Season 6

This article is about the sixth season of Chapter 1. For the sixth season of Chapter 2, see Chapter 2: Season 6.

Season 6
Theme	Corruption
Beginning Date	September 27th 2018
End Date	December 5th 2018
Days Lasted	69
New Locations	Leaky Lake Corrupted Areas Floating Island Haunted Castle
Seasons
← Previous	Season 5
Next →	Season 7

Chronological Order
← Previous	The Cube Sinking
Next →	The Butterfly Event

Season 6, with the slogan Darkness Rises was the sixth season of Fortnite: Battle Royale. It started on September 27th 2018 and ended on December 5th 2018. It was also the first season to introduce Pets and Music to the game. The theme of the season revolved around darkness rising across the Island following the events of The Cube rising from Loot Lake with the floating island.

How did it Start?

Season 6 continues the storyline that was started in Season 3.

Throughout the second half of Season 5, The Cube rolled around the island, printing seven glyphs before rolling into Loot Lake, sinking underneath the Lake and deactivating underneath the central island. The entire surface of the lake was turned purple in the process

At the start of Season 6, The Cube activated. It absorbed all of its energy dispersed along the surface of the lake and tore the central island from the ground and lifted it up into the air, with The Cube attached to the bottom of the floating island. The entire island was kept suspended in the air by an air vortex powered by The Cube itself.

Loot Lake was renamed to Leaky Lake on account of the mess that The Cube left behind. The central chunk of the lake was completely missing, and in the very center of the ruined lake was a large whirlpool with a bright light coming from underneath it. This likely lead to The Vault, and the location of the whirlpool corresponded to the exact location from where the cube emerged from at the start of the season, likely meaning that The Cube actually entered the vault, but returned back to the island for an unknown reason.

The glyphs located around the island became corruption zones. It seems like The Cube printed the glyphs to act as energy converters, using up the soil and natural resources in the vicinity of the glyph to convert into energy usable by The Cube. In the process, the glyphs corrupted the areas surrounding them, with dead trees and barren soil, along with Shadow Stones and purple vents littering the corruption zones.

Only one rift remained at the start of Season 6, maintained and controlled in a laboratory within an underground bunker in Wailing Woods.

The Season 6 Storyline

Less than a day after Season 6 started, The Cube began moving with The Floating Island to the closest corruption zone, near Pleasant Park. Within three days, The Cube reached the corruption zone and ripped out a chunk of land with the glyph imprinted on it, lifting it up into the air and sucking out energy from the corruption zone underneath the glyph causing solid cube material to grow through the floating island. The process took some time, but once all the energy was sucked out from the corruption zone, The Cube dropped the glyph and moved on, heading towards the next corruption zone. Throughout nearly a month, The Cube visited all six corruption zones on the map and grew through the house on the Floating Island. The final corruption zone that The Cube visited was the central zone, and during the process, all other six glyphs around the island lifted from their corruption zones and began moving towards the Floating Island, each one suspended in the air by a vortex. At this point, The Cube material had grown through the entire floating island and the house. When the glyphs reached the Floating Island, The Cube began absorbing their energy simultaneously. When The Cube was done, the glyphs "deactivated" and crashed down onto the ground. Their purple colours turned to a darker brown colour, signifying that The Cube had stripped them completely of their energy.

At this point, The Cube was completely filled with energy and pulsed rapidly. It returned to Leaky Lake, where it started to draw power from the vortex there and projected a beam of purple energy upwards, opening a purple portal in the sky, which was likely a portal to The Last Reality. Over time, the portal in the sky grew, and covered the island in a purple fog.

On October 24th 2018, Fortnitemares began. The Cube released a sudden burst of energy that ripped the floating island into several large chunks. The Cube material that grew through the island was shredded into fragments and scattered around the island by a shockwave. These fragments spawned Cube Monsters, which attacked loopers. A thick fog also materialised and shrouded the entire map in darkness. This event was likely the first stage of invasion by The Cube, the first step into dominating and slowly destroying the Island beyond saving, preparing for a full-scale Last Reality invasion, which would then destroy this reality with The Cube's Cradle.

