The anticipation surrounding the latest *Animal Crossing: New Horizons* content drop—the upcoming 3.0 update—is successfully driving long-absent players back to their neglected islands. One player, known as Mushy, recently logged back in after years away, fully prepared to deal with the expected infestation of weeds and cockroaches. However, the biggest shock wasn’t the island decay; it was a deeply specific, bizarre memory triggered by her ex-partner’s in-game residence.
Upon checking her ex-partner’s assigned room, Mushy was met with a stark, unsettling design: a fully realized jail cell. The room, complete with jail bars, thematic wallpaper, and a solitary toilet, functioned as a peculiar time capsule of their shared past. Mushy explained to GameSpot that her ex had a “weird sense of humor” and immediately sought to create the punitive space after discovering the requisite decorative items in the game.
The surreal discovery brought back an important, forgotten detail—Mushy realized she had actually helped gather the supplies for the makeshift prison shortly after *New Horizons* launched in March 2020. She hadn’t remembered participating in the project until she returned to prepare her digital space for the new content coming in the 3.0 update on January 15th. The incident highlights that when revisiting shared island saves, players might encounter more than just weeds; they might find a deeply buried, awkward blast from the past.