In this guide, you will learn how to upgrade tools while playing Disney Dreamlight Valley.
Your tools consist of the Pickaxe, Shovel, Watering Can, and more. Each of these items can be utilized to complete certain activities around the village, which can let you acquire minerals, fruits, vegetables, fish, and dreamlight. Sadly, there is only so much you can do with beginner tools in your inventory. As you will learn, unlocking certain biomes in the village will often require the destruction of rare objects, like coral, large mushrooms, and tree stumps. Removing these items requires upgraded Royal Tools.
What are the Royal Tools?
Royal Pickaxe
The Royal Pickaxe can be utilized to mine rocks around Dreamlight Valley. Doing this can net you many items, including Aquamarine, Emeralds, and Iron Ore. Minerals collected from mining can then be utilized to craft a number of items at any Crafting Table, as well as the ability to serve gifts to your neighbors around the village.
Royal Shovel
The Royal Shovel can be utilized to dig up patches of land to plant crops. When you interact with a given piece of land, you can establish allotments around the village, creating farms for fruits and vegetables. These consumables can then be sold at Goofy’s Stall in any of your unlocked biomes.
Royal Watering Can
The Royal Watering Can can be utilized to water crops and help them grow. Simply interact with any patch of dry soil and use the can to pour water on it and nourish it over a short period of time. Once you have given any type of crop enough time for uprooting, you can harvest it and sell it for spare coins at Goofy’s Stall.
Royal Fishing Rod
The Royal Fishing Rod can be utilized to gather fish and seaweed in bodies of water found around the village. From the ponds to the ocean, each body of water can be searched for specific types of fish and seaweed using the Royal Fishing Rod.
Royal Hourglass
The Royal Hourglass can be utilized to search through time to find lost artifacts, remove Swirling Sands, and craft new items at the Timebending Table. Many of the new items you will find with the Hourglass are necessary to create new furnishings for your village.
How to Upgrade The Royal Tools
How to Upgrade The Royal Pickaxe
The Royal Pickaxe can be upgraded twice. The first is obtainable from Maui, and the other is obtainable from Elsa. In order to claim either of these upgrades, you will need to venture through the Dream Castle and unlock their realms. These include the Moana Realm and the Frozen Realm.
To unlock the first Royal Pickaxe upgrade, visit the Moana Realm and speak with Maui. You will need to complete his Friendship Quests until you are presented with the opportunity to invite him back to the Dreamlight Valley. After Maui returns to the village, continue to progress his Friendship Quests until you receive A Tale of Stone and Fire. Prepare Maui with a meal with a five-star rating. Finish this quest to get the Royal Pickaxe upgrade which lets you break coral clusters on Dazzle Beach.
To unlock the second Royal Pickaxe upgrade, visit the Frozen Realm and speak with Elsa. You will need to complete her Friendship Quests until you reach the Breaking the Ice quest. It requires you to deliver her a Warmth of Summer Potion. The crafting materials for this item can be found in Dazzle Beach, Forest of Valor, and the Glade of Trust. This will allow you to receive an upgrade to break blocks of ice around Dreamlight Valley.
How to Upgrade The Royal Shovel
The Royal Shovel can be upgraded into the Shovel Blade, which is a tool that allows you to remove tree stumps. It requires you to invite Anna back to the Dreamlight Valley.
Complete the initial Friendship Quests until you learn how to craft the Shovel Blade. This helps you obtain useful resources like Hardwood which you can combine with various other materials to make cosmetics and furniture.
How to Upgrade The Royal Watering Can
Complete a series of Friendship Quests with Merlin to be able to upgrade the Royal Watering Can. This is achievable very early in the game. Once you receive and complete The Final Trial, you will have the ability to remove Mystical Mushrooms.
How to Upgrade The Royal Hourglass
Upon unlocking the Royal Hourglass during The Flying Metal Nuisance quest. It is upgradable at a Timebending Table and costs 5,000 Mist to begin with, increasing by 5,000 for each level.
Mist can be gathered by removing Swirling Sands, completing Dreamlight Duties on Eternity Isle, and clearing the Splinters of Fate from various biomes around the island.
Disney Dreamlight Valley is a life simulation adventure game developed by Gameloft Montreal and released in 2023 for PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and tvOS.