LEGO Fortnite: How To Find Flexwood (& Recipes)

Flexwood is a major resource in LEGO Fortnite used to craft items like wheels and looms. While it is hard to obtain early on in the game, it is essential to craft the Glider, one of the most important tools in the entire game. While you’ll need to put in the effort to develop a consistent method of harvest, there is a useful trick to quickly harvest flexwood.

To take full advantage of Flexwood, you’ll need a Lumber Mill at your disposal. Lumber Mills help turn various types of wood, like Knotroot and Flexwood, into Rods that are then used in more recipes. The more you upgrade your village, the more Rods you can make. Flexwood and Flexwood Rods are key upgrade resources in the later stages of building your village, making them even more important to harvest.

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How To Get Knotroot In LEGO Fortnite

Knotroot is an essential mid-game crafting resource that can be found in caves in LEGO Fortnite. However, to harvest it, players need upgraded tools.

Finding & Harvesting Flexwood

While the name suggests that Flexwood could be harvested from a tree, that is not the case. Rather, Flexwood comes from cacti growing in the Dry Valley, aka the desert biome. The Dry Valley changes location in each playthrough, requiring some exploration to find. If you want to cut down cacti in LEGO Fortnite, you’ll need the right tools. Cacti can only be chopped down by a Rare Forest Axe crafted from a twice-upgraded Crafting Bench.

The first upgrade for a Crafting Bench asks for 8 Planks and 3 Shells. Planks can be crafted from Wood with the Lumber Mill while Shells drop from rolling crabs that wander the Grasslands. The second Crafting Bench upgrade, meanwhile, asks for 12 Knotroot Rods, 15 Marble Slabs, 6 Sand Claws, and 3 Sand Shells. Knotroot Rods are crafted with the Lumber Mill and Marble Slabs come from a Stone Breaker after mining Marble. Sand Claws and Sand Shells are enemy drops from Sand Wolves and Sand Rollers, respectively, in the Dry Valley.

Once the Crafting Bench is upgraded, you’ll need 5 Cut Amber and 3 Knotroot Rods. You can mine Rough Amber from amber deposits in the Dry Valley, which then gets processed in a Gem Cutter, turning it into Cut Amber. Once you have the needed resources, you can craft the Rare Forest Axe and chop down cacti for Flexwood.

Flexwood Recipes

There are a variety of recipes and upgrades in LEGO Fortnite that require Flexwood or Flexwood Rods. Few are as amazing as the Glider, which allows you to leap from high peaks and fly across the world. Some other recipes include late-game Village upgrades and a variety of decorative items. If you want your Village in LEGO Fortnite to be the best it can be, you’ll need Flexwood.

Fortnite

Released

July 21, 2017

Developer(s)

Epic Games

Publisher(s)

Epic Games , Warner Bros. Games

ESRB

T

Platform(s)

PC , Xbox One , PlayStation 5 , PlayStation 4 , iOS , Xbox Series X/S , Nintendo Switch