How to complete The Chronicles of the Ancients in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Disney Dreamlight Valley has many uniquely challenging quests for you to complete, most closely associated with beloved Disney characters.

How do you unlock The Chronicles of the Ancients in Disney Dreamlight Valley?

“The Chronicles of the Ancient” is Belle’s level 10 friendship quest, but it has a few prerequisites you’ll need to meet before you can begin it, including:

Achieving level 10 friendship with Belle
Unlocking Ariel
Unlocking The Fairy Godmother
Unlocking the Frosted Heights biome

Disney Dreamlight Valley The Chronicles of the Ancients quest guide

Once you’ve unlocked “The Chronicles of the Ancients” quest, you can officially start it by heading to the Beast’s castle and reading Belle’s journal page there. This page is near the mystery-solving corner you previously set up for Belle during “The Best Mystery Solver” quest.

Head back to Belle and chat with her until you conclude that you need Ariel’s help since you need to travel to an island, according to the diary page. You can then track Ariel down to converse with her, as she should be somewhere around the valley—unless she is sleeping.

After talking with Ariel, head over to the edge of Dazzle Beach by Skull Rock and the raft that takes you to the island you rescued Ariel from. Board this raft, and you’ll end up on the island.

The player and Belle standing on an island by a partially hidden chest, — This chest is stuck, so you won’t be able to open it right away. Screenshot via Dot Esports

Proceed down the beach until you find a dark treasure chest stuck in a rock just a short distance from the raft. You’ll then need to walk up to it and interact with it, but it will be too heavy for you to move, so you should head back to the valley to chat with Belle and ask the Beast for help.

Before recruiting the Beast to your team, you’ll need to gather some materials to make freeing the chest easier. You’ll need:

Four Ropes
Two Iron Ingots

Bring the materials to the Beast, and you will successfully recruit him to your team. You should then head back to the island. Before setting off, an optional task asks you to change your outfit into something that includes three Rustic items fitting for digging up treasure, but this is optional and can be bypassed if you don’t want to do it.

Head back to Ariel’s island using the raft on Dazzle Beach, and Belle, Ariel, and the Beast will join you. Talk to the Beast, and he will officially free the chest for you.

The player taking a selfie with a chest that has a scroll on the front of it. — A strange scroll will guide you through the next part of this quest. Screenshot via Dot Esports

Walk up to the chest and interact with the strange scroll attached to the front of it. This will unlock a memory that includes a series of strange symbols, so talk with Belle about what you’ve found.

After conversing with Belle, you’ll realize you must take pictures of four strange symbols hidden around the valley for the next part of this quest.

How to find The Chronicles of the Ancients symbols in Disney Dreamlight Valley

It would help if you found four symbols for The Chronicles of the Ancients quest, all pictured within the memory you unlocked from interacting with the treasure chest. These symbols are described as follows.

One on Ariel’s beach
One under the eyes of icy peaks
One near watery ruins
One in the darkest part of the lands

Four symbols depicting four different locations. — Each symbol represents one unique area you’ll need to visit. Screenshot via Dot Esports

You can find these symbols around the valley at night and need to take a picture with each one to finish this piece of the quest. While most quests that involve nighttime require you to wait until evening in your local time zone, you can use the “Offset Time of Day” feature to make it look like night and progress in this quest immediately.

Head to the Disney Dreamlight Valley “Settings” page and the “Graphics” section. Scroll down until you see “Offset Time of Day” at the very bottom of the page. Drag the bar until any time that will make it look like night based on your local time zone, and you can then set off to find the four symbols.

The offset time of day feature highlighted in the settings menu. — The visual time of day can be changed at any point using this feature. Screenshot via Dot Esports | Remix by Kacee Fay

Tip: Doesn’t have to be night

While seeing the symbols at night may be easier, you can start or complete this part of the Quest immediately. The symbols portion can be done at any time.

You can find the hidden symbols even when it isn’t night, but they’re pretty tricky to see unless it is night or you turn it to night visually. Make sure you only use the graphics setting to change it to night and avoid time traveling since this might break your game.

Ariel’s beach symbol in Disney Dreamlight Valley

As long as you have yet to return to the valley, the first symbol is located right near where you are standing on Ariel’s beach. This symbol is on a rock to the right of the treasure chest.

The first symbol on Ariel's island. — Belle isn’t being very helpful here. Screenshot via Dot Esports

Under the eyes of icy peaks symbol in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Head back to the valley and go to the northeast corner of the Frosted Heights biome to find the second symbol. Immediately to the left of the cave that houses the mysterious talking portal and the place you probably already rescued Olaf from, you should see the second symbol carved into the rocky wall.

The second symbol in the Frosted Heights biome. — Merlin just had to be included. Screenshot via Dot Esports

Near watery ruins symbol in Disney Dreamlight Valley

To locate the third symbol, navigate the swampy Glade of Trust biome. Proceed to the north edge of the biome, where you’ll find a sizeable lake that a waterfall from the Sunlit Plateau biome is cascading down into.

You’ll find the third symbol on a rock at the lake’s edge near the middle area.

The third symbol in the Glade of Trust biome. — This biome is quite dark, so this one is especially tough to see. Screenshot via Dot Esports

The darkest part of the land symbol in Disney Dreamlight Valley

The fourth symbol is hidden in the darkest area of Dreamlight Valley, the shadowy Forgotten Lands biome. Walk over to the northwest region of this biome, and you’ll find the final symbol by the purple ruins near the edge of the area.

The fourth symbol in the Forgotten Lands biome. — Once you’ve found this symbol, you can then move on with the quest. Screenshot via Dot Esports

Once you have snapped a photo with all four symbols, head to the Beast’s castle and unlock the treasure chest transported there while searching for the symbols. Take the broken contents to Belle before heading to The Fairy Godmother to fix it.

To repair The Chronicles of the Ancients, you must gather the following resources for The Fairy Godmother.

One Sapphire
10 Gold Ingots
Three Vitalys Crystals
Five Dream Shards

Bring all of your gathered materials back to The Fairy Godmother, and she will repair The Chronicles of the Ancients for you. Return to Belle again, and she’ll ask you to place The Chronicles of the Ancients near the Dreamlight Library.

Once you have completed this final step, converse with Belle one last time, and you will officially finish the entire “The Chronicles of the Ancients” quest and maximize your friendship with Belle. She will reward you with a stunning Royal Gold Ballroom Gown based on her iconic dress and a Royal Gold Ballroom Suit.

So, there you have it. Everything you need to know to complete ” The Chronicles of the Ancients” quest in Disney Dreamlight Valley. Feel free to refer back to this guide as much as you need. Enjoy!