 yeah your animal crossing island ain't the only thing getting bigger if you know what i mean all right let's look at what we have today we have a report on animal crossing new horizons now we have talked a little bit how there's been you know some rumors out there about potential dlc coming related to the zelda 35th anniversary uh obviously expected we did just recently get an animal crossing update to 1.1 that added a bunch of seasonal items for like the next um basically the next four mini holidays out there and all that okay fine but we haven't really had a major addition to animal crossing new horizons since i guess they added the swimming and diving to the game so it's been kind of a a dry spell since then and animal crossing fans have been a little upset that we've just been getting these minor yearly seasonal update kind of things which are nice the events are nice the furniture is cool but like where when are we gonna get the next major feature when are we gonna get the next major change well data miners have gone through the latest update to version 1.1 and one significant change was made and that change has to do with potentially the size of your island or the islands you visit or just other just other areas of the game in general potentially getting bigger so this data mine came from acnh 1.1 and i got all this information from a youtuber called i think mayor mori i'll put a link down to his video on this full credit to him for reporting on this and giving all the details because we're going to talk about what this means why this might mean that your island is expanding what those expansions could be or maybe other partner islands are expanding or what this means on the opposite end if you want to think hey look this is much to do about nothing we're going to cover all of our bases here we're not gonna leave anything out there and you guys can decide for yourselves so first off data miners uncovered this change in a following baseline for the southern shore of the island so it said m south shore baseline dot f 32 colon 500 dot 000 000 and it was changed in version 1.1 to m south shore baseline dot f 32 colon 1000 dot 000 000 that's right they doubled the size of this value now this value relates not only to how big the shoreline can be it also relates to the camera angle itself because this change was actually found inside the camera setting and the camera setting limits how far out you're able to look obviously the game always looks like the sea goes on forever but that's clearly not the case and the game limits you so what people are speculating here is that the game might be slowly being set up for a bigger update in the future that's going to allow you to either expand your island uh you could also be having a smaller second island off the southern shoreline or it could just make the sea area bigger where you're able to go deep sea diving uh and swim further and discover new things that aren't as close to the shore so those are some of the speculations that are out there and I gotta say this would be a pretty big addition because well a lot of people are perfectly happy with the size of the island we've seen bigger areas and animal crossing before so being able to have an even bigger island would be great it's also notable that the setting is in the camera setting which applies to the entire game meaning that hey when you go visit islands it's possible those islands could be bigger too and I think all of us can agree the islands you visit uh not not your friends islands but you know the islands in the normal flight to the game could be uh a bigger deal right you could be bigger that they all seem to be kind of small and compact it would be nice to have some bigger islands and a setting like this could allow that to be the case as well so again this is a major sign of a massive significant change coming to animal crossing new horizons however we need to go on the flip side here and look at why this might not be a big deal now seasoned data miners actually dig even further into this apparently and realize this chain was made in the setting for the camera as we already talked about but that that's inaccessible to the public this change so like it doesn't really you're not going to notice any change in the game this has made people theorize that obviously this setting has just been for testing purposes of course why would they leave that setting in the game but it goes even deeper than that the reason this is believed is because the main island area already has this setting set for that's right the southern shoreline island area was already set to 1000 the south shore is already set to 1000 and now the camera just matches it again you're not going to notice any difference in the game but not all the southern shorelines on every island in the game are set to 1000 that's still a thing that wasn't really talked about much but I did some digging into the data mine itself and it looks like yeah yeah to be honest all the islands you go visit that this camera setting also applies to their shorelines aren't set to 1000 they're set to 250 they're set to 500 so yeah this obviously could mean those islands are expanding eventually so there's a lot to digest here just in terms of the possibilities of island expansion either on your island or other islands obviously it looks like this might not be island expansion on your island but it could be island expansion on other islands this is just a lot of a lot the process here data miners are not necessarily what you would call rumors what data miners do is they kind of create speculation because they're looking at what's factually there this is a factual change in the code base we know it happened we aren't sure why it happened so now it's just a bunch of speculation to go along with it because again there's camera change yeah okay it lines up with your island but now all the islands have it so why when you the islands are big enough to use it right so we'll see what happens again it could just be for testing it could be that you know what they're just setting the game up slowly to add things again remember they added bluetooth capability to the switch in the in the last update that enables you to use bluetooth headphones but we still can't use bluetooth headphones right they added the capability but they didn't enable it right so uh hackers have gone ahead and hacked the switch and shown that hey now that this is there you can actually enable bluetooth headphones and they're showing it working on hacked versions of switches but nintendo doesn't have it enabled so this could be one of those things that is setting up a bigger future update and i think a lot of people this game is still 33 million units 33 million in like a year i obviously think that nintendo is well aware is well aware that it is do a significant content update at some point whether it's paid or not right we would hope it's not paid dlc but even if it is it's do a significant update a significant expansion but we also got to give them time i think one thing that fans aren't being fair to the animal crossing new horizons team about is that this game launched in them at the very beginning of a worldwide pandemic okay look at all the games getting delayed just factually look at all the games getting delayed and now consider that this game came out when the pandemic started that means the entire animal crossing new horizons team has been trying to add content during a pandemic so major content you know is going to take longer so we need to be more patient guys given another year sometime in the next year i'm sure we will have at least one major content patch again be forgiving guys we're all dealing with this pandemic in different ways all right folks anyways i'm the thing about just from the nintendo pride hopefully you like this video if you do drop a like subscribe to the channel be sure to tune in for all e3 festivities we have 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