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How to complete Feeling Joyful in Disney Dreamlight Valley

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There are many unique and tricky missions to get done throughout Disney Dreamlight Valley’s Memory Mania event. Many of these tasks are quite tricky to navigate and get done, as is the case with the Feeling Joyful duty.

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All of the tasks you’ll face throughout this event only provide their names as vague hints meant to guide you in the right direction. It’s not really enough to go off of, though, so you’ll likely need some help figuring out how to complete Feeling Joyful in Disney Dreamlight Valley.

Feeling Joyful in Disney Dreamlight Valley

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To complete the Feeling Nostalgic task for the Memory Mania event, you need to find and remove Birthday Cakes to fully piece together an Inside Out memory. For this task, the memory you need to complete features Joy celebrating while surrounded by confetti.

Birthday Cakes drop pink Memory Shards, each of which has a chance of dropping a memory piece for you to recover. Not all Memory Shards are guaranteed to have one, though, as you might find Star Coins instead. You need six pieces to finish this memory, but you’ll likely need to find more than six cakes since there’s a decent chance a few of them will be Star Coins instead.

Where to find Riley’s Birthday Cake in Disney Dreamlight Valley

While most event items are found around the regular valley, Birthday Cake is a bit trickier to find since you must venture into certain Realms to acquire it. You can only find this item in three of the many Realms you can visit throughout the Dream Castle, including:

  • The Moana Realm
  • The Wall-E Realm
  • The Ratatouille Realm
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In each of these Realms, the Birthday Cake can be found randomly on the ground. It’s a small, circular pink cake with the number 13 on top, making it fairly easy to spot from afar. It’s also marked with golden sparkles to help distinguish it from other items.

Only one Birthday Cake spawns in each hour, and up to two can be present at any given time. This means it’s crucial you check for them frequently so you can make room for more to spawn in. I recommend starting with the Ratatouille Realm, then the Wall-E Realm, and ending with the Moana Realm, since each one progressively gets a bit bigger.

Feeling Joyful reward in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Fully piecing together the Inside Out memory for the Feeling Joyful duty unlocks the Ennui Raven Companion as a reward. This critter is inspired by the character Ennui from Inside Out 2 and can be equipped as a Companion at any point once unlocked. There’s no other way to add this animal to your collection, so finishing this quest while the event is active is crucial if you want to recruit them.

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If you want to unlock even more Inside Out-themed Companions and other special items, there are plenty of other duties to get done in this event. Next, consider working on Feeling Accomplished, MemorabiliaGet Nostalgic!Spark Joy, and Embrace the Blues.


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Kacee Fay
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Staff Writer at Prima Games & Destructoid covering a wide array of topics including Disney Dreamlight Valley, Fortnite, Marvel Rivals, Minecraft, Phasmophobia, general gaming, 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 joined Dot Esports as a Freelance Writer in 2022, transitioned to a Staff Writer in 2023, moved to Destructoid in March 2025, and joined Prima Games in September 2025. 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.