Fortnite Treasure Hunters Trailer Breakdown: Luffy and the Straw Hats Confirmed

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The Fortnite Treasure Hunters One Piece trailer is here: Epic Games posted the live-action Fortnite Treasure Hunters trailer on October 27, 2026, confirming the One Piece crossover rumors and showing Luffy, Zoro, Nami and the rest of the Straw Hat crew joining Fortnite’s new pirate mini-season when it launches November 1, 2026.

Trailer via Fortnite on YouTube.

Detail Info
Season Treasure Hunters – The Greatest Adventure of All Time
Type Chapter 7 mini-season, bridging Season 4 “Override” and Chapter 8
Launch November 1, 2026
Confirmed crews Straw Hat Pirates (One Piece), Hatsune Miku and Kasane Teto, A$AP Rocky, Lil Uzi Vert, Jonesy and Hope, one unrevealed crew
New POIs One Piece Treasure Chest, Foosha Village, Marigold
Named weapons Luffy’s Gum-Gum Rocket and Gum-Gum Pistol (Mythic), Hope’s movable cannon, Oscar’s sword, Usopp’s slingshot
Developer Epic Games
Fortnite Treasure Hunters at a glance

The Trailer Opens on a Skull-Masked Narrator, Not a Pirate

Before any One Piece character shows up, the trailer spends its first few seconds on a black-clad, skull-masked figure addressing the camera directly over a glitching Jolly Roger insignia. It plays like an in-universe warning rather than a straight ad, and it’s the kind of cold open Fortnite has used before to frame a season as a mystery instead of just a shopping list of new skins.

A Full Island Reveal, Treasure Map Style

The trailer cuts to an animated map of the Fortnite island redrawn as old-world cartography, parchment texture and all, before zooming into a coastal town. It’s the clearest look yet at how Epic is reskinning the existing map for the mini-season rather than launching a brand-new one, with the pirate-village POI matching the Foosha Village location reporting has already named as one of three new named locations.

A pirate village point of interest shown in the Fortnite Treasure Hunters trailer
The trailer previews one of the season’s new pirate-themed points of interest. © Epic Games.

Luffy Gets a Clean, Unmistakable Entrance

Straw hat, red vest, blue shorts: Luffy’s design needs no introduction, and the trailer gives him a full-body jump shot on a cherry-blossom-lined beach that leaves zero doubt about who’s headlining this crossover. It’s the first time the trailer lingers on a single character rather than cutting through a montage, which tells you where Epic wants the attention.

A Luffy-inspired straw hat character jumping on a beach in the Fortnite Treasure Hunters trailer
Luffy’s straw hat and red vest are unmistakable even in a quick trailer cut. © Epic Games.

The Crew Makes a Run for the Treasure

A few seconds later, a green-haired figure in a white shirt and an orange-haired figure dash across the same beach toward a glowing gold chest, designs that line up with Zoro and Nami, though neither one turns toward the camera. Reporting has confirmed both, along with Usopp, Sanji, Buggy and Ace, as part of the Straw Hat skin lineup.

Three characters running across a beach toward a glowing treasure chest in the Fortnite Treasure Hunters trailer
A crew sprints for the island’s treasure chest near the trailer’s end. © Epic Games.

A Pink-Haired Idol Crew Gets a Blink-and-Miss-It Cameo

Early in the trailer, a pink- and teal-haired anime-style character runs through a town square flanked by other figures in matching pirate gear, a design consistent with the Hatsune Miku and Kasane Teto crew that TechWiser reported as one of the season’s six confirmed crews. It’s on screen for less than a second, which fits a trailer built to tease the whole season rather than dwell on any one collab.

What’s New Here

A One Piece collaboration had been rumored from datamined files for weeks, but nothing official confirmed it until this trailer. This is the first Epic-posted footage to put Luffy’s actual character model on screen, the first to show the map reinterpreted as a treasure map, and the first to confirm named weapons like Luffy’s Gum-Gum Rocket and Gum-Gum Pistol tied to specific characters rather than generic season loot.

What the Trailer Doesn’t Show

None of the Straw Hats besides Luffy get a clean, identifiable shot, so Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Buggy and Ace are confirmed by outside reporting rather than by anything clearly visible on screen. The trailer also never confirms Battle Pass pricing, the sixth unrevealed crew, or whether the One Piece content is a timed collab or a permanent addition to the item shop.

Fortnite’s Crossover Pattern

Treasure Hunters follows the same playbook Epic used for Fortnite’s live Kingdom Hearts crossover earlier this year: a licensed franchise gets folded into the existing map and Battle Pass structure rather than spun off into its own mode. For Luffy specifically, the crossover arrives with the source manga bigger than ever: One Piece passed 600 million copies in worldwide circulation in March 2026 with the release of Volume 114, the most copies ever published for a single comic book series by one author, per Guinness World Records. Readers catching up on what makes him dangerous in the source material can see our explainer on Luffy’s Gear 5 Nika awakening.

Frequently Asked Questions

When does Fortnite Treasure Hunters start?

Fortnite Treasure Hunters launches November 1, 2026, as a mini-season bridging Chapter 7 Season 4 and Chapter 8.

Is Luffy actually in Fortnite?

Yes. The October 27, 2026 live-action trailer shows Luffy’s character model directly, and reporting has confirmed Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Buggy and Ace as additional Straw Hat Pirates skins.

What other crossovers are in Fortnite Treasure Hunters?

Six pirate crews are confirmed: the One Piece Straw Hat Pirates, Hatsune Miku and Kasane Teto, A$AP Rocky, Lil Uzi Vert, Fortnite’s own Jonesy and Hope, and one crew Epic hasn’t revealed yet.

What new locations does Fortnite Treasure Hunters add?

Confirmed new points of interest include the One Piece Treasure Chest, Foosha Village and Marigold.

Is the Fortnite One Piece crossover a permanent addition?

Epic hasn’t said. The trailer and reporting confirm the collab for the Treasure Hunters mini-season, but whether the skins stay in the item shop afterward hasn’t been announced.

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