After months of waiting, Animal Crossing: New Horizons' 3.0 update has finally arrived, bringing with it a plethora of highly anticipated features to enjoy. While many of these additions are mechanics players have been requesting for over half a decade at this point, one simple quality-of-life feature still seems to have been painfully overlooked by Nintendo.
As Reddit user SamTheMarioMaster2 recently pointed out, New Horizons still doesn't have any form of durability tracker for its items, which can frustratingly leave you running across your island in need of a new tool. A durability tracker could help you save your hits or plan ahead before embarking on a new island renovation project, so it's easy to see why players think it would be "such a great feature in a future update or new game."
Item durability as a whole is easily one of the harshest realities of replaying Animal Crossing, especially given how much emphasis New Horizons tends to place on the mechanic by having it affect more tools than just the Axe in past games like Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
Speaking of New Leaf, users like Annuakitty also pointed out that even New Horizons' predecessor already has...
