The Override island is the biggest reshuffle Fortnite’s Battle Royale map has seen in Chapter 7, and it is built around the season’s Gaming Legends theme. Three points of interest are cut, five locations are added, and the middle of the island gets rebuilt around a structure that has been sitting at the center of the storyline since Chapter 7 Season 3.
Quick answer: When update v42.00 goes live on August 20, 2026, Calamari Canyon, Frosted Flats, and Sinister Strip are removed, and Geno’s HQ, Sonic Green Hills Zone, Temple, the Spire, and Pac-Man Island are added. Every other named POI stays where it is.
Removed POIs and what takes their place
Three named POIs disappear from the island, and each one is swapped for a new location in roughly the same part of the map. One of them, Calamari Canyon, is where the Lighthouse stood, which also means the landmark tied to the infinite Rare and Relic Chest exploit goes with it.
| Removed location | New location in its place |
|---|---|
| Calamari Canyon | Sonic Green Hills Zone |
| Frosted Flats | Geno’s HQ |
| Sinister Strip | Temple |
No biomes are being removed. Instead, a new one appears in the middle of the island, filled with trees that render in a distinctly pink shade.
The Spire is the new center of the map
The Spire is a landmark rather than a full POI, and it already took over the spot where the Zero Point used to sit, last seen during the Unstable Story Moment live event. Cables run from the structure down into the island, energy visibly travels up it, and the sky directly above reacts to it.
Its position matters for drop planning. All five of the new locations are arranged around the Spire, so the middle of the island becomes far busier than it was during Chapter 7 Season 3, when traffic spread out toward the edges.
Geno’s HQ: a POI shaped like a gaming PC
Geno’s HQ trades the usual buildings and rooftops for computer hardware. The towers are modeled on GPUs, complete with working fans, and thick pipes running between the structures stand in for a liquid cooling loop. It sits in the northern part of the island where Frosted Flats used to be.
Sonic Green Hills Zone: loops, springs, and Rings
Green Hills Zone is the most mechanically interesting of the new POIs. It reproduces the checkered slopes of the Sonic stage and puts a full vertical loop at its center, which you can run up. Rings are scattered along the route and grant XP when collected.
The terrain also includes springs and jump pads for getting around quickly, and sprinting the track loops gives a continuing speed boost. Pairing it with the Sonic Spin Dash Mythic makes the whole area faster to cross than anywhere else on the map.
Temple: the new POI on the old Sinister Strip
Temple is the working name for the ruins-style POI that takes over the Sinister Strip plot. It has not been given a final in-game label yet, and while a Crash Bandicoot NPC would fit the setting, that has not been confirmed.
Pac-Man Island is decoration, not a loot spot
Pac-Man Island is a landmark cut into the shape of one of the Ghosts. It is large, but smaller than a full POI, and it sits near Heatwave Harbor. Seen from above there is very little on it: no significant buildings, no vaults, and no anomalies.
Note: treat it as a landing spot only if you want an uncontested opening, since there is no reason for anyone else to drop there.
Every returning POI on the Override map
The rest of the island carries over untouched from Chapter 7 Season 3, with one visual exception. Sunken Shores is covered in Tetris blocks that rifted in and crashed through the structures there, which ties into the Tetriminos Junk Rift item arriving the same day.
| Returning POI | Change |
|---|---|
| Lifty Lodge | None |
| The Battlewoods | None |
| Latte Landing | None |
| Wonkeeland | None |
| Golden Grove | None |
| Shaken Sanctuary | None |
| Cluster Coast | None |
| Sunken Shores | Littered with Tetris blocks |
| Heatwave Harbor | Pac-Man Island landmark nearby |
| Chopped Shop | None |
When the new map goes live and how to confirm it loaded
Downtime for update v42.00 starts at 2AM ET on August 20, 2026, with servers expected back by 6AM ET the same morning. Override launches worldwide on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PC, iOS, and Android.
You will know the new island is active when the Battle Bus map shows Geno’s HQ, Sonic Green Hills Zone, and Temple in place of the three removed POIs, and the Spire is visible at the center. If you still see Calamari Canyon or Frosted Flats after servers return, the client has not finished updating.
The five new locations are also described as evolving over the course of the season, so the layout you land on at launch is not necessarily the one you will be playing in November. Expect the areas closest to the Spire to shift first, since that is where the storyline is pointed.
