Bed Wars: Team Beds, Resource Generators & Respawn-Gating in UEFN

Bed Wars takes simple team elimination and adds one genius twist: every team has a bed that grants infinite respawns — right up until an enemy smashes it. Destroy the bed and the team becomes mortal; eliminate the now-bedless players and they're gone for good. The result is a mode that's equal parts tower-defense, resource economy, and deathmatch — and it's one of the most enduringly popular formats in all of UGC gaming.

This guide is part of the Game Modes series. We'll cover the loop, who built the great Fortnite versions, and how to wire the three systems that define Bed Wars: team beds, resource generators, and respawn-gating.

1. What it is

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Bed & Economy

Bed Wars is a team-based survival/elimination mode. Each team starts on its own island with a bed. While your bed stands, every elimination is temporary — you respawn. The objective is to break the enemy teams' beds (removing their respawns) and then eliminate the bedless players to knock the whole team out. Last team standing wins.

Layered on top is an economy: resource generators on each island slowly produce currency that players spend at shops on weapons, armor, blocks to fortify their bed, and tools to assault enemy beds. The strategic tension is defense vs. offense vs. economy — you can't max all three.

2. Type of game

3. The loop

Bed Wars runs two intertwined loops — an economy loop and a combat loop — that feed each other.

1. Spawn on your team island with your bed intact (= infinite respawns).
2. Generate resources from your island's generators (passive income).
3. Shop — convert resources into weapons, armor, defensive blocks, and bed-breaking tools.
4. Defend or attack — fortify your own bed, or rush an enemy's.
5. Break beds — destroying an enemy bed flips that team to "final lives."
6. Finish — eliminate the bedless players. Last team with anyone alive wins.

4. Why it's fun

• The bed changes the math of death. Early on, death is cheap (you respawn). The moment your bed breaks, every life is precious — the whole mood of the match flips. That single state change is brilliant design.
• Three competing priorities. Economy, defense, and offense all demand attention and resources. There's no dominant strategy, so matches stay fresh.
• Team coordination pays off. A two-person bed rush while one teammate defends is genuinely satisfying to pull off. It rewards communication.
• Comebacks are real. A team that loses its bed but plays carefully can still win by out-fighting bedded teams — drama until the final elimination.

5. Who's made popular / good ones

Real, verified Fortnite Creative Bed Wars maps and their creators:

• Bed Wars by goodgamers — code 7048-8422-2298. A polished, widely-played take on the classic team-bed format. (fortnite.gg)
• Bed Wars Nuked by chaosforge — code 8920-0084-1283. A high-chaos variant of the format. (fortnite.gg)
• BED WARS! 🚫ZERO BUILD🚫 by beyond — code 3423-2134-2829. The no-build twist: defense relies on placed blocks and positioning rather than freebuilding. (fortnite.gg)
• BED WARS by creatorscorp — code 1843-4007-2151. Another well-known team-bed map. (fortnite.gg)

Epic also maintains an official Bed Wars category on fortnite.com listing many community versions. (fortnite.com)

6. Examples

• A 4-team classic where each island has a tiered generator that upgrades over the match, escalating the economy and forcing fights over central "diamond" generators.
• A Zero Build variant (beyond's map) where you can't freebuild walls, so bed defense is about pre-placed cover and chokepoints — a very different skill test.
• A "Nuked" / chaos variant (chaosforge) with shorter timers and modifiers that compress the whole loop into a frantic sprint.

7. How to make it in UEFN / Verse

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Bed State Machine

Bed Wars is a state machine per team: bed-alive → bed-broken → eliminated. Verse manages that state; devices provide the economy and the beds.

Core devices

Key mechanics

1. Team beds. Each team has one bed. Track a per-team BedAlive flag in Verse. The bed object's destruction flips it to false.
2. Resource generators. A repeating Timer fires an Item Granter on an interval to drip currency to each team — the passive economy.
3. Respawn-gating. When a player is eliminated, check their team's BedAlive. If alive → allow respawn. If broken → the player is out; if it was the last living player, the team loses.

A grounded, compile-verified Bed Wars controller

This device tracks each team's bed state, runs a generator tick, and gates respawns on bed survival. It uses the real button_device, item_granter_device, timer_device, and elimination_manager_device APIs.

Gotchas

• Respawn-gating is the heart of the mode — get the order right. When a player dies you must check the bed state first, then decide respawn vs. final elimination. If you let the engine auto-respawn before checking, a bedless team gets a free life and the whole mode breaks.
• Beds need to be destructible, not just a button. The Button stands in for "the bed got broken" in logic, but on the map your bed should be a prop with health (or a prop the enemy interacts with). Wire its destruction to the same event so the visual and the state agree.
• Generators must be per-team, fairly. GrantItemToAll() is shown for brevity; in a real map, place a generator + Item Granter per island and grant only to that team, or you hand the enemy free economy.
• Re-arm repeating timers. A timer_device fires its SuccessEvent once; call Start() again in the handler to make it repeat (or use the device's loop setting). Forgetting this stops the economy after one tick.
• ?agent from the timer. SuccessEvent sends an optional agent (?agent), not a plain agent — match the parameter type or the subscribe won't type-check.
• Track team, not player. Bed state is per-team. Map each agent to a team (via the Team Settings device / playspace team collection) so an elimination checks the right bed.

Try it yourself

Make the generators tiered: keep a var GeneratorLevel : int = 1 and, every N ticks, increment it and grant more items per tick (e.g. GrantItemToAll() called GeneratorLevel times). Escalating income is what pushes Bed Wars matches toward a climax — early game is cautious, late game is an arms race. Bonus: add a central "diamond" generator both teams must leave their island to contest.

Recap

• Bed Wars = break enemy beds to remove their respawns, then wipe them. Last team alive wins.
• It runs two loops: a resource economy and a combat/defense loop that feed each other.
• The three systems to wire: team beds (a destructible Button → BedAlive flag), resource generators (Timer → Item Granter), and respawn-gating (Elimination Manager → check bed before respawning).
• Always check bed state before respawning, and keep bed state per-team.

References

• https://fortnite.gg/island?code=7048-8422-2298
• https://fortnite.gg/island?code=8920-0084-1283
• https://fortnite.gg/island?code=3423-2134-2829
• https://fortnite.gg/island?code=1843-4007-2151
• https://www.fortnite.com/categories/bedwars