Popular Battle Royale game Fortnite is well known the for crazy things that often take place in its game world. About a week ago, a mysterious purple cube appeared in Paradise Realms following Update 5.3 of the game, and since then, players have carefully been monitoring the movements of the cube.

Soon after, random lightning strikes in the game caused the appearance of the deadly cube, the cube started moving towards other parts of the game. Now players have noticed that the cube seems to be surrounded by a dome.

A tweet from Fortnite Battle Royale News shows the vague outline of the low-gravity dome that is starting to take shape around the huge purple cube. In the tweet below, one can see the player going inside the dome to check it out. Though the cube itself gets aggressive when provoked, and many players have died because of this, being near it paradoxically seems to add shielding. From this video, it is also clear that the newly formed dome itself is not fatal, and has an anti-gravity effect on the player.

The Fortnite community is, of course, very curious about what the appearance of the mysterious cube actually means, and some speculate that it might have something to do with the popular dinosaur theory or that the mystery cube is set to destroy something or undo changes made by rifts. Recently a Reddit user managed to glitch into the cube after landing on it and continually striking the top of it with a pickaxe, which revealed that the dark space was actually resting on top of the Paradise Palms map.

These are all speculations though as has been no official explanation of the cube by Epic Games as of yet. As Season 5 will be coming to a close soon though, many also believe that it may have something to do with an event that promises a spectacular season finale. Whatever the cube is, it certainly is adding a lot of excitement to the game, and it is clear that something big is in store for Fortnite fans soon.

Fortnite is out now in early access for iOS, PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.