LEGO Fortnite Villagers: How to Recruit Them, Assign Jobs and Ask Them to Leave

A LEGO Fortnite village is only as good as its residents. Villagers are friendly NPCs who wander in looking for a bed for the night — and with a little preparation you can turn those visits into a permanent workforce that gathers, cooks, refines and even fights at your side. Here is the whole system, from first bed to final eviction.

Step 1: build a Village Square and a spare bed

Nothing happens without a Village Square. It costs 10 wood and 10 granite, sits in the Utility section of the build menu, and it is what unlocks village upgrades, new recipes and villager recruitment itself. Your starter villager — Cuddle Team Leader or Brite Bomber — arrives with your world, but visitors only start appearing once the Square exists.

Then give them somewhere to sleep. A bed costs 10 wood from the Furniture tab, and it must be empty and unassigned — a bed already claimed by you or another villager does not count. No spare bed, no recruitment, no matter how friendly the conversation goes.

Step 2: recruit the visitor

Visitors stay at your village overnight, and a recruit prompt appears above them. Interact, chat, and choose Live in my village!, then confirm with Yes! to assign them your spare bed. Done: they are a resident, and their bed is where they will return to each night.

Step 3: put them to work

Talk to a resident and choose Let's talk jobs! to assign work. The job families cover the whole resource chain:

• Gather resources — wood, stone and forage from around the village
• Cooking — turning ingredients into meals
• Collect gems — refining work at stations like the Gem Cutter
• Smelt metal — processing ores at the Metal Smelter
• Farming and crafting textiles
• Combat companion — follow you into the wild and fight beside you

Two rules govern jobs. First, any villager can do any job — nobody is locked out of the smelter. Second, a villager works faster and produces better rewards at the job matching their specialty, and higher-rarity villagers are quicker across the board. Production takes time — roughly an in-game day for a refining job — and you collect the output by talking to the villager and asking How's your job?

Rarity and where to find the good ones

Villagers are tied to biomes and rated Common, Uncommon, Rare and Epic. Common villagers like Hayseed (farming) and Otis (cooking) turn up early around the Grasslands. Uncommons such as Fishstick (cooking) and Jules (gems and smelting) arrive as your village grows. Rares like Meowscles and Peely mix strong specialties, and Epics — Blackheart, Tomatohead, Lynx, who can turn a hand to any work — are the fastest workers of all but genuinely hard to find: they will not wander into your village, so you have to discover them out in their home biomes and recruit them on the spot. Match the villager to the biome, too: Frostlands natives like Yeti and Bob suit a snow village, Dry Valley folk like Gus and Petra suit the desert.

Asking a villager to leave

Beds are finite, so sometimes a resident has to go. The polite way: interact with the Village Square, open the Residents tab, and choose Ask to Leave. The direct way: destroy their bed with your bare hands. They will set off once their leaving timer runs down — but if you build a fresh empty bed before it expires, they will simply claim it and stay, so time your renovations carefully.