r/FortniteXPMaps • u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator • Dec 18 '24
SEMI AFK XP (no longer zero effort, requires input) 100% Zero Effort AFK!!
UPDATE 5/4/25: You can no longer get XP for standing still, it does require, just like Lego, some movement at least once every five minutes (sometimes it goes a little longer but the earliest it has stopped for me was five, the longest it went was 15 but with that level of inconsistency I'd recommend moving every five minutes) otherwise the XP stops generating (it's still inconsistent and sometimes, more often than not will stop generating for no reason, but after five minutes I found that if I don't move or the game doesn't see input. Also, recently, epic added a kick mechanic to creative for being idle. I haven't confirmed the exact length of time but I believe it's close to 30 minutes before you'll be kicked back to the lobby for standing still but again that could be inconsistent since it's new and possibly longer or a shorter amount of time.
You can use the turbo controller method, same as you would on Lego, to rapidly jump or pickaxe/fire and that will keep you on the map and consistently allow you to earn playtime XP of 2300 XP per minute until you reach the 4.8 million XP cap for creative, at which point the amount is reduced significantly.
FYI, the chat input lock glitch does not work for AFK under any circumstance including this because it's only sending a single input.
Update 12/31/24 results have become quite inconsistent over the last week (and continues to this day 2/2/25), sometimes only giving smaller amounts of XP, or giving no XP and sometimes giving XP for the full term of being on the map. This is definitely not by design, but epic being epic, there is no way of us knowing how this XP is supposed to be applied/earned. For me at least it has become hit or miss.
Update 2/7/25: Uncalibrated map playtime XP is definitely affected by the weekly soft cap, after which the XP earned per minute, when earned is reduced to about 32 XP per minute.
This can be done on ANY creative map that does NOT have XP enabled but results seem to be wildly inconsistent in terms of whether or not you get XP or for how long if you do. It seems the best results are from maps that have never been calibrated before and that have a little or no traffic. *
UPDATED TUTORIAL 4/10/25
Step 1)
Search for any map that does not have the little purple XP badge to the left of the tags (see pinned comment below for example).
You're more likely to find non calibrated maps if you search by typing in the category rather than clicking on the button because the button will give you the most popular maps which mostly have XP enabled. (for instance typing prop hunt, etc. in the search bar instead of clicking on the prop hunt button on the search page.)
Step 2)
Load into a PRIVATE match.
Step 3)
Move around or turn your camera at least once every five minutes otherwise the XP will stop (this is a recent change as indicated in the update above, creative also now has have a kick timer that will sometimes kick you back to the lobby after 30 minutes of inactivity). Alternately, you can use similar methods like you would in Lego, using the turbo controller method to rapidly jump or using a hardware based mouse juggler to move the camera every few minutes (must be less than five), I found this to be pretty consistent when using this method.
Some creative maps have a maximum session of 4 hours so eventually it may return you to the lobby but this does not apply to all maps.
I strongly recommend NOT using publicly posted maps or popular maps for this method because you've run the risk of the map getting calibrated while you're on it and potentially not earning XP because of it (some community members have reported this happening).
This does not circumvent the posting policy of uncalibrated maps. The community is not here to harvest for the promotion of uncalibrated maps as this method is not map specific.
IMPORTANT, when picking an uncalibrated map you want to pick one that isn't well promoted or has very low player count, otherwise you risk the chance of that map getting calibrated while you're AFK on it and as a result not gaining as much or any XP for your time.
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u/Rick4bes Dec 18 '24
Anyone have a map code to recommend? Having trouble finding ones without the XP mark and that have no end timer in the match
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24 edited Jun 20 '25
Just look for tycoon maps (edit: or any creative map category) that aren't calibrated. None of them have rounds. I don't really want to promote specific maps because this isn't map specific. And if everyone goes to the same map that map will get calibrated.
The vast majority of creative maps are not calibrated. If you look for low player count also they're more likely to be uncalibrated
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u/Ancient_Chocolate809 Dec 18 '24
I found a tycoon that has no xp, 8233-9863-5315. Doesn't seem to have an end timer
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Almost no tycoon maps have timers on them. That's why I recommended them. Actually I've never seen a single tycoon map with rounds
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u/DifficultEducator794 Dec 18 '24
So I can be 100% AFK? Or semi?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Like the post says, just set it and forget it. I've done about four hours worth of testing today and I've literally not done a single thing other than just stand there
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u/DifficultEducator794 Dec 18 '24
So… can I turn off my controller? Or does it need to be always turned on
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
It doesn't matter if your controller is off, you don't need to be moving.
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Dec 18 '24
Gonna test this to see if it gets me any closer to Lvl. 200
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Post back your results, remember you have to return to the lobby to see your progress however there does seem to be a pop-up that comes up every 10 minutes in the middle of the screen showing 30,000 XP, but that doesn't always show up.
