So, the Button-related event has officially begun and I’m pretty excited for it due to a combination of cute Popcorn Buckets but also the completionist of me was tired of new things I needed in the crafting menu.

Regardless, while waiting, I still got a few other things done such as finally finding the new Fragments. Learning that whatever is available in someone’s Valley is available to anyone who visits said Valley helped a lot as it meant I could work together with people.

Plus, with the Truck, I finally remembered to take a picture with the cute Doggy in the Fire House. I don’t know if I’ll keep it there (more and more I just wish there a Toontown Biome/area), but oh well.

I finally made myself some proper matching Minnie Ears for my usual dress, though, I don’t know if I’ll be wearing them anytime soon.

Meanwhile, the Premium Shop updated as usual, and I had to get Belle’s house. There was also a new ride, so I picked that up too.

Once again, I really wish I had better places to put things. Belle’s is okay where it is, but I still need to figure out how I really want to set that area up.

The only other thing I did was I was still really just… not satisfied at all with the placement of Daisy’s house. And it hit me that due to the way it’s shaped, it’d be best in a corner, so I moved it next to Scrooge’s while moving the stuff I had there to where I originally had the boutique.

I am a lot happier with this placement, though, I may reorganize the Gazebo area a bit still.

With that said, we’re now officially up to today and start of Dreamlight Parks Fest 2024! The event itself seems to be a successor to the Dreamlight Park Community Challenge we had back in April of last year. Besides the in-game stuff, there are once again Community Challenges: 500 Photos with the Partner statue shared on Social Media, 350K Recycles Placed, 400K Stands Placed, 450K Cupcakes Cooked, and 600K Attractions Ridden.

We also have a new code to go with the event: PARKSFEST24
Essentially, to help with getting that number of items placed. It does count every single one you place so if you place 10 trash cans, that’s 10 towards the 350K counter.

Anyway, talking to Scrooge essentially kicks off the event.

We had to place some decorations and then bake some Stitch Cupcakes. As for the other cupcakes, those were associated with WALL-E, Moana, Ursula, and Mickey who we had to make Spaceship Earth, Princess Aurora Raspberry, Mermaid, and Minnie Cupcakes respectively. I just really want a cupcake now :(

But honestly, I don’t feel that enthusiastic about the event. While the rewards you get through it are nice and ignoring that I’m just not a fan of the Daily Quest system (I’d much rather have one multi-step Quest than having to check in each day for new things… I’ll probably go until they start repeating), the Valley isn’t decorated at all.

It leaves it all on you which, as I previously mentioned, isn’t great because I haven’t felt like I had a proper place to turn an area into a proper theme park. There are never any decorations in the Plaza. The Castle stays the same. There’s no special look for the shops or people’s houses. All we have is tons of items littering our Valley (the irony when we’re filling it with trash cans for a community goal) and while we do have the Vaccuum’s to help with that, it’s also a Quality-of-Life mechanic only for those with the Expansion which sucks for those with just the standard game.

I don’t know, it’s hard to be excited for an event beyond getting the items when it just doesn’t feel particularly festive. I wish there was some kind of standard Event area where things could spawn and be set up, so it actually felt like there was something worth celebrating and a space that felt properly themed to whatever event is going on.

And then it’s like… What will stay? What won’t? The Egg Bushes disappear after Easter (unfortunately), will the Flowers stick around?

This also just feels like all the more reason to have a proper event area.

Going back to the Event iself, thanks to a bunch of friends who knew how much the faded items in Collections were bothering me and lent me their buttons for this, it was time to make some Popcorn Buckets.

I ended up making a kind of Park Snack Area on Park 6 and I think I want to go through that theme for other stuff too. I feel like the backroom will be a movie theater, but not sure on the other two yet. The Buckets are definitely bigger than I expected… And for some reason, the Popcorn Bucket achievement only counted when placing them outside.

I ended up setting my favorites in the homely museum area along with the Maps in the actual Museum area.

As for the Premium Shop this week, I had to get Megara’s dress as she is one of my favorites. Hope we’ll see her in-game soon. I also ended up getting the Wonderland Pack solely for the Fountain, but it was kind of disappointing to say the least…

I also took a picture with the Partner Statue for the Community Challenge.

