As mentioned in my last DDLV post, I had a feeling this quest was hinting at Stitch after finding the first pile of socks on the Beach and was very much right. Last Sunday, 5 days after I found the first pile of socks, I stumbled upon another in the Meadows, this time belonging to Goofy.

After helping clear out Goofy’s house, a new clue was found: Some blue fur! So, I brought it over to Donald to scan into the device and despite his protests, there absolutely is a Blue Raccoon.

Considering the matching 33% up (making it now 66%), I figured it’d be another five days until the next part and well, as you can tell from the date of this post, I was right!

Today (Friday, the 16th), I found another sock. This time, in the Forest of Valor. You can also find my playthrough of everything I mention here over on Youtube!

Unlike the last two times where we were told pretty quickly whose sock it was, this time had to ask around. I decided to go in order and started with Kristoff. Despite him making it pretty clear it belonged to Merlin, I headed to Mickey next which gave some interesting dialogue… He mentioned how the socks were made by someone.

Initially, I thought he meant us as I don’t think Mickey fully remembers we’re the Ruler yet… Especially when he says “she” next, but I recalled the game didn’t ask us for pronouns, so he was likely talking about someone else and a few female Disney characters quickly jumped to mind.

Making my way to Merlin next, the sock was indeed his and he dropped more information on us.

What I find interesting is his use of conjured which makes me think it has to be a magical character… A Magical character who would make socks… Fairy Godmother was the first to come to mind, but I suppose some others may fit the bill too.

After clearing out the mess in Merlin’s house, we had our final piece of evidence which also got the Beacon to 100%.

Placing it caused Stitch to crash his ship right on the beach… But at least he was okay. I do hope Lilo won’t be too far behind though… I always feel a little sad when they’re not together.

Stitch is another character who essentially managed to escape the Forgetting and mostly seems to remember his memories. To make up for his ship crashing, we made him a very nice new house.

It was then onto Friendship leveling! After giving favorite items, I kept giving him flowers until level 10. If you’re wondering why I didn’t do the questlines in-between like I usually do though, it’s because Stitch’s had a hidden requirement right off the bat. Thankfully, it didn’t take me too long to find it after seeing this sign of Donald all messed up:

There are two other signs you need to find like it for the quest after activating it– one by the entrance to the Glade of Trust from Peaceful Meadows and one by the Stairs down to the Beach.

After finishing this, it was another hidden requirement needed… This time, I found a Coffee Cup near WALL-E’s garden (do not let the screenshot fool you– this is near where mine is, but the quest very much makes it clear it’s by wherever the Garden you let WALL-E take care of is) alongside a bunch of wheat and soil.

If you don’t see it, try relogging! Or going in a house and back out. Considering the last quest was in Peaceful Meadows as well, if you’re doing them back-to-back like I did, it may not show up immediately.

Stitch explained he messed up the Garden because he wanted Coffee to stay awake and was trying to find some. And while I am not a coffee drinker (Tea is better), I do 100000% agree with this sentiment:

Thanks to WALL-E’s help, we were able to save the Coffee Bean plant. And it grew into a very cute bush (the bushes that grow in the Glade after are around the same size as the Blueberry and Raspberry bushes).

We even managed to get 3 Coffee Beans which is just enough for each of the recipes! Stitch said to talk to Remy about how to make the Coffee, so it was over to talk to him. I did run into a little bug here, but a reset worked out and I was able to continue no problem.

One nice thing is you can ask Remy about how to make the other Coffee Drinks as well and he essentially confirmed what I figured all along:

• Coffee Bean = Coffee
• Coffee Bean + Milk = Latte
• Coffee Bean + Milk + Cocoa Bean = Mocha

It’s nice having various collections complete again!

The next quest didn’t have any hidden objectives, so it was a bit more relaxing. We just had to fix his TV, but I also had to change my outfit to be more of an “Adventurer”. A Princess can absolutely adventure in her Princess Dress, Stitch!!

There was then only one quest left… But it didn’t unlock. I have Stitch at level 10 and there’s no other objectives mentioned under the Quest. If it’s the case like Minnie’s and WALL-E’s, I wouldn’t think it’d be in the Quest List at all and if it had a hidden objective or any additional objectives, it’d say that… So, it’s very odd, but regardless, I think it must be bugged in some way and I just hope it’s fixed soon.

It’s possible it could require an extra day, maybe? I don’t know, we’ll just have to wait and see. For now, I did everything I could! Until the Holiday event starts (Still thinking sometime this upcoming week) and this gets fixed, there’s not much else to do right now… But I’ll update this as soon as I can do Stitch’s level 10 Quest.