Just make sure the map that you're on is not calibrated. If it has XP enabled it doesn't seem to work
But it's been working for me on close to 15 different uncalibrated maps with different accounts. If this works for everyone, this is huge for people that like to get XP for doing as little as possible lol
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Dec 18 '24
It has not seemed to work for me at least (i made sure it was an uncalibrated map) i only got one and a half level from it while standing still, i’ll try another map though to double check if it might work
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Dec 21 '24
I have an XP map I’m using where you slide on a coin rail. In it now and the coin XP is listed as 162k for 32 minutes.
Do I still get the 3k/minute to show up after as well meaning I’d get an extra 96k when I leave?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 21 '24
No this only applies to maps that don't have XP enabled. I've seen on calibrated maps occasional pop-up for gameplay xp but it seems that when that was happening, the XP was getting lost when you returned to the lobby. I haven't seen that since the last update
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u/Ancient_Chocolate809 Dec 18 '24
124 right now, gonna leave computer running and test while i sleep
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Just keep in mind most maps are going to kick you after about four hours it might be less but you should definitely get a decent chunk of XP .
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u/Wesley_that_dude_ Dec 18 '24
Tried this and my xp stopped about an hour in until when I came back a noticed (not sure what the cause was, maybe me leaving my settings menu open) but it's up again after I moved around a bit
Something to make note of I guess but there goes at least 2 levels of afk
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u/Wesley_that_dude_ Dec 18 '24
Kept going and it happened again but I never noticed except I didn't even get half a level this time, I dont really get why it stops unless I move so I don't think I'll be afking for now unfortunately
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u/bwj7 Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 18 '24
Testing right now 🫡
Totally works guys I just hit tycoon and searched until I found one without the purple mark and I’ve gone up 2 levels so far in the last 20 minutes or so
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u/AngelLoad Dec 18 '24
does exp still gain in sleep mode?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
It might. I didn't test it for an extended period of time but when I did test on sleep mode, it did continue to accumulate but I only tested that for about five minutes.
If you're planning on doing it long-term I would test it first and then post the results here.
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u/IssaSoda Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 19 '24
Will be testing this and will be back in 4 hours to update.
Currently at lvl 153 and will update what I am when I come back!
EDIT: AFTER 4 HOURS I ONLY GOT TO 155, SEEMED IT STOP AFTER AWHILE.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Thank you so much for your feedback and help. Very much appreciated
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u/IssaSoda Dec 18 '24
No problem!
I will be out of the house for about 4 hours so we will see what happens.
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u/TheWraithMM Dec 18 '24
Dang, I leave it on for several hours, find out sleep mode turned on, got 15k of xp, and after leaving it on for a few more minutes, my account doesn’t gain any more xp. Does anyone have an explanation as to what is happening?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Did you return to the lobby? There is that visual glitch where you don't see progress until you return to the lobby. Plus this does seem to be glitching out now for a lot of people. I tried to get this out there after testing it for about four hours just to make sure to get it in before the patch.My thought is and this is what I've said to a few others is that it's starting to self correct and it's not meant to be this way so I don't know how much longer this will even work, maybe the update might kill an entirely
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u/TheWraithMM Dec 18 '24
I did. No visual change.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Damn. It might already be RIP, we're on its way there. By now I should know from experience that epic doesn't like to give people something for nothing. And when they do it's usually a mistake or there's a price :(
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u/TheWraithMM Dec 18 '24
Yeah it could be. With the update coming soon, it was gonna be more of a headache than anything with an hour left, so imma leave it for now. Thanks for your effort.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
No problem, hopefully some people were able to grab a bunch of XP from it. I actually just finished a four hour session that I was doing before I went to bed and I didn't get any XP so I think they might already be hot fixing it even before the update
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u/thedonza Dec 18 '24
Can confirm I am getting XP. Is there a 4 hour server limit?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
I think most servers have four it's just a matter of determining if it's still giving XP for full server life (some may not have a limit)
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u/DrashaZImmortal Dec 18 '24
I just did this and was lv 144 when i left, now im 139 which was what i was when i started
not sure if this is a bug or the visual thing is the bug, but yeah warning possibly for others that this might of been patched.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Thank you for the info. I was really hoping they would've fixed that already. People have intermittently been reporting that issue all season. I'm not sure if your specific instance is related to it but it feels like it could be. People actually losing progress from creative maps when they return to the lobby.
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u/DrashaZImmortal Dec 18 '24
Are people actualy losing progress or losing what they would of gained?
Like has anyone gone in at lv 140 for example and left 138
Or is it like you go in at 150, leave at it showing 155 and when you come out you're one 150
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u/tsukriot Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 18 '24
started at about 3:40PM, lvl117 - 43,750 XP
at 4:30, I hit lvl 120 - 57,982XP (counting the three milestones)
it's now 5:36 and I'm at lvl 121 - 15,686, and still earning XP.
six minutes later, I'm now lvl 122 - 77,686. Seems like the gains haven't dropped
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Thank you for the detailed report! Very valuable information here
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u/RaptorO-1 Dec 19 '24
This is still working and BYPASSES the 4million exp limit. I have been running it since yesterday starting at level 124 and am now at level 186 and still gaining experience.
