As an avid player since the early access launch, I‘ve thoroughly explored the magical realm of Disney Dreamlight Valley. After over 60 hours completing quests and forging friendships with Disney icons like Moana and Scrooge McDuck, I‘ve unlocked some sensational secrets hidden throughout this virtual valley.
One of the most exciting adventures that opens up is the epic multi-part quest known as "The Final Trial", given by none other than the great wizard Merlin himself.
In this ultimate challenge, Merlin tasks you with gathering rare ingredients to upgrade your watering can to its maximum potential. Completing The Final Trial allows you to wield more powerful plant magic to nourish your valley and dissolve pesky mushrooms blocking pathways and bridges.
I‘m delighted to share everything I‘ve uncovered about succeeding in this quest and claiming the wonderful rewards. In this complete Final Trial guide, you‘ll discover:
- Step-by-step instructions for each phase of the quest
- Exact locations to obtain the three rare crafting ingredients
- Growth times for the tricky Ice Heart plant
- Tips to collect mushrooms quickly
- How to clear the giant mushroom blocking the bridge
- And awesome rewards awaiting victorious wizards!
Let‘s prepare to pass Merlin‘s trial and prove we are champions of the valley!
Prerequisites: Unlocking The Final Trial
Before you can undertake The Final Trial quest, you first need to:
- Invite Merlin to the valley (complete his quests after the green fog clears)
- Reach maximum friendship level 10 with Merlin
Merlin the Wizard
Once you attain friendship level 10, Merlin will appear with a quest indicator above his head. Speak to him to receive the "Can You Spare a Shard?" quest to officially start your final trial!
If Merlin does not yet offer the quest, just keep completing daily and friendship activities with him until the quest unlocks.
Starting The Final Trial
When you accept Merlin‘s quest, he will explain the grand task ahead:
"I‘d like for you to embark on one final trial. Your watering can could still become MORE magical. For this final step, I will require the following…"
Merlin instructs you to provide three rare crafting ingredients to create an enchanting ointment for the ultimate watering can upgrade:
- Falling Water
- Ice Heart
- Mushrooms x25
He also gives you 5 Ice Tear seeds that must be grown into the glacial Ice Heart plant — an important step along the way.
First, let‘s break down exactly how to find each obscure ingredient…
Finding the Falling Water
Falling Water simply refers to water from a waterfall. Conveniently, there is already a lovely waterfall on the south edge of the Glade of Trust:
The Glade of Trust waterfall
Approach the pool at the base of these waterfalls. When near the tumbling water, you‘ll see golden sparkles emanating from one spot. Interact with the sparkles to bottle up some of the mystic liquid and obtain 1 Falling Water for your quest. Simple as that!
Growing the Glacial Ice Heart Plant
Unlike the waterfall water which can be instantly collected, acquiring an Ice Heart takes some agricultural effort.
First, the Ice Tear Seeds provided by Merlin must be planted and nurtured into maturity before they bestow an Ice Heart as their final harvest.
Here is the complete process for successfully cultivating this frosty flora:
Take at least 1 Ice Tear seed to a gardening patch in any biome. Clear away any obstacles from a patch of soil first.
Equip your shovel and dig up a large plot for planting seeds.
Open your inventory, select an Ice Tear seed pack, and confirm to plant 1 seed in the dug up soil.
Use your watering can to saturate the planted seed 4-5 times until you see the baby sprout emerge from the ground.
Let the Ice Heart plant mature completely until sparkles appear. This takes 30-35 real-time minutes.
Interact with the sparkling plant to harvest your prize — 1 magical Ice Heart!
I planted my seeds in the Peaceful Meadow which seemed fitting for these chill little ice plants. Having Mother Gothel‘s clearing skill from her friendship quest came in very handy for preparing plots quickly too.
Here is the full growth cycle timeline I recorded for the Ice Heart plant:
| Growth Stage | Real Time | Sparkles Appear? |
|---|---|---|
| Planted seed | 0 minutes | No |
| Baby sprout | 2 minutes 30 secs | No |
| Midling sprout | 7 mins 20 sec | No |
| Mature plant | 35 minutes 10 secs | Yes! |
Be sure to check on your Ice Tear plants at least 3-4 times while growing to keep them watered as needed until harvest time.
With 5 seeds from Merlin, you‘re covered to harvest the 1 Ice Heart necessary for the quest. But any extra Ice Hearts may prove useful for future crafting endeavors… 🌱
Foraging for Mushrooms
Compared to the Ice Heart‘s lengthy cultivation process, gathering the 25 mushrooms Merlin requires luckily doesn‘t take too long. Mushrooms generate daily around the Glade of Trust biome after rain showers.
