How to start The Storybook Vale expansion in Disney Dreamlight Valley

The Storybook Vale is Disney Dreamlight Valley’s second expansion pack following the release of A Rift in Time in late 2023. Much like A Rift in Time, The Storybook Vale has its own world, quest line, and characters, with plenty of content to explore.

How to unlock the Storybook Vale expansion

Before you can play The Storybook Vale, you’ll first need to buy the expansion. Alongside Disney Dreamlight Valley’s base price of $39.99, you’ll need to pay $29.99 for every expansion pack that releases, including The Storybook Vale as a separate purchase.

Once you purchase The Storybook Vale, you’ll initially unlock the following features:

• A new questline based around Hades and Maleficent
• Four new biomes: The Library of Lore, The Bind, Everafter, and Mythopia
• Three new villagers: Merida, Hades, and Flynn
• The Royal Net
• Nearly 100 cooking recipes and 30 ingredients

Over time, Gameloft will release more Storybook Vale content as they develop the expansion’s second and third parts. Like A Rift in Time, it’ll unlock in chunks, giving you time to experience it in sections rather than the entire story from start to finish.

Welcome to the Storybook Vale quest guide

Once you purchase the Storybook Vale expansion pack and download it, you’ll find a letter in your mailbox about a mysterious figure known as “The Keeper of the Lore.” This instantly sets you off on the Welcome to the Storybook Vale questline, where you’ll enter Stardust Port, take a ship to the Storybook Vale, and meet Merida for the first time.

Upon arriving in Storybook Vale and meeting Merida, you’ll learn more about the Lorekeeper, Royal Net, and the world around you. You even get to meet cute little origami birds that you can catch to gather some early points for unlocking biomes later.

How to unlock every Storybook Vale biome

Like Disney Dreamlight Valley’s base game and A Rift in Time expansion pack, The Storybook Vale has biome regions you unlock. Rather than spending Dreamlight Valley or Mist, you’ll use a currency called Story Magic that behaves very similarly.

Below is every The Storybook Vale biome and their costs:

• The Bind: 500 Story Magic
• The Wild Woods: 2,000 Story Magic
• Teapot Falls: 5,000 Story Magic
• The Fallen Fortress: 5,000 Story Magic
• The Elysian Fields: 2,000 Story Magic
• The Statue’s Shadow: 5,000 Story Magic
• The Fiery Plains: 5,000 Story Magic
• The Beanstalk Marshes: 1,0000 Story Magic
• Mount Olympus: 10,000 Story Magic

Like the base game, early-game regions are much cheaper, so you can access their content faster and snowball your progress. Late-game areas like The Beanstalk Marshes and Mount Olympus cost much more. Fortunately, by the time you’re far enough into the story to reach these biomes, you’ll have a much easier time collecting resources and using them to complete your Storybook Vale tasks for Story Magic.