How to play Fortnite Treasure Hours (Power Hour)

Treasure Hours run on Saturdays in two rounds. Epic's event posts for November 7 and November 14 both give the same times: the first round starts at 2 PM ET (7 PM UTC) and the second at 9 PM ET (2 AM UTC on Sunday), about two hours each. Later Saturdays follow the same pattern until Epic says otherwise; the schedule marks which dates are confirmed and which are only expected, and the Today page shows the next session in your time zone.

There is no separate queue in Epic's posts: Treasure Hours is an event inside the Treasure Hunters island, which Epic posts under Battle Royale, and it covers Battle Royale and Zero Build.

1. Make sure Fortnite is updated to the current Treasure Hunters version.
2. Be in the lobby before the session starts, using the time in your zone from the Today page.
3. Pick Battle Royale or Zero Build and drop in. The island is Crossbones Isle, built for 80-player matches.
4. Open chests. The boost applies to chest treasures while the session is live.

Each week Epic also gives everyone a loadout when they drop in. On November 7 it was A$AP Rocky's Shock Rocket and a Self-Revive Device; on November 14 it was Lil Uzi Vert's Lil' SMG and a Self-Revive Device.

Chests are the point of the event. Epic's season notes list a few things that help:

• Chests now refill over time, so you can come back to ones you already opened.
• Spot a Wanted Poster on a wall and tear it down: it turns into a Sprite Treasure Map that leads to a buried Sprite Chest.
• Some Sprites help with chests. The Fortune Sprite reveals nearby chests, Plundarrgh makes opening chests boost your pickaxe and movement speed, and Chester may add extra loot from chests.
• Epic's Treasure Hours posts feature a Sprite each week: Fortune Sprites on November 7 and Cursed Sprites on November 14. Cursed Sprites raise your chance of rare Sprite variants, but water damages you.

To keep count of how many chests you open and what dropped, use the chest tracker.

Epic's drop-rate page lists the chest treasures, from Any Gizmo at 1 in 127 up to the Weekly Gold Outfit at 1 in 1,562,500. During Treasure Hours Epic boosts three of them: Pirate Shop Access ×1.5, Weekly Gold Outfit ×7.5 and Weekly Vehicle & Decal ×10. Pirate Shop Access, also called the Pirate Token, is the treasure that opens the Pirate Shop; VICE reports it unlocks the whole Item Shop for free for 14 days. The odds and the math are on the Pirate Token drop rate page, and the boosted treasures are on the rewards page.

Epic's drop-rate page lists one multiplier per treasure for Treasure Hours and says rates may be higher in future ones. The only difference between sessions reported so far is the second round on November 7, at ×2 for Pirate Shop Access. Epic's own posts for the first two Saturdays gave the same loadout in both rounds.

So pick by what you can play: the 2 PM ET round suits the Americas and Europe, the 9 PM ET round suits late evening in the US and the following morning in Asia and Oceania. If Epic announces something different for a session, it is added to the schedule and the Pirate Token odds.

Treasure Hunters has two other recurring events. Captain's Day brings a new captain and new loot every week, on a Sunday so far; see the Captain's Day dates. Mastery Monday gives double Sprite XP and double Sprite Dust all day from 9 AM ET every Monday, with more Sprite Chests and Wanted Posters across the island. Neither counts as Treasure Hours.