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It is always calming to enter the world ofDisney Dreamlight Valleyto farm and decorate your house. It can be easy to forget that there is a dark story at play. Decorating the valley makes The Forgetting less scary, but it’s still very much there..
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The Forgotten is still at large, and you can access the final quest that completes this story by following the steps outlined below. The Dark Castle quest is your last chance at defeating The Forgotten, so we wish you the best of luck.
Please be warned that this article contains story spoilers for the last story mission in Disney Dreamlight Valley.
How To Initiate The Quest
To unlock The Dark Castle quest, you first must havecompleted ‘The Forgotten Relics’quest with Merlin.
You must first completeThe Fairy Godmother’s quest, ‘What’s Left Behind’,and thenwait a daybefore ‘The Forgotten Relics’ quest becomes available. This quest requires you to look for important items in villagers’ lives, and after completing these quests, Merlin will want to speak with you.
Merlin will grant you access to The Dark Portal to finally deal with The Forgotten once and for all, so prepare yourself.
How To Enter The First Door
Once you enter the castle, there will be a strange door before you. You can speak with it, and it will recognize that you are familiar, but something is missing. The door doesn’t recognize you as The Forgotten, and you need entrance.
How To Disguise Yourself As The Forgotten
There are two ways you candisguise yourself as The Forgotten. As you level up your player, you will get rewards of the Celestial, Thorny, and Nightmare themes. From player Level 26-40, you will getThe Forgotten-themed items.
If you are high level and have received these rewards, all you need to do is put on theThorny Wingsfrom Level 38 and theOnyx Crownfrom Level 40.
You can still disguise yourself as The Forgotten if you have not acquired these rewards yet. There is awardrobe to the right of the room, and inside there is aClothing Bagwith Cardboard Wings and a Cardboard Crown that matches that of The Forgotten.
Either pair of clothing items will let you pass through the door.
How To Enter The Second Door
The Dark Castle grounds will be riddled with Night Thorn. You must clean your way through each level.
Because of this, you shouldbring foodwith you to replenish your energy.
The next door will havea recipe book next to it containing a riddle. There are also ingredients on a table to the left. You must decipher the riddle tofind out the recipeneeded tofeed the doorand pass this level.
These are the notes you need to bear in mind:
Using this information, you can figure out that the recipe for Night Thorn Sprout Salad is as follows:
Then, all you have to do isfeed the meal to the door to enter.
How To Enter The Third Door
The next door is simpler. At first glance, there is no door, only a wall with an arch. There isa note next to the wall that explains the way to reveal the door is by using a mechanical eye.
This means the lens on your cellphone. All you have to do here isstand in front of the door, take out your camera, andsnap a picturewith the wall in the background.
The door will appear after you take the photo, allowing entry.
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How To Enter The Fourth Door
The last door requires you toplace torches in the correct locationto access the next area of the castle. These torches are titled by moon cycles and must beplaced on the correct pedestalaccording to this cycle.
One torch will already be on the ground in front of the locked door. The others are stuck inside ice boulders, which you mustuse your pickaxe to break.
In ice on the right-hand side.
On the pedestal closest to the locked door.
After placing each torch on its respective pedestal, the warmth from them all will melt the ice block above the well. A key is stuck in this ice block, which will then fall into the water.
Use your fishing pole tofish out the key.This will unlock the door.
How To Defeat The Forgotten
After the last door, you will meet with The Forgotten. This will spell the end of The Forgotten’s evil journey. You two will fight, and then you will be teleported to an empty room.
In this room, memories will appear that you will have to revisit with The Forgotten. For each memory,you must use your magic on the furniture item to return it to its original form.
During this journey, it is revealed thatThe Forgotten is the child versionof yourself that got left behind when you grew up, and you welcome the child inside you back in.
After going through your memories with yourself, The Forgotten will heal. Together you two will use magic to remove the rift between worlds.
The Forgotten and yourself will return to the valley, where they will no longer be against the valley, and the villagers will forgive them.
The Dark Portal in the plaza will continue to be accessible, so you can revisit The Dark Castle any time.
The Dark Castle Secrets
Aside from the cutscene at the end of this quest indicating a new villain will arrive in the valley, there are more secrets to uncover in The Dark Castle.
By following the hidden Mysterious Golden Potato questline, you will eventually access the Rainbow Potion. To activate this potion, you must head back to The Dark Castle and interact with thestone statue of a foxon the first floor.This will grant you a Rainbow Fox companion.
You will need to return to The Dark Castle to restore the pillar on Dazzle Beach. By returning to the castle, you will find aportal exit next to the first door. Entering this will teleport you to another floor in the castle. The Unity Orb will be here. Bring it to the pillar in Dazzle Beach to begin a new quest!
