[ARCHIVED] Time Skipping (Do Not Do It)

[toxic hawk]

⏲️ "Help! I Time Skipped!" ⏲️
Time skipping is not recommended and is game breaking. Time Skipping was not an intention for the game and while the developers understand that there are many benefits to time skipping, there are also unintended errors. As we are currently in the Early Access period, the team will not be prioritizing issues caused by time skipping, as it is not the intended gameplay experience.

Here are the issues you may deal with:
Your Valley will become "frozen" in time. Your resources like Wood, Flowers, Spices, Mining Rocks, etc. will not respawn or be un-harvestable. Your Scrooge Store as well will no longer change daily, followed by the two character stalls.

So what now?
Unfortunately, the developer team per #📢game-news is not prioritizing this issue at this time. If you time skipped, you will need to return to your proper time, and then will need to wait until your game catches up with to the date you time skipped to. Keep in mind that this is not instant and will take some time for your game to catch up. Sometimes by a few minutes/hours, sometimes another 24 hours, but it will catch up.

For Example: You time skipped 24 hours ahead to and then returned to real time. You will have to wait until that next day at that time you skipped to in order for your game to be resynced to everything.

"But I time skipped a month ahead...Do I have to wait that month?"
Unfortunately yes as right now that is the only fix at this time. There is the option to restart your game completely, meaning restarting from the beginning in the proper real time, but keep in mind that restarting is entirely up to you.

What about changing timezones due to traveling/moving?
We haven't 100% confirmed this, but the game should recognize when a time-zone change happens, however, we have not had anyone report there being an issue or not. Even if you did run into an issue at the current time, the bugs would be there for a few hours only, rather than several days as time-zones aren't too far apart (unless of course you are moving / traveling completely across the world).

[olive bay]

What if I reversed time to the past to begin my game with the date of game launch then try to time skip forward day by day to the present date, and now resources like hardwood now doesn't spawn. Do I have to restart my game?

[worn mauve]

this post says it wasn't intended for this early in the game as this is early access. Does this mean we may be allowed to without issues in the future? Because there are a lot who time travel for other games

[toxic hawk]

This was more of a thing related to what one of the Community Managers stated in the Announcements tab but I will definitely reword it to not confuse anyone 😄

We recommend that you DO NOT Time Skip. While we understand that there are many benefits to time skipping, there are also unintended errors. As we are currently in the Early Access period, we will not be prioritizing issues caused by time skipping, as it is not the intended gameplay experience.

[worn mauve]

I know it says it's recommended that we don't do it. But there are so many who time travel and likely will continue to time travel when the game officially launches. So when the game fully launches there are going to be users who want to time travel for Other games. They will like still travel regardless of what's recommended, which is probably why so many want the real time sync to be able to be turned off

[toxic hawk]

If you are behind, it could still have some negative effects on your game. It is still very much advised that you do not adjust your time at all while playing DLV.

[flint cape]

What if i time travel on my switch for a different game but don’t open dreamlight valley and make sure i go back to present time before opening it. Will it still effect the game?

[toxic hawk]

This should be okay, yes. But cannot confirm as I haven't personally tried it myself.

[worn mauve]

thank you! Also my switch is set to 12 hours a head so at night I can play during the day. It was set like that before because of ACNH do I leave it as 12 hours a head or revert back to the actual time today and let it catch up for real?

[toxic hawk]

I highly suggest you play DLV in real time, just in case of future events and such. If you have played your game since the beginning at 12 hours ahead and you want to always play that way, that will be up to you, just don't adjust your time any further, or go backwards as you will need to wait for the game to catch up 😄

[lapis cave]

Hello, I don't have time travel but my game has all the symptoms, the McDuck's store has not changed on my game since 3 days, and any resources are respawning. Any advice I want to play for 3 days?

[toxic hawk]

Have you made sure your time is correct on your device?

[lapis cave]

yes the time is correct

[toxic hawk]

Interesting, how far are you into your progress? I might suggest if you want to of course, if maybe restart your save?

