[SPOILER] Datamine hints at new and returning features

[Sloom]

nintendo, I spent over a year being excited for animal crossing new horizons.
could you maybe give me a break? this state of constant hype can't be good for my health
also rip me, my secret beach is literally inaccessible lmao

 

[Aurynn]

I love the potential updates. Of course we won't get it all at once, but that's okay Nintendo
The only thing is space on my island. I should have left more open and unused space for potential buildings, lol. But hey, you're never done with changing your island

 

[Daisuk]

I think the game really would benefit from an update. It's a perfectly fine game as it is, but having paid down the loan, upgraded my house to the max and caught all the fish/bugs - there isn't much to do except for decorating stuff - yet the decoration options we have at the moment are pretty limited. So, if you want to have casual gamers or people that aren't long standing fans of the game (like myself) playing - you want to roll out a few updates right now, as there's little incentive to keep playing at the moment (for me anyway). Seeing as it's a day to day game with seasons and such, that would just make sense. I hope and I think that updates are just around the corner.

Thanks a lot for posting this, by the way! Was looking for something like this the other day.

 

[Katy88]

Exciting stuff! I've opened up my secret beach but if Redd is going to visit I think I'll make it hard to access again, it'll add to Redd's contraband vibe.

 

[SarahsNY]

While new features are great, I really don’t want to replan my entire town to accomadate them. I feel like Nintendo has really screwed us over by not having these major additions in the game to begin with.

 

[meggiewes]

I am not sold with the idea of farming in AC at all. However, I wasn't sold with the idea of changing your appearance in the mirror and I love it. So, we will wait and see what really happens.

 

[Feraligator]

Speaking of Earth Day, I recall their being a Nintendo Switch maintenance being scheduled for sometime today, with the topic of 'distribution of update data.'

I'm not entirely sure what Nintendo means by that, but it could be the Earth Day update?

Do you know around what time this update is? That's super exciting

 

[Shydragon]

One of my villagers recently mentioned Brewster, so I think that the cafe being added is legit! Can't wait!

 

[Vonny]

I believe this because besides crafting and island decorating the game feels bare bones compared to New Leaf and some of these were just basic features in previous games

 

[daisyy]

all i can say is thank god!! i'll probably have to re-do my shop area but i don't even care, it'll be worth it

 

[JKDOS]

Will farming/cooking have a usefulness? Maybe just eat for energy, or sell for bells?

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Do you know around what time this update is? That's super exciting

Sometime around or after 8PM Pacific today.

 

[Vex L'Cour]

This list does make me excited, but I have to imagine some might get dropped as the games life goes on. I love this idea that Redd is now a fully fledged pirate/smuggler.

 

[Shydragon]

Will farming/cooking have a usefulness? Maybe just eat for energy, or sell for bells?

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Sometime around or after 8PM Pacific today.

I think it'll be for crafting food/dish furniture, like the stewpot and such.

 

[nammie]

I saw this last night before bed and I'm so excited for all this!! It would also explain a lot of my complaints, like why doesnt a deserted island have bushes, why are there literally no food furniture when acnl had so many, etc.

Glad I've been barely terraforming too because I had a suspicion we would get more shops eventually!!

 

[udinafrog]

Just when I had started to terraform and decorate around the secret beach! It was going to be a special spot near my female villagers houses, but they will have to share it ocasionally with Redd it seems.

 

[0ni]

I hope this is all true. I especially love if you're really able to grow your own vegetables, since I'm trying to make my town a country themed one.

I am so excited about this part! I terraformed my island a whole bunch recently and have spaces I don't know what to use for yet - A veg garden would be so brilliant!

 

[trashpedia]

Can we get an F in the chat for everybody's decorated secret beaches who had no clue that one day that beach would have a purpose?

AC Reddit: This is my cute little secret beach that I decorated uwu

*Redd’s ship crashes into the beach and destroys everything*

Redd: SURPRISE M0THER****ER!! TIME TO BUY MY 100% LEGIT ORIGINAL ART!!!1!1!

 

[Blue Cup]

Well with the inclusion of pumpkins as a crop we can grow, it's safe to assume that we'll see a jack-o-lantern DIY recipe at some point.

 

[Saga]

I think that of these features, I'm most excited about potentially being able to farm and cook, just so I can have actual food items to display, instead of some janky cake-hat at my outdoor cafe. I hope we get the ability to cook lots of different things!

I'm not super happy about Redd coming to the secret beach. My beach is off to one side, and has three layers of cliffs in front of it, and my cliffs have two of my villagers' houses. I have literally no idea how on earth I could even begin to excavate everything and build a bunch of ramps down there - it would really mess up my island's look. Guess I'll just go back to carrying the ladder in my inventory.

I feel like our island might not be big enough for all the shops, etc. they want to add. I already feel like I'm running out of room as-is! That said, I'm suuuuper excited for the cafe to return, and a museum shop sounds really cool.

Also incredibly excited for the art section to come back! Less excited for gyroids, but I'll probably just end up selling them all, like I did in past games. Free money is free money!

 

[Foxxie]

I'm incredibly excited to see what comes from this info. I'm happy about all of it.

I'm also quite surprised that many people seem to be taken aback that new shops etc are being implemented, as it has been discussed here since launch, even if only speculatively? The game is only a few weeks old and we all *knew* that updates were going to bring new content. You don't need to have your island finished in four weeks and frankly I'm pleased that Nintendo are countering this by releasing the content in increments.