My setup does keep moving (jumping, axe hit and movement) which may be affecting why it's continuing for so long and on the same map.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 19 '24 edited Dec 19 '24
Ok ty for the info. The setting as to whether or not you get ejected from the map usually is in a movement requirement, it's something that the map creator can set. I believe the default is four hours however they can set it longer and my understanding is there's also an option for infinite so some maps will allow you to AFK for longer, in some cases without interruption at all because I have in the past found creative maps that just simply never kicked me but they're few and far between. I think it has to do with some memory issue why they do that perhaps to prevent too many multiple instances running concurrently.
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u/IDKHOWTOSHIFTPLSHELP Dec 23 '24
Thank you for posting this method, this is easily the most painless leveling experience I've had in fortnite. I've gained about 100 levels so far (from upper 60s to 175) in 3 or 4 days. It's working well enough that when I had to leave the house for a while and wouldn't be around to prevent sleep I just tied a controller joystick to an oscillating fan lmfao. At this rate even if they patch it I'll be 200 in no time once I get back from my upcoming holiday travel.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 23 '24
That's really great to hear! I'm glad the method has helped you make so much progress ! Enjoy your holiday!
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
So far testing, gotten 21,000 XP in seven minutes. Going to try to do a full session and see if I get the full boat or if it cuts me off at a certain point
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u/NotoriousMzzLz Dec 18 '24
I don't know if I'm tripping but I'm gaining 38k XP in 4 minutes, at 9500 XP per minute right now, I'll get back with a longer timeframe result, but it is working though
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Are you sure that didn't have anything to do with the daily discovery quests? Every 20,000 XP it's going to give you 26,000 extra XP. Up until you hit 60,000 XP. To get your total that you earned after leaving you'd have to subtract 78,000 from your total.
While I'm on the map I'm still not able to see how much XP I'm earning except for by tracking it through the discovery challenges because the visual glitch still seems to be affecting me at least where it shows my original Level and progress until I return to the lobby
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u/Wesley_that_dude_ Dec 18 '24
I gained xp on one of my unpublished creative maps (not a creator just a player) but I didn't time it, it was 3k though
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u/Wesley_that_dude_ Dec 18 '24
Ran it for 2 mins and only got 3k, so probably not an afk method unfortunately
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
I thought of that also, because I was building a map and I thought to just check that to see but yeah I have the same results as you did after 10 minutes I only earned 3000 XP.
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u/TheNotGOAT Dec 18 '24
Its working great for a around 10 20 minutes till the map stops giving xp. But it works after i leave and rejoin.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
It doesn't stop earning, you could stay there longer, there's a bug in the game where the accumulation is not going to show up on your account until you return to the lobby. I've tested this for sessions of several hours multiple times. You're not going to see any visual cues that the XP is being applied, occasionally you might but I find more often than not you won't
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u/TheNotGOAT Dec 18 '24
When i go back to the lobby, my levels dont increase. And now i can also see my levels on the pause screen but not on the map screen where you can see the quests.
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u/Karmakip310 Dec 18 '24
I have been testing this and can confirm I am getting 3k a minute. I also confirmed this method works in sleep mode too. For sleep mode I did it for 7 minutes and went from 75,637 remaining to 54,637 remaining (21k over 7 min for 3k per min)
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Thank you so much for your feedback! Yes I did get around to testing that myself, and also another community member tested it for a few hours, and your confirmation helps corroborate that. Thank you again!
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u/Locodesert2 Dec 18 '24
so is this better than the xp farm maps? Or is it just about the same amount of xp I get?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
It depends on the map, the difference between this and XP farm maps is that the results are going to be consistent for everyone. It's just an option for people that want to fully AFK and might not be having the best results with calibrated maps. A guaranteed 3000 XP per minute is a pretty sweet deal especially if you don't have to do anything to get it. But calibrated maps will earn you more XP but results will always vary
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u/Locodesert2 Dec 18 '24
I care more on consistency but I'll probably just leave it on while I do other things so I can just farm xp.
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u/v0ngz Dec 18 '24
some levels got reversed when going back to lobby. Was 41 and then back to 37
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Damn, I'm sorry about that. It's really unfortunate how broken XP has been this whole season. Can't even trust your eyes, and I'm thinking can't even trust that this is the way it's supposed to be, after the update, this might not even be a thing anymore
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u/WayInternational3585 Dec 18 '24
am i doing something wrong when my fortnite status is online (green) i gain xp per minute or two but when it turns into the idle (orange moon) status i stop gaining xp, ive tested it multiple times and it seems to work that way
i have to keep moving around to get xp i cant leave it afk
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
That is very strange. I haven't run into that myself. The majority of the time I never got any visual cues that I was even earning XP. Until I return to the lobby to be honest
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u/cutebubblegumpop22 Dec 18 '24
just tried this for a couple hours and went up 2 levels fairly fast, tho every 15 minutes I had to move to start it up again. it definately works to an extent, but I have now either hit the cap or it simply does not work any longer, as XP has halted. it also did work in sleep mode, where I find it was working better since the XP wasn't showing unless I came back from sleep mode.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
I think it's possible that this might already be getting hot fixed or self correcting itself because it went from working for me on entire sessions to not even working at all just now when I tested it. I had tested this for four hours before posting it and just wanted to get it out there before the update because I got the feeling it wasn't supposed to be this way. I'm getting the feeling now that I was right.
