Animal Crossing Datamine Suggests One of the Community’s Most-Requested Features Could Still Arrive

A recent Animal Crossing: New Horizons datamine suggests that The Roost Cafe (and hopefully Brewster), one of the community’s most-requested features, could still arrive in the game during a future update. Needless to say, the fans are very excited.

Originally reported by Animal Crossing World, the version 1.11 patch for Animal Crossing: New Horizons contains some tweaks to lines of code that could suggest the addition of the cafe sooner rather than later.

According to the article, dataminers found code relating to a camera parameter change referenced as ‘IdrMuseumCafe’ back in version 1.10. However, additional lines of code have now seemingly been spotted reading ‘IdrMuseumEnt03’. Whilst not confirmed, this sounds like it likely relates to a third entrance to the Museum, which you could hope would lead into The Roost.

Elsewhere in the article, reports suggest that dataminers found the code reference ‘cNpcMemory:TalkProgressMuseumBuiltCafe’. Whilst it is again unclear as to exactly what this line of code means, it does contain the phrases NPC and MuseumBuiltCafe which are enough to give usome hope that we’ll be able to build a cafe into our museum.

The Roost cafe manager, Brewster, first made his appearance in Animal Crossing Wild World and has been a fan favourite within the Animal Crossing community ever since. While Animal Crossing: New Leaf made The Roost its own building, it’s usually been found attached to Blathers’ museum.

Rumblings of Brewster’s speculative return were not missed by fans across social media. The Animal Crossing Reddit page accurately summed up excitement levels right now with this simple but effective post:

The data additions come hot on the heels of Nintendo telling fans that it won’t stop updating the game anytime soon, which has led many to hope for some more meaningful changes to the game. Of course, as with all datamines, new code doesn’t necessarily mean new content – it could be putting ideas in place just in case Nintendo decides to add updates at a later date.

Over on Twitter, Brewster’s absence from Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been sorely noted. Whilst many fans are calling for the return of the Roost, one particular fan going by the username @iwantbrewster claims that they have taken to fully boycotting Animal Crossing: New Horizons until the barista is reunited with his adoring fans. Let’s hope it’s not too long before that boycott can be lifted.

it has been 355 days since i started boycotting acnh until brewster is added.

— alayna ?☕️ (@iwantbrewster) July 27, 2021

If you’re currently playing through Animal Crossing: New Horizons, why not check out our dedicated New Horizons wiki which contains a range of tips, tricks, and guides.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.