Surviving inLego: Fortnitecan be difficult because the world is inhabited by many hostile creatures that will chase you down and attack. It is important to outfit yourself with the correct weapons necessary to defeat these beasts and with the latest Lego: Fortnite update, a new weapon has been added to the game.

The Hunting Dagger is a small knife that you can unlock relatively early in the game, and continually upgrade as your village grows. If you are curious about how to unlock, utilize, and upgrade your Hunting Dagger, then check out the guide below.

An image from Lego Fortnite of the Common Hunting Dagger Recipe, which requires six granite and four bones.

How To Get The Hunting Dagger

Before you may craft your very own Hunting Dagger, you will need to unlock the recipe. Defeating a Skeleton andpicking up the bonesthese creatures commonly drop will add the recipe to your inventory. Once you have obtained this recipe, you’ll only need to collect a small amount of resources to craft a Hunting Dagger on alevel one Crafting Bench.

Here are the resources you will need to craft aCommon Hunting Dagger:

An image from Lego Fornite of the Uncommon Hunting Dagger Recipe, which requires six marble and four cut amber.

Now that you have your very own Hunting Dagger,you can use the weapon just like a swordto defeat the various enemies that will attack you and your villagers during the night.

How To Upgrade The Hunting Dagger

While the basic Hunting Dagger may be useful to defeat Skeletons, more challenging enemies require you to upgrade your arsenal further to deal extra damage. To create a better Hunting Dagger, you will have tocollect and cut various gemsandupgrade your Crafting Bench.

Upgrading your Crafting Bench is not as simple as collecting the desired materials and crafting whatever you please. You will also have toupgrade your villageandcollect various materialsto unlock crafting recipes.

Here are the following materials you’ll need to both unlock and craftupgraded Hunting Daggers: