Fortnite build downloader for the OG community. A C# rewrite of legendary, built for pulling old builds from Epic's CDN.
No Epic account needed. Manifests come from public archives, chunks come from Epic's public CDN.
- Single 7.4 MB native exe, no install, no dependencies
- Reads both manifest formats, binary and the pre-2021 JSON ones
- Arrow key menu with mouse scrolling and click to pick, no commands to learn
- Install tag picker with real sizes, so a full build is one keypress
- Tells you up front how much of an old build Epic still hosts
- Adds UEFN to any build from 24.20, matched by changelist
- Resumes after a crash, verifies every chunk and file against the manifest
Double click LegendarySharp.exe. Everything is in the menu:
| Download a build | Pick a season or jump straight to builds confirmed to download in full, choose how much of it you want, and go |
| My builds | Verify, repair, resume an interrupted download, or add UEFN |
| Browse releases | Every known build, type to filter, open one to check availability, read its manifest or download it |
| Settings | Install folder, workers, memory budget, default preset, mouse and scrolling |
Downloads go to Documents\FortniteBuilds unless you change the install root.
Tag naming changed three times. All three are understood, so presets and sizes are right on any build.
| Era | Builds | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Chunk | 13.40 to 18.30 | chunk0, chunk10optional |
| Named | 21.10 to 33.x | core, br, stw, loc_de |
| Gameplay | 34.10 and newer | Startup, FortniteBR, GFP_JunoRoot |
Presets run from Full build down to Minimal, with Battle Royale and Save the World in between. You can also tick tags individually, with a running size total, or load a selective download json if you have one for that build era.
Epic prunes chunks, so most builds below 13.40 will not download in full no matter what tags you use.
Builds confirmed to complete are marked with a tick in list and the menu.
Open any build under Browse releases and choose Check availability to sample the CDN before committing. If part of it is gone you are offered the chance to take whatever survives, and told afterwards which files could not be built.
Builds from 24.20 have a matching UEFN release, paired by changelist, installed into the same folder. You are offered it after a download, or add it later from My builds. Turn the prompt off in Settings.
Needs the .NET 10 SDK. A Release build publishes the native single file exe automatically and drops it
in publish/.
dotnet build "Legendary Sharp/Legendary Sharp.csproj" -c ReleaseThe native step needs the Visual Studio C++ build tools. Without them the build still succeeds, it
just warns and leaves you the managed build. Skip it deliberately with -p:PublishAfterBuild=false.
Debug builds never publish.
Most useful thing to add is confirmed builds. If you finish one that is not ticked, add its changelist
to Fortnite/VerifiedBuilds.cs.
The code has no comments by design. If something needs one to be understood, it needs renaming.
- derrod for legendary, where the manifest and chunk formats were worked out. Independent implementation, no code shared.
- polynite/fn-releases, VastBlast/FortniteManifestArchive and Mast3rGamers/UEFN-releases for the manifest archives.
- Helix, for which builds still download in full and which tags each era needs.
MIT. Free to use, modify and redistribute, including commercially. The only condition is that the copyright notice and licence stay with it, so credit comes back to this repo.
legendary is GPL-3.0, but none of its code is here. This is an independent implementation of Epic's file formats, which are not copyrightable only the name of the project is re-used.