The Cube however, became overwhelmed with the amount of power it had and it's body started breaking and slowly decaying as the days passed, and the remains of The Cube's outer shell melted and dropped into Loot Lake, culminating in The Butterfly Event on November 4, where The Cube's outer shell completely melted away and it began spinning wildly, tearing itself apart in a giant explosion. All Loopers on the island were somehow sent to The In-Between. What happened next is unclear, but a large rift formed that took the appearance of a butterfly. It fluttered around each looper, before landing on the looper's finger in a cinematic event, transporting each player back to the Island.

After the Cube exploded, the pieces of The Floating Island fell into the lake, and the ruined lake was changed to a peaceful paradise, with colourful grass, flowers and waterfalls. In the center of the lake stood the remains of The Cube, arranged in a Stonehenge formation, while the chunks of the Floating Island were partially buried and covered in grass around the central area of the lake. The vortex, fog, and cube fragments scattered around the island were wiped away as if they never existed, and thus, Fortnitemares ended as Season 6 drew to a close.

How did it End?

Without the glyphs powering them, the corruption zones around the island began to fade, as the grass slowly regrew on the corrupted soil. The glyphs dropped near the central corruption zone and became overgrown with grass as nature slowly spread over the corruption created by The Cube.

Sometime after the Butterfly Event, a giant iceberg appeared in the far south-west, shrouded in a snowstorm and on a direct collision course with the island. A few weeks before the end of Season 6, a robot codenamed A.I.M. arrived on the island and planted a flag representing the Expedition at Flush Factory. The robot then began scouting the island and observing its inhabitants, preparing for the incoming invasion...

Challenges

Week 1
Available: September 27, 2018

Category	Challenges	Reward
Free	Pickup a Legendary Item in different matches (3)	5 Battle Stars
Free	Regain Health from a Cozy Campfire (150)	5 Battle Stars
Free	Stage 1: Search Chests Stage 2: Search Supply Drops Stage 3: Search Supply Llamas	3 Battle Stars
Battle Pass	Apply Shields (500)	5 Battle Stars
Battle Pass	Land at Junk Junction,Tomato Temple, and Tilted Towers (3)	5 Battle Stars
Battle Pass	Dance under different Streetlight Spotlights (7)	10 Battle Stars
Battle Pass	Eliminate opponents in different Named Locations (5)	10 Battle Stars

Note: When you complete four challenges listed above you will receive a 5,000 XP Bonus.

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New Additions

Update v6.00 (September 27, 2018)

• New
  • Shadow Stone

• Vaulted
  • Impulse Grenade
  • Suppressed Submachine Gun
  • Light Machine Gun
  • Bouncer
  • Remote Explosive

Update v6.01 (October 3rd 2018)

• New
  • Chiller

Update v6.02 (October 10th 2018)

• New
  • Quad Launcher

Update v6.10 (October 16th 2018)

• New
  • Quadcrasher

Update v6.20 (October 24th 2018)

• New
  • Six Shooter
  • Fiend Hunter Crossbow
  • Cube Monsters

• Unvaulted
  • Pumpkin Launcher

Update v6.21 (November 1st 2018)

• New
  • Balloon

• Vaulted
  • Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle
  • Guided Missile
  • Dual Pistols

Update v6.22 (November 6th 2018)

• New
  • Heavy Assault Rifle

• Vaulted
  • Pumpkin Launcher

Update v6.30 (November 14th 2018)

• New
  • Mounted Turret

• Vaulted
  • Fiend Hunter Crossbow

Content Update v6.30 (November 19th 2018)

• New
  • Dynamite

Update v6.31 (November 27th 2018)

• New
  • Pump Shotgun (Epic & Legendary)

Loot Pool

Assault Weapons
Assault Rifle All Rarities	Burst Assault Rifle All Rarities	Scoped Assault Rifle Rare and Epic	Minigun Epic and Legendary	Thermal Scoped Assault Rifle Epic and Legendary	Suppressed Assault Rifle Epic and Legendary	Heavy Assault Rifle Rare - Legendary

Shotguns
Pump Shotgun Uncommon - Legendary	Tactical Shotgun Common - Rare	Heavy Shotgun Epic and Legendary	Double Barrel Shotgun Epic and Legendary

