Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Dataminers Tease Nintendo’s Plans To Introduce a Massive 2.1 Update

Published 01/06/2022, 7:48 AM EST

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Nintendo entirely changed Animal Crossing: New Horizons with the 2.0 update. It introduced many beloved features from past titles like Brewster, the Roost, Kapp’n, Harv’s Plaza, and much more. Indeed, several players loved the 2.0 content, and some veterans even logged in back to experience the new content.

Unfortunately, Nintendo has already announced that it will not support ACNH after the 2.0 update. However, according to some recent data miners’ reports, developers might be planning to change their decision. Continue reading to find more about the data miners’ report.

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Nintendo plans for the 2.1 update in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

After introducing the 2.0 update, Nintendo has introduced four minor updates. All four updates are minor updates intentionally released to fix in-game glitches. Surprisingly, developers even added more features, items with the recent 2.0.4 update. Interestingly, according to some data miners’ reports, some of the 2.0.4 content was planned for the 2.1 update.

These include features like new Zodiac sign items, new spawn location of Gyroid fragments, and much more. Moreover, all these features were not introduced in the 2.0 update or mentioned in the patch notes before.

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Not to mention, the 2.1 update won’t be a minor update but will be a major update adding a lot of content. Hence, the only possible explanation that Nintendo didn’t introduce these features with the major update is because it’s unfinished.

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The 2.1 update was supposed to be released in December with the winter update. However, users only received the 2.0.4 update, which was intentionally released to fix in-game bugs. Thus, Nintendo wasn’t quite finished adding the thing it planned earlier before the holiday. Because of that, developers have to delay the release date of the update.

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In addition to that, it also proves why minor updates contain so much content other than bug fixes. Furthermore, it also suggests that more content might arrive in the future with the 2.1 update. Regardless, these are just speculations, so please believe it with a grain of salt.

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