How to Make a Short Sword in Fortnite Lego

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How to Make a Short Sword in Fortnite Lego

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Craft a Short Sword in Fortnite Lego is likely one of the first weapons you’ll create while learning how to build and survive in your own world. This sword may be small, but it’s certainly powerful and will prove useful in combating enemies lurking around every corner.

After spending some time learning the basics of living in a Lego world in Fortnite, you’ll need to craft weapons to combat anything that wishes to harm you.

When you’re ready, we’re here to show you how to make a short sword in fortnite lego.

How to Make a Short Sword in Fortnite Lego

To make a short sword in Fortnite Lego you need five wooden rods, but first you need to have a sawmill. You can get a sawmill as part of the tutorial when you first enter the Lego world and have completed all the tasks up to the point where Brite Bomber gives you three options on what to do next.

A sawmill construction recipe should then appear in your construction menu under “Utility”:

fortnite lego build sawmill utility menu

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To build a sawmill you will need:

Once you have built a sawmill, go there and interact with it. Next, select the “Wooden Rod” option from the menu:

lego fortnite sawmill menu arrow pointing to wooden rod option

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You have to build five wooden rods And they cost x1 wood each. At the top of the menu is the part where you decide how much wood you want to put into the mill.

lego fortnite wood mill entrance wood menu option circled

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Select the section circled in the image above then increase your number of antlers to five. Once you put the wood in, the rod will begin to be treated.

Once it’s ready, the wooden rod icon at the end of the loading bar at the top of the menu will be highlighted. Press the requested command (on Xbox it’s “Y”) to collect the newly created stems.

lego fortnite sawmill menu square highlighting the collectible section for transformed rods

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After that, head to your crafting bench and interact with it to open the menu. Next, scroll down to the sword icon in “Crafting Recipes” and the short sword should be listed there. Select it and confirm that you want to use five wooden rods to craft it.

That’s all for the moment! By crafting this item, you will be one step closer to getting the free Trailblazer Tai skin. If you’re looking for more Fornite Lego content, check out our guide showing you how to invite an NPC to your village.

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