New Animal Crossing: New Horizons Datamine Uncovers Exciting Potential Future Additions

I'd love a farming update to the game. That'd be super cool! I hope with it, they add another shop upgrade with more expensive items and more noom miles rewards. I have more money than I will ever need. Lol

But farming would be super cool! Maybe a green house?

" New ‘VgtTomato’, ‘VgtWheat’, ‘VgtSugarCane’, ‘VgtPotato’, ‘VgtCarrot’, ‘VgtSquash’ map Fg items

• New bush type (Plumeria)"

Oh gosh...!! 😮😮😮
Farming frenzy ! 😀
If that true, i will prepare some spot to make my own farm.
I think i already have vacant spot for my farm.

@Heavyarms55,

A green house sounds a very good idea, and farming would ba a good fit for the game.

I'm going to go against popular opinion here and say I'm not really interested in farming in Animal Crossing. My biggest problem with all the various Animal Crossing-like games that have come out over the years is that so many of them seem to have such a big focus on farming. I realize at their core Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing are very similar games, but in practice they've very different experiences.

Animal Crossing is hobbies, farming is chores.

I thought these were uncovered months ago? Guess they've added more files for it.

Maybe we'll have to grow vegetables for the harvest festival? They seem like things that Franklin would put in a stew

@BooJoh
But harvesting the fruits is already a chore.
You get money from selling fruits, same as Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons.
I planted tons of non native fruits to get a lot of money especially for building the bridges / inclines or buying very expensive stuffs. Harvesting non native fruits every 3 days is my chores on ACNH.
Farming addition is very welcome and it will make the island lively.
Even on other games like Dragon Quest Builders 2, it has crops, vegetables, farm animals and literally you can build your "Harvest Moon" style sandbox game from DQB2.

@RupeeClock
I doubt Franklin will return as we get C.J aka Justin Beaver (I love this name) and Flick instead of Chip and Nat.
I would like to see younger version of Franklin same as Daisy Mae as replacement of Joan.

@Anti-Matter The difference with fruits is that - in most games - crops have to be watered every day or they won't grow properly. In Animal Crossing once you've planted some of each type of fruit tree you can ignore them and just go pick fruit whenever you need some extra money (I prefer fishing myself.)

In DQB2 I did the bare minimum of farming and automated the process as soon as possible because I'm just not a fan of maintaining crops in games.

The fact that I don't have to worry about my flowers wilting and dying in ACNH has been a great relief to me.

We already knew about the vegetable, farming stuff ages ago as they've been in the games code through at least the last few updates. Not sure what's new at all here that was worth mentioning.

I would be okay with these additions, even though I don't expect them to happen.

@BooJoh I'm sure they will implement farming in their own way, so that it doesn't feel like a chore. It will probably be like growing flowers, only that you have to farm on the right season.

@Anti-Matter I mean they’ve already show. Franklin, he’s coming

Natsume called, they want their Harvest Moon title back.

@Anti-Matter Franklin will be back. All of the Holiday related NPCs have remained the same. They've already showed his face, along with Jack's and Jingle's when talking about Holiday events. Franklin is the man! I can't stand the thought of replacement! If he was replaced... we know why... ☹

wooowwww I would love that! I also would like to be able to explore huge deserted islands with friends. Something that feels like a multiplayer dungeon crawler. That would be tons of fun!!!!!!

I'd like farming and cooking as options yes. Would really push the game on further. It's already a brilliant pass time game.

Farming would maker lief actually important. Most of these vegetables seem very fallesque so I have a feeling they will change what you can grow depending on what time of year it is.

@Heavyarms55 I hear you on the money front! Surely what would be good would be to be able to keep adding to your house until its a mansion! Some new shops wouldn't go amiss. So much potential!

What's the point? We have fruit for money and you don't need to eat? This just seems like wasted development to me. I'd much rather have more buildings / stuff to collect than create a farming plot.

At the very least I hope we get a greenhouse we can place and you farm exclusively inside it because I'd rather not have to dedicate a part of my island to become a farm.