Finally, as per usual, my latest Dreamsnap entries…

It’s officially May 1st and thus, the update is here! As I mentioned in my last post, I decided to start off in the Valley as I figured that’ll be quicker in the long run than the Expansion stuff.

In the end though, that worked out because Merlin was busy taking care of things before you could actually start his quest for the new Expansion Act.

After getting my new-found villager mail (with my first two letters being from Ariel and Belle), I noticed Mickey had a quest icon. With the Quest being called “You Have Mail”, I thought it’d be in regard to Villagers now sending mail as they have done quests before to tie in new features, but it was actually the start of Daisy’s Questline.

Essentially, Daisy was off doing her News Reporter best to find out more about what was happening. She’s ready to come home now, but obviously, she needs her house back in order to do so.

Before heading off to place her house in the Plaza, I wanted to briefly look through some of the new Premium Shop and Star Path items. I can’t say enough how excited I was to FINALLY see a Pink version of one of the really pretty ballgown dresses.

While I do love it and it’s absolutely accurate to what it’s supposed to be, it is a bit plain, and I don’t think I’ll fully use it as a dress replacement. I still really hope they’ll add it as a pattern we can make our own designs on.

And, of course, with unlocking the Premium Star Path and a certain bundle in the Premium Shop, I couldn’t resist getting the latest Critters.

Unfortunately, I’m very much at capacity when it comes to Critter Spots in the Valley so I ended up putting Heihei and his house near Moana’s house.

Anyway, with that done, it was time to get Daisy all moved back in.

It was then time to start with the friendship leveling. My favorite thing from Daisy’s friendship gifts is this cute Headband. I’m not sure I’ll use it over my usual crown though.

Anyway, with Daisy all set-up, it was time to get to work on the Boutique which we had to grow back to its normal size.

I quickly set some things up before focusing back on Daisy’s friendship quests.

I also did my first challenge. While I was a bit confused with it initially which is why my result is so lackluster, I feel like I’ve slowly gotten a better idea of it all since.

The first thing with Daisy’s quests was helping her and Donald have a nice date. It was actually pretty cute and he gives us a version of the wardrobe he made for Daisy. I adjusted some things in one of the Cozy rooms to make room for it.

I feel like we don’t see Daisy and Donald have as many romantic moments compared to Minnie and Mickey so this was nice.

I also added a few more things to the room after getting one of the new Premium Shop packs.

Second was helping convince Scrooge to put hers and Minnie’s collaboration brand, Dots & Daisies, in his shop. While I generally like Minnie’s and Daisy’s fashion sense, I did not care for this top at all.

One frustrating thing though is that the update broke my usual dress design. I did my best to adjust it, but it still hasn’t really recovered 100%.

Next was Daisy wanting to host a party which got glitter bombed by Vanellope and Stitch. Playing detective was fun, but it wasn’t much of a mystery.

With all of Daisy’s stuff done, it was time to head over to Eternity Isle to get to work on Act II of A Rift in Time.

Talking to Merlin explained how he had been looking into the Spark of Imagination, but the area has sunken underwater, and we needed to try and use our newfound time powers to restore it after finding various Flickers around the Valley and in Realms.

It was then time to head inside where there were some interesting rooms…

And thus, we had to ask the three Villagers introduced in the expansion: Rapunzel for the music room, Gaston for the pedestal room, and EVE for the Computer room. I would guess this is part of why those characters were chosen, but I still have mixed feelings on it all.

Alas, it wouldn’t actually be that easy as just asking them. Rapunzel isn’t feeling well so you need to make the soup and tea that Mother Gothel used to make her. Gaston wants a fancier version of his Coconut LeFou to stand with him. As for EVE, she needs a way to properly connect to the computer to understand it.

Once that’s done, there’s a slight puzzle-esque element to each (Mostly just the music one– the rest are more task-oriented and I had found all the things for the computer puzzle before even getting to the point I needed to) and then the door leading to below opens.

Down there, we finally meet Oswald.

With his help, we need to get up to the Altar to reach the Spark of Imagination.

But just as we’re getting it, “Merlin” shows up behind us.

