To get through the day-to-day of LEGO Fortnite's survival-crafting-focused gameplay loop, you'll have more than a couple of things you'll need to be aware of at all times and that includes knowing how to escape the cold in LEGO Fortnite.
Chief among these is hunger, which everyone knows about, but one that's also incredibly important in many of the game's biomes is your body's temperature. The cold affliction in LEGO Fortnite is pretty harsh, after all. Luckily, there are ways you can escape the cold.
For more, check out our LEGO Fortnite guides on how to heal and how to increase your health.
How to escape the cold in LEGO Fortnite
In LEGO Fortnite, the cold status inflicts damage on you over time. You will get notified that "You are cold" when your temperature drops, mostly while exploring some of the game's colder biomes. You're also likely to face this issue when you're out at night, especially when it's raining or snowing.
Even if you're inside some kind of shelter, you might not be safe from the cold status and could find yourself losing health at an alarmingly fast rate. However, there are still ways you can escape the cold.
Start a fire
The most basic way of escaping the cold in LEGO Fortnite is, as you might imagine, starting a fire. This can be either a Campfire which warms up a small area around your character or a Torch that you can carry around with you.
Building a Campfire, which you can do from the Build menu, requires you to gather and use three pieces of wood. On the other hand, building a Torch requires you to use a Crafting Bench and takes three pieces of wood as well as five vines. You can find wood from trees and vines from bushes.
Eat Spicy Peppers
While campfires and torches offer some respite during cold nights, they become useless in the face of rain or snow. When Campfires and Torches are no longer fit for purpose, the Spicy Pepper is the next best thing when it comes to escaping the cold in LEGO Fortnite.
When eaten raw, Spicy Peppers grant a two-minute shield against the cold. For prolonged protection, you can cook them with a few other ingredients into a Spicy Burger, which extends this shield's duration to 10 whole minutes.
You can find Spicy Peppers scattered in bushes across the Dry Valley biome and the desert biome or collect them as loot from chests found in abandoned towers.
How to make Spicy Burger in LEGO Fortnite
The Spicy Burger is one of the best foods to fend off the cold conditions in LEGO Fortnite. Here's how to make it:
- Using a Grill, use one Flour, one Meat, and one Spicy Pepper
It's really that simple. Once eaten, you'll have maximum resistance to the cold for ten minutes.
Can you die from cold in LEGO Fortnite?
If you leave the cold status untreated in LEGO Fortnite, you can die from the cold which can be hugely frustrating if you've got a lot of valuable items in your inventory.
That's everything there is to know about how to escape the cold in LEGO Fortnite. For more, check out our other LEGO Fortnite guides on all skins in the game and how to get planks.