Solve these Disney Dreamlight Valley Mystical Cave puzzles to descend into the cave, retrieve the Orb of Power, and complete the ‘With Great Power…’ quest. The Mystical Cave, which Ursula provides the Crystal Key for, has three Magic Gates that block your progress, so you'll have to solve their riddles to deactivate them and reach the bottom of the cave. Thankfully, these riddles aren’t particularly tricky, but you'll need a few specific Disney Dreamlight Valley items, so knowing what to bring beforehand will save you time. Here’s how you can complete the three Disney Dreamlight Valley Mystical Cave puzzles to get the Orb of Power.
- Colored gem puzzle to remove the first Mystical Cave Magic Gate
- Crop growing puzzle to remove the second Mystical Cave Magic Gate
- Cooking puzzle to remove the third Mystical Cave Magic Gate
Disney Dreamlight Valley Mystical Cave gem puzzle
Later on, you'll need to collect Disney Dreamlight Valley Falling Water and an Ice Heart for Merlin's final quest
After entering the cave, you’ll follow the path as it spirals down to the first Magic Gate. There are three statues near the gate, each with brightly colored stones in their necklaces. To solve this puzzle and bring down the gate so you can progress, you need to place a gem in the hands of each statue that matches the color of the statues’ necklace stone. If you think you've got the correct gem, just interact with the statue and then drag and drop the gem into the slot from the inventory menu. Here are the gems you need to complete the puzzle:
- Green stone statue = Peridot, mined from mineral veins in the Peaceful Meadow and Dazzle Beach.
- Blue stone statue = Aquamarine, mined from mineral veins in Dazzle Beach and the Forest of Valor.
- Red stone statue = Garnet, mined from mineral veins in the Plaza starting area and the Peaceful Meadow.
Gems are collected using your Pickaxe - one of the Disney Dreamlight Valley Royal Tools - to mine the dark mineral veins from rock walls in specific biomes. While gems are a random drops from mineral veins, sometimes the veins have colored shards poking out, which will tell you which gem you’re guaranteed to get. If you're looking around Dazzle Beach for gems, be on the lookout for Disney Dreamlight Valley seaweed too, as you'll need it for crafting and other quests!
Once you place the three gems in hands of the Mystical Cave statues with the corresponding necklace colors, the Magic Gate will deactivate and you can move onto the next puzzle.
Disney Dreamlight Valley Mystical Cave crops puzzle
For the second Mystical Cave puzzle in Disney Dreamlight Valley, you need to plant “the right crops” in front of three statues. The three Disney Dreamlight Valley crops you need you need from the cryptic descriptions are:
- “Underground” = Carrot. Carrot seeds can be found or bought in the Peaceful Meadow.
- “Gold and brown” = Wheat. Wheat seeds can be found or bought in the Peaceful Meadow.
- “Red and round” = Tomato. Tomato seeds can be found or bought in Dazzle Beach.
Using just a carrot, you can also create a very simple Disney Dreamlight Valley crudites dish too
For the puzzle, you actually need just one seed for each crop, not the crop itself. Seeds for different crops have a chance of dropping from clearing Night Thorns or can be bought at one of Goofy’s Stalls for Star Coins in Disney Dreamlight Valley in particular areas, as listed above.
With one seed for those three crops in your inventory, head to the Mystical Cave and plant the three crop seeds in each dirt patch in front of the statues. Make sure you keep them watered while you wait for them to grow. Be warned that this will take a long time, as crops grow slower if they’re planted outside their native biome - your tomato plant will take nearly an hour to grow in real time! Once they’ve fully grown and can be harvested, the Magic Gate will be gone, but make sure you harvest each crop and do not eat them.
Disney Dreamlight Valley Mystical Cave cooking puzzle
Here's where you can catch Disney Dreamlight Valley Lobsters for recipes
The third and final Disney Dreamlight Valley Mystical Cave puzzle challenges you to “cook and eat” what you’ve just grown. That obviously means you just need to use the conveniently placed cave cooker to rustle up a meal using the carrot, tomato, and wheat you just grew, however you should break the nearby rocks using your pickaxe first. Destroy the biggest rock, and a gold chest will pop out that contains a recipe book for Veggie Pasta - a three-star recipe that uses the exact ingredients you just grew.
Use the cooker to get a Veggie Pasta dish cooked and the final Magic Gate will be gone. Now you can descend to the depths of the cave to use your fishing rod to retrieve the Orb of Power, just like catching a regular fish. Take the orb out of the Mystical Cave and place it in the nearby pillar and you’ll be almost done with the ‘With Great Power…’ quest. Just speak to Ursula and then Merlin to complete the adventure.
We've got lots of other Disney Dreamlight Valley tips here to help you out when getting started. You can also get lots of bonus goodies for supporting the game in its early access stage with the Disney Dreamlight Valley Founder's packs.
