Deactivating Islands

Deactivating islands provides you with publishing flexibility and allows you to remove access and visibility from non-team members and players.

Publishing to a deactivated state means you get the island code and can determine when to change the island to a Listed state. Removing island visibility for non-team members and players means the island code can’t be used and the island won’t show up on your Creator page or in Discovery.

Deactivating an island is not permanent, and you can reactivate the island with the same island code at any time.

When an island has been deactivated:

• It is removed from Engagement Payout eligibility.
• The island is no longer accessible by players.
• The public island page returns a 404 error when players attempt to play a deactivated island from in game or from fortnite.com.

You’ll receive engagement payouts only for the period of time a project is in an active published state. You can still see the island analytics prior to the deactivation date, but the analytics of deactivated islands are no longer included in relevant charts and analytics pages once the island is deactivated because no data is gathered.