I just hope they don't limit the variety of vegetables you can have without having an online subscription or lacking a friend who owns a switch like they did with the fruits

@RupeeClock
So, if Franklin is coming back, it will be early autumn, so as to "grow" your veggies for thanksgiving/harvest?
And is anyone else eager to learn that sowing is coming? I mean, the Happy Home Academy gives you a sowing machine as one of your first gifts, so...
@VexingInsanity @Heavyarms55 a greenhouse would actually be really cool

@Folkloner
We had some reference of farming, but this one update gave us actual info on what to expect (like the vegetables) and sewing is new as well.

I sort of like the cooking idea, even if I never used it on Stardew Valley lol

@BooJoh I assume Animal Crossing will implement farming in its own way. Most likely similar to growing fruit, with use of the term farming just being for semantics sake.

But in the interest of fairness, a lot of what we already do in Animal Crossing is chore-like anyways. Though to also be fair, I can't speak to how anything is done in other games, with probably the exception of Stardew Valley. I do agree its nice to not have to worry about flowers or trees dying in AC.

Personally, I am looking forward to the ideas of cooking and sewing and will be interested to see how those mechanics are approached

@Anti-Matter I saw the rumor of this a while back and have kept a large chunk of land open for it. Hopefully farming isn't too time intensive.

@VexingInsanity
"We have fruit for money and you don't need to eat?"

Eating fruits on ACNH is required for breaking the rock stones and scooping out the whole tree. 1 fruit = 1 Action.

Farming simulator is quaking in its boots.

When/if this comes, the scarecrow finally has a job

@BooJoh maybe instead of having a farm, you'll just have a little garden to tend to.

@Anti-Matter But you don't need to eat per se. You can but it's situational, not like minecraft hunger. And as you just pointed out we can eat fruit.
I can see the appeal to some but to me this whole task seems a bit meaningless. Why take the effort to prepare a meal if I can just nibble on the hundreds of fruit I have growing on my island?

@RPGamer We definitely need more uses for currency. Bells? maybe there's just enough but I'd like some more big projects like the home loan as I don't feel like there's anything expensive to save up for now I've paid it off.

Nook miles though. I have 110k and nothing to spend them on.

I've got pears and oranges. Anyone wanna trade?

Man, the island is already too small... if I need to build a farm... good gracious... haha.

I mean those would make sense for the fall, a sort of harvest/halloween update.

@VexingInsanity
This is Animal Crossing, not Minecraft.
They are completely different games.
Don't expect Animal Crossing should be like Minecraft or vice versa.

I wonder if they are going to add on additional land for the islands. I doubt it, but when you see some of these islands, they are full to the max already. How is anyone going to add a farm in? Plus if they plan on new buildings later on (yes, please and thank you) there would need to be room for that.

Gardening and cooking would be really cool. Really hope these come to fruition during the fall update.

@Madlena was thinking the same thing, my island is packed already, and I don't feel like giving up on anything i've build 😒

@Anti-Matter I'm not expecting them to be the same?
I just said you don't need to eat, you can eat but it is not a necessity like a survival game. Therefore I don't understand why I would prepare a meal in Animal crossing if I don't need to. I can just eat fruit which grow everywhere and I can selll fruit which grow everywhere

A great Boooo to the Datamines articles. They should not appear on a site like this. They promote illegal practices.

@Cosats Since when is data mining illegal?

@Cosats
A little bit spoiler of ACNH was sounds very exciting for me.
You don't like, DO NOT click or post any comments.
Do Not even ask Nintendolife staffs to not publish this news.

Hopefully this is paid for DLC,I don't mind paying for additional content.

@BooJoh I agree. I have no interest in farming in animal crossing but I did love it in rune factory. I just dont see much purpose in farming and cooking in AC. It will take up a lot more space too I'm sure.

@RPGamer Lief would be an idea, but I kinda like his thing as a travelling seed salesman. Maybe the greenhouse could be monitored by a new character, his brother or sister perhaps, or a friend or rival or his. A rival might be interesting, they could have them always arguing over who has the better seeds.