Does anyone remember Disney Dreamlight Valley’s colored potatoes from last year that turned into a whole episode of potion-crafting for one companion? After days of redeeming codes, looking for random colored objects, and making a bunch of potions, I got the rainbow fox that I’ve been adventuring with ever since.
Fast forward to 2024, and we have a new mystery on our hands in the form of Default Sludge. What is this odd recipe? What do you need to make it? Why is it only worth one coin? There are more questions than answers, and unfortunately, there isn’t much to go off of yet. One thing is certain: my potato-collecting adventures from 2023 instantly came to mind as I realized it would take more than tossing a marshmallow into a cooking pot to make this peculiar recipe.
For those uninitiated, this tuber event that I’ll call the Rainbow Potato Party from now onward was a series of item-collecting that started with a code. This code, GPOT-OATO-LDFS-ENNM, gave you a golden potato that you eventually turned into a carrot, crab, and, after a while, a Gleaming Gold Potion. For a while, no one in the Disney Dreamlight Valley community knew how to use it, and we weren’t prepared for the wild adventure that began shortly after.
After some time, we discovered more potatoes. They covered every color of the rainbow, but at this point, we had no clue where it’d lead. I spent hours a day over several days cooking a weird red ice cream of sorts, searching around the village for a bunch of glowing blue items, and finding teeny tiny orange pebbles that tested my skills in hidden object games. To this day, I still consider the Rainbow Potato Party one of my favorite parts of Disney Dreamlight Valley, especially since it helped me form some lasting friendships with others in the community.
What were we talking about again? Oh, right, the Default Sludge. At the moment, we know very little about this dish and its purpose. At first, it seemed like a quest item for Princess Tiana or Jafar during the Dapper Delights update, but those theories quickly dissipated after realizing not a single item worked for the dish. Once we heard about the End of Summer event a few days later, that sounded like the obvious solution to this mystery, but that also led to no results. I even tried checking if I could toss a second Golden Potato in, but there was no option for it. Right now, we’re back to square one.
Do we just give up on this mystery then? Well, not exactly. If I’ve learned anything from the Rainbow Potato Party, the answer can come at unexpected times. There are all kinds of possible solutions to this, from another mini event coming soon to us waiting for the next major content update next month.
Solving Disney Dreamlight Valley’s weird little mysteries between questing and building friendships makes things interesting. Sure, we might not get Default Sludge’s recipe for a while, but at least we’re having fun trying new things. It’s just a matter of time before new items appear to unlock this recipe. It looks like it’ll be a quest item judging by its low Star Coin and energy values, but only time will tell. It could also be a dish that remains vaulted forever or even disappear at any point. I just hope it’s part of a fun quest or at least involved in a puzzle of some kind.
Published: Sep 5, 2024 04:38 pm