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Fortnite Purple Pit FFA XP Map: How to Level Up Fast in Chapter 7 Season 4

The map code, the secret room timer bypass, the 4-7-7 unlock, and all six hidden XP buttons.

The map code, the secret room timer bypass, the 4-7-7 unlock, and all six hidden XP buttons.

Purple Pit FFA is a Fortnite island that hides a scripted XP route behind a locked secret room. Once the room is open, a set of hidden buttons around the mansion area raises your XP gain, and a bounce room at the end keeps it flowing while you stand still. The whole sequence runs on island code 1710-3076-7161, and it only works in a private match.

Quick answer: Launch 1710-3076-7161 as a Private match, run to the Crosshairs section, emote beside the blue changing booth to reach the secret room, emote again to freeze the countdown, enter 4-7-7 on the wall, confirm, then crouch and press START AFK XP.


Map code and private lobby setup

Open Search / Discover in the Fortnite lobby and type in island code 1710-3076-7161. Select PURPLE PIT FFA when it appears. You can enter creator code LOOTYT on the Support A Creator screen if you want the island’s creator credited.
Set the match privacy to Private before you press Play. A public lobby puts other players in the same arena, which makes the emote triggers and the button route far harder to complete.
After you spawn, start the round and interact with the button on the BUILD RESET console near the spawn area. That gives an immediate XP payout and confirms the island’s scripted rewards are live for your session.

Secret Pit entry, timer bypass and the 4-7-7 code

Head to the CROSSHAIRS section of the island and stand next to the blue changing booth. Play any emote there and you are teleported into the SECRET PIT room, which opens with a countdown and a barrier blocking the controls.
Secret Pit arena with the Eliminations objective tracking 20 enemies on screen
Inside the Secret Pit, with the island’s Eliminations objective still tracking in the corner. Image: Epic Games
Emote a second time inside the room. This freezes the countdown, which stalls at roughly 994 seconds instead of ticking down, and drops the barrier so you can reach the keypad wall.
Set the three digits on the wall to 4-7-7, then press the confirm button on the right-hand side. The room labels the controls CONFIRM/RESET/UNLOCK ALL XP BUTTONS, and a SECRET UNLOCKED message is your confirmation that the code registered.
Crouch down and interact with START AFK XP. That activates the passive XP loop and teleports you out toward the mansion area.
Secret Pit screen with the Eliminations quest panel showing 0/20 progress
The Secret Pit quest panel after activation, with the eliminations counter sitting at 0/20. Image: Epic Games

Note: if the code does not take, the usual cause is pressing confirm before the digits are fully set, or trying to interact while the barrier is still up because the second emote did not freeze the timer.


All six hidden XP buttons in the mansion area

You land in the mansion area with a grappler and shockwaves available on the ground. Pick both up first, because the buttons are spread across separate buildings and the grappler cuts the route down considerably. Each button adds to your XP multiplier, so collect all six before you settle into the bounce room.

Player holding the pickaxe while moving through the mansion area with the objective tracker visible
Moving through the mansion area before starting the button route. Image: Epic Games
ButtonWhere to find it
1Inside the main building, on a picture frame sitting on the bookshelf
2In the garage on the right, marked ADMIN
3In the building behind the spawn point, on a table (labelled XP 1)
4Same building, tucked under the stairs
5Behind the yellow building on the left, marked ADMIN
6Over to the right, on the number “6” of the giant wheel

The wheel button is the one people miss most often. You interact with the painted “6” itself rather than a console, so line the crosshair up on the number before pressing the interact key.

Running across the island toward the giant wheel with the pickaxe equipped
Heading right toward the giant wheel that holds the sixth button. Image: Epic Games

The AFK bounce room and the Signal Remote

With all six buttons pressed, teleport into the green bounce room. The launch pads keep your character moving on a loop, and the island pays XP continuously while you are inside. Use the SIGNAL REMOTE item once you are in there to push passive generation to its maximum rate.

You can tell it is working from the XP pop-ups and level-up notifications appearing without you touching the controls. If the numbers stop climbing, return to the Secret Pit, press the reset control, and run 4-7-7 plus START AFK XP again.


Why “AFK” still needs input in Chapter 7 Season 4

Fortnite detects controller and keyboard input during creative sessions, so leaving the game completely untouched eventually stops XP from accruing. Rooms like this one remove the timer barrier, but they do not remove input detection. Players who farm overnight do it with a controller that has turbo functionality, which supplies a repeating input while they are away.

Without that, treat the bounce room as semi-AFK. Tap a movement key every so often and the XP keeps counting.


Creative XP caps and rates that limit this method

Creative XP is capped weekly. The limit tested out at 60 levels, or 4.8 million XP, and the counter resets every Thursday at 9AM Eastern. Once you hit the ceiling, this island stops paying no matter how many buttons you have unlocked, and you have to switch to other sources until the reset.

Per-minute rates were also trimmed at the start of the season, which is worth knowing before you plan a long session.

SourceCurrent ratePrevious rate
Uncalibrated creative map2,700 XP/min3,150 XP/min
LEGO Brick Life playtime2,750 XP/min2,950 XP/min
LEGO Odyssey playtime2,700 XP/min2,900 XP/min
Festival Jam Stage2,900 XP/min, plus 350 XP per 30 seconds in a jam circle3,050 XP/min

LEGO and Festival playtime XP do not appear to share the creative weekly cap, which makes them the fallback once your creative allowance is spent.


If the XP is not registering

  • The match was not set to Private, so the arena behaves as a normal free-for-all.
  • The countdown is still running because the second emote did not land inside the secret room.
  • START AFK XP was never pressed, so only the individual button rewards apply.
  • Your weekly creative XP allowance is already used up.
  • The island itself is uncalibrated. The XP badge on the island’s Info page has not been reliably visible, so calibration currently has to be checked by looking up the island name or code on a creative stats tracker.

Slow payouts early in a season are also common while creators recalibrate their islands, and some players have reported creative XP failing to register entirely without an official statement from Epic. If this island underperforms, other tycoon and parkour XP maps are usually the quicker fix.

Keep in mind that everything behind the keypad is scripted by the island’s creator. Codes, button placements and the bounce room can all change when the island is updated, so if 4-7-7 stops opening the room, the route has been reworked rather than broken on your end.