Huge thank you to everyone in my discord for helping me come up with this list <3

to add on about crafting: you only ever need to craft at least one of the item, and as long as you have it in your furniture inventory you can buy as many of them as you'd like from scrooge! saves you materials especially those gemstones, though this doesn't work for paths and fences

8:22 for the decorate each area quest you don't need to craft or place anything. Simply picking up any decoration already there (tree, rock, bush etc) moving it one square and putting it back down again counts. So you can literally do them all for free in about 2 minutes.

Always use five raspberries per fruit salad!

Awesome list. A couple things: you don't have to click on a well on the map to fast travel to it. Just hit "Y" with the map open and it'll pop up an area select. Way faster than scrolling the map around to find a well to click on.

As for my personal favorite tip: I've been trying to earn all of the pets in the game, and recently learned an insanely helpful fact. If you go to the collection page and scroll down to "critters," you can not only see all the color variations of all obtainable pets (with those you've yet to obtain less "solid" looking), it will also tell you which specific ones are currently in their respective biomes. That way you don't have to go there and search all over just to find out if the ones you need are currently present in-game. This has saved me so much time.

And yes... I am way too addicted to this game. At least I know I'm not alone in my addiction!

Suddenly “don’t go wasting’ my shards…I couldn’t if I tried” stuck in my head, to the tune of don’t go breakin my heart.

Carrots are not 5.5x several websites have their sell price incorrectly at 55, they actually sell for 44. If you look at profit per minute of growing time, wheat is techincally the best at 3 coins per minute, however because it needs to be replanted so frequently it's tedious and is beaten out by others. Canola is the best for active play. You can plant about 100 canola in 5 minutes and then 35  minutes to grow for a profit of 8400 in 40 mins, or 210 coins a minute, pumpkins, the next best are quite far behind at 39,800 for 4 hours 5 mins, for a profit of 162 a minute. You can make about 50k from canola in the same amount of time. Carrots are about the same as pumpkins at 40k a minute, but require more micromanagement.

For periods of inactive play like when you're sleeping pumpkins are best as you're only going to get one harvest so it should be the one with the biggest profit. Spend 20 mins before quitting to plant a couple hundred pumpkins and wake up to a few hundred k in the morning.

Omg!!! Moving the fountain to get to areas you otherwise can’t get to never occurred to me!!! And I even knew they could be moved. Wow. Thanks for that!

If you need to talk to a villager you can go inside then back outside their house and they will be outside to greet you

Hey there! Just an fyi, Aquamarines are only used for blue lighting. You could also use topaz, garnet, emerald or sapphire depending on the recipe. One to match the ones in the plaza uses topaz. I hope this helps. I love your videos! ❤️🏰🌄

This game has me addicted. Playing on xbox here now on the game pass, and holy crap ive teared up already when wall-e even spoke because hes THAT cute, and ive giggled so much too. Also Scrooge Duck ive yelled at like a mom bc his attitude is ferocious when you don’t upgrade things 😂

If you play on switch- try to avoid entering your house with a buddy. This seems to be the thing that most frequently crashes my game or I get stuck in the door with no way to go in or out.
Place a chest or 2 outside your house so you can empty your inventory frequently without going into your house
Place crop holes in 2 by 3 configuration for efficient watering (this might be switch specific)
The game auto saves frequently but its a good idea to manually save before quitting.  It can be found on the settings menu.
Different crops require different amounts of watering- look on your map to see if your crops need watering
A fruit salad with 5 fruits gives a good amount of energy and its basically free because trees are able to be harvested quickly
If you make a meal with the same ingredients- they will stack in your inventory.

A tip I saw elsewhere. If you have your crafting bench in your storage and go to scrooges shop ask to order something and storage benches are only 1 star coin. I bought one for each area.

Wow, hands down most helpful video I’ve seen on here or tiktok about Dreamlight!! I’ve been waiting for certain windows to pop back into the shop for AGES — had no idea I could put them in my inventory and just order them gahhhhh! Also I’ll say I do time travel, but ONLY forwards. Backwards is what breaks the game and makes things unforagable/unharvestable. If that happens, you have to get back to the last date you had it set to before the break, or back to current time if you had the clock on real time before the break.

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet or not but you're also able to fast travel to any previously unlocked castle location if you click on the castle in maps.

Moving the wishing well to the area you can’t get to was a brilliant idea!! I wouldn’t usually use a hack but in Merlins final quest, you need mushrooms that don’t spawn due to a glitch as soon as you accept the quest. So moving the well gave me the rest I needed to complete!! 😊

The thing about moving the wells is a lifesaver, honestly. There are certain quests that say things like "Harvest 50 mushrooms!" or whatever, for the Merlin quest, in order to unlock the ability to get rid of the giant mushrooms with your watering can. Well...I harvested all the mushrooms on the side that was accessible, and I didn't get enough to finish the quest. ALL of the mushrooms and flowers and whatever that I needed were spawning on the OTHER side, the inaccessible side. How can I harvest mushrooms to finish the quest that will let me remove the giant mushrooms, if the giant mushrooms that I can't yet remove are blocking the path to all of the mushrooms I need to harvest?!
Needless to say, I was stressing out thinking my save file was essentially broken and I wouldn't be able to complete the quest. Then I saw the tip for moving the well on a forum somewhere, and I was finally able to complete Merlin's quest to remove the giant mushrooms. Yikes! I feel like they need to rework the spawning mechanic for resources to make sure there will always be at least a few on the accessible side, so people who may not know the well trick don't get locked out of completing quests.

Don't sell the flowers. Ever. You need really specific ones throughout the game. So yeah. As tempting as it is to sell them cuz you feel like there's tons, just don't.
/at least for now/

Instead of manually searching for a wishing well in the map, go into the Map and hit Y (for Switch users). You get a menu of the unlocked wishing wells. Hit R and you can do the same but for the Realms

the tip on how to cover up the holes with the bigger items blow my mind. thank you so much. i hated covering them back up