Fortnite Season 9 Fortbyte #48: Accessible By Using The Vox Pickaxe To Smash The Gnome Besides A Mountain Top Throne

Fortnite Season 9 carries on and along with it comes the Fortbyte system, Season 9’s most content packed addition. Today’s Fortbyte (Wednesday of Week 6) presents us with Fortbyte #48: Accessible By Using The Vox Pickaxe To Smash The Gnome Besides A Mountain Top Throne.

Fortnite Season 9 introduced the Fortbyte system, which is a special challenge released every day at 2pm BST. The challenges most often take the form of a treasure hunt style challenge in which you track down a single treasure by following clues. There are 100 Fortbytes in total and collecting them nets you cosmetic rewards. Each Fortbyte you collect, you also reveal a tile on a mosaic image featuring Bunker Jonesy, which also promises to unveil the secret behind Season 9.

This article focuses on Fortnite Season 9, Fortbyte #48: Accessible By Using The Vox Pickaxe To Smash The Gnome Besides A Mountain Top Throne. It is the third Fortbyte in a row to require a substantially developed Battle Pass to complete.

 

Fortbyte #48: Vox Pickaxe

The Vox Pickaxe is located on tier 55 of the Battle Pass, which is the highest of any requirement yet. Even if you’re entirely up-to-date with your weekly challenges, there is still a chance you still won’t be tier 55 yet. This means you also need to be somewhat on top of your daily challenges as well.

 

Fortnite Season 9 Fortbyte #48 Map

The ‘mountain top throne’ in question is a little bit more of an obscure clue this time. The throne itself isn’t a throne in the traditional sense, but a ‘porcelain throne’. This means you’re looking for a rather elaborate toilet atop a mountain. Northeast of Happy Hamlet and southeast of Polar Peak is an unnamed mountain that sports an expedition outpost. You will find our mountaintop throne at, well, the top of this mountain. The mountain is located at D9 on the main map’s grid.

 

Fortbyte #48

On the peak of this mountain is a little gnome (pictured above) sitting next to the ‘throne’ (i.e. a toilet) that you simply need to head up to and break with your Vox Pickaxe. The gnome will be destroyed and in its place will spawn Fortbyte #48 for you to collect.

 

Fortbyte #48 Video Guide

As previously mentioned, this is the third Fortbyte in a row (surpassing the original prediction) that requires an increasingly substansial Battle Pass time investment. We’re approaching the point that even if you complete all your weeklies, but don’t play semi-regularly for your daily challenges and experience gain, you’ll fall behind and be unable to keep up with the Fortbyte hunt. There is always the option of buying any missing tiers (which might possibly be the point behind the system after all), but they’re typically not very good value for money (150 V-bucks per tier is steep relative to the Battle Pass by in price).

This Fortbyte follows on from Tuesday’s Fortbyte #59 and Monday’s Fortbyte #58 , both of which require a decent amount of investment into the Battle Pass to collect.

 

Fortnite Season 9 Fortbytes List

The below is accurate as of the time of writing. Our masterlist gets updated every day.

Fortbyte #2: Found At A Location Hidden Within Loading Screen #6
Fortbyte #3: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #4: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #5: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #6: Accessible With Yay! Emote At An Ice Cream Shop In The Desert
Fortbyte #7: Accessible By Using The Cuddle Up Emoticon Inside A Rocky Umbrella
Fortbyte #8: Found Within Junk Junction
Fortbyte #9: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #11: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #12: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #13: Found at a location hidden within Loading Screen #2
Fortbyte #14: Found Within An RV Park
Fortbyte #15: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #16: Found In A Desert House With Too Many Chairs
Fortbyte #17: Found Inside A Wooden Fish Building
Fortbyte #18: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #19: Accessible With The Vega Outfit Inside A Spaceship Building
Fortbyte #20: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #21: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #22: Accessible By Using Rox Spray In An Underpass
Fortbyte #23: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #24: Found Within Fatal Fields
Fortbyte #26: Accessible With The Bunker Jonesy Outfit Near a Snowy Bunker
Fortbyte #27: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #28: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #29: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #30: Found Somewhere Between Haunted Hills & Pleasant Park
Fortbyte #31: Found At A Meteor Crater Overlook
Fortbyte #32: Accessible By Wearing Kyo Pet Back Bling at the Northern Most Point
Fortbyte #33: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #34: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #36: Accessible by Sentinel on a frozen island
Fortbyte #37: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #38: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #40: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #41: Accessible By Using Tomatohead Emoticon Inside The Durr Burger Restaurant
Fortbyte #43: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #45: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #47: Found between a Reboot Van, pirate camp, and a crashed Battle Bus
Fortbyte #48: Accessible By Using The Vox Pickaxe To Smash The Gnome Besides A Mountain Top Throne
Fortbyte #49: Found In Trog’s Ice Cave
Fortbyte #50: Accessible At Night Time Inside Mountain Top Castle Ruins
Fortbyte #51: Accessible By Using The Cluck Strut To Cross The Road At Peely’s Banana Stand
Fortbyte #52: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #53: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #55: Found within Haunted Hills
Fortbyte #56: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #58: Accessible By Using The Sad Trombone Emote At The North End Of Snobby Shores
Fortbyte #59: Accessible With Durrr! Emoji Inside Pizza Pit Restaurant
Fortbyte #60: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #61: Accessible By Using Sunbird Spray On A Frozen Waterfall
Fortbyte #62: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #63: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #64: Accessible By Rox On Top Of Stunt Mountain
Fortbyte #65: Found In A Basement Budget Movie Set
Fortbyte #67: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #68: Found Within A Snowy Town Book Shop
Fortbyte #69: Found Inside A Stone Pig Building
Fortbyte #70: Skydive Through The Rings Above Lazy Lagoon w/ Vibrant Contrails Equipped
Fortbyte #72: Found Within Salty Springs
Fortbyte #74: Found In A Filing Cabinet Inside An Assassin’s Basement
Fortbyte #75: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #76: Found Behind A Historical Diorama In An Insurance Building
Fortbyte #77: Found Within A Track Side Taco Shop
Fortbyte #78: Found Within A Ranger Tower Overlooking A Drained Lake
Fortbyte #79: Found within an arcade
Fortbyte #80: Use The Bunker Basher Pickaxe To Smash the Rock at the Volcano
Fortbyte #81: Accessible In The Daytime Near A Mountain Top Cactus Wedge
Fortbyte #82: Accessible By Solving The Pressure Plate Puzzle NW Of The Block
Fortbyte #83: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #86: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #88: Found Somewhere Within Map Location J3
Fortbyte #89: Accessible By Flying The Scarlet Strike Glider Through Rings East Of Snobby Shores
Fortbyte #91: Found At A Location Hidden Within Loading Screen #4
Fortbyte #92: Accessible by using Rock Love Spray near a lavafall
Fortbyte #93: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #94: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #95: Found At A Solar Panel Array In The Jungle
Fortbyte #97: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #98: Corrupted Data
Fortbyte #100: Corrupted Data

MORE FORTNITE SEASON 9:
– The Best Fortnite Controller Tips
– Best Fortnite Controller Settings: Presets, Edits, Sensitivity & More
– Fortnite Season 9 Fortbytes Locations Guide