Summary
An extremely rare cosmetic upgrade for theFortnitepickaxe is back in the in-game item shop for players to pick up. The pickaxe is one of the rarest items in theFortniteshop, as it hasn’t been available for multiple years.
Thanks in part to a business model based on regularly adding and selling cosmetic upgrades,Fortniteis practically bursting with an array of thousands of items for players to acquire. While many can be earned for free via the Battle Pass, more are sold in the in-game store. One problem with that model is that theFortniteItem Shop rotationregularly brings items new and old in and out of availability. Inevitably, some players may miss out on a shop item they might’ve liked otherwise.
Some players might have been waiting longer than most, such as those who missed a chance to pick up the “Jagged Edge” pickaxe model. As confirmed by a post fromFortnitenews account ShiinaBR, the Jagged Edge is back in the Item Shop for the first time in nearly five years. Technically speaking, the Jagged Edge is merely an Uncommon (Green) Rarity pickaxe, but what makes it one ofthe rarest pickaxes inFortniteis the sheer amount of time that has passed since it was last available.
Fortnite Jagged Edge Pickaxe Returns After Almost 5 Years
As a mere Item Shop pickaxe, the Jagged Edge is a fairly mundane design: It is a dual-wield typeFortniteharvesting tool consisting of a pair of hand axes with spikes on the blades. Yet it hasn’t been included in the store rotation since August 2019. For context, that was midway throughFortniteSeason 10, before the monumental events of “The End,” that saw the island destroyed by a black hole, and the universe reborn asFortniteChapter 2.
Perhaps it’s a testament to how long it has been since the last time the Jagged Edge was in the store that developer Epic Games has begun running originalFortniteOG seasonsas limited-time events focused on nostalgic recall for earlier versions of the game. It seems almost quaint to be nostalgic for a game that, in the eyes of older players, is little older than a single console cycle, but it also demonstratesFortnite’s staying power since its earliest days, when it was first reinvented as a Battle Royale game to capitalize on the then-new trend sweeping multiplayer gaming.
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