The Glittering Dunes is a desert-themed biome in Disney Dreamlight Valley's A Rift in Time expansion as a landscape with ancient structures, sandy hilltops, and quicksand-like sandfishing. Unlocking all areas in the Glittering Dunes is also necessary to progress with Jafar's main story quest and to continue with friendship quests set by Gaston.
In total, there are four areas to unlock within the Glittering Dunes, beginning with the Plains. However, some players might wonder how they unlock The Plains and the rest of the map areas within the sandy biome. While time-consuming, unlocking all Glittering Dunes map areas is pretty straightforward once players know how to.
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How To Unlock The Glittering Dunes
The Glittering Dunes is a map biome area that players can unlock by completing The Sands in the Hourglass quest and using 2,000 Mist to fix the broken bridge. Doing so unlocks fixes it, unlocking the first area within the Glittering Dunes called The Plains, plus enabling players to reach the first part of Wild Tangle. However, there are also several more map areas within the Glittering Dunes for players to unlock.
How To Unlock All Glittering Dune Areas
The Glittering Dunes contains three more areas to unlock across Eternity Isle's map, all of which require players to get Mist fast to unlock them as quickly as possible, as detailed below:
The Oasis
- Mist required - 6,000 Mist
The western part of the Glittering Runes is a map area called The Oasis, which players can unlock by collecting 6,000 Mist and interacting with the swirling sand blocking the way at the bottom of the stairs to the left of The Plains, as pictured below. Once players unlock The Oasis, they can harvest foraging resources like Cactoberries, which only grow there, fish for Duneboppers, Prisma Shrimp, and more.
The Wastes
- Mist required - 4,000 Mist
The Wastes is an area in the Glittering Dunes that players must reach to complete Diamond in the Rough where they can find the Cave of Wonders. However, to unlock the Wastes, players must obtain 4,000 Mist and interact with one of two swirling sand blockades in front of Gaston's shipwreck as highlighted on the map below, which uses the power of the Hourglass to unlock the area.
The Borderlands
- Mist required - 10,000 Mist
The Borderlands is the last area to open in the Glittering Dunes, costing 10,000 Mist to unlock. However, unlocking The Borderlines is necessary to complete Your Eternal Reward.
Players can unlock The Borderlands at one of three possible entrance points, with one located near the pillars in The Plains and the remaining ones on the west side of Wild Tangle. Unlocking one of these entry points unlocks all of them, so it doesn't matter which one players choose.
Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Platform(s)
- PC , PS4 , PS5 , Switch , Xbox One , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S , Apple Arcade
- Released
- December 5, 2023
- Developer(s)
- Gameloft
- Genre(s)
- Life Simulation
