Disney Dreamlight Valley – Interlude before the Dapper Delights Update

While the developer update was shared last week, the patch notes only dropped today. I had been waiting for the latter to fully talk about my thoughts and share what I’ve been up to since my last post, but there is definitely a lot to look forward to and I have no idea what I’m going to focus on first. Earlier this month, we also received a roadmap as well so I will be touching upon that too.

So, while the Developer Update and Patch Notes are essentially a combined thing, let’s start off briefly with the Content Roadmap.

As we already know, the part of the update featuring Tiana’s addition, and the end of the Expansion will be on Wednesday. I’ll be getting to it more when we get to talking about the patch notes.

I know a lot of people seem a bit disappointed that October is just Timon & Pumbaa, but ignoring that we have had smaller updates before along with the fact that the two had been teased ages ago in a diary entry memory, they outright addressed this in the Valley Vignette talking about the roadmap:

Our October update will be smaller in scope and shorter, with a focus on fixes and quality of life improvements to make your game experience smoother and more enjoyable as we ramp up to a bigger update later in the year. But that doesn’t mean the update won’t have some exciting surprises and new content as well!

And honestly, I think that’s for the best. It’s hard to be excited for new stuff when I’m running out of space to even continue putting stuff in the first place. There’s definitely a lot more quality of life stuff I want to see in every part of the game. And thus, it should be unsurprising that this is probably what I’m most excited about:

We’ve also heard that your Valleys are getting a little, uh, crowded! We’re working on new, free features that will help to give you much more space and freedom to decorate.

I’m also very happy about the search bar.

As for the Road Map itself, I’m super interested in the “secrets” though, I hope the preview doesn’t mean it’s just a Nightmare Before Christmas thing…

With that said, now let’s go to the Patch Notes and previews we saw from the Developer video.

Tiana comes with a whole new restaurant which um, I’d like to be excited for, but with the space concerns I mentioned above, it’s hard for me to. I’m thinking of putting it in the Glade of Trust maybe for the whole Bayou vibe, but I genuinely don’t know. I’ll have to play around with it once it’s out on Wednesday.

I honestly don’t even know if I’m going to start with Tiana’s stuff or head over to Eternity Isle. I guess I’ll play it by ear.

Going back to the patch notes, obviously we have another Star Path and more Premium stuff. Excited to see more stuff for Scrooge’s Shop, but with how buggy the Collection menu is, I don’t even know what I may still be missing in the first place.

The new group photo furniture type seems nice, though, part of me liked having it just for special occasions. I just kind of wish we got a decorative version after more often.

As mentioned earlier, I am very excited about the search bar, but also the Favorites and Outfit Presets will just be so helpful. I tend to use a lot of certain items so being able to favorite them would be great, but I’m also excited to be able to have my usual outfit saved so I don’t need to keep going to my second floor and grabbing it from a mannequin.

The new item tag will also be super helpful rather than constantly having to scroll down to the bottom. I’m really happy about the new hold options for fishing and timebending. There’s honestly just a lot of really nice QoL features I’m excited to check out, but space will still be an issue for now.

With all that out of the way, let’s get to what I’ve been up to recently!

We were finally able to buy more of furniture fromt he Star Path so I was pretty excited about it.