What's New

v2.0.0 is coming

The biggest Mineblox Royale update yet lands on November 11 at 11:11 AM Eastern. Here's everything in it, and what comes after.

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SoloBuild DuosBuild TriosBuild SquadsBuild SoloNo Build DuosNo Build TriosNo Build SquadsNo Build

New mode

No Build, and a bigger hub

Solo, Duos, Trios and Squads, all without building. Just you, your aim and the storm.

  • Four new No Build portals in the hub
  • A bigger, cleaner hub with the Battle Bus floating over the middle
  • A What's New board, and first-time tips for cars, grenades and rockets
  • Obby checkpoint 0: fall before checkpoint 1 and you're back at the obby start, not spawn. The first jump is shorter too.
Yellow sports car
Sports car
Black police car
Police car
Taxi
Taxi
Pickup truck
Pickup truck
SUV
SUV
Hatchback
Hatchback

Cars

Grab a car and drive

Take one from a parking lot. F gets in, W A S D drives, Space boosts and Shift gets out.

  • Up to 4 in a car, your team only
  • About 5 minutes of fuel and 4 boosts each
  • Boosting smashes right through buildings
  • Engine sounds, doors that open, wheels that turn and steer
  • Bots drive too

Bosses

Four bosses every match

Six bosses, four on each island, each guarding a lair that shows on the map. They have 200 health and 100 shield. Beat one for its own Boss gun, a new red rarity above Mythic, and 50 gold.

The Blockbuster
The BlockbusterBoss Pump Shotgun
Captain Bloxbeard, a pirate with an eye patch
Captain BloxbeardBoss Bolt-Action Sniper
Agent Noob
Agent NoobBoss Assault Rifle
Sergeant Bacon
Sergeant BaconBoss SMG
Doctor Kaboom, with white hair and goggles
Doctor KaboomBoss Rocket Launcher
Sheriff Noobly
Sheriff NooblyBoss Pistol

And no boss or bot can one-shot you from full health and shield anymore.

The Locker's new Shop tab, with presets, pickaxes and contrails priced in gold

Gold and the Locker Shop

Earn gold, spend it on style

Every match pays out gold: for eliminations, top 10 and top 5 finishes, wins and beating bosses. Spend it in the new Shop tab in the Locker (K).

  • Emotes, outfits, pickaxes, contrails and boost trails
  • 4 new outfit presets: Victory Royale, Storm Raider, Neon Rider and Sweet Tooth
  • New pickaxes, like an electric guitar, an ice cream cone, a pizza slicer and a firework rocket
  • Hover over an item to see it on you, and NEW badges show what you just unlocked
Dominus Empyreus WingsWin 3 Victory Royales
Galaxy contrailScore 50 at the range
Lightning Strike450 gold in the Shop

Gliders and contrails

Drop in with style

Gliders pop open, sway, lean into your turns and fold away when you land.

  • 24 contrails: trails from your hands while skydiving and from your glider
  • A new skydiving pose. Look down to dive head first.
Rocket LauncherBoss
GrenadeNew
Assault RifleMythic

Weapons

Rockets, grenades and real recoil

  • The Rocket Launcher blows up builds and wrecks cars
  • Grenades, with a blue arc showing where they'll land (hold right click to aim)
  • Recoil on every gun, and guns sit at your hip until you aim
  • You can see the bullets: tracers, muzzle flash and hit sparks
A squad of four celebrating on the team podium under confetti, with #1 Victory Royale below

Emotes and the win

Every emote has its own music

And players nearby hear it. 18 emotes are redone to look right, and 8 are brand new:

Griddy Default Dance Orange Justice Boneless Take the L Electro Shuffle Fresh Hype
  • Props: a drum kit, a guitar, a top hat and cane, a lasso, boxing gloves, pom-poms, a boombox, a cape and glow sticks
  • A new Victory Royale screen with confetti, a results card and the gold you earned
  • A team podium when your Duo, Trio or Squad wins
Diagram: before, ramps and walls overlapped; after, every piece sits on the grid lines

Building

Builds snap to Fortnite's grid

No more uneven or overlapping builds.

  • Every piece sits on the grid lines, wherever you aim
  • A wall built from either side is the same wall
  • Ramp rushing works from anywhere on a ramp, not just its top edge

And a lot more

Everything else in v2.0.0

The island

  • Bigger buildings: warehouses, two-storey houses and forts, with more chests
  • 8 Reboot Vans on every island
  • Buildings spread out on flat ground, with no more half-cut trees

Matches

  • A smooth Battle Bus ride, with no more jittering
  • Your team can still reboot you after you're eliminated
  • The bus drops everyone before it flies into the storm
  • Bots move more like real players

Look and sound

  • A new Fortnite-style HUD, about 15% bigger
  • 3D items in your hotbar: guns, heals, shields, ammo and materials
  • Our own gun sounds, a storm warning, explosions and two battle music tracks
  • Healing and shield sounds
  • A badge by each name shows which launcher that player uses
  • Country flags after names (type /flag off to hide yours)
  • A new, cleaner Locker, and less lag

Fixes

  • No more frame drops as the storm closes in
  • Joining friends through Melty is far more reliable. If the host isn't ready yet, you wait in your own world with a [Join them] button.
  • Old islands get deleted so the game doesn't fill your disk
  • After a crash, the game tells you what crashed, and how to fix it if it was your graphics driver

Roadmap

What comes after v2.0.0

Here's what's planned so far. Plans can change, and the best ideas often come from players.

v2.1.0

Planned
  • Facial expressions that work with every face accessory, on their own page in the Locker
  • Skydiving sounds: rushing wind that rises with your speed, and a whoosh into a dive
  • Glider sounds when it opens and folds away
  • Better cars: new tyre sounds, no digging into the ground, and they only hurt enemies when you boost into them
  • Shots at a car damage the car, not the people inside
  • A more urgent storm sound while it closes in
  • At least 2 Reboot Vans inside every safe zone

v3.0.0

Planned
  • Public lobbies: /rc public drops you into a lobby anyone can join
  • Private messages with /pm, and party chat with /pc
  • Three Sky Towers: Easy, Normal and Hard, with a preset for beating each one
  • An obby timer, and presets for beating it in under 45, 30 and 15 seconds

On the table

Ideas
  • Supply drops floating down mid-match with Epic and Legendary loot
  • Launch pads and ziplines
  • Daily challenges for gold
  • Night and rain matches now and then
  • Named places on the island
  • A Creative mode for building with friends

Got an idea of your own?

Tell us what you'd add to the island. Every request gets read, and the good ones end up on this page.