Despite realizing he is acting very strangely, instead of holding onto the Spark that we literally just got to and practically had in our hands, we let Jafar take it and make a mess of things, opening a black and white shard in the sky that not only affected Eternity Isle, but also unlocked three Toon Critters: Toon Monkey, Toon Capybara, and Toon Cobra. They show up all day, every day, but their favorite foods seem to be different– that said, using the liked foods will still unlock them for you after ~4 days.

I suppose this is the Rift in Time as mentioned in the Expansion name.

Regardless, before checking out all the damage, I wanted to focus on Oswald’s quests for a bit. First up, we had to literally destroy the communication barrier, letting him exit his usual Silent Movie demeanor.

And then it was off to set up his house. Unlike how houses are usually set up, we actually had to craft a pencil in order to ‘draw’ Oswald’s house and then get some 3D Glasses to fully bring it to life (and we get the keep the giant pencil and 3D Glasses which is neat). While I initially thought of placing his Theater-house in the Valley, I actually kind of like it in the shopping area I have in Eternity Isle. It’s replaced the Pizza Planet, but I was never really satisfied with it there anyway.

Oswald’s most extensive quest was needing to track down all these Alarm Clocks, each named after a classic dance.

As I played through this part, I REALLY hoped that we would get one at the end… And we did, but as an item– not a Critter :(

Anyway, I continued through Oswald’s quests…

…And it ended with an interesting Trolley Problem. But at least it all worked out I guess despite some weird dialogue? (Like Rapunzel not knowing what a Trolley was despite being there to welcome the Trolley beforehand??)

With Oswald’s quest done, I also had worked on the end of Act II’s quest, but it ends pretty abruptly and just strongly hints getting Oswald leveled up. It made me think maybe there would be something extra when I maxed him out, but I suppose I’ll just have to wait until Act III.

Regardless, with Eternity Isle’s new story part done and Oswald’s friendship at level 10, it was time to focus on some of the other new stuff like being able to ride rides! Some didn’t work despite the prompt and the Space Bumper Cars don’t properly let you turn the camera, but it’s still a neat feature.

I then worked on the new Dreamsnaps, made the new cupcakes, and finished the respective new Village Dreamlight Task.

Finally, I did make a little more room to another of Heihei’s house in the Meadow with all the new Critters… But that’s really all I can fit there now, unfortunately.

That pretty much sums up everything the last few days. I’ve been doing Daisy’s challenges though to try and unlock more things. I had fun using this board to have a little like… “pin board” of my favorite Decals as I don’t get to use a lot of them.

I’m also thinking of maybe doing some kind of Tool of Magic contest since people can share their designs, but I’m not really sure if people would be interested or what would be a good prize (Stacks of Pumpkin Puffs? Stacks of an item of your choice? Hmm…). I think it could be fun though if people would want to enter.

Anyway, I’ll be continuing to check in each day for new store stuff and the challenges from Daisy, plus Dreamsnaps stuff too. I’m also impatiently waiting until we can finish those other Village Achievements…

Initially, I had planned to include this with next week’s post, but by popular vote, I’m just posting it now instead. Most of this was written on Wednesday immediately after the Dev Update video went out.

So, while I don’t have too much more to say since my last DDLV entry, I thought in addition to the few things I have to share, I could talk about my thoughts on the update details!

For one, we finally have Daisy coming to the Valley! It’ll be nice to bring her in, though, I have no clue where I’ll fit her house or store. Speaking of the store, I’m not really the type to share my designs, but I guess it could still be fun to fill the building to some extent. If we can put it on Eternity Isle, I’ll probably try to fit the store in the Shopping area, but I can’t really decide where until I see how big it is in-game.

In addition to being able to share our designs, apparently there will be weekly challenges. I kind of hope they’re just like a personal thing where you make it and if you do, you get these new motifs/patterns and stuff over a voting thing like Dreamsnaps because I feel like the results can vary too much (and there is a higher chance of someone just being inappropriate). Unfortunately, we didn’t really get any information on how these challenges will work.

Moving onto the Expansion update, I’m surprised the Hourglass is getting another upgrade. I’m a bit nervous about that if only because finding the different Prisms was super annoying and it feels likely there will be more to find if there is another upgrade tier.

