Sprites are back in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4, but the way you collect them has changed. Instead of popping open a chest and grabbing whatever falls out, you now have to punch in a short directional code at a console. Get the sequence right and you walk away with a Sprite. Get it wrong and you get nothing.
Quick answer: Interact with a Cheat Code Chest, then input the arrows shown on screen in the exact order they appear using your movement keys or stick — forward for up, back for down, left and right as normal.
Spotting a Cheat Code Chest on the map
Cheat Code Chests give off a glow that looks close to the familiar golden chest shimmer, with one key difference. The symbol floating in the beam is a cluster of four arrows rather than a chest outline. Teal glows are the most common variant you will run into, and a rarer purple glow marks a code that holds better Sprites.
The glow only tells you the console is somewhere close by, not exactly where. Treat it the same way you treat a chest audio cue and sweep the immediate area. Plenty of consoles sit out in the open, but a large share are tucked behind walls, wedged into corners, or stuck to the back of an object you have to break first.
What you are hunting for is a flat blue or purple panel. It can be mounted on a wall, fixed to the side of a crate, or attached to almost any upright surface. Once you know the shape, they become much easier to pick out at a distance.
How to enter a Cheat Code in Fortnite
Note: the pickup prompt appearing is your confirmation the code went through. If nothing drops, you entered a direction out of order and can simply try the console again.
What each Cheat Code color rewards
Every successful code hands over a Sprite, and the Sprite itself is random. What is not random is the rarity floor, which is tied to the color of the code you cracked.
| Cheat Code color | Sprite rarity |
|---|---|
| Blue | Rare |
| Purple | Epic |
| Gold | Legendary |
Because the reward is a guaranteed Sprite, a gold code is worth going out of your way for even under storm pressure. Blue codes are the ones you will clear most often, and they still fill out the collection.
Best Cheat Code Chest locations
Cheat Code Chests use fixed spawn points scattered around the island rather than appearing at random anywhere. A handful of named areas reliably turn up more of them than the rest of the map.
- Green Hills
- Stone Sanctum
- Lifty Lodge
- Shaken Sanctuary
- The Battlewoods
One important limit: the spawn point is fixed, but the code color that appears there is not. No location guarantees a purple or gold code, so you cannot farm a specific rarity by landing in the same spot every match. Dropping in an area with several spawn points and clearing them all is the more efficient approach.
Sprites you cannot get from Cheat Codes
Chapter 7 Season 3 Sprites are off the table in Battle Royale. They will not appear from any Cheat Code, and you cannot equip them in matches either. Retired Sprites are handled entirely through the Sprite Garden, which opens Friday, August 21, where they can be traded for and used.
If a Sprite is missing from your collection and it belonged to last season, no amount of code hunting will bring it back. Focus your runs on the current season’s roster instead.