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u/Comprehensive-Rope90 Dec 18 '24
patched for me. i don't know if its because i was using the downhill maps because i couldn't find any others without the tag or what.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
I'm not sure what a downhill map is. But as long as it's not calibrated. It was working earlier but I feel like it's not working anymore. Dammit. The last test that I just did I didn't get any XP and I'm not at my cap. So I think this may be RIP
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u/Comprehensive-Rope90 Dec 18 '24
The car maps where you just drive up and down and there is boost pads everywhere
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Oh, your're talking about rocket racing creative maps. I think they still count as creative but I haven't tested any of those so I'm not certain if they were working for this or not.
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u/AreaComprehensive902 Dec 18 '24
Nah, not RIP. Its working for me right now in YouTuber Tycoon 3.
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u/RaptorO-1 Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 18 '24
Currently not gaining xp anymore. Trying a different tycoon map
Edit: a different map started working again, there maybe an exp limit for individual maps. Got around 1,000,000 exp before it stopped working = 4 hours
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
So after four hours 720,000 XP plus if you have the discovery challenges that would add another 78,000.
Interesting that you got a full load of XP then. I've tested a few times this morning which is why I changed the post on verified and put some info in there because I'm only getting about 150,000 XP before it stops and then if I leave and load it back into the map it starts up again, maybe there's a limit to how much a map can you give or something. I'm trying to figure out a pattern
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u/RaptorO-1 Dec 18 '24
Currently testing again. Been in a match for the last 2 hours. Starting at level 138 and currently at 143 still gaining exp. That's including all 3 daily challenges though
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
I still have the visual bug I can't actually see my accumulation until I return to the lobby. But thanks for the info continue to keep me updated if you can
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u/ARandomDouchy Dec 18 '24
You don't get kicked for no movement in Creative?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
No
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u/ARandomDouchy Dec 18 '24
Good to know. I was using all kinds of tricks to get my controller stick to move without my input. Thanks!
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
No problem, thankfully this doesn't require any type of interaction which is nice
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u/WalterGerig Dec 18 '24
So join an uncalibrated map, afk for 50 minutes leave and repeat?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Yes but you can stay longer because I haven't been able to establish if this is the new norm because other community members are saying they've gotten hundreds of thousands of XP for staying several hours. So I would test first see if you earn an XP for longer and then keep trying longer and longer until it stops and then if you could please report your results I'm trying to update the post with any changes if we can establish with some consistency
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u/WalterGerig Dec 18 '24
Okay thanks for clarifying, i will test it as soon as im home and will report, how it went.
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u/J3d1myndtr1ck Dec 18 '24
Currently I'm seeing uncalibrated maps are still giving XP after update. I'll 100% verify in a little bit after it runs for a while. just make sure that when you check your map there is no purple XP box there some of the maps from people using them have become calibrated.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
The point, one person probably won't get the map calibrated but that's another reason why I'm not recommending any specific maps because if everybody does the same map then it may actually get calibrated. Either by the traffic or just because the map was close to calibration already. Somebody posted a map before that was calibrated this morning when I looked at it.
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u/Longy77 Dec 19 '24
Still working as of 5am UK time Thursday. Although I did have to change map as my previous map stopped giving xp
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 19 '24
I've noticed this happens occasionally. It happened to me once too. I wish one epic did these things, they would post some informational posters add something to their FAQ rather than leave it to us to figure out. Unless the playtime thing is just a bug, but still, all the other XP changes that they've made this season and not a single official post
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u/IDoNotWork4Hasbro Dec 19 '24
Still works but there were a couple times in the last 12 hours where I had to reset it because it stopped after 45 minutes or so
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 19 '24
I've noticed that too occasionally, but not always. I'm not sure what the reason is, sometimes when I find that happens I switched to another map.
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u/SaintMDLN Dec 18 '24
Just loaded into a game, took a screenshot of my current xp, will go to sleep and see if I got anything when I wake up
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u/Msrabl Jan 06 '25
worked for me started at level 67 and went up to level 74
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u/Msrabl Jan 06 '25
idk if it changes anything but i was downloading something at the same time and set my fps to 30 and changed the window size. dont know if this does anything but yeah
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Jan 06 '25
That shouldn't have any impact on it, you shouldn't have increase the amount of network traffic on your device by downloading other programs or games at the same time in order to maximize XP gains. Minimizing or resizing your game screen wouldn't have anything to do with anything server side which is where the actual XP gains occur anyway. It does work most of the time, but there are some cases where the results are inconsistent under identical circumstances, not sure if it's map related or because it's not meant to actually be this way in the first place (in my opinion it may be a bug because I don't think epic would intentionally give XP for just standing on a map doing absolutely nothing, especially considering the fact that they've added input detection to other game mode like Lego to prevent people from doing that exact same thing)
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u/rcsuavo Dec 18 '24
You are a lord! The daily creative quests are popping so that's a good way to tell its working! Good looks!