[lapis cave]

I have play 17 hours already, on pc

[winter cairn]

I just tried it for animal crossing, without opening Dreamlight. Made sure I went back to real time before opening Dreamlight and things are respawning like normal. So it’s good news it doesn’t effect it ♥️

[fickle umbra]

I do this every day and it's fine. 🙂

[worn mauve]

Yeah I thought I had it 12 hours behind as that's what I usually do for ACNH until I looked at the clock today when I realized how early it was. I worry that if I set it back to normal time to be at 4:50 pm it will mess things up ?

[lapis cave]

If i restart the game, should I get the founders gifts in my new save ?

[toxic hawk]

It will yes, but you just have to wait for the game to catch up to that time you had skipped to, which would be those 12 hours ahead. I can assure you that the game does catch up as I time skipped 24 hours and my valley is back to normal with no issues.

[toxic hawk]

Yes, your founders pack items are connected to your account 😄

[worn mauve]

Oh my sweet dragon goodness thank you so much! I really hope we can fix the in clock sync eventually as someone else suggested in another thread, I'll just have to decide what I want to do before then.

[lapis cave]

OK thank you @toxic hawk , Is there a way to know the duration for the game to synchronize again with real time?

[toxic hawk]

So mine personally was about an hour or so to go back to normal after the 24 hour skip and revert back. However, my friend who did the same thing had to weirdly wait an additional 24 hours before it came back and has been golden ever since.

[lapis cave]

@toxic hawk 24 hours game time ? Because its been 3 days for since the shop not changed.

[toxic hawk]

So I time skipped 24 hours and then went back to my real time. Which caused that issue with the game breaking. Nothing spawning, the shop staying the same, etc. I had to wait 24 hours for my game to catch up to the time I time skipped to in order for it to go back to normal. Hopefully that made sense?

[lapis cave]

Yes, but I don't have time travel so I don't know how long I have to wait

[toxic hawk]

So this sounds like your game may be bugged and may require a restart, but I would perhaps see what support says before doing that 🙂

!support

[wicked sparrow]

Customer Support contact information:

https://gameloft.helpshift.com/hc/en/66-disney-dreamlight-valley/contact-us/

[lapis cave]

Thank you very much for your help anyway, I'll wait a few more days otherwise I'll probably do a new save.

[solemn kite]

I TT for another game and must not have set it exactly right to go back into DLV - the only issue I'm having right now is that my "online connection" isn't holding for the Pixar (not in the menu or the world chests) and Cloud syncing when I trying to safely exit the game.

[sleek oasis]

This might be a good topic to pin as well. Edowen, I know I'm having connection issues still; there was a known bug with it and I don't know if that is 100% resolved yet, so that may not be entirely due to TT issues, though it could be a combination of both factors.

[opal urchin]

I’m currently having issues with timezones not adjusting. It’s been over a week in the new timezone and the game hasn’t switched to it

[solemn kite]

Ah - interesting, thank you! I typically go through the #known-issues before posting anything and, honestly, I must have completely missed that one and/or didn't think it relevant as it's a new issue for me. Much appreciated. I'll go back and re-read through there.

[sleek oasis]

Yeah it was driving me crazy cause I'm not time skipping, the event just doesn't like me!

[solemn kite]

And just as a completely random aside - I haven't had my Date/Time connected to the internet for over...2 years? Ever since ACNH I took it manual and have simply never returned it. So, how exactly is DLV aware if I'm in "real time" or not?

[worn mauve]

I'd like to know this too. I have my settings set like this too

[woven canopy]

https://tenor.com/view/captain-america-just-dont-dont-do-it-no-nope-gif-22409952

[solemn kite]

OK, so it's a combination of Nintendo flagging every manual Date/Time change (regardless of if you're sync'd or not), the fact that we're linked to a cloud account, and another possible variable. Sound about right? Would a good suggestion for now, especially for Switch users, be to unlink from the Gameloft cloud? It would probably help with other desynchronization issues as well?

[worn mauve]

Yeah there is a thread in suggestions about making this a thing for us who want to adjust the time, #1020422340372348958

[solemn kite]

There's a lot of tracking info in the game itself, and Nintendo does it enough as is. It is what it is - already bought and paid for, but the rigidity is a little uncalled for. It was the same with SWSH - TT was a huge issue in that game as well. Even if you didn't TT for that game, just adjusting you Switch would ruin your save file for a few days until it leveled out and the Raid Dens reset themselves.

