Disney Dreamlight Valley is full of woe during Joy's Mood Swings quest. Despite Joy being all about happiness and energy, her recent Capture the Sun game has inadvertently led to some villagers feeling gloomy and exhausted. Let's check up on everyone and see what's causing this.
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Starting the Mood Swings quest
Starting the Mood Swings quest requires reaching level four friendship with Joy and completing Sadness' Storm's A-Brewin! mission. Upon reaching these requirements, you'll be able to talk to Joy, who'll tell you about Donald, Goofy, Merlin, and Vanellope's recently developed sadness.
Check in on the Capture the Sun players
After discovering this new predicament, your next task is to check on everyone. Talk to Donald, Goofy, Merlin, and Vanellope to learn how they all feel uncharacteristically tired and sad. They have no idea why, making the situation even more suspicious.
Break some of Donald's furniture
After a brief chat with Joy and Sadness about your findings, you'll all help Donald Duck first. Enter his house and tell him about your current plan—destroying his furniture. More specifically, you'll break his couch, table, and bookshelf in an attempt to release some of his bottled-up emotions.
All three furniture items are inside his house. The table is beside his bed, while the couch is in front of the door. The last item, the bookshelf, is right next to Donald Duck.
Unfortunately, destroying everything doesn't make him feel better. You and Joy decide to help Merlin next in hopes that your next plan will bear some fruit.
Help Merlin by cleaning the Dreamlight Library
Our next objective is to help Merlin feel happier. After entering his Dreamlight Library home, you'll quickly notice it's a disaster, with potions all over the floor and spiderwebs scattered around. We'll need to clear away everything before talking to him.
Most of the potions are out in the open, with one tucked away behind some books in the back corner of the library. Similarly, you'll find the spiderwebs in relatively open areas, with two on the right side of the room and one behind Merlin's desk. You won't need any of your Royal tools to clear everything, but you will need to return the potions to the book pile next to the library's entrance.
Cook a Joyful Meal for Vanellope
While Merlin appreciated our help cleaning the library, he doesn't feel better just yet. While this is enough to make anyone feel dejected, Joy instead encourages us to help Vanellope next. Her latest plan is to create a Joyful Meal in hopes that it'll bring back Vanellope's sweet tooth.
After claiming and reading the Joyful Meal's recipe book, you'll be able to make it using the following items:
- Wheat
- Raspberries
- Banana
- Blueberry
Fortunately, these are all early-game items you'll find after unlocking the Peaceful Meadow, Dazzle Beach, and the Forest of Valor. You can grow wheat using seeds you buy from the Peaceful Meadow's Goofy Stall, while the other three fruits grow on bushes and trees in these three biomes.
With all four items on hand, head to any stovetop or to Chez Remy's kitchen to make the dish before returning to Vanellope.
Craft a shiny new fishing rod for Goofy
By now, it's unsurprising that this meal didn't affect Vanellope's mood. Helping Goofy is a last-ditch effort. In an attempt to make him feel better, the two of you decide to make him a new fishing rod.
You'll need the following resources to craft the shiny new fishing rod:
- Softwood (10)
- Fiber (4)
- Iron Ingot (2)
- Tinkering Parts
The easiest material to obtain early on is softwood, as it drops around trees within most biomes. You'll need one seaweed to craft fiber, while iron ingots and ore appear in the Forest of Valor and beyond. Be sure to make extra iron ingots, as you'll need two to make tinkering parts.
Once you have everything, head into Functional Items within your workbench to make the fishing rod. Returning to Goofy will prompt you to fish in the large pond on the right side of Peaceful Meadow. Targeting orange fishing spots here will reward you with some plush bear thread, which you can learn more about by talking to Merlin again.
Talking to Merlin and Joy about the Plush Bear Thread will conclude the Mood Swings quest and prepare you for Sadness's level four mission.
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