beacon A device powered by small shards of The Zero Point made to open rift and create Rift Zones. |
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Stark's Rift Beacon A device made to open a rift to a very specific location and bring that place or people to the beacon. They can be inverted to return people to their respective realities, as it happened with Doom. |
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Time Machine A device made to open a rift to alternate times. |
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Rift Gate A portal device powered by Kinetic Ore made to open rifts to other realities. |
Gallery[]
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Gameplay[]
| “ | Test your courage and step through a Rift. You're in for a wild ride.
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- — v5.0 Patch Notes
Rifts are a gameplay mechanic in Fortnite: Battle Royale. They were introduced in Season 4 and became usable in Season 5.
Description[]
Rifts are a stationary object which is not bound by gravity. When a player enters a rift, they are teleported high up into the air, and put back into a free-fall. From this point, the player can redeploy their glider and land safely. Rifts disappear after 10 seconds from use, but can fit as many players as possible in this time period.
Players in vehicles, as well as AI will be teleported into the sky. Vehicles will fall down, but AI will deploy a glider.
Environmental[]
Depending on the Location and Season of the game, Rifts can spawn naturally:
Season 5[]
- Rifts spawn at various locations.
Season 6[]
- Portal Rifts can be found inside Wailing Woods laboratory.
Season 7[]
- An infinite rift can be found near the Snow Island Bunker.
Season X[]
- The Zero Point is an infinite Rift.
Chapter 2: Season 3[]
- Rifts could spawn at Spaceship Crash Site.
Chapter 2: Season 4[]
Rifts spawned in a variety of places all over the map, including:
- Ant Manor
- The Collection
- Panther's Prowl
- Heroes Park
- Trask Transport Truck
- 5 different locations surrounding Upstate New York
Chapter 2: Season 6[]
- A Rift could spawn at Isla Nublada.
Chapter 2: Season 7[]
- A Rift would activate if you touched the red device on the Party UFO.
- Supply Llamas will leave a Rift when disappearing.
Chapter 3: Season 1[]
- Rifts can be found around rift generators at the Seven Outposts.
- rebooted players will respawn through a Rift.
Chapter 4: Season 2[]
- Several Rifts will appear below the Loot Island.
Chapter 4: Season OG[]
- Same as Season 5, Rifts will spawn in various locations.
Items[]
Rifts can be created through specific items or Characters:
| Name | Icon | Rarity | Description |
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| Rift-To-Go |  |
Epic | Spawns a Rift 0.5 seconds after use. |
| Rift Fish |  |
Epic | Heals 15 HP and spawns a Rift. |
| Rift Device |  |
N/A | Activates a Rift when a player touches it. |
| Activate Rift |  |
N/A | Bought from Characters for 245 Bars. Spawns a Rift. |
| Rift-jector Seat |  |
N/A | Creates a Rift when a player's shield is broken. |
Trivia[]
- The Party UFO's Rift Device is a Rift which does not disappear shortly after use.
- For a short time in Chapter 5: Season 3, Rifts would not spawn below Loot Island.