Key things
- The Fortnite Item Shop offers players rare cosmetic upgrades.
- The Jagged Edge pickaxe returns after five years of inaccessibility.
- Epic Games uses nostalgic events to commemorate earlier versions of Fortnite.
An extremely rare cosmetic upgrade for Fortnite the pickaxe is back in the in-game item shop for players to pick up. The pickaxe is one of the rarest items Fortnite store because it has not been available for several years.
Thanks in part to a business model based on regularly adding and selling cosmetic enhancements, Fortnite practically overflowing with a variety of thousands of items for players to obtain. While many can be obtained for free through the Battle Pass, others are sold in the in-game store. One of the problems with this model is that Fortnite The item shop rotation regularly brings in new and old items and items that are unavailable. Some players may inevitably miss out on a trade item they would otherwise like.
Some players may have waited longer than most, such as those who missed out on picking up the “Jagged Edge” pickaxe model. As confirmed by the post from Fortnite news account ShiinaBR, Jagged Edge is back in the Item Shop for the first time in nearly five years. Technically, the Jagged Edge is only an Uncommon (Green) Rarity pickaxe, but what makes it one of the rarest pickaxes in Fortnite is the absolute amount of time that has passed since it was last available.
The Fortnite Jagged Edge pickaxe returns after nearly 5 years
As a mere pickaxe from the item shop, the Jagged Edge has a fairly mundane design: It's a dual-wielding type. Fortnite a harvesting tool consisting of a pair of hand axes with spikes on the blades. However, it has not been included in the store rotation since August 2019. For context, it was halfway through Fortnite Season 10, before the monumental events of “The End”, which saw the island destroyed by a black hole and the rebirth of the universe as Fortnite Chapter 2.
Perhaps it's a testament to how long it's been since Jagged Edge was last in the store since developer Epic Games started its original run. Fortnite OG season as a limited-time event aimed at nostalgic reminiscing about earlier versions of the game. It seems almost quaint to be nostalgic for a game that, in the eyes of older gamers, is little more than one console cycle old, but also shows Fortnite's staying power since its early days, when it was first reinvented as a battle royale game to capitalize on the then-new trend of multiplayer gaming.
