The most prominent feature is implementation of the Verse programming language to interact and interface with players, objects, game logic, and the spatial environment.
[13][14] In the first year of UEFN's beta phase, the Island Creator program has paid an estimated $320 million to over 20,000 developers with published experiences.
[15] With the release of UEFN, and its new feature of importing custom content, Discovery was met with a wave of intellectual property infringement in its curated rows of creations, ranging from the public facing thumbnail, to in-game assets.
In a tweet posted February 23, 2023 the official Fortnite Creative account addressed the issue for the first time and although this content may sometimes still appear, it has been drastically reduced.
Stemming from top creator TeamGeerzy filing an application to trademark "The Pit",[16] and subsequently requesting Epic to takedown experiences with 'pit' terminology in the title (a common practice in many UGC ecosystems).
Multiple experiences were then taken down by Epic which lead to major community backlash ultimately resulting in the official Fortnite Creative X account to respond to a tweet where they addressed the issue and reinstating the offending maps.