How to earn Star Coins fast in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins
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Earning Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins is crucial as it's the game's main currency and is used for buying food, furniture, and clothes from shops, as well as unlocking and upgrading certain buildings. Scrooge McDuck has a tight, feathered grip on the Disney Dreamlight Valley economy, so you'll need to hand him your Star Coins in exchange for for his cosmetics or construction services if you want a nice, new outfit or another shop for Goofy to run, for example.

Although, there are plenty of ways to earn Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins quickly, from pulling them out of the ground, or selling valuables for a large profit. If you're looking to bolster your finances, then this is how to earn Star Coins fast in Disney Dreamlight Valley.

Earn Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins by removing Night Thorns

Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins

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One of the fastest ways to earn Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins is to remove as many of the Night Thorns as possible. They're everywhere and grow in new places each day but are very easy to get rid of as you only need to interact with them. Sometimes they drop seeds when you remove them, while occasionally you'll receive a Dream Shard that can be used to get more Dreamlight in Disney Dreamlight Valley, but more often than not, a Star Coin will come flying out to increase your balance when collected. You won't get loads of Star Coins for each thorn you destroy, but the coins will start adding up and this is a really easy and reliable way to get coins each day.

Earn Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins by selling items to Goofy

Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins

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After working with Scrooge McDuck to patch up Goofy's Stall in Peaceful Meadow, you have the option to earn Star Coins in Disney Dreamlight Valley by selling your surplus items there. You can exchange pretty much anything in your inventory there for cold hard cash, though meals from food recipes in Disney Dreamlight Valley are the most lucrative as they become more valuable than the sum of their parts – for example, you can sell a Catfish for 550 coins and a Carrot for 44, but combine them at a stove to cook a Grilled Fish Entree and that can be sold for 772, earning you almost 200 extra Star Coins for very little additional effort. You can even make crudites in Disney Dreamlight Valley then sell them on for a small profit!

Earn Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins by opening chests

Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins

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Another way to earn Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins is by opening chests, which you should be doing whenever you spot them anyway as they're a valuable source of new items. You'll find chests inside buildings, out in the wild, and even buried underground or within rocks sometimes, and although the color of the chest generally denotes what you'll receive from them, every chest has a random chance to drop some money at the same time. Yellow chests are the most lucrative, as they always provide a generous amount of Star Coins.

Earn Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins by leveling up characters

Disney Dreamlight Valley Star Coins

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The last way to earn Star Coins in Disney Dreamlight Valley is by leveling up your friendships with the various characters you meet during your adventures, as at certain points you'll receive bonus coins as your reward – this is currently 500 Star Coins at Level 4 and 1,000 when you reach Level 7. To improve your friendship with the Villagers, hang out with them while you complete tasks, have Daily Discussions with them, and bring them gifts. Each Villager will have three favorite gifts assigned, which changes every 24 hours of real time, and if you can give them one or more of those you'll be leveling up rapidly.

We've got lots of other Disney character and friendship tricks here in our Disney Dreamlight Valley tips guide!

Iain Wilson
Guides Editor

Iain originally joined Future in 2012 to write guides for CVG, PSM3, and Xbox World, before moving on to join GamesRadar in 2013 as Guides Editor. His words have also appeared in OPM, OXM, PC Gamer, GamesMaster, and SFX. He is better known to many as ‘Mr Trophy’, due to his slightly unhealthy obsession with amassing intangible PlayStation silverware, and he now has over 500 Platinum pots weighing down the shelves of his virtual award cabinet. He does not care for Xbox Achievements.