Pickaxes have been inFortnitesince the very beginning, and every week there are new ones added to the Item Shop. Almost seven years after its release, how many Pickaxes are inFortnitein 2024? The actual number might surprise you.

It should come as no surprise that there are a lot ofFortnitePickaxes, that’s for sure. Think about it: Every time there is aFortniteupdate, new cosmetics are dropped in the Item Shop. Then think about all the events and crossovers that happen too, likeStar WarsorAvatar, and they all come with their own harvesting tools as well.

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Multiply that over 6 years, and it gets difficult to comprehend how many there are. Thankfully,Fortnite.gghas been keeping track of every single Pickaxe so we can find out how many there actually are.

How many Pickaxes inFortnite?

On June 04, 2025,there are1,191 Pickaxes inFortnite.With a little bit of math, we can figure that, on average, Epic Games adds 14 new Pickaxes to the game every month, which is pretty impressive if you think about it.

How manyFortnitePickaxes in each rarity

If you’re interested in seeing which rarities have the most Pickaxes, we’ve broken that down too. Of course, withEpic removing Item Shop rarities, we’ll no longer be able to know where they rank, but it’s still interesting to see the breakdown over the first six years.

Rare is theFortniterarity with the most Pickaxes, while Common is the least populated with just one.In fact, the only Common Pickaxe is the Default one, assigned to you when you play the game for the first time.

An ice cream Fortnite skin running, holding a pickaxe.

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