How to get Gold Bars & spend them in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3

You’ll want to get Gold Bars in Fortnite and use them to purchase weapons, hire NPCs, and more. Here’s how to get Gold Bars in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3.

Gold Bars in Fortnite are relatively easy to collect, and you get to keep them between matches so you can spend them when the time is right. You can hire NPCs, mod your weapons, and even become a prop by using Gold Bars in Fortnite.

Plus, you sometimes need to spend or gather certain amounts of Gold Bars for Weekly Quests and other challenges. So, here’s how to get Gold Bars in Fortnite and everything you can spend them on in Chapter 5 Season 3.

How to get Gold Bars in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3

You can get Gold Bars in several ways in Fortnite, but some are more lucrative than others. Here’s every way to earn Gold in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3.

Loot

The easiest, but not necessarily the most lucrative, method of earning Gold Bars in Fortnite is by simply looting around the island. Here are some examples of things you can break and loot for Gold in Fortnite Season 3:

• Chests
• Rare Chests
• Cash Registers
• Safes
• Beds
• Sofas
• Washing machines

As you gear up for the game ahead, make sure you’re breaking and interacting with these objects to get some extra Gold.

Weapon Bunkers

Vaults are no longer on the island in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3, but you can find Weapon Bunkers around. They contain Chests, Rare Chests, Safes, and even Sofas, so you’ll have many sources of Gold Bars to choose from.

You can find Weapon Bunkers in the following locations:

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• Lavish Lair
• The Underworld
• Grim Gate
• Pleasant Piazza
• Nitrodrome
• Mount Olympus
• Dumpenhausen (north of Mount Olympus)
• Rescue Station (north of Reckless Railways)

Eliminate players

While looting is a big part of battle royale games, your ultimate goal is to be the last player standing. This means you’ll probably end up taking out a few players throughout the match. Make sure to loot them afterward, as fallen players often drop around 8 Gold Bars.

Complete SHADOW Briefings

If you want to earn even more Gold Bars for eliminating players in Fortnite, then you can complete Shadow Briefings. Players can find Shadow computers all around the map, offering different tasks you’ll need to complete to get Gold Bars.

These objectives include eliminating players, finding buried treasure, or opening a Supply Drop. If you’re successful, you’ll be awarded a pile of Gold.

NPCs no longer give bounties in Fortnite, so you’ll need to find Shadow Briefings around the map. Here are the locations of all Shadow Briefings in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3:

How to spend Gold in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3

Now that you’ve got all of the Fortnite Gold you need, you can start spending it. With the help of Fortnite.GG, here’s everything you can purchase with Gold Bars in Chapter 5 Season 3.

Purchase weapons & items

While you can find all sorts of rare weapons by looting in Fortnite, sometimes it’s much easier to buy them from Vending Machines. Here are all their locations in Chapter 5 Season 3:

Hire characters

Some Fortnite NPCs are hireable, and in Chapter 5 Season 3, they can be great assets in battle. Hired characters won’t only follow you everywhere and fight enemies alongside you, but they can also provide healing, ammo, and even mark enemy players or revive teammates.

There are currently four hireable characters in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3, and you can find them in the following locations:

Gold is an incredibly valuable resource in Fortnite, so save it and spend it well to score Victory Royales in Chapter 5 Season 3.

Aside from Gold Bars, if you’re looking to earn XP fast this season to unlock all Battle Pass skins, we recommend tackling Weekly and Story Quests to earn Quest rewards, as well as the Metallica Quests in the battle royale, Festival, and Rocket Racing modes.