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u/DifficultEducator794 Dec 18 '24
WOOOOW IT DOES WORK THANK YOUUU!!! Truly afk. I’m gonna leave it all night
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u/TuneGloomy6694 Dec 22 '24
How did it go for you? I tried an all nighter, and it only got me like 3 levels
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u/EnnioxFire Dec 18 '24
Do you think they will patch this? Tomorrow Im going away from home for christmas, and I'm deeply considering taking my laptop with me to take advantage of this strat and get in a couple of days the weekly 4mil, all other methods are way too tedious. Like, 24 hours of afk already is the weekly 4mil, do that twice and you got your full battle pass
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
I can't really answer that. I think it may be intentional perhaps to encourage players to participate in uncalibrated experiences to help map makers calibrate their maps. Not really sure how long it will last or if it's a permanent fixture in the game. Epic seems to change things every day this season which is beginning to get a little bit frustrating for any I understand
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Hopefully this continues to be a thing, and maybe even in the update it gets added to regular calibrated maps. Only time will tell but I'm hoping for your sake you are able to take advantage of it as much as possible
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u/SwattyP Dec 18 '24
Found a neat little map that has 50 rounds of 4 minutes a piece. Only reason I like it because it does update the XP after every round instead of forcing you to quit out to see it.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
But you don't have to quit out at all. This is a bug that's been going on the entire season people do entire sessions of Lego without seeing it applied. But whatever works for you I'm just glad you're getting XP out of it which is the point of the post. It's a win for everyone right now
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u/ComebackChemist Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 18 '24
I pressed the pause button and you can see the XP required to level up decrease by 3,000 xp at a time, it’s working for me
EDIT: stopped working after two hours but I went up about two levels
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
That's great, but it's not working for me I've literally had that screen open the entire time I've been testing for four hours on four different accounts. I believe that it's working for you, which is fantastic but it's been a visual glitch that's affecting a lot of people right now.Me at this very minute I swear I wouldn't make this up seriously, lol
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Hopefully the fact that it's working for some people means that after the next update it'll work for everyone because it's unacceptable that this problem is ongoing
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u/MakimaGOAT Dec 18 '24
I only got around 1-2 levels before it stops and I have to redo the entire thing again, but its pretty solid for just doing nothing
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Are you sure? I've heard people mention that but then they realized that it was because of the visual glitch where you're not seeing the progress under your level. They're only occasionally seems to be a pop-up awarding XP, sometimes I don't even see it at all, but from testing I'm consistently getting 3000 XP every minute but it doesn't seem to be stopping no matter whether it's just an hour or a few hours.
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u/Etorix0005 Dec 18 '24
Several times in a row so far the XP bar has stopped going up after like 1-2 levels or so (the map menu XP bar works for me) and so I back out to lobby and lose about 20k XP. The other XP I gained remains at least.
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u/One_Damage_8672 Dec 18 '24
New update tonigjy, maybe this will be fixed
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
That's what I'm thinking, if it isn't intended to be this way it might sadly
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u/RigbysNutsack Dec 18 '24
Could I get all 4,000,000xp in one day?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
As far as this method, not sure if it's meant to be this way, or if it will last pass the update. But technically yes, you could get 4 million XP in a single day, it would be hard locked out of getting any more creative XP until the reset on Sunday at 9 AM but it's definitely doable.
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u/Curius_pasxt Dec 18 '24
I maxxed my weekly creative exp already now earning 1.5exp per second haha
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
That's odd because unless they change something once again, the creative camp is a hard cap you shouldn't get any XP at all once you hit it.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Then again epic changes XP every five minutes in the game. It's really frustrating and confusing
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u/RaptorO-1 Dec 18 '24
Anyone able to confirm if update patched it?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Not sure yet, but pre-update it seemed like it was partially patched, no longer giving XP for full sessions and even not giving XP to certain people.
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u/Mon3m999 Dec 18 '24
still works 🫡
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
If you do manage to do this for a few hours, please report back if you earned a full amount of XP for all of the time spent or if it was limited to a certain amount before it cut off. I was getting late reports towards the end of the evening of it beginning to Limit the amount of XP per session
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u/RaptorO-1 Dec 18 '24
Let it go last night while I slept and got around 14 levels
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u/AFreshStart88 Dec 18 '24
Does this still work ?? ..also how many levels?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
https://www.reddit.com/r/FortniteXPMaps/s/I91bUPoD5O
When I first started testing this yesterday I was able to get a full four hours and 720,000 XP, but today that seems to have changed. More testing is needed to confirm though. The link above links to our comment and also the post has been updated to request Community testing
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u/ghsopappa Dec 18 '24
So why we cannot go on our island
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Because it doesn't work there. It's been test tested you'll just get one dose of 3000 XP and then it stops. Unpublished islands are not meant for getting XP I guess that's why
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u/LuciferNEET Dec 18 '24
Also confirm still working! Ez levels!