As for the Holiday Event, that will get its own post!

Edit for December 17th: Stitch’s Level 10 Quest did unlock today! Essentially, we’re getting a band together and I regret not talking to Merlin as well before talking to Kristoff just for the dialogue/lore. It should’ve dawned on me that would end the objective, especially as Stitch heavily hints that Prince Eric and Kristoff will be the band members (a very royal band crew), but I just ran into them immediately after Remy and didn’t think about it.

I did have to remake the Photo Backdrop for the quest, but thankfully I still had the materials. I also always really like when we do a quest in the Castle. I feel like the Castle doesn’t get enough love. Make sure you use the full camera mode and not the selfie close-up mode for the picture as Stitch has to be at the Backdrop for it to count and he’ll move if you’re in the initial Selfie mode.

Unfortunately, it’s another day wait before the next part unlocks which I’m kind of bummed about. Especially as it’ll overlap with what’s likely the start of the Holiday event… so I guess stay tuned to a new entry with both tomorrow.

I have mixed feelings on the gating with some of the quests and specific hours as the game is generally really flexible with time-stuff that it stands out. I get that part of it is it won’t feel as much for people when the game is fully out and they are doing everything together, but I think letting people play at the pace they’d prefer, especially as someone who has days where maybe I can play 12+ hours and other days I can only do like 5 minutes, is just much better accessibility-wise and really doesn’t take away from anyone.

I’ve been looking forward to this update for so long and seeing that trailer and preview image, it looks like Stitch may be here too besides just the Toy Story characters. As a note, despite this entry being finished up today (the 7th), I did play through yesterday on release! It’s actually part of why this entry is a day late– I played essentially all day, partially due to some unluckiness with a few things I’ll explain later in the entry.

Before I made my way to the Castle for the new Toy Story realm, being the Collection-minded person I am, I had to try and make the new recipes first and thankfully, they made more sense than some of the past recipes we had to figure out.

• Minnie’s Gingerbread Cookies – Ginger, Wheat
• Gingerbread House – Ginger, Eggs, Wheat, Vanilla, Sugarcane
• Hot Cocoa – Sugarcane, Cocoa, Milk
• Fruitcake – Wheat, Any 3 Fruits (I personally did Apple, Raspberry, and Gooseberry)
• Yule Log – Wheat, Cocoa, Vanilla, Cherry
• Boba Tea – Milk and Sugarcane
• Coconut Boba Tea – Milk, Sugarcane, Coconut
• Gooseberry Boba Tea – Milk, Sugarcane, Gooseberry
• Mint Boba Tea – Milk, Sugarcane, Mint
• Raspberry Boba Tea – Milk, Sugarcane, Raspberry

You’ll notice that three items aren’t there yet though: Coffee, Latte, and Mocha, all which require a new ingredient: Coffee Beans. Having finished all the new quests now, I’m also in the “This will probably be gotten through Stitch somehow” group so it’s going to probably be a while as they flat out say it’ll be at least a few days until the next part of the Stitch quest which… kind of stinks. I would say my biggest worry is missing out on a step because I didn’t realize I COULD do another step yet.

Regardless, I really love a lot of the new recipes and decorated with some immediately.

I also took the time to craft some of the new Festive items as well. Sadly, couldn’t really fit the tree in my main room though… The Yule Goat could probably be placed nicer too.

Before making my way to the Realm, I did notice I had a new quest with Merlin and thinking it could possibly be a requisite to opening the new door, I made my way there first. Alas, it was only for various enhancement potions similar to the Watering Can one we got during the last part of the Story. I mostly have mixed feelings on them as honestly, the drop rates for a lot of the other stuff just… kind of sucks. It’s one thing with the Watering which just cuts out the waiting time (which is thankfully better than most other games with farming anyway), but needing the enhancements to make drops not suck makes it feel like you constantly need them. At least it helps the Star Path go faster… I’ll also say that the Fishing Rod when enhanced looks really pretty, though unless you need tons of the Gold pool fish, it doesn’t feel especially helpful.

I also am just… not fond of more items that you just get randomly when doing a specific thing– Rich Soil was kind of annoying and now Red Algae and Onyx too… The only real positive here is that once I do FINALLY get one, they seem to start showing up more, but still was annoying farming them. My crystal collection grows though.

With that done, it was time to make my way over to the Castle and finally unlock the Toy Story Realm.

