Fortnite Chapter 7's Last Voyage: One Piece, Crossbones Isle and a Year on the Golden Coast

In the summer of 2017, a team at Epic Games watched PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds take over Twitch and decided to try something. With help from the Unreal Tournament developers, they built a battle royale mode for their struggling co-op game in about two months. Fortnite Battle Royale launched on September 26, 2017. Two weeks later it had 10 million players, and by May 2020 more than 350 million registered accounts.

Nine years on, Fortnite is deep into its seventh chapter, and the chapter's final act is a pirate story. On November 1, 2026, Epic launched Treasure Hunters, a mini-season built around One Piece, the record-breaking manga and anime. It replaces the island with a new map shaped like a skull and crossbones, and it is likely the last stop before Chapter 8.

Chapter 7 in four acts

Chapter 7 began on November 29, 2025 with Pacific Break, set on a new island called the Golden Coast, a sun-soaked take on America's West Coast with Hollywood studios, beach towns and a water park. It introduced a limited-use Wingsuit, a Self-Revive item and drivable Reboot Vans, and made the Battle Pass non-linear, so players could choose which cosmetic sets to unlock first. Collaborations ranged from Kill Bill's The Bride to Back to the Future's Marty McFly, and in January 2026 South Park's Butters brought the whole town to the Golden Coast.

Season 2, Showdown, pitted the Foundation against the Ice King. Season 3 took the subtitle Runners. Season 4, Override, was one of Epic's biggest crossover seasons yet, with Sonic the Hedgehog, Kingdom Hearts, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro and Tetris. It added Match Overrides, capturable objectives that change the rules of the current match, collectable Sprites with their own powers, and a Sprite Garden to show them off.

Treasure Hunters: Fortnite goes pirate

The Treasure Hunters mini-season is the most dramatic change of the chapter. The Override map is gone, replaced by Crossbones Isle, shaped like a skull and crossbones, with brand-new points of interest including One Piece's Arlong Park and Loguetown. Matches on the new island are capped at 80 players instead of the usual 100.

The Battle Pass includes Portgas D. Ace and Nico Robin from One Piece alongside Fortnite originals, and the Item Shop rolled out more Straw Hat Pirates in waves, starting with Luffy, Nami and Usopp on November 1, then Zoro, Sanji and Chopper on November 7.

New items lean into the theme: Luffy's Gum-Gum Fruit, Ace's Flame-Flame Fruit, Zoro's Three Sword Style, Usopp's slingshot and, inevitably, Meat on a Stick. Gold Bars are vaulted, Vending Machines are gone, and the old Power Hours have become Treasure Hours. Each week brings a new "Captain": rapper A$AP Rocky on November 1, Lil Uzi Vert on November 7, Hatsune Miku and Kasane Teto on November 14 and Oscar on November 21.

Why One Piece, why now

One Piece is one of the best-selling manga series ever, and its live-action Netflix adaptation brought it to a huge new audience. For Fortnite, it is the latest in a long line of crossovers that turn the game into a place where pop culture meets. The 2019 Marshmello concert, which drew more than 10 million players, showed how far that idea could go.

The pirate theme also suits the moment. Mini-seasons let Epic test bigger changes, such as a smaller player count and a new economy, without committing a full season to them.

What's next

Epic has not officially dated Chapter 8, and community roadmaps disagree on the exact day. Reports point to a Chapter 7 finale event in early December, which in Fortnite tradition usually means a live, one-time event followed by a brand-new island. Some One Piece weapons are expected to return as Mythic items in the next season.

If you have not played in a while, Treasure Hunters is a fun, self-contained reason to return before the next chapter resets the map. Fortnite is free on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, iOS and Android.

For a look at another long-running free shooter's latest season, see our Apex Legends Season 31 story.