Epic Games has taken the Fortnite servers down, and this is to bring patch v24.40 into the fray this May 17. Read on for the schedule.

• Update: Patch v24.40 is now out, and you can read the patch notes and datamined content here.

Fortnite Servers Down Schedule and Info for May 17:

Update: Epic Games has announced that downtime has ended!

Here’s the announcement from Epic Games:

We're beginning to disable matchmaking in preparation for the v24.40 update, with server downtime beginning soon.

We’ll let you know when downtime has ended! pic.twitter.com/naDJqQT9YU

— Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) May 17, 2023

We’re beginning to disable matchmaking in preparation for the v24.40 update, with server downtime beginning soon.

We’ll let you know when downtime has ended!

Same as always, we’ll have the patch notes and datamined content up on the site. You can bookmark our Fortnite game hub for the latest news. Once v24.40 is out, we’ll update the article to include a link out to it.