able to put together food items to make new meals. In the Animal Crossing Items Animal Crossing Direct, Nintendo showed sandwiches, smoothies, soups, and pasta — among plenty more new cooked food items. In essence, New Horizons is now a full-fledged farming and cooking simulator.
A major update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons is scheduled for Nov. 5, 2021 — and if you haven’t already returned to your island in anticipation of the launch, now’s the time. With so much new content arriving on our shores, there’s probably some work you’ll want to do before it washes up.
Though New Horizons’ popularity initially after launch was unprecedented — and stayed that way for months — people did eventually move on to other things. For some of us, it’s been more than a year since we’ve last checked in on our islands. The place is overgrown with weeds. Flowers are spilling over into walkways. No one’s thought to pick up the lolga.com sticks. There are cockroaches in my home. But, personally, it’s more than that. I got a little chaotic in my last months before I signed off. I tightly packed all my villagers’ houses into a small corner of the island, and turned a fourth of the place into a giant yellow flower field. It’s beautiful, yes. But do I have enough space to create a farm in which I grow and cook my own food? Absolutely not.
