It took nearly six years, but has finally given up trying to call Pickaxes "Harvesting Tools" in , 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 ꩵvelociraptors, 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., 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.[EMBED_TWITTER]//twitter.com/ShiinaBR/status/1667080504275861504[/EMBED_TWITTER]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 was really only the first few Pickaxes in the game that were actually, you know, pickaxes. By the time you started including Hulk's fists, Thor's hammer, Indiana Jones' sceptre, and Darth Vader's... whatever the heck that was, it didn't make much sense to call them "Pickaxes". Sense be damned, though, because that's what we all did.[EMBED_TWITTER]//twitter.com/XTigerHyperX2/status/1667080724049002496[/EMBED_TWITTER]The change to "Pickaxes" instead of "Harvesting Tools" also makes sense when you consider that one of Fortnite's most popular modes, Zero Build, technically doesn't have any harvesting in it at all, as there's no building and no materials to collect. That might just be overthinking what is really just a long-overdue colloquial change, but hey, we like to think that there's a little bit of logic to the decision rather than Epic just throwing paper in the air and saying "FINE".
Fortnite Has Finally Stopped Calling Pickaxes "Harvesting Tools"
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