Fortnite is known as much for its paid cosmetics as it is for having arguably the best Battle Royale modes around. But these days, Fortnite offers so many free cosmetics at any given time that it’s easier than ever to enjoy it without dropping a penny on skins, emotes, or other cosmetics. In Chapter 7 Season 3, there are free items to unlock for every Epic-created mode, so you don’t have to give up on collecting Fortnite cosmetics even if you’re feeling the pain caused by the V-Buck price increase.
With so much free stuff, it’s not always easy to tell what is available to unlock, since there’s no “here’s all the free stuff you can earn” page in Fortnite itself. Scroll on to find out what exactly you can get, and what modes you’ll need to play or, in some cases, what websites you’ll need to make accounts for.
Chapter 7 Season 3 battle pass free items
The Chapter 7 Season 2 battle pass, which runs until August 20, includes 28 items that you can earn for free by leveling up without buying the pass, as well as 200 V-Bucks that can be used in the item shop or put toward buying the battle pass, Lego pass, OG pass, or music pass. Many of the items are minor cosmetics like sprays, emoticons, loading screens, and banner icons.
Highlights:
- Sprite Seat back bling
- Spirit Blade pickaxe
- Blade of the Void pickaxe
- Voidblade’s Voyager glider
- Quack Coaster glider
- Cluster Case back bling
- Soundwave Basher pickaxe
- Radio Rider glider
- Gold Chainsaw pickaxe
- Dylan’s Fur’s weapon wrap
- Innovator’s Special weapon wrap
- Wick’s Axe bass/pickaxe/back bling
Music Pass free items
The Laufey music pass includes nine free items that you can earn without buying the pass by leveling up in any Fortnite experience. Highlights include a keytar, a mic stand, an emote, a back bling, an aura, and four royalty-free jam tracks. This music pass runs until July 15.
Items:
- Grand Keyano keytar
- Lantera microphone
- Vibrant Dream aura
- Get Uptempo emote
- L’amour Cache jam track
- Blue English jam track
- After Dark jam track
- Loves Like a Lady jam track
OG Pass free items
The Fortnite OG Season 8 OG pass includes 12 items you can unlock by leveling up without actually buying the pass, including two gliders, one pickaxes, two back blings, a weapon wrap, and an emote. There are also some less interesting items, like sprays, emoticons, banner icons, and a loading screen.
Items:
- Luxe Scythe pickaxe
- Golden Vaultwings glider
- Captain’s Tally weapon wrap
- Take the Wheel emote
- Volcanic Cache back bling
- Draconic Drifter glider
- Synthesis Sai back bling
Rocket League
Every car and SUV in Fortnite is also in Rocket League, and that means the best way to earn car-related cosmetics is by playing Rocket League. For starters, you can unlock the Backfire car body (pictured) and seven decals in both games simply by completing the tutorial quests for new players. A number of other car bodies, wheels, and other accessories can be unlocked at random via loot crates that you can earn by completing weekly and seasonal challenges. Any car body or accessory can be pulled from those crates, in theory.
Rocket Pass
Like Fortnite’s passes, the Rocket Pass also includes a variety of free items. Many of these items aren’t the types of things that have an equivalent in Fortnite, like car toppers. But the Season 23 Rocket Pass, which runs until September 23, includes a set of wheels and a rocket boost. You must play Rocket League to make progress on the Rocket Pass.
Items:
- Bitcrush rocket boost
- Temple wheels
Rocket League tournaments
Participating in Rocket League tournaments and getting wins earns points that can be used to open loot crates that contain random cosmetics. In Season 22, six of these items transfer to Fortnite.
Items:
- Bad Rad wheels
- Cheesy wheels
- Meticulous wheels
- Chromium wheels
- Smokin’ trail
- Soulmesh boost
Lego Pass
The Soaring Skies Lego pass includes two loading screens, and 7 sets of Lego Fortnite decor items, and one Lego Fortnite airship that can be unlocked for free by leveling up in any Fortnite experience. These items are for building in Lego Fortnite Odyssey, Lego Fortnite Brick Life, and other Lego-related Creative experiences. Yes, the airship really works, and you can fly around in it.
Items:
- Luft-Llama Longboat airship
- Luft-Llama Jumbo Thruster decor
- Luft-Llama Steering Helm decor
- Luft-Llama Hot Air Balloon
- Dreadnought Steering Setup decor
- Dreadnought Anchorage Apparatus decor
- Ryumura Food Market decor
- Ryumura Nightfall Garden decor
- Dawn of the Shatter Spawn loading screen
- Broadside Balloon Blitz loading screen
Connect a Lego account with your Epic Games account
Connect a Lego account with your Epic Games account to instantly unlock both the Fortnite and Lego styles for the Explorer Emilie and Mr. Dappermint skins. No need to play Lego Fortnite to enjoy these two. You can link accounts here.
Lego True Explorers quests
Activate the completely free Lego True Explorers quest pack from the item shop, and then complete the quests in Lego Fortnite Odyssey to unlock the Trailblazer Tai skin and back bling. You can link accounts here.
Mobile quests
There are several choice rewards that you can only earn by playing Fortnite on mobile including a free heavily-customizable skin and a licensed jam track by Canadian pop duo Crash Adams:
- Yeddy skin – Earn one account level and invite a friend on mobile
- New Heart by Crash Adams jam track – complete 2 Fortnite Festival mobile quests
- Keytarcade keytar – complete 4 Fortnite Festival mobile quests
Save the World
Since the Save the World mode became free on April 16, you can earn the Jess skin, pictured, by earning 350,000 XP while playing the mode. That’s about 4.5 battle pass levels’ worth of experience.
Umbrellas
Fortnite awards umbrella gliders for your first win each season in Battle Royale, OG, Reload, and Blitz, as well as glowing variants for wins in ranked modes.
- The Umbrella – first-ever Fortnite win
- Dark Cube-Rella – first win in BR during Chapter 7 Season 2
- New Seven ‘Brella Reloaded – first win in Reload during Chapter 7 Season 2
- Burning ‘Brella – first win in Fortnite OG during Season 8
- Blitz ‘Brella – win three rounds of Blitz Royale
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PostParty
Downloading Epic’s PostParty app and using it to share a clip of your gameplay will unlock the Post That! Weapon wrap.
Ranked quests
You can unlock a variety of free cosmetics by playing and ranking up in ranked modes, as well as completing some quests while you do so. There are fewer items here than there used to be, thanks to Epic recently shutting down Rocket Racing and Ballistic.
Highlights:
- Felinos skin (pictured) – Ranked Reload and Battle Royale
- Felinos’ Fury weapon wrap – Ranked Reload and Battle Royale
- Felinos’ Claw pickaxe – Ranked Reload and Battle Royale
- Seven Axe pickaxe – Ranked Battle Royale
- Daigo’s Charge weapon wrap – Ranked Battle Royale
- Ranker’s Flourish emote – Ranked Battle Royale and Reload
- Sanctuary Signals contrail – Ranked Battle Royale and Reload
- Daigo’s Tech weapon wrap – Ranked Reload
- Reloaded Seven Axe- Ranked Reload
Reload map mastery
Complete the Reload map mastery quests, which require placing highly, and eventually getting wins, on each of the Reload maps in rotation.
Highlights:
- Elites Issue weapon wrap
- Re-Loading emote
Survey emails
Sign up to receive Fortnite-related surveys in your email to unlock the Sir Beurre back bling.
Two-factor authentication
Activating two-factor authentication will unlock the Boogie Down emote
