How-to guides: how to
How sprites actually work — extraction, variants, Sprite Dust, mastery, the weekly events — written for players and checked against Epic's own posts. Where a number is community lore rather than something Epic said, the page tells you, right there in the text.
- Fortnite Sprites: A Complete Beginner's Guide Sprites are collectible companions found in chests that grant a passive ability. They only become permanently yours once you extract them in-match.
- How Sprite Extraction Works in Fortnite A sprite is only yours once you extract it. Reach an Extraction Site or use a Portable Extractor — die first and it's left for someone else.
- How to level up sprites fast in Fortnite Sprites level from chests, eliminations and extractions. Heal at a campfire, run a Quack variant, and play Mastery Monday for double speed.
- Losing, Stealing and Trading Sprites in Fortnite An unextracted sprite is left on the battlefield for anyone to steal, a mastered sprite resets to level 1 when lost, and Epic supports no trading.
- Sprite Mastery in Fortnite: Levelling, Extracting and Quack Sprites A Sprite is mastered by levelling it to Level 5 and extracting it. Mastery is permanent, and as of v42.10 it halves resummon costs and duplicates feed XP to Sprites you already own.
Track your collection
Quackadex remembers what you own and what you're missing across every sprite and variant. Open the tracker — free, no download.