Potential story spoilers ahead.
Say what you want about Epic Games and Fortnite, but the creators really know how to tell a story that leaves players wanting more details about something as innocuous as the migrating patterns of mysterious colored cubes. Fortnite Season 8 is dubbed Cubed after the finale of Season 7 saw the massive mothership crash down to the planet and litter the island with a number of big cubes. And those cubes have started moving.
Why is this important? Well the season is literally called Cubed, meaning any activity on the part of the cubes is no doubt leading somewhere. The big purple cube, lovingly named Kevin by the community, played a big part in shaping the map in Chapter 1. Turn one Kevin into many Kevins, and you can see where I’m going with this.
? The Golden Cube has now moved 60 times so far! #Fortnite
(via @CubeTracker ) https://t.co/2nrxMXmD8A
— Fortnite News ? (@FortniteBR) September 22, 2021
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Thankfully this is Fortnite, and that means dataminers have already broken into the game to find clues. Over the course of the season the cubes will apparently make their way toward the center of the map with the big golden cube roaming around and causing chaos.
Seems like all The Cubes are going to the middle of the map, the Yellow path is for the gold one, the purple ones are for the purple cubes BUT the purple paths are a bit off but you get the idea of where they’re going! pic.twitter.com/2HWY1zQkEo
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) September 16, 2021
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As usual the battle pass trailer revealed some secrets to come, including cubes being spotted in places they haven’t yet gotten to. The images seem to suggest that the bigger cubes will spawn smaller cubes that could in turn go their own way and spread corruption through the island.
In The Battle Pass Trailer You can see the cube has moved to a different location & near coral castle multiple cubes has spawned!
The Cube will also be rolling on the map to spread corruptions.
(Thanks to @RHYSISABOMB_YT for tagging me on this find) pic.twitter.com/cH4CajTaH2
— Twea – Fortnite Leaks & Info (@TweaBR) September 14, 2021
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All of this of course lends itself to forwarding Fortnite lore while continuing Epic’s longstanding tradition of making small changes to the game’s map over the course of each season, changing the way people play from week to week. Over the course of the alien-themed Season 7 multiple points of interest became low-gravity zones with the foundation torn apart, only to be fully removed from the map with a crater in their place.
It’s certainly a testament to the loyal following Fortnite has generated that countless social media accounts are dedicating themselves to the job of following the slow progression of big cubes around a battle royale map, generating all kinds of fan art and concept toys.
Cube Movements Update #4
The Golden Cube has awakened the Purple Cube near Believer Beach and that Cube has now spawned ‘6’ Baby Cubes. pic.twitter.com/qqNMwRhZRU
— FortTory – Fortnite Leaks & News ? (@FortTory) September 20, 2021
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What is the secret of Fortnite’s cubes? We don’t know. It’s surely more interesting than whatever Peter Molyneux could do with it.
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