With the Lost Isles update, LEGO Fortnite’s Essence Table has been replaced by the mighty Rune Forge, where players can roll runes and use them to imbue their weapons with great powers and bonuses.
All Runes in LEGO Fortnite Lost Isles
There are seven runes in LEGO Fortnite, and they each have three tiers of strength (so technically there are 21 runes in the game).
Here’s a list of all the runes in LEGO Fortnite:
- Rune of Damage I-III: increases a tool’s damage.
- Rune of Durability I-III: increase a tool’s durability.
- Rune of Health I-III: provides a chance for enemies to drop Health items when hit.
- Rune of Undead Bane I-III: increases a tool’s damage against undead enemies.
- Rune of Berserk I-III: significantly increases your sprint speed and jump height for a few seconds after attacking.
- Rune of Luck I-III: provides an increased chance of getting extra loot drops when defeating enemies.
- Rune of Destruction I-III: provides a chance to instantly destroy buildings when hitting them.
Alongside some more standard enhancements, the runes present a varied arrangement of bonuses and effects for your tools. Runes of higher numbers have increased potency, increasing chances or stats even further.
Now that you know what you’re dealing with, let’s get into how you can claim these benefits for yourself.
How to unlock and use the Rune Forge in LEGO Fortnite Lost Isles
The Rune Forge isn’t exactly a new item in LEGO Fortnite, as it’s a replacement for the Essence Table (although essence is an actual component now). You will unlock the Rune Forge upon gaining Glass for the first time.
You can build the Rune Forge with the following materials:
Once the Rune Forge is placed down, you can use it to enhance your tools and weapons. Each eligible item can have up to three runes. Once a rune is selected, you can’t take it off or change it, so be very careful!
Upon selecting an item, you will be given a choice of three random runes from the ones you’ve unlocked. But don’t worry, you can reroll them. It costs essence to equip a rune, with more powerful renditions of a rune costing more essence. Thankfully, you can gain essence from doing virtually anything in LEGO Fortnite.
When first building the Rune Forge, you’ll unlock the runes of durability, damage, health, and luck. You’ll need to unlock other runes by finding the special Klombo Rune Tomes.
Where to find Tomes in LEGO Fortnite Lost Isles: Locations, explained
To unlock new runes to boost your weapons and tools in LEGO Fortnite, you’ll need to acquire Klombo Rune Tomes. These Tomes, upon being read, unlocks a random rune or your perpetual use.
Both Tome types seem to only be found in chests on the many floating islands that hover above the land. You’ll need to be very creative in your method of getting up there, but the rewards are worth it!
You could try:
- Building up with a giant staircase
- Being launched by a Klombo
- Building a floating platform up
- Constructing an aircraft
No matter how you do it, getting up there is important to benefit from all the different rune types in LEGO Fortnite.
Now that you know all you need to know about the Runes in LEGO Fortnite, make sure you’ve got a reliable mount to make your traversals easier in the Lost Isles.
