Unused Ingredients

This is a sub-page of Fortnite: Save the World (Windows, Mac OS X).

Save The World has a number of unused crafting ingredients. These crafting ingredients range from unused tiers of ore and mechanical parts, to entire standalone crafting ingredients.

Interestingly, some of these unused ingredients are still obtainable, though they are scarce. During old alpha tests of the game, participating players were sometimes given things such as banners, heroes, schematics, and crafting resources as a 'thank you' from the team. Some of these crafting resources were ultimately never used in any crafting schematics, nor made to be obtainable in any other way, leaving players with completely unusable resources.

Crystals & Ores#

Icon + Name	Usage
Rainbow Crystal (Tier 6)	These crystals most likely would of been used for Tier 6 crafting, after Sunbeam Crystals.
Moonglow Crystal (Tier 4)	This crystal is most likely an older version of the Shadowshard Crystal, used in Tier 4 crafting. This is due to the fact that it shares the same icon and textures as the Shadowshard Crystal. In earlier builds of Fortnite, it was yellow instead.
Spectrolite Ore (Tier 6)	This ore was likely planned to be used for Tier 6 crafting, after Brightcore Ore.
Iron Ore	Iron Ore is an unused resource that is not currently present in the files of Fortnite: Save the World, only showing up in older alpha builds, and was presumably the early version of Silver.

Other Ingredients#

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Icon + Name	Usage
Spectral Twine	Spectral Twine presumably would have been the twine used for Tier 6 crafting.
Vindertech Mechanical Parts	Vindertech Mechanical Parts presumably would have been the mechanical parts used for Tier 6 crafting.
Spectral Mineral Powder	Spectral Mineral Powder presumably would have been the mineral powder used for Tier 6 crafting.
Honey	Honey could be previously obtained in Alpha releases by doing Expeditions, or breaking trees. While it is unobtainable now, it was accidentally given out as compensation as part of an Inventory-Wipe bug, and is still in the inventories of those who earned it/got it from the compensation. It was previously used for Healing Pads.
Blue Mushroom	Blue Mushrooms would have been used to craft "consumable items with energizing properties." It also would have been found in caves.
Red Mushroom	Red Mushrooms would have been used to craft "consumables with healing and strengthening properties." They would have been found in forests.
Pink Mushroom	Pink Mushrooms would have been used to craft "consumable buffs." They could be found growing on trees and walls. The "buffs" that they would have been able to create are unknown.
White Mushroom	White Mushrooms would have been "used to enhance the strength of consumable items." They would have been found in mountains.
Yellow Mushroom	Yellow mushrooms would have been "valued for its varied properties when combined with other ingredients." It is unknown what this is exactly referencing. They would have been found on the ground.

Interestingly, for all of the mushroom resources, there are searchable objects of similar style to these mushrooms. There are searchable white mushrooms that can be found in high places, blue mushrooms can be found in underground sections, etc. Presently, when these objects are searched, they only grant the player Fibrous Herbs and either a Corn or Mushroom consumable item.

Oddities#

There are multiple meshes and textures that go unused and can be found in files containing data for other Save the World crafting resources. We can assume that these were going to be associated with crafting resources at some point, but ended up being scrapped before they could be finished.

Loot_Box_Cylinder#

This was likely another form of loot that bosses and rare chests could drop, as the model for Loot_Box_Pyramid (the schematic cache) can also be found in the same folder. They also have similar naming schemes.

The Diffuse texture for Loot_Box_Cylinder

Car Battery#

There is a mesh for a car battery found in these files. It uses solid color placeholder textures, and a placeholder normal texture. It is unknown what it may have been used for, but the most popular theory suggests it might be a remnant of a time where batteries were made to also be tier-based resources.

test#

There is a texture called "test" in the files containing the textures for other crafting resources. It's a monochrome image full of wavy lines and contains some random insects. It is unknown what this would have been used for.