Rare Fortnite Cosmetic is returning to the Item Shop after almost 5 years

Important takeaways

  • The Fortnite Item Shop offers rare cosmetic upgrades for players.
  • The Jagged Edge pickaxe returns after five years of inaccessibility.
  • Epic Games uses nostalgic events to recall previous versions of Fortnite.



An extremely rare cosmetic upgrade for Fortnite pickaxe is back in the game store for players to pick up. The pickaxe is one of the rarest items in the Fortnite shop, as it has not been available for years.

Thanks in part to a business model based on regularly adding and selling cosmetic upgrades, Fortnite is 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. A problem with that model is that Fortnite Item Shop rotation for regular new and old items in and out of availability. Inevitably, some players may miss out on a store item they would otherwise have liked.


Some players may have waited longer than most, such as those who missed a chance to pick up the “Jagged Edge” pick model. As confirmed by a post from Fortnite news account ShiinaBR, Jagged Edge is back in the Item Shop for the first time in nearly five years. Technically, Jagged Edge is just an uncommon (green) rare pick, but what makes it one of the rare picks in Fortnite is how much time has passed since it was last accessed.


The Fortnite Jagged Edge Pickaxe returns after almost 5 years

As a pure Item Shop pick, the Jagged Edge is a pretty mundane design: it's a two-wing type Fortnite harvesting implement consisting of a pair of hand axes with spikes on the blades. Still, it hasn't 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 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 that developer Epic Games has started running originals Fortnite OG Seasons as limited-time events focused on nostalgic recall for previous versions of the game. It seems almost quaint to be nostalgic for a game that, in the eyes of older gamers, is little older than a single console cycle, but it also shows Fortnites staying power since its earliest days, when it was first reinvented as a battle royale game to capitalize on the then-new trend of sweeping multiplayer games.

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