Fortnite Has Finally Stopped Calling Pickaxes "Harvesting Tools"
It took nearly six years, but Epic Games has finally given up trying to call Pickaxes "Harvesting Tools" in Fortnite, finally getting down with the lingo and just calling them Pickaxes.
Today marks the launch of Fortnite's latest season, The Wilds, which has a jungle theme and adds camouflaging, canopies, rideable velociraptors, a thermal DMR, and, of course, Optimus Prime from Transformers. Those changes are enough to make it a pretty big season for Fortnite, but there are also a few smaller changes that have been made that are just as appreciated by fans, including one of the game's main items getting a new name.
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As highlighted by reliable Fortnite insider ShiinaBR on Twitter, Fortnite's Chapter 3, Season 4 update shows that Epic is finally ready to let sleeping dogs lie and stop trying to get everyone to call Pickaxes "Harvesting Tools". If you head into your locker after installing the new update, you'll notice that the Harvesting Tools section has now simply been renamed "Pickaxes". If you select an individual Pickaxe, the description for it will still describe it as a "harvesting tool", but that seems to be a mistake considering the whole category has been renamed.
This isn't a major deal, but it's a nice change on Epic's part after nearly six years of trying to call them "harvesting tools" when people simply weren't calling them that. The change hasn't been acknowledged by Epic yet, but players were quick to notice it when the update went live earlier today, with the comments underneath Shiina's post mostly pointing out that no one ever called them that in the first place.
To be fair to Epic, it does make sense why it was trying to call them that since it
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