Disney Dreamlight Valley's Honeyglow Woods expansion kicks off properly with Chapter 1: All You Need is Honey, the quest where you meet Winnie the Pooh for the first time and get your first taste of beekeeping. This quest picks up immediately after the Prologue wraps, so if you've already planted the tree sprout and stepped through the portal into Drowsybloom Acre, you're already in the right place. Here's everything you need to finish it without backtracking.
How to start Chapter 1: All You Need is Honey
The quest triggers automatically the moment you complete the Prologue: Childhood Treasures and enter Honeyglow Woods through the tree portal. There's no separate trigger to find. Just follow the wooden bridge path down from the portal and you'll spot Winnie the Pooh standing in the center of Drowsybloom Acre.
Meeting Pooh in Drowsybloom Acre
Talking to Winnie the Pooh and clearing Honey Swirls
Pooh is a little disoriented when you first find him, but the conversation quickly gets to the point. Honeyglow Woods has a problem, and the two of you are going to fix it together. Your first task is removing the Honey Swirls surrounding him. Interact with each one to clear them out, then pick up the small honeypot that appears afterward and hand it to Pooh. That exchange leads directly into a game of hide-and-seek.
Where are Winnie the Pooh's hide-and-seek locations?
Pooh has four hiding spots across Drowsybloom Acre. Each time you find him, you take a picture to confirm the discovery before he moves to the next spot. Here's where to look:
After the fourth round, talk to Pooh again to end the game. He'll drop a Memory Shard that shows him standing in front of a stack of beehives.
What ingredients do you need to remove the overgrown Twistroots?
Following Pooh to another section of the river reveals a second Memory Shard in the form of a note about beekeeping. After discussing it with Pooh, you'll need to gather three materials to craft a Diggy-Wiggy Potion:
- 3 Oak Leaves — found under tree stumps and fully-grown trees nearby
- 2 Driftwood — obtained by fishing outside the river's ripple spots
- 1 Shiny Honey Agate — drops from mining rocks that have exposed gems, just like regular minerals in the base game
Once you have all three, return to Pooh and craft the potion. Using it lets your shovel break through the overgrown Twistroots blocking the path to the Busy Bees' boxes.
Crafting the Diggy-Wiggy Potion
How to craft the Busy Bees' House
With the Twistroots cleared, you can collect all four Busy Bees' boxes. Two are sitting behind the Twistroots you just broke through. The other two are in the middle of the river's ripple spots, so switch to fishing to pull them out. Head to the crafting station next to the cabin and combine all four boxes to build the Busy Bees' House.
Bring the finished structure back to Pooh. This triggers a short beekeeping tutorial explaining that the house needs to be placed near wildflowers to produce honey. Place it anywhere in Drowsybloom Acre, then surround it with flowers.
How long does it take to get Golden Honey?
Even with 6 flowers placed, the minimum wait is 10 minutes for one Golden Honey to appear. The game fills that time with three optional tasks:
- Clear 5 Honey Swirls (they drop small amounts of currency)
- Pick up 5 Oak Leaves
- Gather 5 Driftwood
These aren't just busywork. Oak Leaves and Driftwood come up again in later quests, so stockpiling them now saves you a separate gathering run. Clearing Honey Swirls also tidies up Drowsybloom Acre and gives you some coin. Use the wait time to explore the biome and learn where its resources spawn.
Cooking the Honeycrunch Bar
How to finish the quest: making the Honeycrunch Bar
Once your Golden Honey is ready, head to the cooking station near the cabin. Combine the Golden Honey with one Sweet Chestnut (found in the tree next to the cabin) to cook a Honeycrunch Bar. Give it to Pooh to complete Chapter 1: All You Need is Honey.
This quest sets up the core beekeeping loop that runs through the rest of the Honeyglow Woods story, so the mechanics you learn here carry forward. For the next steps in the expansion, the Prologue: Childhood Treasures walkthrough covers everything before this quest if you need to revisit it.
For more quests across the full expansion, the Disney Dreamlight Valley guide collection has walkthroughs for every major story beat in the adventure games genre.