Submachine Guns
Submachine Gun Common - Rare	Compact SMG Epic and Legendary

Pistols
Pistol Common and Uncommon	Suppressed Pistol Rare and Epic	Hand Cannon Epic and Legendary	Six Shooter Uncommon - Epic

Sniper Rifles
Bolt-Action Sniper Rifle Rare and Epic	Hunting Rifle Uncommon and Rare	Heavy Sniper Rifle Epic and Legendary

Explosives
Grenade Launcher Rare - Legendary	Rocket Launcher Epic and Legendary	Grenade Common	Clinger Uncommon	Quad Launcher Epic and Legendary	Dynamite Uncommon

Utility Items
Bandages Common	Medkit Uncommon	Shield Potion Rare	Slurp Juice Epic	Bush Legendary	Small Shield Potion Uncommon	Boogie Bomb Uncommon	Chug Jug Legendary	Port-A-Fort Rare	Stink Bomb Epic	Rift-To-Go Epic	Shockwave Grenade Epic	Grappler Epic	Port-A-Fortress Legendary	Balloon Epic

Traps
Damage Trap Uncommon	Launch Pad Epic	Cozy Campfire Rare	Chiller Common	Mounted Turret Legendary

Map Changes

The Initial Season 6 Map

Update v6.00 (September 27, 2018)

The Cube has risen from the waters from Loot Lake and the Runes it created had now started to corrupt the Island

• The Cube has risen from the waters from Loot Lake, creating the Floating Island.
• A new Haunted Castle appeared in the mountain near Haunted Hills
• The Runes have grown larger, corrupting the land around it and spawning Shadow Stones in it, these are known as Corrupted Areas.
• The corn started to grow on the fields at Fatal Fields
• A secret underground lab has appeared under the maze at Wailing Woods with a Rift inside it, and four cabins appeared in the Woods as well.
• A Halloween store named Hey Boo! appeared in the vacant store in Retail Row.
• The shack destroyed by The Cube in Season 5 is under reconstruction.
• The Villain Lair and Hero Mansion from Season 4 started decaying.
• September 28th:
  • The Floating Island started going towards Rune 7, southwest of Pleasant Park.
  • Halloween decorations started appearing all over the Island.
• September 29th:
  • The Cube has lifted Rune 7 and started absorbing it's power, growing small Cubes in the basement.
  • Ghost decorations started appearing all over the Island.
• September 30th: The Cube has finished absorbing Rune 7's power, and Rune 7 fell on the ground. The Floating Island has begun moving towards Rune 2, east of Greasy Grove.

Update v6.01 (October 3rd 2018)

• October 4th: The Cube has lifted Rune 2 and started absorbing it's power, growing small Cubes in the house.
• October 5th: The Cube has finished absorbing Rune 2's power, and Rune 2 fell on the ground. The Floating Island has begun moving towards Rune 1, northwest of Fatal Fields.
• October 6th: The Cube has lifted Rune 1 and started absorbing it's power, growing small Cubes in the upper floor of the house.
• October 7th: More small Cubes have grown into the upper floor of the house.
• October 8th: The Cube has finished absorbing Rune 1's power, and Rune 1 fell on the ground. The Floating Island has begun moving towards Rune 4, southeast of Retail Row.
• October 10th: The Cube has lifted Rune 4 and started absorbing it's power, growing small Cubes in the wood beams of the house below the house, near the basement.

Update v6.02 (October 10th 2018)

• Loot Lake has been renamed to Leaky Lake.
• October 11th: The Cube has finished absorbing Rune 4's power, and Rune 4 fell on the ground. The Floating Island has begun moving towards Rune 5, southwest of the maze in Wailing Woods.
• October 13th: The Cube has lifted Rune 5 and started absorbing it's power.
• October 14th: The Cube has finished absorbing Rune 5's power, and Rune 5 fell on the ground. The Floating Island has begun moving towards Rune 6, south of Lazy Links. More small Cubes have grown in the attic.
• October 15th: The Cube has lifted Rune 5 and started absorbing it's power.

