Disney Dreamlight Valley adding Maleficent, Hades, Flynn, and new storybook world in next paid expansion
If relentlessly amassing sticks and bopping rocks is starting to feel a little stale in Disney Dreamlight Valley, there’s something new on the horizon. Developer Gameloft has unveiled The Storybook Vale, a second paid expansion for the village-life sim, that’ll whisk players to a world of Greek myths, Scottish folktales, and more when it launches on 20th November.
The Storybook Vale, which follows on from last year’s A Rift in Time expansion, introduces another world for Dreamlight Valley players to explore in the form of the titular Vale. Described as “the place in your heart where all your most treasured stories live”, it’s said to have previously hung in the sky over Dreamlight Valley – but was stolen away by Maleficent and Hades, eventually falling into disarray as the pair began to bicker. And that’s where players come in, embarking on a quest for the Lorekeeper – an enchanted book who holds the world together – to retrieve her scattered pages and restore peace.
And all this takes place across The Storybook Vale’s three new biomes. There’s The Bind, inspired by “dark academia” and the “cool yet cosy ambience of an autumnal forest”; Mythtopia, themed around “Greco-Roman culture and ancient myths” (and it even gets its own Mount Olympus), plus Everafter, a blend of “dark enchanted mushroom forest and windswept moorlands” inspired by “Scottish and Scandinavian folklore”.
The Storybook Vale will be released over two parts, the first arriving on 20th November and the second due next summer. Part one introduces three new villagers – Brave’s Merida, Hercules’ Hades, and Tangled’s Flynn (who’ll be able to reunite with Rapunzel if players happen to have last year’s A Rift in Time expansion) – alongside new collectibles, tools, resources, and “dozens” of new recipes. Players can catch koi fish, for instance, or gather ambrosia, and there are new animal companions in the form of owls, mini dragons, and mini winged horses.