Bring along an animal companion like Remy or Daisy Duck while scouring for fungi to maximize mushrooms collected per forage.
Before mushroom hunting, be sure to clear any obstacles like rocks or twigs around the area mushrooms might spawn. This gives them room to spread each night which equates to more harvests for you!
As an avid gardener myself, I typically collected 5-8 mushrooms per day checking after each rainfall in the early afternoon. Within 4 in-game days, I had amassed the 25 required specimens scanning near the village ramps and bridges where they tend to flourish.
If you need supplemental mushrooms to reach 25 quicker, your standard watering can allows carefully clearing 3-5 mushroom segments at a time without damaging them entirely. Just don‘t go overboard eradicating them!
Crafting the Watering Can Upgrade Ointment
Once you have all three crafting ingredients secured (Falling Water, Ice Heart, and 25 mushrooms), open the recipe book at Goofy‘s Stall or any crafting station around the valley.
Navigate to the "Miscellaneous" recipes category to locate the Royal Watering Can Upgrade Ointment. Double check you have the required reagents before crafting:
- 1 Falling Water
- 1 Ice Heart
- 25 Any mushroom variety (Gleaming, Violet, White, etc.)
With all components available, select Craft to prepare the sparkling upgrade ointment for Merlin. It contains all the magic needed to improve your watering can to its maximum power level!
Completing The Final Trial
Upgrading the Watering Can
After successfully crafting the enchanted ointment, return to Merlin‘s cave with the potion in hand. Access the designated cutscene point by his enchanting altar to continue the quest.
Our wizardly mentor will set your ordinary watering can into an effervescent machine while reciting a fantastical incantation:
Abracadabra abba labba labba zim. Enchantum maximus aquamus canimajora! 🧙
In a poof and flash, the ritual finishes and Merlin returns your newly upgraded Royal Watering Can! Its sleek golden shell glints with supernatural energy.
This magnificent can has the power to quickly dissolve small-to-medium sized fungal growths with a few water splash attacks. We‘ll soon put it to the test!
My powerful golden watering can
Vanquishing the Giant Mushroom
For the grand finale of our trial, Merlin requests that we demonstrate the newfound might of our upgraded can by unplugging a massive mushroom hindering one of the bridges.
The obstructive fungi in question sprouts near the east bridge by Scrooge McDuck‘s item shop and Goofy‘s stall. Equip your royal watering can upon arrival.
Target and blast away at the giant mushroom with multiple water attacks until it surrenders and dissolves completely!
This may require between 6-10 charged shots depending on your aim. The scourge of this bridge has now been cleansed thanks to Merlin‘s enchantments. Huzzah! 🌈
Claiming Victory Rewards
Return and speak to Merlin one final time to claim completion of The Final Trial.
For proving ourselves as champions of the valley in this quest, Merlin grants us the greatest gift of all:
The Wizard‘s Hat – A pointy blue hat and golden monocle allowing you to truly look and feel the part of a magical horticultural master.
The sense of wizardly wonder I felt upon donning this hat after besting The Trial brought me right back to being a kid again. ✨
I‘ll surely be wearing it on my future escapades while nurturing new life around the valley or vanquishing any dastardly thorns and mushrooms causing chaos!
In addition to unlocking the wizard hat vanity item, you will also retain the supremely useful Royal Watering Can permaneantly. Its formidable abilities open up new strategies for maintaining paths and cultivating crops to their highest potential.
I hope Merlin hosts an annual Wizard Convention in the valley soon where we can all show off our wizardly glad rags! Maybe next to the Wishing Well… 🤩
Triumphing Over The Final Trial: Key Takeaways
If certain aspects of this multi-step quest still seem hazy, I understand! Allow me to leave you with the key points:
🚿 Collect Falling Water from the Glade of Trust waterfall (golden sparkles mark the spot)
🧊 Grow the magical Ice Heart plant using 1 provided Ice Tear seed
🍄 Forage 25 mushrooms from around the Glade after rainfall
🌈 Craft the Royal Watering Can Ointment using the Falling Water, Ice Heart, and mushrooms
🎩 Claim Merlin‘s epic Wizard Hat vanity reward once you finish!
With the insights provided in this guide detailing the finer points of The Final Trial, I have utmost faith that your success is assured. Soon you‘ll unlock boundless new magic as an honorary Disney Dreamlight Valley wizard!
Now if you‘ll excuse me, I see some Night Thorns in need of dissolving and Rainbow Flowers longing to unfurl… 🌈
Let me know if you have any other questions down below and happy questing, my fellow wizards!