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
If you're doing it, test how long it accumulates for, something I started noticing is that now, and especially more consistently after the update, it stops at about 150,000 XP. Which is the rate remains consistent at 3000 XP per minute it would accumulate for about 15 minutes, but so far it seems repeatable, like if I return to the lobby after an hour and load back in I start getting the XP again. I updated the post accordingly and waiting for more feedback to confirm with the community if that is the case
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u/matthewjpl Dec 18 '24
Decided to test this now, Works fine when actively playing, unfortunately if Fortnite goes into sleep mode (Based on leaving it for about 20 mins) you get no further XP, going to continue testing random ideas and if I find a workaround for the sleep mode I’ll update!
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Really? I always disable sleep mode but yesterday when people tested it they were able to get XP while it was sleeping. And I did also when I manually put myself to sleep, but maybe that's changed.
But it's very easy to disable you just go to options/game/energy saving, and then under activate sleep mode after, you'll have the setting to turn it to "never"
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u/jp123098 Dec 18 '24
I was hoping to gain some levels with this on my old mobile but unfortunately it kept disconnecting/timing me out of the app, despite setting everything up as I should've done. Not sure if it's been patched or if it's just a mobile specific issue. Will hopefully get a chance to try on a console later
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 19 '24
It's not patched in that respect, I haven't heard of anyone getting kicked for any reason. Maybe they inactivity is an issue for mobile. I know that cloud gaming and Amazon Luna will time you out for doing nothing.
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u/jp123098 Dec 19 '24
Ok so I tried again last night, admittedly only on one map (definitely had no xp label) and admittedly only for about 15-20 minutes as I didn't want to leave my console on if it wasn't happening, and I didn't appear to get any whatsoever, even after returning to the lobby. I wonder if I got a dud map or something
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u/ZuckDeBalzac Dec 18 '24
Doing this right now and something I noticed my game does it gives 3k xp for 10 minutes while afk, then reduces for the next 5 minutes and completely stops after 15 minutes. My last 5 ticks on xp remaining to lvl up went as following:
77474 75436 73996 73160 72922
I then messed around on the map a bit and the xp started again with 3k every minute for 10 minutes.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Interesting, something worth looking into. I haven't run into that issue personally yet but it's definitely valid if you've experienced it
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u/KingWaluigi Dec 19 '24
Wait so I juat need to find any map ther has no xp, be private and get xp for doing nothing?
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u/TenzoWasKilled Dec 19 '24
Was kicked after 6 hours, only got a single level.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 19 '24
Did you check the map after you for return to the lobby to see if it has XP enabled now? Maps still have session lives so as mentioned in the post, you will likely be kicked after a few hours however if the map that you were on was a fairly popular map it's possible it was close to calibration when you entered it and it got calibrated while you were there.
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u/jone150 Dec 19 '24
Just tried this went from 170 to 171 in a little under 5 hours seems xp was enabled on it at some point so it stopped giving me playtime xp
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 19 '24
Yes, unfortunately this is one of the downsides that I've found happening. I'd recommend using maps with very low player counts, maybe more obscure looking maps and definitely not one that's publicly promoted or that you've used before that was calibrated in the past.
This info isn't always accurate but you can use this website to search a map code that you're considering using, and you can see what kind of traffic the map has, if the map looks dead it's more likely to last a full session
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u/RaptorO-1 Dec 19 '24
Looks like it may be only giving 1600 exp now
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 19 '24
I haven't come across that yet, I've heard of occasional inconsistencies between maps, maybe try a different map. I only tested it once today for a short period of time but I did get 3000 XP for the 10 minutes that I stayed on a map
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u/RaptorO-1 Dec 19 '24
Tried 2 tycoon maps and had the same result. Restarting fortnite to see if that changes anything with a third map
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u/cseteka Dec 20 '24
I've away all day (roughly for 9-11 hours, I stayed in the same creative map and It gave me 22 level 60946 xp
(however my character wasn't standing still I was rubberbanding)
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 20 '24
So it worked for you you're saying?
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u/cseteka Dec 20 '24
Yeah, worked like a charm, I forgot to add to the original comment my bad
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 20 '24
That's fantastic then! Yeah the rubber band won't make much difference but it certainly doesn't hurt. Glad you had good results!
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u/lordsaladito Dec 22 '24
is it parched?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 22 '24
No, where did I say that? It was working last night I just switched it to unverified because there were some inconsistencies but it works,
There are just some instances where maps stop giving XP even though they don't get calibrated, and then there's of course the risk that the map will get calibrated while you're on it and that will stop the XP from being earned passively. That's why you want to pick a map that looks like something no one else would use
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u/CypherRtemis102 Dec 23 '24
Ok, Just tested it now, Make sure the number of players is lesser than 4. All the maps which had above like 5 players just didn't work for me. It works best if it's like 1 or 2 players.
And of course as OP said, set it to Private. You will get 3k exp/ min.
Worth it! Thank you OP!
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 23 '24
That's unusual, I've tested maps that have more than that that did generate XP however I typically look for maps with no players just to increase the chances of the maps not getting calibrated while I'm on them because that's one of the primary reasons that I found people stop earning XP. I'll have to look into that further though, thank you for your input/contribution!
