Key conclusions
- The Fortnite Item Shop offers rare cosmetic enhancements for players.
- The Jagged Edge pickaxe returns after five years of absence.
- Epic Games uses nostalgic events to recall earlier versions of Fortnite.
An extremely rare cosmetic update for Fortnite the pickaxe is back in the in-game item store that players can pick up. A pickaxe is one of the rarest items in the village Fortnite store as it has not been available for several years.
Thanks in part to a business model based on regularly adding and selling cosmetic upgrades, Fortnite practically overflowing with many thousands of items that players can purchase. While many of these can be earned for free with the Battle Pass, more are sold in the in-game store. One problem with this model is that Fortnite A rotation of item shops regularly delivers new and old items, as well as out-of-stock items. Inevitably, some players may miss an item from the store that they might otherwise like.
Some players may have waited longer than most, such as those who missed the chance to pick up the “Jagged Edge” pickaxe model. As confirmed by a message from Fortnite in ShiinaBR news, Jagged Edge is back in the Item Shop for the first time in nearly five years. Jagged Edge is technically just a rare (green) pick, but what makes it one of the rarest picks in Fortnite that's a huge amount of time since it was last available.
The Fortnite Jagged Edge Pickaxe is back after almost 5 years
As a normal Item Shop pick, the Jagged Edge is a fairly common design: it's a dual type Fortnite a harvesting implement consisting of a pair of hand axes with spikes on the blades. But it hasn't been in store rotation since August 2019. For context, that was in the middle of Fortnite Season 10, before the monumental events of “The End,” in which the island was destroyed by a black hole and the universe reborn as Fortnite Section 2.
Perhaps it's an indication of how long it's been since Jagged Edge was last in the store when developer Epic Games started launching the original Fortnite OG Seasons as limited-time events aimed at nostalgic memories of earlier versions of the game. Nostalgia for a game that, in the eyes of older gamers, is little more than one console cycle old seems almost strange, but it also demonstrates Fortnitehas been going strong since its earliest days when it was first revived as a battle royale game to capitalize on the then-new trend sweeping multiplayer gaming.