[true spear]

Something to consider for next month... Those of us that use BST - does this mean we'll have to avoid DLV for an hour when the clocks go back at the end of October? 😂😂🖤

[toxic hawk]

Honestly, we have no idea. We are hoping that the game registers daylight savings.

[true spear]

So Erm... I seriously goofed. I may have fixed a bug I was experiencing... But in my excitement to get the star path - I connected my time to the Internet...

...Apparently my date was 5 days out and I hadn't noticed 😭

Am I think correctly in that my now missing fruits, rocks and crops are going to be unavailable until the game catches up in 5 days and 17 hours? 🙃

Thinking*

[dawn horizon]

I time skipped once when I first for the game to 5 hours and then on the second day I timeskipped to 24 hours before my game could naturally catch up. Can I recover from this if I just don't play the game?

Whats weird is that my gems are the only things that aren't spawning.

[dawn horizon]

Sounds likely....

Why does my store work properly and everything else work properly but my gems aren't appearing?

[true spear]

Interestingly - that's the OPPOSITE issue to me 😂 My gems are working just fine, but no rocks, crops, fish or fruit 😂

[dawn horizon]

Can we trade problems? I really need emeralds.

[true spear]

If I could trade my 22 Emeralds to get my 250 canola... I promise I would 😂

[dawn horizon]

Dude, too bad multiple or trade isn't a thing yet. I'd grow your canola so I could continue with my quests that need emeralds.

[solemn kite]

I would try going back the amount that you went forward - almost like resetting the clock in the game so that it's "correct" to the initial save file that was produced. (If you can remember when that was)

If not, yes, allowing the coding to catch itself up to the cloud save.

[worn mauve]

That's what I did. I didn't know my Switch was set 12 hrs a head, (normally my switch is 12hrs behind for acnh but I must have gone a head at some point) and I just didn't play for a day. I was too busy anyways to play that day anyways so it just caught up next time I loaded the game up

[dawn horizon]

Some of my gems came back. Does this mean my game fixed. Only 2 of them were back. Rest of my rocks have no gems in them.

[solemn kite]

Are you basing this just on looking at them? Because even if you can't see gems on the outside, there's still the chance there's some inside.

[dawn horizon]

So I should still try mining them?

[solemn kite]

0.o - yes. If you ever want new things to spawn. They can't respawn until they're gone first, right?

[dawn horizon]

I thought I had to wait until the gems grew inside the rocks and I could visibly see the gems in the rocks.

[solemn kite]

Nope- that's not how it works, doll. (Hm, that's unintentional and part of my normal vernacular, sorry, not a play on your name)

For things to spawn, they must first be removed

Many of the mining spots have gems inside, even when you can't see them. It's after a hit or two that they are revealed.

[dawn horizon]

You're right!

[solemn kite]

https://tenor.com/view/sparrow-welcome-pirate-pirates-of-the-caribbean-film-series-gif-17171224

[dawn horizon]

Yah, thanks. Was about to quit the game.❤️

[solemn kite]

Wait until Minnie sends you on quests. Much more worthy cause of quitting/throwing controllers

[dawn horizon]

Why? What does she do?

[solemn kite]

https://tenor.com/view/youre-a-devil-lady-will-ferrell-saturday-night-live-devil-lady-monster-gif-17210008

That's was me doing anything for her.

[dawn horizon]

Does she ask you to bring hard to find materials?

[solemn kite]

No, just obscene amounts of materials.

[worthy nimbus]

Surprisingly I haven’t had any issues I skip 12 hours ahead so I don’t have to play at night when I get home from work. The only issue I have is if there’s crops planted you can’t remove them until the time catches up.

[worn mauve]

Yeah that's what I usually do too lol or I'll go 12 hours behind and fix it before shutting off for the night so i can get the crops etc

[sonic pond]

Im considering "permanently" changing my computer to put me 5 hours behind to have me on a better daylight schedule. (i used to do this with my fitbit so my daily steps were accurate since i dont go to bed til 5am my time). Has anyone tried this yet? I was going to do it just before bed, so my game sleeps while it happens. I understand theres possible bad side effects, but I am just tired of only getting to see this game from a midnight viewpoint. Hopefully I dont break it to the point of needing to full reset. I just gotta see what else on my pc it will effect before i make the "move" to the other side of the states.

