Fortnite Adds Super Rare Piracy Item That Makes Item Shop Free For 14 Days
Update: Fortnite players have been hard at work trying to figure out just how rare the elusive Pirate Shop token is. The belief right now is that it shows up in roughly one of every 700,000 chests.Original story…
Update: Fortnite players have been hard at work trying to figure out just how rare the elusive Pirate Shop token is. The belief right now is that it shows up in roughly one of every 700,000 chests.
Original story: Fortnite has added a brand-new feature as part of the Treasure Hunters update called the Pirate Shop, which makes everything in the Item Shop completely free for two weeks.
Hypex reports that if you are lucky enough to find a Pirate Shop token during a match, you will get two tokens - one for 2026, and one for 2027.
Epic Games hasn't revealed the odds of finding the Pirate Shop yet, but only one player has found a token so far - @snowslept.
They uploaded a clip to X earlier today on November 1, fittingly dressed up as Ace from One Piece, where they find a chest in the middle of a match that just so happens to be housing one of the tokens.
Everyone In Your Party Gets A Token If You Find One
After @snowslept left the match, they got a pop-up explaining exactly how it works: "Plunder the Fortnite Item Shop - twice! Activate the Pirate Shop once in 2026 and once in 2027. Each time, you can claim anything sold for V-Bucks in the Fortnite Item Shop for free for 14 days from activation."
Shiina and Hypex have both verified that if you're playing in a squad and find the Pirate Shop, everyone in your squad will be granted two tokens. "That means if just one person finds the Pirate Shop token, every party member can get nearly every Item Shop item for free for 14 days," they explained.
Fortnite's Answer To GTA 6
There are, of course, some limitations. Real money offers are exempt, and you can only claim one sidekick that you do not already own. Tokens also cannot be transferred, and they do not work on Battle Pass levels and rewards.
It's unclear right now how scarce tokens are, or whether there's a limit to how many can be dropped per day, or even per week. But if you do find one, don't activate it right away. You have until the end of 2026 to use your first one, then all of 2027 to use your next.
However rare they might be, getting everyone to jump back into the game to find a super rare token that makes everything free certainly seems to be Epic's way of keeping players around while the enormous shadow of GTA 6 looms overhead.