Disney Dreamlight Valley - Foraging

This is part of our series of beginner tips for Disney Dreamlight Valley. We won't do a hand-holding walkthrough here, but instead consider approaches that might be unusual or overlooked.

Foraging

• Flowers
• Vacuum up all the flowers and start stockpiling early. Just one Small Chest can hold one stack of each of the different types of flowers (and herbs) for two adjacent Biomes.
• I like to put that chest at the teleporter for the biome and drop them off before I leave the area.
• Furniture view helps with finding flowers (and other objects on the map) and you can relocate them to your location for easy pickup.
• If you have to pick flowers with a character, sometimes you can grab flowers from storage, Drop them on the ground, then pick them up to advance the counter.

• Moving all your fruit trees and fruit bushes together into a long lane can really help with collecting them periodically and for early money.
• I recommend the east side of Dazzle Beach, which has long empty spaces.
• The Glade of Trust also has some wide open space, but we like Dazzle Beach because we can use the shoreline to control bonus drops from Characters with Gardening or Foraging.
• Map view shows you where all fruit plants are located if they are ready for harvest. When you first unlock a biome, you can use this feature to quickly find and move them all.
• A quest may require you to pick fruits in a specific biome. You'll need to move the fruit tree or fruit bush back in that biome and pick it there for the quest to register properly.
• You can walk through a tree tile but not a bush tile. So if you are making long rows for easy collection, you may want to mix up your fruit bush tiles with pairs of tree tiles so that you can walk through instead of having to go all the way to the end of your fruit bush row to get around it.
• If your fruit trees are adjacent to fruit bushes, you can walk in between and harvest both without needing to have a lane of empty tile (see slide 1 below)
• This works because you can walk under trees.
• If you want to clump your bushes together, you cannot walk between two bushes that are immediately adjacent. Typically you need at least a one-tile lane in between to pass between two bushes. You will probably collide with the bushes too often so a two-tile lane is better.
• Sometimes Harvesting a fruit bush from one of it's corners will cause you to uncontrollably walk to the other side of the bush, and if you are in the middle of a long row of bushes, this will take some time.
• One way to avoid this as well as to direct bonus drops is to plant the bush against a barrier, such as the borders of a biome (see slide 2 below).
• Use the Gardening trick to delay all your extra Foraging drops till the end.

• Foragers do NOT give you extra wood or flowers, only cooking ingredients (herbs and mushrooms).
• Mushrooms from watering away mushroom clumps do not get extra drops from the Foraging Role.
• Dark Wood
• Dark Wood can be hard to harvest because of how the trees interfere with being able to see easily, the darkness in the biome, and the dark grass. It's even harder to spot at night.
• There is a trick to gathering it easily, but I don't really recommend it because it destroys the look and feel of the biome:
• Remove all trees.
• Plant two green trees from the Plaza there. If the ground is green grass you can further repave it with something light coloured to make the Dark Wood stand out.
• Stop harvesting the white "Dry Wood".
• What then happens is only Dark Wood needs to spawn, so that is all that will respawn every 30 minutes. And because wood drops near trees, and you have control of where the trees are located, they will spawn near the green trees you've placed, meaning it will be easy to find and pick up.
• To help with visibility when you are harvesting at night, you can go to Settings and adjust the light to daytime. This does not adjust the time, just the amount of light, as if it were a different time of day.
• Another way to help quickly scan for Dark Wood is to go into Furniture editing mode and zoom out. When you see a clump of wood you want, grab it and move it all to a convenient pickup location.
• Mushrooms
• Harvesting mushrooms gets bonus drops from Foraging, and they also count as Vegetables for tasks such as picking and selling Vegetables.
• Mushrooms from using your Watering Can on the red-and-purple barrier mushrooms do not count as Harvesting Mushrooms, so they do not get bonus drops or count as Harvesting Vegetables. They do count for tasks involving Picking Mushrooms.
• Dreamlight Fruit Tree - It's quite hard to find the handle but you can move the tree (see below).