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- The Fortnite Item Shop offers rare cosmetic upgrades for players.
- The Jagged Edge pickaxe returns after five years of unavailability.
- Epic Games uses nostalgic events to recall previous versions of Fortnite.
An extremely rare cosmetic upgrade for Fortnite pickaxe is back in the in-game item shop for players to pick up. The pickaxe is one of the rarest objects in the 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 it is practically filled with a number of thousands of items that players can purchase. While many can be earned for free through the Battle Pass, more are sold in the in-game store. A problem with this model is that Fortnite Item shop rotation regularly brings new and old items in and out of availability. Inevitably, some players may lose an item in the store that they would otherwise have liked.
Some players may have waited longer than most, such as those who missed out on picking up the “Jagged Edge” pickaxe model. As a post from confirms Fortnite ShiinaBR news account, Jagged Edge returns to the Item Shop for the first time in nearly five years. Technically speaking, Jagged Edge is just an uncommon rarity (green) pickaxe, but that makes it one of the rarest pickaxes in Fortnite is the amount of time that has passed since it was last available.
Fortnite Jagged Edge Pickaxe is back after almost 5 years
As a simple pick from the hardware store, the Jagged Edge is a pretty mundane design: it's a dual-wielding guy Fortnite harvesting tool consisting of a pair of hand axes with spikes on blades. However, it wasn't included in the August 2019 store rotation. For context, that was halfway through Fortnite Season 10, before the monumental events of “The End,” which saw the island destroyed by a black hole and the universe reborn as Fortnite Chapter 2.
Perhaps it's a testament to how long it's been since Jagged Edge was last in the store when developer Epic Games started running the original. Fortnite OG Seasons as limited-time events focused on nostalgic reminiscence of previous versions of the game. It seems almost strange to be nostalgic for a game that, in the eyes of older gamers, is little more than a single console cycle old, but it also proves Fortniteit has been preserved since its inception when it was first reinvented as a battle royale game to capitalize on the then new trend of multiplayer games.