Even if I wasn’t surprised, I was a little sad it was Bonnie’s room. I have nothing against Bonnie, but having only seen Toy Story 1 and 2 (specifically because I don’t like the message at the end of 3), part of me still hoped to see Andy’s. Despite that, it was still really neat and probably one of my favorite Realm designs so far. I also loved how much we really got to do between puzzles and even going back and forth with other Realms as well through Buzz’s and Woody’s friendship storylines.

I also loved these Cacti. They were so cute with their little faces.

I know people were having trouble finding the “blueprints” you needed to take photos of, so if you were having that issue, here’s all four you need to take photos of:

With the first chunk done, it was time to move Buzz in. His house was a lot smaller than I expected it to be… and also an RV I guess, but it was kind of a relief because I’m still struggling with placing things. It’s honestly really cute though.

The dialogue when you get back to the Valley with Buzz is really great. Also great: Our uniform.

While working on Buzz’s friendship quests, I also stumbled upon a suspicious pile of wet socks on the Beach that unlocked a new quest with Donald and very much seems to be hinting at Stitch. Considering he’s already on the friendship list and the trailer, it definitely feels like this is the way to unlock him.

Since I had to get back to Bonnie’s Room anyway, I also continued the Realm quest to get Woody moved back in. I really love the Farm. Would place in my own Valley. The Origami animals were one of the first things I noticed so it was very easy to find them all.

With that, Woody moved in and I always get kind of emotional whenever there is dialogue about us being the original Ruler and all. I still have so many questions about what happened!!

Unlike Buzz’s house, Woody’s Carousel was MUCH bigger and quite in the need of some work… I thought maybe it’d work like how we had to upgrade/fix Remy’s restaurant, but instead, fixing it up was mostly through Woody’s story quest. Though… I think it could still be upgraded a bit, but it definitely looks a lot better from how it started.

I wish we got to keep one of the cute Space Aliens though…

Regardless, with Woody and Buzz moved in, it meant it was finally time to get Minnie’s and WALL-E’s level 10 Quests done. Minnie’s, thankfully, unlocked right away and while finding the leftovers of the banner was annoying (it really blends in with the Glade of Trust’s glow) and I… clearly did not place the banner well, it was still very cute.

Also in my usual fashion, I still suck at taking pictures with the photospot items… I also hate that we never get to keep them T~T At least we got the Blanket fort this time… I love blanket forts.

There’s just too many nice quest-exclusive items. I loved Ariel’s music box so much too.

It took me several hours to finally get the memory to unlock for WALL-E’s level 10 Quest to unlock. I personally got it from night thorns, but it seems any memory earning activity could lead to it. Just need to hope for good RNG. It was very cute and very short and another lovely quest only item lost, but I’m just glad to have it done.

As for non-quest related things… First, the Star Path: It features a lot of new quests this time and outside of the annoying Kingfish quest (partially due to their rarity combined with them only showing up at Night), I feel like it was a lot more relaxing which was nice. I loved the new Fireplace and of course the new Critter was the first thing I bought.

I’m nearly done with it. I would’ve finished today, but Donald asked for one of the Festive Fish yesterday so I’m one favorite gift short to finish.

Meanwhile, just… in our inventory is this frame we can rotate Memories we’ve gotten through which is nice. I set it up along with some cute Castle photos I’ve gotten. I just wish memory getting wasn’t so slow. It feels like it’s been improved to some extent as yesterday were the most memories I got in a day since the start, but it’s still so slow and getting repeats sucks.

There were also new Event Tasks under “Village” like Halloween ones were around last year. I was able to complete 3/5:
Cookie Taste Test – Eat one of each type of cookie.
A Home for the Holidays – Place 5 Holiday-themed items in your house
Do You Wanna Build a Snowman? – Place a Snowman outside (craft it if you haven’t yet). You can move one you already have out too or just… put it back and place it again.

“Even Fish are Festive!” will probably require you to catch one of each of the Festive Fish, but I don’t believe they are available yet. “Ho! Ho! Ho!” is probably tied to a mini event like Halloween. I would guess the Festive Fish will be available around that same time so just need to wait it out for now…

Considering the Halloween event started a week before Halloween, I’m expecting this event to start a week before Christmas so probably like the 18th? I guess we’ll see closer to then at least…

While I know some people managed to grow their Orb faster, besides the fact that it was a method not recommended as it could cause bugs, my Orb never actually dried out thus far. It’s been raining near constantly in my game which has meant I’ve had to wait.

In the meantime, as mentioned on the edit of my last post, I worked on the special Halloween tasks (though, am still waiting to take care of that last one) and also have been going hard on Star Path tasks. I only have one left now: Catch 30 Fish in Sunlit Plateau which, obviously, also requires me to wait for the Orb of Nurturing to finish.