(Just to be clear, I don't believe in skipping back and forth to fast forward or speed up things in the game, I just want the game to be on my "wake" time schedule.)

[solemn kite]

However, even if you did believe in that - it doesn't matter. You bought and paid for this. You should be allowed to play it as you see fit. If events need to be timelocked, and it's not unheard of nor uncommon, it's easy to adjust on the back end and make it so it only comes out when the servers want it to. As an update.

[sonic pond]

I kinda gotta disagree, When you bought a game for a console, when you used to buy games for NES, SNES, SEGA. If things required a certain amount of time to pass, you didn't adjust the game, you didn't skip time to complete something faster. Not without "hacks" or "cheats". Just because newer technology allows it, doesn't mean that is how the game is intended or created to be played.

[worn mauve]

But a lot of us have been time traveling since the first AC game came out 20 years ago on the game cube. It asked you to confirm the date/time and you could say no and change it. Time traveling isn't "cheating" everyone can play how they want. Not how someone else decides to play. If I choose to travel in any of my Animal Crossing games it's My choice. Not anyone else's to make.

[sonic pond]

Just becuase you can do something does not mean you should. I fly on my pokemon go account, and I know *many people who do with me. Still not suppose to.

[worn mauve]

If I time travel in Any animal crossing game it has Zero affect on you. We play how we want. Not how you want. It's literally not cheating and no one says it's how you have to play animal crossing games. Being told this game now has to control how we play everything else isn't okay. No one should say how we play because it's our game. Not yours. Just because you think time travel is cheating doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. That's how you play but that's not how the rest of us play.

[sonic pond]

First of all, This isnt animal crossing. Second of all, Its not up to me how you play your game, and please dont make this personal. I do not think its cheating, It was a theoretical statement. Not me saying "you are cheating".
If the dev's of the game want to allow this to be a thing and make it possible then by all means have at it. But if they don't, It is their game and their creation.

Please take a step back and don't come at me like this is personal. I was not attacking you or anyone else. Nor telling you how you should play your game. I am allowed my opinions.

[worn mauve]

Sorry, it ways the way you kept repeating "Just because you can does not mean you should" that made it seem like you were implying those of us that do time travel are cheating.
And no it's not Animal Crossing, but playing DLV shouldn't force us to change how we play other games like AC (if we choose to time travel in AC) is our point 🙂 Since most of us who tt for AC do it so we're not stuck playing at night -which is what we want to do here. Not always be stuck at night.

[sonic pond]

I 100% understand not wanting to be stuck at night. I haven't gotten to the quest parts you are all at where the quest needs you to be on at certain times. But my play time has me almost exclusively playing at night, and it effects my mood after a while. I love disney so much and I get enough darkness and nighttime when i play DBD 😂

I have no bias in either direction. Pretty sure my original message was taken wrong too. Maybe I worded it badly. I was simply trying to state that my desire for a time zone has nothing to do with "constantly shifting time". Not that "I dont believe people should be allowed to do it" which seems to be how it was taken.

Its easy to get heated about things you are passionate about 🙂 I want everyone to enjoy the game, So far I love it. I just want a little sunshine too

(as for AC, I understand now that you mean you ARE TTing for AC and its breaking your DLV? I didnt realize originally why you kept talking about AC. You are right, you should be able to play other games as you have been without that breaking this tame. Maybe as long as you keep DLV closed and not running when you do your time shifts, I would think it should be ok. So hopefully it just means you cant play both at the same time. It is definetly a lot of extra steps, having to close down dlv every time you wanna do something in AC, but a temporary work around maybe?)

Bright side of it all, This is still early access and the devs have tons they are working on. So while we help then find all the bugs and errors, we are helping them make their game the best they want it to be. Unfortunetly that means we deal with the bugs. but the bugs are so worth it to play this. Ive been hard obsessed for the last week since i got it.

[soft rain]

So i just wanna ask. Before i got this game, my switch was already not synced to real time, meaning it was in 2020 because of another game that i time travel in. So based on what i read if i sync to real time, my game would have to wait about 2 years to be caught up. If i want to be synced to real time, do i have to restart my save so it doesnt cause any bugs?

