Ninja, who recently shared a condition to get a 5-star rating in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Today, he shares some secrets about unreleased features in the game.

According to Ninji, he has been poking through the files and code for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which may hint at some upcoming features. Some of this might make it into the Earth Day update, some might change before release.

There’s entries for two extra museum upgrades

All three levels (after the tent) seem to contain an art section

There also seems to be two standalone buildings: the museum shop, and the museum cafe (which incorporates a Gyroid section)

Redd appears to have a ship which will dock on the ‘secret beach’ at the north of the island

That particular acre is called Nつねきち internally (つねきち is Redd’s Japanese name)

The ‘fake art’ mechanic is coming back

Bushes are coming back: azalea, hibiscus, holly, hydrangea, camellia, osmathus

Those might change; the list actually changed between 1.0.0 and 1.1.4

Vegetables that you can grow and pick: tomato, wheat, sugar cane, potato, carrot, pumpkin

1.0.0 has a file for a “Seafood” Critterpedia page that’s supposed to contain 33 items

The only one actually in the released game is the manila clam

There’s a 3rd Nook’s Cranny referenced, but no details on features or upgrade requirements

Diving will allow you to obtain fish (a different set from fishing) and seaweed

There’s a portion of the save file reserved to store them already

Unused shopping interfaces: ‘cGardening’, ‘cMuseum’ (possibly museum shop), ‘cRealEstate’, ‘cGallery’

These might not be full-fledged shops

This particular system includes Nook Miles redemption, bridge/slope type purchases and Kicks’s shoes, for example

The code that pops up a “select an item” box (to gift a villager, to sell, to swap a fish out for, etc) has a “cTunekichi” (Redd) option – possibly will be able to give him stuff

There’s a function that stores a ‘play report’ (Nintendo’s aggregate stats on game play) with three variants: get_recipe_diy, get_recipe_clothing, get_recipe_cooking

Only the diy one is actually ever used, so the other two might be in the plans

Some mentions of stuff here have been removed from 1.1 onwards; the list mentioning ‘FlowerBush’ and vegetable names has been modified to list ‘FlBu, V0, V1, V2, …’ instead, one mention of Redd’s shop has gone from ‘TsunekichiShop’ to ‘TShop’

‘TShop’ is in what seems to be a list of doors that buildings can have

Since 1.1 they’ve added ‘WOffice’ as well, which isn’t actually used yet, but might be something they’re working on

There’s a list of types for items where every type is used in the game, except for “Art” and “Dishes” (see below)

Keep in mind, it has not been officially confirmed for the game.