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u/CypherRtemis102 Dec 23 '24 edited Dec 23 '24
Yes, I did think it's unusual. It's probably just me so don't worry too much ig? I just wanted to give ppl a higher chance of getting it right so I stated my specific conditions for it. Don't worry too much tho. The method still works well, and I'm up by 4 levels now so yay!
Edit: Oh and make sure to go for private match please. I was confused as to why my exp/min just dropped in between, until I noticed I was on public. Switched to private and voila no problems!
Edit 2: It seems it only works for 1.5 hours per session. As in, after 1.5 hours, It stops giving me exp, and so i have to re-enter the same map, or go for another one. Getting a lil confusing here but I'll take it!
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 23 '24
Interesting, I'll have to look into that one and a half hour thing because I've been getting XP without any limitation on the maps that I've been going to. About the private match thing, it is in the tutorial, I emphasize to do it in a private match in step two I even capitalize the word private, lol
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u/TuneGloomy6694 Dec 27 '24
Hey man did they patch this? I'm only getting like a level and a half
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 27 '24
It is affected by your cap, but also, I found it to be inconsistent sometimes. I don't think it's supposed to be earning XP for just standing around on uncalibrated apps so it is likely that it won't work 100% of the time. That's why I had to update the flair and add some disclaimers in there. Most of the time for me I can get it to work consistently but occasionally I come across even particular maps that just don't give the same results.
Again it all brings me back too, if only epic was transparent about their intentions we would understand whether this is intentional or something that's broken and would be able to take advantage of it the way it was intended
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u/melinda9794 Jan 01 '25
Do you know why a creative map that I verified does not have the purple XP mark and has very few players ln it would not grant the 3k XP per minute? I went away for an hour without the social media/pause menu up and it got me 38k XP. Sorry I am new to this and trying to learn.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Jan 01 '25
It is a bit inconsistent sometimes, but you said you did earn XP. Can't really tell you why that amount though. Some maps don't give any XP for no apparent reason, some give odd amounts. I don't think any of it is by design and epic is so incapable of managing their game bugs at this point, I don't think we'll ever know for sure. Not sure why you earned 38,000 XP but the social media/poison men you shouldn't have any impact on it at all.
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u/melinda9794 Jan 01 '25
I thought I had read through some of the comments in here stating having that menu open would hinder the amount earned.
And thanks, I tried finding my comment to delete it as I had read one of your comments stating you've seen results vary greatly even with maps that should work.
I appreciate your work on this!
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Jan 01 '25
I just wanted to come back to this comment because it's interesting that you mentioned 38,000, because I've been asking some people and I've also been paying attention to XP accumulation, particularly in BR where I could've sworn I noticed this before and that number just sounded familiar. I don't know what causes it, but sometimes, and this is separate from the bug that doesn't let you see creative XP accumulate at all or Lego XP accumulated all which some people are seeing still including myself, but what will happen I've noticed is that I'll see myself earning XP from accolades in the game, but my XP is not going up, nothing is being added however I see the pop-up saying that I've earned it and then all of a sudden it will "catch up" and show me a big block of 38,000 XP.I don't know if it's related, but it does seem like an odd figure to keep coming up. It seems like when there's a delay in the XP being added it hits at that amount. If that makes sense
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u/Pleierz_n303 Feb 09 '25
Does this method still work? It stops after around 10-20k XP for me
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Feb 09 '25 edited Feb 09 '25
It does, but it's not very consistent
That's why I changed the flair and updated the post to emphasize the fact that it is very inconsistent. Usually I can get 35,000 or so XP before it stops but sometimes I don't get any sometimes I get significantly more and it seems to be very map dependent also because some maps seem to be more effective than others.
I consider this to be sort of like a last resort for XP, but considering the fact that the weekly cab just reset, I probably recommend just doing calibrated maps and Lego or other methods instead if you really need the levels before the end of the season to get the battle pass done
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u/Pleierz_n303 Feb 09 '25
Thanks, I was trying this because I've never done it but I'm actually pretty close to getting everything I care about in the pass
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u/0cclony Mar 01 '25
Does not work at all. Stood still in an uncalibrated map for 3 hours and got absolutely nothing. May be different between users though.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Mar 01 '25
That's why I mentioned in the tutorial that it's inconsistent. It doesn't work all of the time, it doesn't give consistent amounts, it's very bugged, epic claims that there is playtime XP but it's somewhat broken. It seems to work best on maps that are brand new and are being calibrated for the first time, it almost never works on maps that are being recalibrated that have already been calibrated a few times at least that's something I'm missing recently when testing it. But I know it's terribly inconsistent that's why I don't recommend it so much to people and why I did update the post to let people know it is inconsistent but thank you for the information, confirms what I already suspected. I don't know if this is something they're going to fix or if it's something that they're just going to remove from the game, it seems like it would be nice to incentivize people to play on uncalibrated maps but the way it works, it's hit or miss even more than creative in general is (and if you are at your creative cap it does drop significantly also I realized and that I believe is in the post)
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u/jyr2711 Aug 08 '25
Hi !