I’m really curious if the Critter colors will be considered their own thing or if it’s just like a color skin and doesn’t change anything. It’s also not really clear if getting these monochrome Critters will be new ones you can find or just a fun effect. Or maybe both. I feel like it’s supposed to be just a fun filter thing, but I just don’t feel 100% sure. I guess I’ll know soon enough though.

In general, I know so many people who are excited for Oswald. It’s honestly nice to see him get another feature in a Disney game. I do feel like of all the Expansion-exclusive characters thus far, he’s the only one who I feel truly fits in some way, but I still don’t really like characters being tied to expansions.

I think I would’ve preferred Expansions being just Biomes with new quests and storylines that will probably include existing characters, but not be the entire reason you get them and that’s what I thought they would be in the first place. Or, if they HAVE to have new characters, it should be ones that aren’t really integral to the main cast or teasers we’ve been given for a long time in which case I still think the only one that fits the bill is Gaston.

Going back to deciding on house positions… I do think I’m pretty much sold on Daisy’s Tool of Magic Boutique being in the ‘Shop’ area in Eternity Isle unless it can’t go there. If it can go in both areas, or just the original valley, I probably want to try and fit it in the plaza. And I think that’s kind of where the problem lies as pretty much everything I want to put in the Plaza and I absolutely do not have room for that.

I can maybe fit one thing as is. Anything else requires moving stuff around. I suppose I could move the Fairy Godmother– while I don’t think I’d be putting her back in the Forgotten Lands, I could put her in Glade of Trust which is where most of the Nature-esque buildings have gone at this point.

I don’t have the slightest clue where I would move the Teacup ride though. Maybe to Isle of Eternity somewhere? Still no clue where though and then the only ride I’d still have in the plaza is the Ferris Wheel, but the Teacup Ride never really looked like it had a proper home there anyway. There’s also the Zen area which I suppose I could remove (or at least rebuild it), but I do really like it and while I will make another version of it in Eternity Isle, I don’t think I want to bulldoze my existing one in the Plaza.

I think, at the moment, I’m pretty Gung-ho on trying to fit Oswald’s House/Theater, Daisy’s House, and Daisy’s Boutique in the open spaces in the Plaza and moving the Fairy Godmother and Teacup ride. I feel like that’s the best option. I’ve moved the Teacup ride in advance, but as for everything else, I’ll wait until the update.

Speaking of rides though, I am really excited for actually being able to ride them. The number of games that give you these big interactive things and don’t let you actually participate in them blows my mind so it’s nice to see a game ACTUALLY rectify that. It also makes me WANT to use the rides more as now it feels more of a use than just ‘item taking up a lot of room’. It really makes me wish we had some kind of ‘Toon Town’ biome which I also think would fit Oswald’s stuff nicely too as I WOULD like to make somewhere feel like a Disney Park, but I don’t really want to bulldoze a whole area to do so and none of the biomes really speak to me for that in the first place.

Anyway, the update is just a week away now, which I figured at this point. As for everything in the meantime… Honestly, it’s been pretty quiet. Mostly, it’s just been more Dreamsnap stuff:

I also managed to hit level 10 so I unlocked the trophy! Besides putting one outside near my house, I also put one in the Museum-y area.

Memory-wise, I finally got the last Cooking memory I needed so now it’s just suffering through Digging where I don’t even know where to start. With mining, I could get into a rotation to get all the mining blocks in a good formation. With cooking, Remy’s kitchen would help with that. With flowers, well, I got those out of the way before you could no longer water any flowers to get them, and just made a group of them… Fishing was also just kind of going around in a specific path.

But digging I just feel I’m at a loss on where to even start to get through it. Any gardening plots I set up I make permanent, so I rarely dig new holes. It just makes it super inconvenient and as far as I can tell, digging in the same place does not do anything either so I need to just… dig up a whole area for no reason :/

I am hoping to do more decorating on Eternity Isle, but I think I want to wait until Summer when the final act is out in case of any big changes before setting down more stuff in the Desert and Jungle areas.

