It’s time to add a couple new friends to Dreamlight Valley. Joy and Sadness from the Inside Out movies have a new realm door in the castle.
Getting Joy and Sadness to the valley won’t be simple, so you can use this walkthrough to help. There will be multiple quests on this adventure, and you can use the table of contents below to jump right to any of the related quests.
Prerequisites To Get Joy And Sadness
Good news! There is really only one prerequisite before you can begin your adventure to welcome Joy and Sadness to Dreamlight Valley.
You’ll need to make sure you have at least 15,000 Dreamlight. Once you have that, you’ll just need to head to the castle and open the new door.
You’ll also want to make sure you have some free pocket space before heading into the new realm. You can also equip a couple pets to increase your pocket space if you end up needing more while finding Joy and Sadness.
Emotional Rescue Quest
When you unlock the door to get to the Emotions, your plans will be foiled. A memory orb will pop out of the door. You’ll also automatically receive the quest ‘Emotional Rescue’.
After picking up the orb, chat with Merlin. He’ll explain that the memory orb is incomplete and therefore, unusable to power the door. You’ll need to add elements of joy and sadness to complete the orb.
You’ll need do the following to restore the orb:
- Cook any dish that makes you happy.
- Take a picture of night thorns.
Place the completed orb back in the Inside Out Realm door. Enter the Inside Out Realm.
Once you enter the realm, you’ll come face-to-face with Joy in the Emotion Headquarters. It seems the console, a sort of control panel, has seen better days. Talk to Joy to find out what happened.
Help Joy by searching the headquarters for the missing parts, then reinstall them in the console. The area is simple to explore, and the parts are easy to locate. They should be lying on the floor, and should sparkle when you approach.
You should find the following parts lying around:
- Envy Button
- Broken Caution Connectors
- Curiosity Adjuster
- Broken Caution Grips
- Curiosity Sliders
You’ll also need to use the crafting station in the headquarters to make 1 set of Caution Sliders. You’ll find the crafting recipe for them in the ‘Functional Items’ tab.
Interact with the console and reinstall the items. Talk to Joy, then follow her to the routing control area. Talk to her again once she has the quest marker above her head.
Interact with the red buttons to flip the levers so they all are lying down, in other words, a horizontal position. You’ll have 4 consoles total to control levers.
Routing Button Puzzle Answer
Interact with the routing console with both a green and red lever on it.
Next, interact with the one next to it which has only a green lever.
Cross to the other side of the room to find additional consoles.
Interact with the routing console showing a blue lever and green lever.
Next, interact with the routing console to the right. It should show a red lever and a green lever.
Once you’ve fixed the memory routing problem, talk to Joy.
| If you can’t seem to access the “talk” option for Joy (or Sadness later), you may need to push her away from the main console area. She’ll try to run back to the console, but if you’re speedy, you should be able to talk to her as she makes her way back. |
Now that you’ve got the memories flowing again, Joy needs your help finding Sadness. You’ll need to make sure you’re wearing the right gear though.
Find and equip a Mind Worker Helmet, and Mind Worker Gloves. Use the elevator at Headquarters to visit Long Term Memory.
Where To Find Safety Gear
You’ll find the safety gear in the lockers beneath one of the ramps.
Joy should be standing next to the “elevator”, and it will now have one of the realm exit patches on it. This completes the ‘Emotional Rescue’ quest, and gives you a new one, called ‘Out Of The Blue’.
Out Of The Blue Quest
In the Long Term Memory area, you won’t be able to proceed until you’ve flipped levers to reveal a path. Use the routing consoles to flip levers.
Routing Console Puzzle Solution
- Interact with the routing console showing a red lever and a blue lever.
- Interact with the console with the single blue lever.
You’ll find pages lying on the floor, or on the walls as you explore the area. To find Sadness you can also follow the rows of blue memory orbs. They’ll be the blue ones on the bottom rows of the memory shelves.
At times, you may encounter a memory orb with an effect surrounding it, such as music notes. You can interact with them to obtain memories which might help inspire Riley.
Since Long Term Memory is a bit of a maze, use the blue memory orbs that are along the bottom row as a guide to lead you to Sadness. You’ll have more flipper lever puzzles to access different areas of Long Term Memory.
Long Term Memory Maze Walkthrough
After you solve the puzzle to open the path for the Long Term Memory maze, enter the maze and travel to the left. Follow the path, and at the next doorway take another left.
You’ll encounter another set of shelves to move with the memory routing consoles. Solve the puzzle to continue through the maze.
Routing Console Puzzle Solution
- Interact with the console showing the blue, yellow, and green levers.
- Interact with the console showing a yellow lever, and red lever.
Talk to Sadness when you locate her. She could use your help retrieving memory orbs so they don’t turn into sad memories.
You’ll need to collect a total of 4 memory orbs. Return to the other areas of the maze blocked by flipper routing consoles.
Long Term Memory Maze Walkthrough Continued
From the room where you meet Sadness, follow the path until you come to the dead end with the next set of flipper routing consoles. You won’t need to go through any doorways until you encounter the console puzzle.
Routing Console Puzzle Solution
- Interact with the console on the left which shows a yellow lever, and a red lever.
- Interact with the middle console which shows a yellow lever, and blue lever.