Despite this slight setback, I did, at least, finally manage to get this item in my Scrooge’s shop:

The bathroom is definitely the worst room on the first floor right now…

Regardless, finally, Friday night, my Orb was finally ready to be harvested. It’s so pretty and I love all the flowers around it.

Initially, I planned to set up all of the Orbs around the Plaza, but honestly, it’s going to be very hard to resist putting this one wherever my character’s house ends up being…

I was surprised though that the quest essentially ended right after this. I guess it makes sense, but for some reason I thought there would be more. Regardless, it was onto Scar’s Friendship Quests now. Since he was already level 10, I was able to more or less barrel through them.

The coat is definitely not my thing, but I was very happy to finally get my shovel upgraded to break all those bones. It’ll definitely be easier to go around versus having to go through the Forgotten Lands to get to the other side.

I was a bit nervous about finding the Bones for the next Shovel upgrade, but Mother Gothel’s instructions were actually helpful. The flower was so pretty– I kind of wish we could keep one.

After breaking some bones across the bridge and showing Scar the meaning of friendship, we finally got his precious heirloom which I find very suspicious for things to come…

I will say of all the Villain friendship quests so far; I do think Scar had the most friendship character development.

To finish off this entry, with a week left until Halloween, it was finally possible to complete A 3-Course Halloween Meal which was my final Halloween task. After finding one of each bucket and eating each of their respective candies (Red, Purple, and Green), that let me complete the task!

They seem to only spawn in the Plaza at least, but only a certain amount at a time until you need so check back later, so I got lucky getting at least two of each candy color right away.

So, our first big content update is here and it continues the main story! Immediately upon loading the game up, I was hit with a cutscene showing the Sunlit Plateau ending up in much rougher shape and certain things even being moved. Before I headed over there though, I was very excited because I knew one of the fixes finally let me put the lovely Cheese Platter on the table.

It was then time to go see Scar as his house had been finally freed.

I then did various things such as working on Star Path tasks, giving Scar his favorite items to level him up, stopping by Scrooge’s shop, though, I didn’t see anything new, and best of all, finally getting to feed the Ravens! Their favorite food is 5 Star Meals.

With those things done, I finally headed to the mine with Scar to figure out what was blocking the water.

Finishing the quest taught me the Root Beer recipe (If you need help for the Extra Fizzy Root Beer, use the Dry Ginger you get instead of normal ginger plus sugarcane and vanilla) so I added that as well. The waterfall is so pretty too. The Root Beer Explosion made me think of Toon Town Online.

After we left, there was someone very suspicious. You can tell it’s evil me because I would never wear that.

Following them through the portal essentially brought us to an Evil version of Dreamlight Valley. Dreamdark Valley? Nightmaredark Valley? Darknight Valley? Sadly, they got away, but we did get the Orb of Nurturing which was unfortunately not looking too great.

According to Merlin, despite our Forgetting Doppelganger, this wasn’t our fault and to restore the Orb of Nurturing, we needed to plant it.

So now I’m just waiting for it to finish growing and I hope it’ll be done before I have to leave on Friday…

As for the Star Path, it should be no surprise that the first thing I bought was this cute Raccoon. Spooky stuff isn’t really my jam so I barely want anything from this Star Path, but I’ll still be doing my best to get everything for Collection Purposes.

Speaking of Collection purposes, the Collection is currently bugged which is driving me nuts. Many of the new items aren’t properly checking off when you get them and it’s definitely making me a bit stir crazy. I’m really hoping this will be fixed soon.

One thing I was sad to see wasn’t actually intended in the game though was that you can no longer buy crafted items from Scrooge. As many of you may know, I hate crafting. I don’t enjoy it in games and ACNH making it so some items could only be crafted was a huge detriment of the game for me. This game having it so you could always buy more after crafting once genuinely was so nice and I thought it was an actual feature so people could pick which they prefer. I really hope they reconsider this change as I know it was a huge quality of life boon for not just me, but for many of my friends who got fed up with New Horizons for similar reasons.

On the bright side, they did fix it so you can order items that you own without having to have at least one not placed which I’m really happy about. I don’t really like constantly having to pick stuff up temporarily so I’m glad that was fixed.

While I had no luck finding new seasonal stuff at Scrooge’s, I at least made sure to make the new crafting recipes.

Finally, I noticed Merlin, Goofy, and Mickey had new interior designs! They look really nice.

