[2][3] Players can place, copy and paste, move and erase objects, including ground tiles, items, and game buildings.

[4] The islands could previously be nominated to appear in The Block, a 25 × 25 tile area in Fortnite Battle Royale, which replaced Risky Reels in the top right corner of the map in Chapter 1 Season 7.

[9] Epic has updated creative mode several times since it was launched, fixing bugs, adding new buildings, and new island types.

[10] While Epic has used Fortnite: Battle Royale to perform a number of promotional events, such as virtual concerts, Epic partnered with Time to create a special Fortnite Creative area dedicated to celebrating the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 2021.

[15] It "combines the creation tools from Fortnite Creative with the Unreal Editor",[16] such as custom props and models, animations, sounds, and terrain generation.

He called the meta-game "basically a blueprint" and wrote that it could become a "serious rival" to Minecraft due to Fortnite's infrastructure and player base.

"[19] Players have recreated various structures in Fortnite Creative; these include the Star Wars starship Millennium Falcon and Castle Black from Game of Thrones.

Others have used musical tiles (which can be found inside of the Creative Inventory) to perform songs popular as Internet memes.

[22][23] Locations and plots from TV shows and movies such as survival drama television series Squid Game have been recreated in the Creative gamemode.