The only other thing I really did was a lot of re-crafting due to items disappearing from the Collection list so it would be all set and ready for the update. Unfortunately, it seems it’s a bug and they just… wipe every time I close the game which sucks. I hope this will be fixed in the upcoming patch.

As an aside, I also took this time to finally update my overview page which has been massively behind so that’s all ready for the update too now.

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Edited April 29th, 2024: So, the patch notes just went up so let’s talk about more of the details!

Looking for another way to flex those creative muscles? Drop in to the Boutique each day to help Daisy redecorate a corner of the shop or take on her inspiration prompts to earn exclusive items, including new Touch of Magic clothing and furniture bases.

This does make it sound like it will be personal creative challenges which is nice, but I do kind of wish you could do one after the other instead of daily as I just prefer to do things in bursts.

I’m not sure what to think just yet of the new Star Path, though, the last one ended up surprising me quite a bit, so we’ll see. I think my main concern is just the same issue I have with all the Disney rides: I have no clue where to put them and so I feel like a lot of the items I get will just be stuck in the furniture menu for a while. We have already seen the new Critter though and at the very least, I am excited for that. I also am curious to see Minnie’s and Daisy’s new outfits. I hope we’ll get the trailer tomorrow/before the update on Wednesday (and if so, I’ll likely update this again).

The Villager mail sounds really cute. I hope the messages will stick around permanently as I know some mail has had timers.

The Premium Shop updates all sound great:

o All weekly shop rotations are now comprised of 8 bundles / items.

o Preview clothing on your Avatar before buying.

o Get a better look at any special animations an item may have, thanks to a revolving preview display.

o Toggle between day and night – where applicable – to get a better idea of how an item will look in the Valley before buying.

Though, I still don’t understand why we can’t just have a shop with ALL the items that slowly adds new ones overtime over the current rotating system, especially when the game will not be free to play anytime soon, if ever, now.

Reading over the Expansion stuff and still not really excited to have to go grinding for pieces of things again… The repurposing sounds helpful at least so I’m hoping that will also be able to be used for newer parts. I wonder if the new Scramblecoin figures will be crafted or require a higher rank of Scramblecoin.

Regardless, this one specific part does make it sound like there will be a new variant of each of the three critters to find:

– Make friends with new variants of the animal companions wandering Eternity Isle, albeit with a monochromatic flair.

Going to have to grab the Cabbage, Eggs, and Banana Splits back out of the chest.

Just two days left until we can get started. I think I’m going to work on Daisy’s stuff first and then make my way back over to the Expansion after.

If you are subscribed to my Youtube you’ve likely already seen the various videos to have an idea of what to expect from this post, but if not, the short version is I’ve been working on more decorating to say the least.

Firstly, I started re-adjusting things over in the Forest of Valor along with decorating some of the buildings I set up last time.

Unfortunately, doing each of the Rooms in each place didn’t entirely work out how I hoped. The interiors would maybe not be the right size (in the sense of needing to be bigger in some areas), some items I had hoped to use ended up being exterior only items, and sometimes I just didn’t really have what I had hoped. I did my best regardless though.

I also couldn’t help but feel inspired with the new items and immediately needed to put a Small Fountain in my Character’s bedroom.

Of course, things got complicated when not only was the Star Path somehow filled with multiple things I really adored, the Premium Shop also ended up grabbing my attention. For one, we had these cute birds and adorable backpack.

But the big thing, which you may have even seen briefly is above, THE PINK HEART CASTLE!! I had to make a few adjustments, but it was worth it.

Of course, when you start overhauling an area, you can’t help but want to do more of the area and that is why I finally started decorating a bit on the Isle of Eternity– mostly just Ancient’s Landing for the moment though.

Before we get more into that though, I wanted to talk about the last thing that ended up being in the Premium Shop– Anna’s original outfit from the first Frozen movie.

I always have mixed feelings on these types of things. It’s one thing if an outfit is from a short moment in a movie or made for a silly event and may not even be tied to anything really, but this is Anna’s main outfit for the majority of the film and, at least to me, her best outfit. This is such an intricate part that having it be available through the Premium Shop feels kind of obnoxious.

Going back to decorating, I worked really hard on shuffling things around over in the Meadow:

And then it was time for lots of adjustments all over Ancient’s Landing.

