Happy August, everyone!
Mathew here with a Quick News Roundup surrounding Animal Crossing: New Horizons since the v1.11
update.
So tonight marks the first Fireworks Festival of the year, along with the addition of 12
new food items available during the event, but we just might have something even bigger
to look forward to.
A recent datamine reveals some very interesting information that could point to the release
of a museum café, and the beloved barista, Brewster.
Nintendo has yet to announce such a plan officially, so we can only speculate as to what this could
mean.
Let’s get into it.
Animal Crossing fan site, DodoCodes.com, reports on these findings.
“CAFE!!!
Is Brewster's café finally coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
There is a new progress event called 'cNpcMemory:TalkProgressMuseumBuiltCafe'!
This could finally mean Brewster's Café IS COMING!
Camera settings for café were adding [added] in 1.10 and then modified slightly in this
1.11 update.
Data miner SuperSpazzy theorizes that the café will most likely be added as a room
off the main museum room.
[This would connect] IdrMuseumEnt03 and IdrMuseumCafe.”
So other than referencing NPC memory of the progress of café construction, we have code
from the previous update establishing the likely entrance leading to the café.
They go on to say that there are also “new event flows for messages related to the Cafe.
XctMessageCafe chooses from 4 random sayings related to cafe.”
This definitely seems to be more than just experimental code at this point, but rather
a game-wide setup for future implementation of the museum café.
With the potential release of the café, we most likely would see Brewster, who has been
running the café called The Roost ever since Wild World.
In that title and in City Folk—also known as Let’s Go to the City—Brewster and The
Roost were found within the museum, with New Leaf being the only main title having the
café built as a separate establishment.
However, New Leaf provided a reference point for what a new museum café could feature,
ranging from ordering and drinking coffee to helping serve different blends to customers.
But Brewster isn’t just known for his famous coffee.
He also has a fondness for Gyroids—that is, the vast assortment of clay Haniwa figures
known for various noises, shapes, and sizes, typically buried in the ground like fossils
to dig up.
In City Folk, Brewster would accept and store one of every Gyroid type found and give them
back at any time.
Could we even see these Gyroids appear with Brewster and the café in New Horizons?
It’s exciting to imagine!
The datamine reveals more than just hints to the anticipated café, though.
Some report that ApproachFortune contains fortune-based interactions when triggering
communications with an NPC.
It reveals these two interesting lines: “NNPC_ApproachH_FortuneFriendship” and “NNPC_ApproachH_FortuneItem”
Now, luck is in the game in the form of items that boost your Happy Home Academy score and
the cursed King Tut mask that causes you to trip outdoors, but no items exist yet that
impact interactions with the islanders.
Could these lines of code have anything to do with the Fortune Teller of past Animal
Crossing titles, Katrina?
This could very well be the case, but we’ll just have to wait and see.
For the time being, we now know that several items that Nintendo did not reveal in their
recent release posts will be available via Nook Stop over the next few months, as well
as new Halloween items and their DIY recipes in October.
We can see all of these, courtesy of AnimalCrossingWorld.com.
In the near future, we will be able to obtain the Marigold Decoration, Chitose Ame—‘Thousand-Year
Candy’ typically eaten in November for Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3), and six different Handheld Lanterns.
These are time-locked, so they will be available at a later date.
What can be accessed now—that is if you time travel to October—are the three new
Spooky items in Nook’s Cranny: the Spooky Treats Basket, Spooky Tree, and Spooky Trick
Lamp, which opens to reveal a cool Halloween scene.
DIY Recipes for them can be obtained by chance, by visiting animal villagers when they are
crafting in their homes during the month.
Alternatively, you can get these Spooky items from trading, such as through Nookazon.
I’ve had some really great trading experiences there.
Whew!
That’s it for what we know since the update hit on Friday.
It sure seems promising!
But what do you think?
Could this datamine mean we’ll be seeing features and characters that fans have been
requesting since the game’s launch?
And will this information drive you to play more of Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
Let us know in the comments below.
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