Disney Dreamlight Valley Storage Strategy: How to Store Your Stuff Without Upgrading Your Bag

Dreamlight Valley is very pleasant to play overall — until you get frustrated by something simple. If you like to tackle many quests at once, or you just like to collect and carry around a bunch of pretty flowers, you’ll run into a common problem quickly: there’s not enough space in your bag.

The Problem with Bag Upgrades in Dreamlight Valley

You run out of space fast, and that’s not a problem unique to Disney Dreamlight Valley when it comes to games with bags. Diablo games, Elder Scrolls Online, World of Warcraft, Valheim, and many other RPGs and adventure games face the same problem. Bag upgrades cost money.

Here’s the problem with that in Dreamlight Valley: your initial bag upgrade is just 5,000-star coins, but after that, it’s 20,000-star coins, and that’s not an easy amount to have on hand when you’re unlocking new zones and bringing new friends home to the valley early in the game!

What in Scrooge McDuck are you supposed to do instead?!

Forget relying on bags for your items! Embrace the Dreamlight Valley Chest strategy instead. Use chests to organize and store your items. While this seems obvious, there’s a specific strategy to laying out your chests.

Ideal Storage Chest Placement in Dreamlight Valley

You’ll eventually get a stove in your house as well as a crafting station (if you haven’t already). However, Mickey and Goofy both have stoves in their homes in more convenient locations, closer to Goofy’s stall and multiple fishing ponds and mine-able rocks.

At your primary cooking location, set aside a place for chests. You’ll need to reorganize them over time. For example, if you organize chests for cooking, you’ll eventually want one for herbs and spices, one for fish, one for fruit and veg, etc.

Tip: When you cook, you do not need your coal or other ingredients in your bag and actively with you! They just have to be in your possession in a chest. This is one reason why it’s a great idea to store food. Additionally, food doesn’t expire or go bad.

We recommend the following configurations:

• Cooking materials

• Fish (should get its own starting chest if you like to fish)

• Building materials

• Gems (save these instead of selling when you can for fast quest completion).

• Inactive quest items (these take up lots of room in your bag — give them a place to chill)

• Combined materials, such as ingots and glass, which require crafting multiple components to make
• Completed meals

Consider placing chests near stalls. Stalls are easy to find, and that’s where you’ll go to sell materials or store them after buying. You may also want to have a room just for storage in your home once you’re able to afford upgrades.

Why Use Chests in Dreamlight Valley?

The primary reason for using storage chests relates to game progression.

Chests are inexpensive and easy to make, requiring wood and stones only. At certain points in the game, you’ll find yourself burdened with multiple quests requiring many components each. Some of these components will be quest items (unique), while others will be common. If you want to complete quests quickly to progress in the game, or if you’re more interested in the storyline than having to hunt for things, it might make more sense for you to spend some time grinding to acquire and store components.

You can also gather components more efficiently when you have places to put them. Consider spending the day with a companion of each type (mining, fishing, etc.) then storing your rewards. When you get a serious surplus of one item type, that’s when you should sell.

Save Flowers — Yes, Really

You should also consider keeping a storage chest for flowers. While most flowers aren’t worth much money, they do make excellent components for dye, and some characters respond especially well when you give them flowers, leveling up their experience faster.

While it’s always fastest to give characters exactly what they’re looking for (indicated in the lower right of your screen when you say you have a gift for them), many will level you fast if you give flowers. Surprisingly, Mother Gothel is one of these characters. Who knew that this gaslighting stereotype had such as soft spot for flowers?

Fortunately, furniture items don’t take up slots. This means you don’t need to store your unused furniture in chests or anywhere else. This also means that chests don’t count as taking up space in your bag. You can keep a surplus and take them with you to place near stalls in new zones. Simply go to furniture mode, select chest, and place.

Tip: There are multiple quests about decorating different areas of the valley and other zones! Chest placement counts as one of your ten items when you are required to “decorate.”

Unfortunately, Dreamlight Valley doesn’t yet have customizable signs such as Valheim, so you can’t create signs to hang over your chests indicating what’s in the chests. Instead, keep a simple list on a sticky note so you remember which chests contain which item.

Instead of chasing that expensive bag upgrade, consider upgrading your home, stalls in various zones, and unlocking more zones via exploration and the castle. Don’t regret being unable to afford that cute new outfit at Scrooge’s place just because you spent all your money on a bag upgrade.

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