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🌟 Fortnite Ecosystem v40.00 Update Summary 🌟 📅 March 19, 2026 🎮 STAR WARS Comes to UEFN 1️⃣ Full STAR WARS toolkit added to Creative & UEFN 2️⃣ Includes templates, weapons, characters, vehicles, audio, and devices 3️⃣ Publishing opens May 1 via Creator Portal 🌌 STAR WARS Templates & Content 🔹 New starter islands: Tatooine, Hoth, Nevarro, Space 🔸 Gameplay templates: • Lightsabers + Force Powers • Team Conquest • Narrative / Roleplay 🔹 Characters: Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Princess Leia, The Mandalorian, Boba Fett, Chewbacca, Stormtroopers, Jawas 🔸 Creatures: • Rideable Tauntauns 🔹 25+ weapons/items including blasters and lightsabers 🔸 Biomes usable beyond STAR WARS: • Desert, snow, volcanic 🛠 New STAR WARS Systems 1️⃣ Hero Device • Transform into heroes or villains with abilities 2️⃣ Custom Lightsabers + Force Powers • Barrier, Heal, Mind Trick, Detection, Distraction 3️⃣ Vehicles • X-Wing, TIE Fighter, N-1 Starfighter, AAT • Includes secondary fire 4️⃣ STAR WARS Audio • Official music via Audio devices (limited-time) 5️⃣ Guard Device Update • Themed NPC dialogue with hire and dismiss 🔧 Device Updates 🔹 Disguise Device • Supports STAR WARS characters 🔸 Conversation Device • Weighted and randomized dialogue 🔹 Capture Area Device • New neutralize event • Option to hide visuals 🔸 Player Spawner + Team Settings • New Verse respawn functions 💻 UEFN Improvements 🔹 New Home Panel • Quick access to projects, docs, and updates 🔸 Revision Control Branch Explorer (Beta) • Create, switch, and manage branches in-editor 🔹 Flight debug command in Play mode 🔸 Verse Tags • Tag and query objects at runtime 🧠 Verse + UI Updates 🔹 Verse events in widgets 🔸 New UEFN Button widget 🔹 Keybind support for Verse UI 🔸 Action Widget display types 🔹 Text wrapping in Verse UI ⚙️ Gameplay + Physics 🔹 Carryable Spawner • Physics-enabled objects you can pick up, throw, and stack 🔸 Physics updates • Improved structure interaction • Prop Mover reaction updates • Default physics behavior improvements 🔫 Weapons & Items 🔹 New weapons: • Chaos Reloader Shotgun • Ice King’s Gauntlets • Seven Cluster Cannon • Vector 7 DMR 🔸 Updated: • Combat AR (non-modular) • Nemesis AR • Pistol reload variant 🔹 New items: • Seven Power Gloves • Skyline Deployer • Slapperoni Pizza + Slice • Stimpulse Grenade 🏗 Prefabs & Galleries 🔹 Kappa Kappa Pickle Co. prefabs and galleries added 📚 Documentation Updates 🔹 Book of Verse now the main Verse reference 🔸 New docs: • Memory optimization (draw calls) • Live event design • Device design examples 🛠 Bug Fixes 🔹 Fixed: • Cooker memory and timeout issues • Prefab editor crashes • Mesh update issues • NPC spawner sync issues • HUD resource display bugs • Proximity chat attenuation ⚙️ More Fixes 🔹 Creative: • Placement, rotation, copy/paste • Score and replication fixes • Lighting updates 🔸 Devices: • Vehicle fuel issues • NPC pushing • Conversation UI bugs • Carryable material fixes 🔹 UEFN: • Scoreboard visibility • Test player cleanup • Live Edit material issues • Validation improvements 🔸 Physics: • Sliding behavior • Prop Mover updates • Default physics tuning ⚠️ Known Issues 🔹 STAR WARS: • Force Awareness only works once • Hero device scaling issues • Saber Throw cooldown issues • Weapon damage inconsistencies • Narrative template validation bug • Force Heal and Barrier start at 0 energy via Verse 🔸 Verse Tags: • Stale tags in UI after deletion • Duplicate tag issues

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