[sonic pond]

I believe that is correct. However if you are prepared to restart the game anyways, May as well just give it a shot and see what happens, and restart if you have issues.

(or just stay in 2020, but that wasnt the nicest year 😂 )

[deep oracle]

I just want to be able to reset my time. I only time skipped because someone told me it would fix a problem I had on the second day. But I skipped way too far ahead and I don’t want to not play for a month waiting for it to fix itself :/ a lot of players did the same thing not knowing it would break. Just let us all reset the time with an update and then we now know not to do it again.

[ripe osprey]

Idk if you already made your decision but i currently play 2h behind my timezone (on the switch) to have a little more daylight too and i havent run into any issues yet.

[narrow oriole]

I'm pretty sure you can skip forward in time, jus not backwards.
If you set your switch from 2020 to 2022 todays date, it should have no issues as far as im aware. You wont need to wait 2 irl years 😂

TT issues from the general mass is time travelling forward and then setting your time back. which is where the catchups issues stem from.
But if you set it from 2020 forward to todays date, all SHOULD in theory be fine.

[sonic pond]

I haven't "done" it yet, because I don't know what other games or programs yet on my PC it will effect. If i make the decision it will have to be permanent until another option is made. But I'm HARD leaning.

Thank you for this information though it is helpful! So my question would be, did you always have it 2 hour back or did you change it after starting the game? I am already a week in. I am hoping that all I have to do is set the time 5 hours back, Then not play for 5 hours or more. and everything should theoretically catch itself

[solemn kite]

They only thing I noticed about going FORWARD was the upsetting of the Star Path.

Going back upsets spawn rates until it catches up

[ripe osprey]

so i was actually a few hours behind at the start because i didnt know it was real time and i always have a different time because of animal crossing. so the next day i skipped ahead a few hours so i was only 2h behind and left it there since then. idk if that helps i think you just need to try.

[viral torrent]

Question, which i sure has been asked before but I really have no idea how to search discord forums:

If I Time travel forward a day for a different game (namely animal crossing) but make sure I switch the time back to normal before I open DLV again, will that still screw things up?

[narrow oriole]

Yes, if you go forward a day and then back, it would still break DLV even if you didnt open DLV

[viral torrent]

@narrow oriole damn, that sucks. :/ thankfully I don't play Animal crossing much lately, but still.

[worn mauve]

I have done this and it hasn't causes the game to break

[worn mauve]

It hasn't for me 🤷🏼‍♀️ I've done it quite a few times honestly.

[rocky prism]

Would I need to restart my game? If I time traveled

[worn mauve]

I had my switch set 12hrs a head so I could play in the day. I set it back to match up with my time and just had to wait 24hrs for it to sync up for things to re spawn.
However, If your game is unplayable, then yes

[final isle]

Not sure if someone has asked but I'm new here but does anyone know about going back in time? 😅 I don't want to wait for another day to complete a quest, and im okay if the game needs to catch up with how many hours I went back, just don't want to break the game lolol

[worn mauve]

I went back in time but only to sync up mine with real time. Just had to wait 12-24 hours (I think it was the full 24, I was too busy to play the on day anyways lol) for crops and stuff to catch up. But I haven't gone back to say Yesterday if that's what you mean. (though my switch was back to August for ACNH, then I changed it to real time Before opening DLV)

[hidden matrix]

I want to time travel to 4am to reset the store, is it safe? it's 9:43pm rn if that matters

i don't have any plants to harvest I'm just doing The Secret Door quest and recruiting Moana

[vestal relic]

If you wanna break your game go for it

[hidden matrix]

Could someone else answer?

[vestal relic]

🤷🏼‍♀️ ok

I’m just saying we were all told to not time skip

[hidden matrix]

I just joined a few days ago

and I watched a video that said it was safe in certain context

[vestal relic]

The chat here literally says “Time skipping (Do not do it)”

[hidden matrix]

I just don't wait to stay up until 4am to catch up because my latest backup magically become corrupted with error #5

[vestal relic]

That doesn’t mean you can time skip your game

Time skipping can cause your game to break If you want to break your game go ahead and time skip

[hidden matrix]

I don't want to argue with you again, I'll ask someone else

[vestal relic]

Your gonna be told the same thing

The chat literally says “TIME SKIPPING (DO NOT DO IT)” so you would have to think “maybe i shouldn’t do this”

[hidden matrix]

🛑

[vestal relic]

I’m not arguing im stating a simple fact

[vestal relic]

I don’t know if you think you can bend the rules but that’s not how this works

[hearty dew]

Hey @hidden matrix, can I help with something?