I’m not really 100% happy with everything just yet. I think there’s a lot more I can do with the ‘shop’ area and ‘neighborhood’ and am just kind of lacking any ideas/inspiration on how to best approach it just yet. The Critter Area and my Home Area I’m mostly pretty happy with at least.

And of course, I had to place the new fountain as well. The new house is also quite pretty, though, I haven’t decided just what to do with it yet…

Besides the decorating, the only other thing I’ve really been working on is with Memories. Unfortunately, I’ve been rather demotivated again despite being so close to being done. It’s just not a fun grind and the RNG is rough, especially when you keep getting colors of everything except the one you need.

Finally, here is another Dream Snaps Photo Overview of my entries since my last post:

The Laugh Floor update is officially here! In all honesty, I don’t have any strong connection really with Monsters Inc., though, I still appreciate the characters and will always take new realms. Before I got into all the Monsters Inc. stuff, there were a handful of other things I wanted to check out. And of course, if you prefer videos, you can check out my playthrough of the new update over on Youtube. As an aside, I know people are upset I haven’t been streaming the updates– it’s a combination of updates not always coming out at the best time for me (I actually had a lot of other stuff to do today so there is a lot of pausing in the video that I mostly managed to pause the recording for) and being sick a lot recently combined with that I just don’t think it’s fun to watch me give like 100+ flowers to characters to level them up which I can at least not record when just… well, recording. With that said, let’s get on to update stuff!

First of all, the mail with the the community gifts came (and it seems our mail got a bit of a makeover in general to be more organized)! Still looking forward to the Critter… Anyway, due to my love of fountains, I ended up replacing the Figment topiary I had with the Partner statue. If I didn’t already have a nice Figment Picnic area, I may have left it, but since I already have a very nice Figment place, I feel this works pretty well.

I then made my way to see Scrooge’s shop adjustments and uh… It wasn’t as much as I expected. The top floor is revamped and there is a place exclusively for wall items at least which is nice.

The biggest perk for me in Scrooge’s Shop update though is that we can now order up to 1,000 items a day. I’m so happy. The 25 limit has been so incredibly frustrating and I usually hit it pretty quickly during decorating sessions. This is so much easier to work with.

Speaking of decorating, I loved so many items from this Star Path and due to various personal stuff, I’m not sure how much I’ll actually be able to do quest-wise (as it is, I heard this one is longer than ever… :/), so I actually bought a bunch of points to get stuff right away because there were so many items I adored. The small fountain, the Arches, the Plushies, the Swan Boat, the floating Lanterns, and the Rosy Cloud Turtle (though, I’ll admit the ‘Cloud’ looks more like a fancy seashell to me, but you can see it wisping around if you zoom in) especially, but there’s so many other cute things as well.

I think it’s going to be hard to beat this Turtle for me right now as my top favorite Critter, but we’ll have to see…

After placing some more things around my house, I went and took my new DreamSnaps entry. It’s… very much not my kind of look, but I think it came out okay. Good thing I had this room set up in the Haunted Mansion.

I then did some adjustments over in the Forest of Valor with moving in some buildings. I had to buy the Snuggly Duckling– besides my love for Tangled, it genuinely is just really cute? I plan to try and decorate the main room as close to the actual Snuggly Duckling as possible, but I’m not quite sure what to do with the other three rooms. Maybe just general Tangled themed? I also ended up picking up the Belle pack– it’s the first bundle to not have a questline attached to it which, from an exclusivity standpoint, is kind of for the best– I don’t think story stuff (or things like Ursula’s transformation) should be locked to a premium bundle, but honestly, everything from it was pretty cute. I especially loved getting Belle’s favorite Library which is across the street from the Snuggly Duckling and nextdoor to the cottage:

I also ended up moving Gaston’s house over. Right now, it’s across from Venellope. I kind of like the position of his so I may try and move Vanellope over/somewhere else. I need to figure it all out, really.

Regardless, with this done, it was finally time to check out the Monsters Inc. stuff.

The general plotline here is that everyone is missing except for Sulley and Mike and this takes place shortly after the original movie’s ending. After disguising as a monster, we were able to enter the Laugh Floor and essentially pretend to be the new intern.

