Fortnite update 13.20 brought a very interesting change to the game, introducing portable leveling benches. You can now find upgrade benches in chests, or just lying on the floor as standard loot. You can throw them away, and they'll make a fully functional workbench, allowing you to upgrade or upgrade your weapons.
You can also break down upgrade benches using your harvesting tool. They have 400 health, and once they're down, they can be picked up and put into your inventory. There doesn't seem to be a limit on how many times you can break down and then reuse the same Upgrade Bank, so once you have one in your inventory you should be good to go. Basically any upgrade bench in the game now looks portable, you can just break them down with your harvesting tool and bring them with you.
They take a few seconds to build after throwing them, so make sure there are no enemies around before you commit to upgrading your weapons. This change changes the dynamics of weapon leveling or side ranking in the game. You know you have to plan a route to a leveling bench when you want to, and you can just break down the first one you want. meet and bring it with you for the whole game. This also makes established leveling benches less reliable, as another player may have gotten away with it before they can get there.
The last thing to note about the leveling bench is if you throw it at your own feet and don't really have room around you will get trapped in the leveling bench and have to take it apart. before you can go through.
