Fortnite Sprite Patch Timeline — Chapter 7 Season 3 "Runners"
Four numbered updates (v41.00, v41.10, v41.20, v41.30), five Thursday variant drops and one Sprite Dust hotfix — what each changed, dated.
Chapter 7 Season 3 has shipped four numbered updates that touched Sprites — v41.00 on 6 June 2026, v41.10 on 25 June, v41.20 on 16 July and v41.30 on 30 July — plus five Thursday variant drops between them and a server-side hotfix on 24 July that cut Sprite Dust resummon costs. Two of those changes were accidents Epic reversed.
The timeline at a glance
| Date | Version | What arrived | What changed mechanically |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 6 June | v41.00 | Season launch: Sprites, extraction, Sprite Chests, Sprite Dust, the launch roster and the Gold variant | The whole loop: find a Sprite in a match, bank it at an Extraction Site, lose it to the next player if you die first |
| Thu 11 June | (weekly drop) | Gummy variant | +10% Sprite Dust whenever you extract a Sprite |
| Thu 18 June | (weekly drop) | Galaxy variant | Pick up 30% more ammo when looting |
| Thu 25 June | v41.10 | Five new Sprites | Portable Extractor sources published: daily quest, Mastery Monday tiers, Sprite Mastery track |
| Thu 9 July | (weekly drop) | Holofoil variant | Increases your chance to find variant Sprites |
| Thu 16 July | v41.20 | No new variant | Sprite Chest odds reworked — see below |
| Thu 23 July | (weekly drop) | Cube variant, plus a new Sprite | Triggers Overdrive while you are caught in the Storm |
| Fri 24 July | hotfix | Nothing new | Sprite Dust resummon costs cut, server-side |
| Thu 30 July | v41.30 | Quack variant; Ironmouse appeared and was withdrawn the same day | Quack passes 50% of its earned progress to every other Sprite in your match inventory |
v41.00 — 6 June
The season launched with Sprites as its central mechanic rather than a side collection. Epic's v41.00 notes describe the loop in a sentence: find a Sprite in a match, reach an Extraction Site, defend the pickup while the timer runs, and it is banked to your collection for future matches. Get eliminated first and it is left on the ground for whoever finds it.
Gold was the only special variant at launch. Everything else in the current grid arrived later.
Getting a sprite to max level is no easy feat, so we recommend attempting it across multiple runs.
v41.10 — 25 June
The only numbered update that primarily added Sprites rather than changing rules. Five new Sprites entered the pool, and Epic documented where Portable Extractors come from — a daily quest for extracting ten Sprites, escalating Mastery Monday rewards at 10/15/20 extractions, and several tiers of the Sprite Mastery track.
v41.20 — 16 July
No new variant, and the most consequential patch of the season for collection speed. Epic changed what a Sprite Chest can produce:
- A Sprite Chest now guarantees an Epic, Legendary or Mythic Sprite, or a higher-rarity variant.
- Variants appear more frequently.
- Rare Sprites drop less often, and only as variants.
The third bullet is the one people misread. Rare Sprites did not become rarer overall — the Normal versions did, because the chest is now more likely to hand you a Gold or Gummy of the same Sprite than a plain one.
v41.30 — 30 July
Delivered the Quack variant, which is unlike every other variant on this page: it is not a chest roll at all. Quack is earned through Sprite Mastery, so it is gated by effort rather than luck, and it currently exists on only four Sprites.
The same update is where Ironmouse appeared, briefly.
The Thursday variant drops
Every Thursday adds a Sprite or a variant, and the variant drops are the ones that reshape the grid. Five have landed this season.
| Thursday | Variant | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| 11 June | Gummy | +10% Sprite Dust on extraction |
| 18 June | Galaxy | 30% more ammo when looting |
| 9 July | Holofoil | Higher chance to find variant Sprites |
| 23 July | Cube | Overdrive while caught in the Storm |
| 30 July | Quack | Shares 50% of its progress with your other Sprites |
Variants are added per Sprite, not to the whole roster at once. Gold, Gummy and Galaxy each cover twenty Sprites in our catalog; Holofoil twelve; Cube nine; Quack four. A later variant is therefore scarcer in practice regardless of drop rates — fewer Sprites carry it and it has had fewer weeks in circulation.
The 24 July Sprite Dust hotfix
It shipped without a client patch, which matters: the costs are tuned server-side and can change again at any time with no version number attached. They are not in the game files, so every number in a resummon table, including ours, is either observed in-game or inferred.
Resummon cost tracks the Sprite's base rarity, not the variant's. Every variant of a Rare Sprite costs the same 2,700 Dust.
Ironmouse: released early, then pulled
Ironmouse shipped with the 30 July update and was collectable for a matter of hours. Epic then disabled the Sprite and removed it from the collections of the players who had extracted it.
That makes it a different category from an unreleased Sprite. Nobody was ever supposed to have a Gem; people genuinely, legitimately had an Ironmouse. Quackadex keeps it in the catalog flagged as unreleased and leaked, so it counts toward completion for the accounts that hold one and for nobody else.
Gem Llama shipped ahead of the other Gems
Gems are the season's unreleased variant tier — with one exception. Gem Llama is live in-game and obtainable; the remaining Gem variants are not.
Some players obtained other Gems early through the Sprite Hunt rift anomaly. Epic's support article confirms those Sprites were not yet released and were temporarily disabled — unable to enter a match or be resummoned — pending the variant's release. The Gem Grim was disabled in the same round as Ironmouse.
What is confirmed and what is not
The mechanical claims above — the extraction loop, Portable Extractor sources, the v41.20 chest change, variant bonuses and the Mythic Dust reduction — come from Epic's own update notes, event posts and support articles.
These are not Epic-announced and are reported only: Ironmouse's return date, when the remaining Gem variants release, whether the weekly Thursday cadence continues, and when the season ends. Epic has published nothing on any of them. Anyone giving you a date for the next Gem drop is guessing.
Track your sprite collection
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