My little ID card I made with the resources on the official Twitter— I might make one with the other ID template too. Or try to make a nicer one in general.

If it was possible to actually save full appearances, I might’ve experimented with some of the new skin tones and contacts and stuff.

Anyway, after taking care of their coffee orders, Mike headed into the first door, but there was a power outage and thus, we needed to find some fuses and get the plugs set back up in order to get him back before he was discovered.

After bringing up Dreamlight Valley, Mike wanted to have the biggest record for making kids laugh so he wanted to do one final hoorah of three rooms before they headed to the Valley and thus, we were tasked with getting Keycards. Along the way, due to my need to examine everything, I also found broken pieces of a keycard in addition to the various sticky notes around. We’ll talk more about that later.

Regardless, our job wasn’t quite done yet. There was no intel with the keycards so we were tasked with checking each kid’s bedroom to see what kind of things would make them laugh.

I really want to be able to buy more plushies…

Anyway, after helping out Mike, it was finally time to make his and Sulley’s place in the valley. Sulley showed up first as Mike wanted his photo taken for the Monster of the Month board before he headed on his way.

Before I made my way back to Mike though, I made sure to repair a certain keycard… Using it on the fifth door’s panel summoned a door with the 10th Sticky Note and a chest. It wasn’t the biggest secret, but still a neat secret nonetheless!

I then went and took Mike’s picture, and he made his own way to the valley.

I decided to work on Sulley’s friendship quests first (since he moved in first), but I absolutely relate to Mike’s plight. Allergies are the biggest nemesis x-x

Sulley’s friendship questline had three fully different things which each had their own photo spot surprisingly. I can’t think of any other friendship quest that had multiple like that off the top of my head. The first was setting up Monster Movie night again. After a little quest to find the video tape, we had a cute scene. Kind of surprised Minnie wasn’t there though.

I also couldn’t help but decorate a little more… I love the lanterns so much.

Sulley’s next quest was a Villager of the Month event to get people helping out more in the village. Of course, it didn’t really go as planned… Mike wanted help making a dish to give to Sulley, Ursula wanted help making perfumes for various villagers, and Donald… Donald tried to fake himself picking up trash and we mainly had to do it.

So unsurprisingly, we were the Villager of the month.

Of the three actually trying for Villager of the Month, I think Ursula’s gift was the nicest, even if her motives weren’t exactly pure.

Sulley’s next quest was trying to teach Vanellope. While his lemon clock plan didn’t work, his arcade machine sure did. I was kind of sad we couldn’t actually play it though.

His final friendship quest was a Scavenger Hunt. While we didn’t directly participate, we ended up winning anyway since we had to help each participant along the way. It was honestly pretty cute. Most of it was easy– the only thing that threw me off is the third clue was further away from where the second clue lead than I expected.

And then it ended with this adorable scene with a very cute handmade clay Sulley.

Meanwhile, Mike’s questline, after setting things up to help prevent his allergies and get over his stress (plus finding his contact lens…), was essentially trying to introduce things to the valley from perfumes and meals that only monsters could love followed by trying to do a comedy show that Vanellope tried to take over/have them be equals instead of her opening for him. It was… okay I guess?

For everyone upset about Mike constantly still being in frame though with most official stuff, they’ll be happy to see the billboard does exactly wanted.

And with that, I was done! Which meant it was time to get back to decorating. With the fixes to things on tables, I made a few adjustments to the museum and my character’s bedroom.

I then decided to work on Floor 5 which I’m essentially labeling the Cozy Floor. I was honestly really proud with how things came out.

At the time, I didn’t really have inspiration for the final room, so I ended up working on some more things outside for a bit.

After some more thinking though, I did finally come up with what to do with the last room on Floor 5. I’m pretty happy with it.

I then just made a few other minor adjustments to things.

With that, I’ve finished most of my update goals! I’m likely going to try and work on the Snuggly Duckling and Library houses, though, they will likely get a video quite a while before I make a post talking about that. I’m pretty sure what I want to do with each so we’ll see how it goes!

