How to complete A New Directive in Disney Dreamlight Valley

It's time for an adorable reunion.

The player taking a selfie with Eve and Wall-E.
Screenshot by Dot Esports

After being separated for far too long, you can finally help Eve and Wall-E reunite during her A New Directive quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley. Eve will feel lost after relinquishing the Royal Hourglass to you, so she’ll need your help finding a new purpose.

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Working through this quest is an essential part of developing Eve’s storyline and furthering your friendship with her, so you need to know how to complete A New Directive in Disney Dreamlight Valley.

How do you unlock A New Directive in Disney Dreamlight Valley?

A New Directive is a friendship quest you unlock with Eve after first meeting a couple of prerequisites.

  • Purchase the A Rift in Time expansion pass.
  • Reach level two friendship with Eve.
  • Complete Eve’s Directive Danger! quest.
  • Finish The Flying Metal Nuisance quest to unlock the Royal Hourglass.

Once all of these prerequisites have been met, you can then interact with Eve to start this adventure.

The player taking a selfie with the "flying metal nuisance," also known as Eve.
You have to obtain the Royal Hourglass she’s protecting first. Screenshot by Dot Esports

Disney Dreamlight Valley A New Directive quest guide

The goal of A New Directive is to help Eve find a new purpose now that she’s no longer diligently protecting the Royal Hourglass, which results in her finally reconnecting with Wall-E. All of the tasks you undertake for this quest involve exploring Ancient’s Landing.

Feed two Monkeys in A New Directive in Disney Dreamlight Valley

The first step to helping Eve is tracking down two monkeys to feed. These critters can be found all around Ancient’s Landing but each one has its own unique schedule and part of this biome where they can be found.

Monkey TypeBiomeSchedule
Beige MonkeyThe Ruins in Ancient’s LandingSunday: All day
Monday: 12pm to 12am
Tuesday: N/A
Wednesday: 12pm to 12am
Thursday: All day
Friday: 12pm to 12am
Saturday: N/A
Black and Brown MonkeyThe Courtyard in Ancient’s LandingSunday: 12pm to 12am
Monday: N/A
Tuesday: 12pm to 12am
Wednesday: All day
Thursday: 12pm to 12am
Friday: N/A
Saturday: All day
Black and Gray MonkeyThe Ruins in Ancient’s LandingSunday: N/A
Monday: N/A
Tuesday: 6pm to 12am
Wednesday: N/A
Thursday: N/A
Friday: N/A
Saturday: N/A
Red and Beige MonkeyThe Overlook in Ancient’s LandingSunday: N/A
Monday: 12am to 12pm
Tuesday: All day
Wednesday: 12am to 12pm
Thursday: N/A
Friday: 12am to 12pm
Saturday: All day
Classic MonkeyThe Docks in Ancient’s LandingSunday: All day
Monday: All day
Tuesday: All day
Wednesday: All day
Thursday: All day
Friday: All day
Saturday: All day

Once you’ve found a Monkey, you then need to play tag with it to feed it its favorite food. Monkeys appreciate any meal that is three-star or higher, so cook up any dish fitting this rating or better to appease two of these creatures for Eve.

How to unlock The Overlook in Disney Dreamlight Valley

After the Monkeys have been fed, talk to Eve again and then follow her over to The Overlook region of Ancient’s Landing. To progress further in this quest, you must unlock The Overlook which costs 6,000 Mist.

If you don’t have this much Mist available, you might need to return to this quest later as you explore Eternity Isle to unlock more. You can obtain more Mist by completing Mist Duties, using the Royal Hourglass to uncover treasures or clear away Swirling Sand, finishing quests, and removing Splinters of Fate.

The player talking to Eve about Wall-E.
She’s determined to set up a grand reunion. Screenshot by Dot Esports

Once you have enough to open The Overlook, head inside with Eve and follow her all the way down to the small secret beach. Talk to her again and she will say this used to be a secret garden she shared with Wall-E, so you need to fix it back up before they can reunite.

Head out of the secret garden and The Overlook region for the next part of the quest to trigger which involves gathering resources to fix the garden. Your next goal is to find a BnL Picnic Blanket, a BnL Trashcan Planter, and some flowers.

Where to find BnL Picnic Blanket in Disney Dreamlight Valley

The BnL Picnic Blanket can be found inside any Swirling Sand mass around Ancient’s Landing. Its exact location will vary for every player, but you must use your Royal Hourglass tool to uncover it.

I found mine in a Swirling Sand mass directly in front of the hidden cave you previously visited during The Flying Metal Nuisance quest.

The player standing by the BnL blanket.
The Swirling Sand was right by the entrance to this cave. Screenshot by Dot Esports

Where to find BnL Trashcan Planter in Disney Dreamlight Valley

The BnL Trashcan Planter can also spawn in any Swirling Sand around Ancient’s Landing. I ended up finding this item before the other one but you may come across them in any order.

For me, the BnL Trashcan was at The Docks in some Swirling Sand immediately to the right of Goofy’s Stall.

The player standing by the BnL trashcan.
Just keep clearing Swirling Sand until you find both items. Screenshot by Dot Esports

Gather flowers in A New Directive in Disney Dreamlight Valley

The next resource you want to fix up the secret garden for Eve and Wall-E’s big reunion is flowers, so now you need to go around Ancient’s Landing working to find the right ones.

  • Three Orange Birds of Paradise: Found in The Docks and The Courtyard in Ancient’s Landing.
  • Three Yellow Birds of Paradise: Found in The Docks and The Courtyard in Ancient’s Landing.
  • Three White Birds of Paradise: Found in The Docks and The Courtyard in Ancient’s Landing.
  • Red Luminescent Flowers: Found in The Overlook and The Ruins in Ancient’s Landing.
  • Jade: Found in The Courtyard and The Overlook in Ancient’s Landing.
All the materials needed for the A New Directive quest.
You need a lot of materials to fix up the garden. Screenshot by Dot Esports

For all of these resources except Jade, you just need to wander around the correct area and pick the flowers up as you find them. Jade isn’t a flower but is listed as part of the overarching gather flowers task, so for this material, you need to mine rock spots around the appropriate biomes to find it instead.

After gathering all of the right materials, return to Eve once more. She might be wandering around the valley anywhere, inside Scrooge McDuck’s Shop, dining at the restaurant, or sleeping depending on what time it is. Once you talk with her, Eve will set up the secret garden and then finally have her highly anticipated reunion with Wall-E.

The last part of this quest is simply to snap three photos of this duo reuniting, so once you do this the quest will officially complete. Talk to Eve to finish it and she’ll let you know her new directive is to tend to the garden and hang out with Wall-E, so you’ve now successfully helped her discover her new purpose.

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Kacee Fay
Staff Writer at Dot Esports covering new releases and a wide array of topics including Minecraft, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Phasmophobia, general gaming, streaming, and more. She has been avidly writing and gaming her whole life and now spends her time combining the two. Kacee graduated from San Diego State University in 2021 with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Certificate in Creative Editing and Publishing. She then joined Dot Esports as a Freelance Writer in 2022 before transitioning to a Staff Writer in 2023. In her spare time, she enjoys buying more books than she can read, gaming alone or with friends, drinking too much tea, attending concerts, fangirling over movies and television, listening to music, and spending time with her family, friends, and pets, who are the most important parts of her world.