If relentlessly amassing sticks and bopping rocks is beginning to really feel just a little stale in Disney Dreamlight Valley, there’s one thing new on the horizon. Developer Gameloft has unveiled The Storybook Vale, a second paid growth for the village-life sim, that’ll whisk gamers to a world of Greek myths, Scottish folktales, and extra when it launches on twentieth November.
The Storybook Vale, which follows on from final yr’s A Rift in Time growth, introduces one other world for Dreamlight Valley gamers to discover within the type of the titular Vale. Described as “the place in your coronary heart the place all of your most treasured tales dwell”, it is mentioned to have beforehand hung within the sky over Dreamlight Valley – however was stolen away by Maleficent and Hades, finally falling into disarray because the pair started to bicker. And that is the place gamers are available, embarking on a quest for the Lorekeeper – an enchanted ebook who holds the world collectively – to retrieve her scattered pages and restore peace.
And all this takes place throughout The Storybook Vale’s three new biomes. There’s The Bind, impressed by “darkish academia” and the “cool but cosy atmosphere of an autumnal forest”; Mythtopia, themed round “Greco-Roman tradition and historic myths” (and it even will get its personal Mount Olympus), plus Everafter, a mix of “darkish enchanted mushroom forest and windswept moorlands” impressed by “Scottish and Scandinavian folklore”.
The Storybook Vale will probably be launched over two elements, the primary arriving on twentieth November and the second due subsequent summer season. Half one introduces three new villagers – Courageous’s Merida, Hercules’ Hades, and Tangled’s Flynn (who’ll have the ability to reunite with Rapunzel if gamers occur to have final yr’s A Rift in Time growth) – alongside new collectibles, instruments, assets, and “dozens” of latest recipes. Gamers can catch koi fish, for example, or collect ambrosia, and there are new animal companions within the type of owls, mini dragons, and mini winged horses.
Moreover, the growth introduces Trials, particular quests impressed by fairy tales and myths that gamers might want to unscramble utilizing their previous and new instruments. A kind of new instruments is the Royal Internet, used to seize the Lorekeeper’s scattered pages, come to life as historic origami creatures referred to as Snippets, which might then be assembled into jigsaw-like tapestries and hung in in-game houses. And that is simply Half One, with subsequent yr’s Half Two, The Unwritten Realms, seeing gamers “enterprise into a wierd world beneath the Storybook Vale [to] resolve the thriller of the lacking princess”, alongside Maleficent and a at present unannounced second character.
Each elements of The Storybook Vale are included in Disney Dreamlight Valley’s second growth cross, which releases on twentieth November. Purchases additionally embrace 5,000 Moonstones – as the sport’s premium foreign money is thought – and there is a Magical Version, that includes 10,000 Moonstones, the Autumn Manor Home stye, Storybook Vale costume and ensemble, plus Child Pegasus companion and home. Alternatively, the Storybook Bundle contains the bottom sport, new growth, and 13,000 Moonstones, whereas the Enchanted Version gathers collectively the bottom sport, each expansions, 18,000 Moonstones, plus “unique rewards”. Gameloft hasn’t introduced costs for any of those on the time of writing, however final yr’s A Rift in Time growth price £24.99 so count on issues to begin from there.
Alongside all that, Gameloft has shared a glance forward on the base sport’s subsequent sequence of free updates, beginning with Sew Pleasant on 4th December. This brings Sally from A Nightmare Earlier than Christmas to the Valley, full with the same old introductory quest and Friendship rewards. That is alongside a brand new premium Star Path, which incorporates ice-themed furnishings and different rewards. Sew Pleasant additionally guarantees a variety of new options, together with floating islands. These act as additional constructing areas, themed after present base sport biomes, that gamers can broaden to in the event that they want extra room (object limits are unbiased from different areas) with every island being akin to their Valley counterparts. Plaza Island, Forest Island, Sunlit Island, and Frosted Island as set to launch in December with extra to comply with.
Moreover, builders feeling restricted by the sport’s present 4 factors of rotation will quickly see that elevated to 16, opening up new adorning potentialities. Gameloft says the improved placement system applies to furnishings, buildings, landscaping objects, assets corresponding to flowers, and even dropped objects like ready dishes, with help for fences and paths coming at a later date.
However thats’ nonetheless not fairly every thing introduced throughout Gameloft’s Disney Dreamlight Valley stream. The developer additionally supplied a couple of teases of future free updates by way of a roadmap for the primary half of 2025. Early 2025, for example, will let gamers discover “an entire new world and revel on a magical journey” – the accompanying image teasing the arrival of Aladdin and Jasmine) – whereas Spring 2025 guarantees a “land of marvel”, its picture of the Cheshire Cat unquestionably marking the arrival of Alice’s Adventures. And at last, Summer time 2025 will give gamers the chance to “resolve an historic thriller and uncover who’s ready inside Cranium Rock.” And given Cranium Rock’s origins and the purple feather buried within the sand in Gameloft’s tease, this could lastly be the second Disney Dreamlight Valley welcomes Peter Pan and pals.