Otherwise, it’s back to the memory grind… And doing Star Path stuff to get some of those moonstones I used back. But yeah, I had fun! Looking forward to the next update and keeping an eye out in case any other bonus stuff pops up in the meantime…

The Patch Notes for the Laugh Floor update came out yesterday! This post will mainly be my thoughts on them, but also a few more things I’ve done recently. Obviously, with a post just last week, I don’t have too much to add, but I’ve still been working on some things ahead of the update on Wednesday. I figured it was more likely to release last week, but if I realized, I probably would’ve held off on that post until today ^^; Oh well…

Anyway, let’s get started with the patch notes!

Obviously, the main thing for the update is the new realm for Monsters Inc. that will have Mike Wazowski and Sulley. It seems Boo won’t be part of this just yet (though, in her defense, I don’t really know if she should have a house by herself…), but it feels like most realms have had side characters, regardless of how prominent, kind of MIA right now.

I actually really love the Realms and I kind of wish more characters would be available through them over random biome quests. I just really like getting to be part of these worlds (pun not intended) and it’s a bit more fun for me, especially as my island is packed and not the easiest to search around. I really wish it was the main way characters were introduced, but maybe that’s just me.

This update will also contain two of the longest-awaited Community Goal rewards: The Partners Statue and the Dreamlight Armor outfit. I may use the former if I can find room, but I don’t see myself really using the latter. That said, my most anticipated community reward still hasn’t come yet: The new animal companion! Hopefully we’ll get some updates on that soon considering it’s supposed to be community designed.

I actually didn’t really have any thoughts about the Star Path not expecting to really care for anything, but the image they showed on Twitter changed my mind.

The plushies on the blanket, the Lady and the Tramp table, the Swan Boat, the Pillars, AND THAT TURTLE… There’s a lot I really want to get ASAP and can already see how I would use so many of these items, especially as I work on decorating Eternity Isle as well.

I’m really curious about the Belle Starlight Bundle. It doesn’t sound like a questline thing like some of the other Premium Bundles have been (or if it is, they didn’t mention it), but I really want to see the contents of it. This also has made me realize we haven’t seen a trailer or anything yet…

I’m also really excited for the Scrooge’s update, but I feel like the patch notes don’t really share anything beyond what has already been teased on what to expect about “increased offerings”. Either way, it’s still something to look forward to, especially if new items are added as well.

I still have mixed feelings about how the Premium Shop works as a whole (I do not like the whole rotation thing), but I am excited old Star Path items are coming back for those who missed out.

As for bug fixes, the big standout for me is this one: “Fixed an issue in which some objects couldn’t be placed on applicable furniture.” There’s been a few items that have very oddly not been able to be placed on furniture so hopefully this fixes it.

With that all said and done, let’s move onto my own little progress! Like last time, I’m mainly just working on memories and prepping for whatever new things may be included in the upcoming update. I had recently made a wishlist though and thanks to friends and other nice people, I’ve more or less knocked everything out. I need to figure out what I’m still missing, but crosschecking lists honestly gives me a headache after a while with so many items… I really wish there was something easier than just trying to look through the Wiki especially when not everything is in the same order (and things keep moving around…).

Regardless, it’s been nice to get various rooms a bit fancier.

I also managed to get a few more memories I actually really wanted to get done so I want to say my memory room is more or less complete now unless a memory I like more gets added and/or I think of more stuff that could fit in there.

I still have memories left to get for Gardening, Digging, Feeding Critters, and Cooking. Not really surprised I managed to knock out mining and fishing first. I feel like Digging and Feeding Critters will take the longest– the former as I just try to avoid doing it altogether and tend to keep the same few plots around and the latter because it’s limited to how many times you can do it a day. The only reason gardening may get done sooner is because foraging counts.

To finish this off, my most recent DreamSnaps picture plus part of the conversation between Gaston and EVE that makes me laugh every time.

Anyway, I’m sure we’ll have another entry up for the update very soon (whether it’s the same day or the next day will depend on how long it takes me to get through the content) so I hope you look forward to it plus a new DDLV video over on my youtube as well!

Note: This did technically post after midnight so it is update day today! But I actually wrote most of this yesterday– it just took some time to get all the pictures uploaded ^^;