19/03/2025

Ways to increase your power in "Fortnite: Save the World" with Basepower

In this guide, you will learn how to increase your power in Fortnite: Save the World through the skilful use of base power.

Fortnite: The most common errors and how to fix them

Why is power important?

Your Power (formerly known as „Power level“) is one of the most important factors in Save the world, as it determines how strong you are in missions. The higher your power, the greater your chances of success in missions.
Basically there are Two types of power:

Object power – only affects individual items, but not the game mechanics.
Home base power – has a direct effect on your overall strength in missions.

Here we show you how you can increase your home base power.

Home base power

Your Home base power is displayed in the top left-hand corner when you are in your base. It directly influences the following values:

Toughness (Health points & Regeneration)
Attack power (Damage from ranged and melee weapons)
Resistance (Shield & Regeneration)
Technology (Trap, ability & Gadget damage and healing through healing traps)

While the item power only affects individual items, the home base power has an influence on all your equipment. It also determines which missions you can enter - if your power is too low, certain missions are blocked.

Opportunities to increase home base power

There are four ways to improve your home base power:

1. play with other players

This method only increases your home base power Temporary, as long as you are on a mission.
Select a mission and click on „Fill up“, to find players.
The more players join your mission, the higher the total group power.

2. invest research points

YourResearch tree is located in the „Command“-Menu your home base.
Use Research points, um Toughness, attack, resistance and technology to improve - this also increases your home base power.
Je höher dein Account-Level, desto schneller sammelt dein Forschungsteam Punkte.

3. increase account level

Dein Niveau de compte rises through:
Complete missions and quests
Activate from EP Boosts, that you receive from Lamas or the collection book

Fortnite performance mode

4. improve survivors

Your Survivors you will find in the „Command“-Menu your home base.

Use „Automatic filling“, to assemble your squads efficiently - the game selects the best possible survivors for you.

Survivors have the same rarities as heroes, including Mythical.

You are the only item, that directly affects yourHome base power influenced.

Like other items, survivors can be levelled and further developed become - for this you need Survivor EP (instead of hero or blueprint XP).