Update v6.10 (October 16th 2018)

• The demolition crews moved in and started demolishing the remains of the destroyed outdoor store in Tilted Towers.
• A Race Track appeared on the former location of the Open Soccer Stadium.
• A truck transporting Quadcrashers appeared in Salty Springs.
• The Cube has finished absorbing Rune 6's power, and Rune 6 fell on the ground. The Floating Island has begun moving towards the last Rune, Rune 3, west of Dusty Divot.
• October 18th:
  • The Cube has lifted Rune 3 and started absorbing it's power.
  • The other 6 Runes started floating.
• October 19th: The Runes started floating towards the Floating Island.
• October 20th:
  • The Runes have arrived at the Floating Island and The Cube started absorbing their remaining powers.
  • The Cube has absorbed all the powers from Rune 3 and the other 6 Runes and they all fell on the ground, the Floating Island is heading back to Leaky Lake. The particles on the Floating Island started glowing.
• October 21st: The Floating Island is back to Leaky Lake and started to draw power from the vortex in Leaky Lake, while creating a portal above the Island.
• October 22nd: The portal in the sky grew significantly.

Update v6.20 (October 24th 2018)

• The Cube's immense power caused the Floating Island to explode, being split into 3 small Hovering Islands.
• The Runes are no longer glowing.
• Cube Fragments have emerged on the Corrupted Areas, creating hostile Cube Monsters.
• Fatal Fields is now a Halloween theme park, complete with 3 haunted houses, a pumpkin face on a corn field and a corn field maze.
• A Battle Bus has crashed north of Leaky Lake.
• The former Battle Bus northeast of Shifty Shafts is now gone.
• There is a new Pizza Pit food truck in Greasy Grove.
• October 26th: The Cube started to crack.
• October 27th: The Cube continues to crack.
• October 28th: There are now cracks on each side of The Cube.
• October 29th: The cracks are now more prominent and visible.
• October 30th: The cracks get longer.
• October 31st: The cracks are almost everywhere on The Cube now.

Update v6.21 (November 1st 2018)

• The Durr Burger restaurant in Greasy Grove has closed.
• Rift noises can be heard coming from inside The Cube.
• Floating objects were found at the Motel.
• A small brick was found floating beneath the chair in the Hero Mansion
• A bed in Lonely Lodge started floating.
• November 3rd:
  • Pieces of the outer shell of The Cube fell apart, revealing a glowy purple-ish white liquid that is leaking out.
  • The upper shell of The Cube is also broken.
• November 4th:
  • The Cube has exploded, the Hovering Islands and the rubble around The Cube fell into the lake and were overgrown with grass and flowers. (See The Butterfly Event)
  • The Cube pieces fell into the middle of the lake in a stonehenge like formation, which caused purple flowers to grow there. The portal in the sky also closed.

Update v6.22 (November 6th 2018)

• Grass started growing over the Corrupted Areas. Cube Fragments were destroyed and Cube Monsters can no longer be created.
• The soccer pitch in Pleasant Park was changed to an American football pitch.
• A Durrr Burger Food Truck is now competing with the Pizza Pit Food Truck.
• The Durrr Burger restaurant windows were boarded.
• November 8th: A parachute has appeared on top of the tallest chimney in Flush Factory.
• November 10th: The Durrr Burger and Pizza Pit Food Trucks are now at the Sports Center.

Update v6.30 (November 14th 2018)

• The Durrr Burger and Pizza Pit Food Trucks are now in Pleasant Park.
• There are now 4 Rift portals on the lab underneath the maze in Wailing Woods that teleport you to one of the 4 cabins.
• November 18th: The Food Trucks are now at Haunted Hills.

Content Update v6.30 (November 19th 2018)

• A Blizzard cloud can be seen at a distance from Flush Factory, it gets closer to the Island every day.
• November 20th:
  • The Food Trucks are now at the Depot Race Track.
  • The NOMS sign was brought back to Retail Row.
• November 24th: The Food Trucks are now parked at the Motels parking lot.

The Final Season 6 Map

Update v6.31 (November 27th 2018)

• The Food Trucks are now at Lazy Links.
• November 28th: The blizzard cloud turns out to be a Iceberg. The Iceberg is getting close.
• November 29th: The tip of a castle can be seen in the Iceberg. The Iceberg is getting close.
• November 30th:
  • The lights in the Iceberg were turned on. The Iceberg is getting close.
  • The Food Trucks are now at Tomato Temple.
• December 1st: The Food Trucks are now at Dusty Diner in Dusty Divot.
• December 4th:
  • It started snowing on the Spawn Island. The Iceberg is close.
  • The Food Trucks are now in Retail Row.