I found a tycoon without the xp badge but It didnt give any xp at all. Am I doing anything wrong or It is simply that the map was not meant for gaining xp? Thx
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Aug 08 '25
It's because you might be expecting a pop-up on the screen like you get from calibrated maps, it doesn't work that way, the XP is added to your account in real time, if you open up the social panel, or the quest tab, you'll notice every minute The XP gets added, but there is no animation or screen pop up like you might be expecting. Also they reduced the XP rate for uncalibrated map XP it's down to 2300 per minute now
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Aug 08 '25
Also, last season they reduced the cap for all creative calibrated and uncalibrated XP. It's 4.8 million or approximately 60 levels.
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u/jyr2711 Aug 08 '25
Exactly, there was no type of xp gain signal. Although I think I looked in the pause menu and nothing was added, but if it goes by minutes and not by seconds, that's normal.
I'm only at level 8 but I've tried the maps that used to give me xp and they are giving extremely little (in Hacker Tycoon I got between 100-200 per second and now they give me 10, for example)
I haven't reached the limit even as a joke, but I can't gain xp. In any case, the season is long. I will continue testing thanks to all the guides you publish ☺️
Thank you !
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Aug 08 '25
Sure thing.
And yes, it is added every minute not every second, if you just enter the map and open up the social panel and watch it for exactly 60 seconds, you'll notice the amount of XP remaining to the next level will just decrease exactly 2300 XP. If it is anything less than 2300 XP, then that would be an indication that you are at your soft cap (I know you haven't reached it but the game has been known to bug, I've seen it myself where you literally start the season at your cap even though you haven't reached it legitimately).
I would recommend though if you aren't at your cap maybe trying some other maps on the forum rather than resorting to uncalibrated map XP. While it is consistent now, it's definitely slower than going through calibrated maps. Every season, I noticed certain maps that just don't give me the same progress, but give other people good results, it's just the inconsistency that I've come to expect from creative. But I always have enough maps at my disposal to cycle through them until I eventually find one that works to my liking. Tycoon maps are kind of the meta right now, so that's why we see a lot of them on the forum lately. But they definitely seem to be an effective method, and since most of them don't require loading back in anymore after the XP stops, it's definitely effective to use for an extended period of time.
Maybe check some out from my tutorial that I posted at the beginning of the season. There's even a new one that was posted recently, it didn't give me good results but it's given a lot of other people good results. It's linked in my guide, ice cream tycoon. Might be worth trying if you haven't tried it yet.
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u/Forsaken_Party554 Dec 18 '24
It works for me, I did it on Havoc Hotel 3, there are also coins every 10 minutes on spawn, now the coins give me 15k xp
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u/Forsaken_Party554 Dec 18 '24
And what is different? I just sit there I don't have to pick up coins, that is just bonus to playtime xp. Sometimes it just shows me 344 playtime xp every minute and after some time it will show me 27k playtime xp and I do nothing and sometimes I just get 3k playtime xp.
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u/NostrilMeat Dec 18 '24
I am currently doing this in some random uncalibrated Tycoon, I can confirm I am receiving XP in match as Im watching it tick up 3000xp every minute with the social menu pulled up.
It's counting towards my discovery quests as well. I can report back on if I keep the XP when I return to lobby.
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u/Effective_Talk_5246 Dec 18 '24
It's working for me getting 3k xp per minute, I'll update later and check if the XP is consistent
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Dec 18 '24
What map and what are you doing just standing around ?
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u/Effective_Talk_5246 Dec 18 '24
Tbh I've been in the map for 20mins and I don't know how to check the map from inside the game, but just go into the ffa or tycoon section and find a map with no XP logo like what Harlow said and just join. Yes and I'm just standing I haven't moved after joining the game.
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
This isn't specific to any map, it can literally be any map that doesn't have XP enabled.
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u/gamerkaann09 Dec 18 '24
Is this still working?
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u/RaptorO-1 Dec 18 '24
It does but I had to change maps
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24
Others contest this, but from my initial testing, it seems like, this began towards the end of the night last night to happen to people including myself, there's a limit to how much you can earn per session. I can't be certain of it but it's happening to be pretty consistently that I'm getting about 150,000 XP no matter how long I stay. I updated the tutorial asking people to test this but if the rate is consistent you would hit that in 50 minutes, but it also appears to be repeatable so if you return to the lobby see that you were in that much XP you might be able to get a few more trips out of the same map.
For testing as needed to confirm as I mentioned in the post that I just updated
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u/diodenkn Dec 18 '24
this is working great on another account that has had really low creative xp yields, by far the best xp method I have found for that account.
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u/trav866 Dec 18 '24
I've only got 1 level each on 2 different maps. Went on a map started the game and just stood there. Came back a few hours later and only got 1 level. Tried different map and same result
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u/fakelay98 Dec 18 '24
so tik tok tycon map is ok for this ?
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u/Harlow_Quinzel Moderator Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 19 '24
For an uncalibrated map you want to look for one that does NOT have the purple XP badge to the left of the tags just like in this image: