Disney Dreamlight Valley patch fixes the game’s worst quest

Disney Dreamlight Valley’s biggest problem was its Dream Shards — a resource so scarce that lots of players, including me, were getting soft-locked out of the game for days on end. However, developer Gameloft says it’s fixed the problem by tweaking the game’s resource balance issues and fixing other problematic bugs.

Dream Shards, a key resource, will now spawn more often — as a reward for feeding animals, clearing thorns, and digging up sparkling dirt.

Dreamlight ValleyIt is an early access title, so there have been technical difficulties that may have impeded the enjoyment. I’m playing on Xbox Series X via Xbox Game Pass, and based on what I’ve heard and read, it’s in much better shape than the Nintendo Switch version, which is apparently constantly crashing or glitching out. I haven’t experienced technical snags more often than once or twice in the 19 hours I’ve played, which doesn’t feel irregular to me. But, You can find it here This imbalanced resource spawning has caused them to be held back.

I’ve reached one quest line that unleashes a curse onto the village — one that locks all the villagers inside their houses, except goddamn Kristoff, Merlin, and Rapunzel’s mom. For me to move forward, I will need five Dream Shards which are rare. After 19 hours I had none. You need to clear thorns for a chance at finding them, and only a few thorns spawn a day — unless you’re unlocking a new area. Because the Dream Shards I received from the respawned Thorns were not available, I turned to fishing and cooking to earn Dreamlight points in order to open up a new area.

You can see my house filled with fruit cups and cooked fish. (With everyone locked in their houses, I couldn’t sell any items either, which means I had to drop everything on the ground.)

In a short time, I was able accumulate enough Dreamlight Points to open a new region filled with thorns. Unfortunately, these thorns gave me coins and seeds — not a single Dream Shard. In the hope of finding five Dream Shards, I decided to restart grinding Dreamlight points. At that rate, it would have taken more than a week, which wouldn’t have been horrible if I could do literally anything else in the game.

But it didn’t take me more than a week, because I found a solution by trawling the developer’s Twitter accountGameloft gave all players 25 Dream Shards in order to compensate for balance problems. My issues have been resolved and I am now free from any charges. So if you’re having this problem, check your mailbox — even though there’s nothing in-game indicating you have mail. It’s a Band-Aid on a design problem, even if the Band-Aid is invisible to anyone who isn’t checking Twitter.

Thanks to this update, which Gameloft said is rolling out over a couple hours, Dream Shards shouldn’t be much of an issue. However, if Dream Shards are not being distributed, you should know that Dream Shards could be found in your mailbox.

Gameloft hadn’t mentioned whether it’s tweaked spawn rates for any other items — flowers and other foraged resources had been spawning slowly, too — but the Night Shard adjustment will give a lot of players plenty more freedom.