Battle Pass

The Battle Pass costs 950 V-Bucks, the same as the previous seasons. This Battle Pass first introduced pets and music in the game.

New kinds of Cosmetics

• Pets: A type of back bling that reacts to certain situations you're in.
• Lobby Music: Custom music for the lobby.

Battle Pass Rewards

DJ Yonder Tier 1	Calamity Tier 1	Pickaxe Tier 3	Bang! Tier 5	Calamity Tier 6	Picnic Tier 7

Campfire Tier 8	Emoticons! Tier 10	Bonesy Tier 12	Squeaky Clean Tier 13	Ghost Tier 14	Smash Up Tier 15

GG Potion Tier 16	Exhaust Tier 19	Meow Moon Tier 20	Pastel Patrol Tier 21	Zig-Zag Tier 22	Giddy-up Tier 23

DJ YonderTier 25	Plunger Tier 26	Tomato Tier 28	Camo Tier 29	Manhole Cover Tier 30	Running Man Tier 31

Dice Tier 32	Valkyrie Tier 34	Fireflies Tier 36	Llama de Muertos Tier 37	Camper Tier 38	Covered Crusader Tier 39

DJ YonderTier 40	Scales Tier 43	Fate Tier 44	Ghost Tier 46	Fable Tier 47	Wallcrawler Tier 48

Lightning Tier 50	Black Cat Tier 51	Eerie Tier 53	Cactus Maze Tier 54	Dusk Wings Tier 55	Bat Tier 56

Bonesy (White) Tier 59	Tomato…Temple Tier 60	Patterned Tier 62	Slitherin' Tier 63	Chompmasters Tier 65	Meeet Tier 66

Bats! Tier 68	Spots Tier 69	Dusk Tier 71	Gremlins Tier 72	Scales (Pink) Tier 74	Fancy Tomato Tier 76

Fly Tier 77	Dusk Tier 78	Swarm Tier 79	Oni Tier 80	Skull Tier 82	Spectral Essence Tier 83

Ravage Tier 84	Nightshade Tier 86	Night Cloak Tier 87	Pixel Raven Tier 89	Bonesy (Mocha) Tier 90	OG (Remix) Tier 92

Dire Tier 93	Clown Tier 94	Flamenco Tier 95	Scales (Black) Tier 98	Dire Tier 99	Dire Tier 100

Free Tiers

Spiderweb Tier 2	Calamity Tier 4	Regal Wave Tier 6	Battle Bus (Emoticon) Tier 8	Floating Island Tier 11	Fabled Cape Tier 14

Crossfire Tier 22	GG Potion Tier 26	Guiding Glow Tier 30	Waveform Tier 38	Devil Horns Tier 42	It's Go Time! Tier 46

Supply Llama Tier 50	Jack-O-Lantern Tier 54	TP Tier 58	Game Over Tier 62

Achievement Rewards

Reckoning 5/8 Calamity Challenges	Webrella Victory Royale	Wolfpack 5/8 Dire Challenges	Banner (Season 6 Level 100) Reach Season Level 100 during Season 6	Spray (Season 6 Level 100) Reach Season Level 100 during Season 6	Emoticon (Season 6 Level 100) Reach Season Level 100 during Season 6

Unlockable Styles

Like the previous 2 seasons, the outfits that come with Tier 1 and 100 of the Battle Pass have unlockable styles. Each new style comes with a challenge to unlock it. If you "level up" Calamity fully, you will earn a pickaxe that accompanies the outfit. When you "level up" Dire fully, you will earn a backbling to go along with the outfit.

Calamity came with the Calamity Challenges, and Dire came with the Dire Challenges. Like Season 5, you can complete them even after the season ends.

Teasers

Teaser 1

Teaser 2

Teaser 3

Videos

Fortnite Season 6 Battle Pass - Now with Pets!

Fortnite Season 6 - Darkness Rises

Trivia

• Leaky Lake's name was strangely under the lake instead of in the middle of it.