Return to the maze entrance for the last set of flipper routing consoles. Solve the flipper puzzle to access the remaining memory orb.
Routing Console Puzzle Solution
- Interact with the middle console showing a blue lever, and a red lever.
- Interact with the console on the right showing the green lever, and the red lever.
- Interact with the last console on the left which shows just a green lever.
- Interact with the console on the right again, with the green lever and red lever.
When you’ve found all 4 memory orbs, talk to Sadness. Be prepared to follow Sadness through Long Term Memory to get back to the entrance area.
When you get back to the entrance talk to Sadness again for more instructions. You’ll need to use the white console with 4 spots for memory orbs to send the memories to Headquarters.
If you’re not sure about the console location, Sadness should be standing next to it. Interact with the white console to place the memory orbs. Interact with it again to officially send the orbs to Headquarters.
Talk to Sadness once you’ve sent the inspirational memories. Use the exit spot to return to Headquarters with Sadness.
This will complete the ‘Out Of The Blue’ quest, and give you a new quest called, ‘Dream On!’.
‘Dream On!’ Quest
You’ve delivered the 4 inspirational memories to help Riley. After you return to the Headquarters, talk to Joy to see what she thinks of the memories you sent.
Follow Joy to find the entrance to another Dream Production area. Interact to enter the new area.
You’ll find yourself in a studio with a piano on the stage. Talk to Joy to hear her plan.
You’ll need to enter the ‘Furniture’ mode from your inventory and place 3 gold-trimmed furniture. You’ll find the furniture you can use for the stage, by moving to the left while in decorating mode.
There will be a tiled area with quite a few furniture pieces to use for creating the setting on stage. Simply drag them over to the stage to place them, just as you would with any normal decorating.
Talk to Joy once you have the stage set up with at least 3 pieces of gold-trimmed furniture. The next step is to access your ‘Wardrobe’ from inventory.
You’ll need to dress in “elegant” clothing. You can use the quest shortcut that appears under the ‘Requests’ section in your wardrobe to make finding suitable items easier.
After you’re wearing at least 3 suitable “elegant” wardrobe pieces, talk to Joy. You’ll need to sit at the piano to progress the quest.
The quest will update to tell you a day has passed, and you’ll need to talk to Joy. After your discussion, return to Dreamlight Valley.
Place the Remote Headquarters somewhere in the valley. To unlock the Remote Headquarters, you’ll need to spend 10,000 Star Coins to build it.
Welcome Joy to the valley, then talk to her. You’ll need to collect materials for the light stick.
Collect the following:
- 1 Topaz
- 1 Apple
- 1 Seaweed
- 1 Blue Falling Penstemon
- 1 Carrot
- 1 Onyx
Bring the materials to Joy. This will complete the ‘Dream On!’ quest, and give you the ‘Get Up And Glow’ quest.
Get Up And Glow
It’s time to try another Dream Production. Return to the Inside Out Realm. Talk to Sadness when you arrive.
Go back to Long Term Memory with Sadness. Talk to Sadness once you’re there. Remove any rocky rubble behind the white memory orb console with your Royal Pickaxe.
Head through the doorway behind the white console after removing the rubble. Follow the pathway until you reach a set of three Routing Consoles.
Collect 4 Pop Concert Musical Memories from the area. These should all be in the area you just revealed behind the white console.
Routing Console Solution
- Interact with the console on the right which shows blue, yellow, and red levers.
- Interact with the middle console which shows yellow, green, and red levers.
Continue in the area, following the wall on the right till you come to another Routing Console Puzzle.
Routing Console Solution
- Interact with the console on the left, showing the blue, green, and red levers.
- Interact with the middle console showing the green and red levers. You should have found a Lost Control Button from removing the rubble. Insert the button to “fix” the controls.
- Interact with the middle console again if the green and red levers didn’t change position.
- Interact with the console on the right showing the yellow and red levers.
Follow the wall on the right to get to another blocked room. This one has three consoles, but there are no levers displayed on the leftmost console.
Routing Console Solution
- Interact with the console on the left. The blue lever should move.
- Interact with the rightmost console showing the blue, green, and red levers.
You should already have located 4 memory orbs, but this room will contain a green treasure chest and a Bright Bulb Lamp along with a memory card.
Talk to Sadness when you have all the memory orbs. Return to the entrance of Long Term Memory and interact with the white console to place the memories.
Interact again to send the memories to Headquarters. Talk to Sadness again, then return to the Dream Production room. You’ll need to go exit Long Term Memories first to get back to Headquarters.
Sadness will be standing next to the Dream Production entrance in Headquarters when you get there. Talk to Sadness once you’re in the Dream Production room.
Enter ‘Furniture’ mode from your inventory, then place colorful furniture from the right-side tiled area onto the stage. You’ll need to place a total of 6 pieces on the stage from the pre-selected furniture on display.
Next, talk to Sadness then change your wardrobe to something “bold”. You need to look the part of a pop-star, after all.
You should be able to use the quest shortcut under the ‘Requests’ section in the wardrobe to find pieces that are suitable. Once you’re wearing at least 3 suitable clothing pieces, talk to Sadness.
Use the microphone on stage to progress the quest. You’ll need to talk to Sadness to see if your new plan worked. Return to Dreamlight Valley and welcome Sadness. Talk to her after the welcome to complete the quest.