The only other goal I really managed to do, besides doing as much of the Star Path as I could before getting stuck with only tasks that require me to wait a day or two (I will say my leaving night thorns around came in handy though), was get Scar to level 10. Unfortunately, I can’t do his friendship task until the story quest is done and the Sunlit Plateau is fixed so here’s hoping the Orb of Nurturing is ready to be harvested very soon…

Edit: Turns out there was one last thing I could do– I had missed some new seasonal tasks under the “Village” section of Dreamlight which would give you special items upon completion. I just have “A 3-Course Halloween Meal!” left to complete now and apparently, it’s not possible to do yet… Hope we’ll figure it out soon enough.

So, while I’ve finished most of my main goals to the best of my ability, I’m still logging in each day to do some random things. With the Scar update on the horizon (and with a date!! Next Wednesday!), I wanted to make a post talking about what I’ve been doing since my last update and up until that new patch hits. While I don’t expect too much happening after I make this post, any small things that do will be added on and then you can expect my usual journal entries once the Scar update hits!

The short version of this post is that I’ve mainly been focusing on buying out Scrooge’s Shop, trying to get more memories, and working on completing Dreamlight Tasks.

You’ll notice that Exterior Decorating is not on there so if that’s what you’re hoping for from this post, or even extended Interior Decorating, unfortunately that won’t really be happening just yet. I only find my inspiration when I know everything that can currently be gotten and I’m not even halfway through that furniture collection— I’ve had awful luck with my Scrooge store and there’s a lot of items I’ve seen others get that I am still impatiently waiting for.

Also knowing that there will likely be more characters to move in, I can’t help but want to just keep things more open right now. I do have SOME ideas and maybe even after the Scar or Toy Story update, I’ll consider doing a bit more clean-up and even finally doing the big Peaceful Meadow Revamp I’ve wanted to do since before the game launched, but right now, I’m mainly taking it easy on that front until I manage to unlock more of, well, everything.

With that out of the way, let’s talk about what has happened since my last post a month ago. Despite finishing most “bigger” goals, I’ve actually still been playing every single day.

Despite my lack of luck on some items, I’ve actually gotten several I’ve been really excited for. The round pool was a bit too big to replace the regular pool there, but I hope I can find a nice place to put it eventually.

And while I haven’t done much decorating overall, I’ve been making more improvements to the “bedroom” and main room.

I also finally got the top I really liked from the ADT so now I have my full secondary outfit too!

I also seemed to have unlocked all the Motifs, or at least I’m assuming since Critters haven’t given me a new motif bag in weeks, so I added a few extra details to my custom design dress:

As mentioned earlier, I have been trying really hard to work on Memories, but honestly, I just have really rotten luck. About the only memories I managed to clear out were the watering flowers memories. That may be a lot of memories, but this still took hours of watering repeatedly.

I also finally unlocked all the Critters! I still need Ravens, obviously, but hopefully we’ll see them showing up soon.

Finally… Dreamlight Tasks. I’m not sure when exactly my tree grew to such a point, but I suppose it’s proof of how hard I’ve been working on tasks. Most left are just ones I have to wait weeks on at this point, but the one that continues to allude me is fishing 100 times in a row. I may try and do a stream or something before the update hits specifically for trying to finally hit that goal.

I’m continuing to poke in each day for now. Any other neat things I feel like adding I’ll add on below… Otherwise, look forward to my next post when the Scar update hits next week!

But as one last thing before that, some predictions/hopes for the Scar update:

• The house in Sunlit Plateau right now is Scar’s.
• We already know it’ll be new story content, so I’m thinking we’ll fix the fishing pools there.
• Ravens will hopefully finally unlock
• Maybe we can finally do something about the fire in Forgotten Lands? If so, maybe see who is in the Pumpkin House as well.
• Possibly other Lion King characters? We have a Diary entry mentioning them and Simba was even in the ADT. It’d be nice if it’s not just Scar.
• Maybe a Villain/Halloween-themed Star Path.
• Maybe the three recipes in the game that do not have the ingredients possible will finally be able to be made.

Edit: So, in the end, I did a few more things:

-Finally set up a proper storage area. I’ve had so many things laying around so… I did add more of the Tables I was initially using since taking this picture.

-While I’m still not doing too much decorating, I’ve been wanting to add some of the water lilies to Peaceful Meadow for a while so I finally did so:

-And the last thing I had been trying to do was focus on Cooking Memories. It had won my poll and cooking at Remy’s would save on coal, but the rate is abysmal. These photos are after roughly 10 hours of cooking each. And more than half were coins despite how many I still needed. In the end, despite days of work, I still need like 20-30 memory pieces and only completed one cooking memory overall :(