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Keeping yourself organized in Disney Dreamlight Valley can be tricky. The magic-infused adventure game sees you juggling multiple friendship quests and main storyline missions, so it's only natural that all the items you farm, grow, and scavenge on the way can leave you with one heavy backpack.
Disney Dreamlight Valley: Collect 'Em All: Strangers from the Outside! Quest Walkthrough
Help Buzz rescue the lost toys in Disney Dreamlight Valley!If you've got stone and sand piles coming out of your eyes, you may want to see a doctor about that. Alternatively, let's check out some tips and tricks that will help you master your inventory management skills in no time, leaving you plenty of space to store those strange bits and bobs from across the Valley.
Updated March 27, 2023, by Zoë J. Osik: We've updated our guide to include all the different types of chests you can make and what colors they come in! We've also added some tips on making a storage room in your house (or houses) to help keep everything organized.
How To Sort And Build Chests
Everyone starts with one inventory chest in their small townhouse in The Plaza and a few rows of backpack space to carry key items around. One way to save yourself some room is to understand which materials you need to have physically on you and which can be used directly from your inventory box.
The following items should be stored in the inventory box in stacks of up to 99 pieces:
- Food ingredients, such as vegetables and fruit. These are used from your inventory whilst you cook and do not need to be in your backpack.
- Night Shards and Dream Shards can be used at a Crafting Table directly from your inventory.
- Quest items that you don't need at the moment.
- Spare building materials such as sand, stone, cotton, or iron ore.
If you complete Mickey's final friendship quest, you will gain access to four more storage boxes in a special secret room in the Castle. You can leave items in here for safekeeping if you wish.
Not all quest items will stack, such as the green bottles needed for the Crystalline Green Potion.
How To Build More Chests In Dreamlight Valley
You can build more chests. That's right--you're not restricted to the one lonely box in the corner of your house. However, the buildable ones are not expandable, so you will still be limited and need to manage your space carefully.
You could try to make one box for each type of item, such as one box for food, one for quest items, and one for building materials. However, this depends upon your personal preference - and how many rooms you have in your house.
Chests are craftable from a Crafting Table, which is given to you by Scrooge, found at Scrooge's Store, or located outside Goofy's House. They can be made from the following resources:
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Chest Name |
Materials |
Items Held |
|---|---|---|
|
Small White Chest |
|
16 |
|
Small Blue Chest |
|
16 |
|
Small Yellow Chest |
|
16 |
|
Small Red Chest |
|
16 |
|
Small Green Chest |
|
16 |
|
Medium White Chest |
|
32 |
|
Medium Blue Chest |
|
32 |
|
Medium Yellow Chest |
|
32 |
|
Medium Red Chest |
|
32 |
|
Medium Green Chest |
|
32 |
|
Large Chest |
|
48 |
|
Large White Chest |
|
48 |
|
Large Blue Chest |
|
48 |
|
Large Yellow Chest |
|
48 |
|
Large Red Chest |
|
48 |
|
Large Green Chest |
|
48 |
Invest In Your Home And Backpack
Aside from storage chests in every corner of the map, you can also cough up some money to expand your main storage box and add more space to your backpack. You'll need to rake in a fair amount of cash for this; spend it either inside your backpack by clicking the + icon or going to the Scrooge construction signs outside and inside your house.
Expanding your home gives you more room in your storage box while investing in your backpack gives you more wiggle room with that portable inventory.
Expanding your inventory can be pricey, though. Setting you back 20,000 to 50,000 Star Coins per upgrade, you'll benefit from the increased space in your portable and storage inventories, which can be a massive help as you progress further into the game.
Floordrobe Everything
If you believe in the tradition of "waste not, want not," and if you're not opposed to a spot of healthily-organized chaos, we have a solution for all this mess: rather than grumbling and gathering it up immediately, leave unnecessary materials on the ground where they spawn.
Items left on the ground don't de-spawn, so they will always be there in droves should you suddenly need 200 pebbles - and trust me, you will because some things in the Valley don't make sense.
You can collect items in your backpack in stacks of up to 99 pieces and then drop them anywhere on the map to pick up later in the game. It's tempting to sell them on for Star Coins, but since resource-gathering can be time-consuming in Dreamlight Valley, you'll thank yourself for the life hack.
This also applies indoors! If you leave an item or stack of items indoors, whether in your home or on the floor of Chez Remy so you can make more food, the item(s) will still be there when you come back later.
Some items, like vegetables, only stack up to 50.
Build A Storage Room
You can also build a storage room in your house to help keep things organize. Crafting signs and labeling them accordingly can help you organize everything into large chests, which will make it much easier to find what you're looking for.
In the furniture menu, navigate to Storage. Items like Scrooge's Safe and wardrobes double as a chest with 16 spaces so you can build a storage room in style.
Instead of signs, if you're more of a visual person, you can set counters behind the chests and place items on top to show what's in each chest. This enables you to see right away what items are together, whether you want to color code all of your items or you want to decorate a bit more.