[hidden matrix]

Well I don't think you can fix game errors can you? Not related to time travel

other than that I'm fine

[hearty dew]

Oh I just meant if there was a question I could answer

[hidden matrix]

Would skipping ahead a few hours really be so bad? Just want to get an expert advice

[hearty dew]

I've not heard of anyone who time skipped where it didn't cause issues with their game, so I recommend against it. I can't tell you NOT to, but if you do, it's at your own risk so you won't be able to come back here to get I fixed because unfortunately there's not way we know of to fix it

[hidden matrix]

That's valid! Thanks 💖

[vestal relic]

Thank you BT

I told her but she didn’t listen because she wanted an actual expert

[hearty dew]

Hopefully that helps! I would hate for your game to break 💖

[hidden matrix]

Spring, respectfully, I think it's best that you keep your distance. I won't interact with you anymore, and you can do the same for me. I would hate for another argument to start up and it's better to be safe than sorry. That's all! 💖

[vestal relic]

It’s a free server 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

You can keep your entitlement at a distance too sweetheart

[hearty dew]

Please both remember rule #1. If there are personal tensions, there's no need for people to interact with one another directly if they think it would be best not to, in order to avoid arguments. Let's be respectful of each other and give each other space if that's what maintains a peaceful environment 💖

[vestal relic]

I was just trying to help with her question

But she literally ignored my attempts at help 🤷🏼‍♀️

[hearty dew]

We always appreciate people being helpful. If your efforts are not being taken well, that's unfortunate but if things start to escalate you're also definitely free to step back and let the person seek other help. For both your own comfort and for theirs. Thanks for offering your knowledge 💖

[vestal relic]

Anytime BT

[worn mauve]

@hidden matrix Just so you know the only time traveling I did was to set my game back to real time. Originally I was 12 hours a head. I had to wait 24 hours for everything to be back to normal but it Did Not break my game. Items were available to harvest the next day. If you chose to go back and forth you would have to wait 24 hours likely for it to be fixed. Otherwise If you go forward you'll likely need to stay forward in time.
As I had mentioned above I have in fact changed my time (several times) To play Animal Crossing, however I make sure my time is real time when I open Dreamlight. I D Not have my Switch to be Synced with the Internet for time. (I never ever have since owning a Switch) and not having it synced with the internet time has not once caused any issues with Dreamlight for me. When daylight saving comes I will manually adjust it. I do not let it sync because I travel often and when changing Time Zones I do not always want my Switch to be at the same time as the province or state I am visiting, but rather keep it on my time zone. I obviously can't say if that affects Dreamlight or not as I haven't traveled out of my time zone since getting the game.

[final isle]

Thanks for the reply! I time-travelled back, not forward by a few hours and everything seemed fine so I'm okay with that hahah 🤞

[worn mauve]

Happy to help! Considering how many of us are asking for this adjustment since we can only pay during certain hours and are losing interest in the game because of it (ex those of us who work full time not as gamers and don't want to be stuck in the dark at night ) I hope they do something for us soon. The one post has over 250 likes now so we just have to wait and see I guess.

[final isle]

Agreed! It's so hard to see at night and a quest I had was kinda time-sensitive and I'm not able to play until dinner time basically 😭 glad it worked out for me but def am hesitant time skipping or anything until they sort something out

[solemn kite]

I skipped ahead 24 hours and the only thing that was thrown off was the Star Path. In order to reset it you need to come back to present time, and when you do that, you'll need to wait for the game clock to catch up in terms of spawning/crops/restocking.

Hope that helps and provides a bit of a clearer picture for you

[limpid matrix]

Small question: do you know when the day is resetting ingame ?

[solemn kite]

So, I was under the impression it was at a universal time (same across timezones) but it seems to be based off 0500 EST

I have a friend in Honolulu that plays and her stores reset at 2200 the night before mine do.

As for critters, that's midnight game time.

[limpid matrix]

Thank you!

[jaunty dust]

Are there seasonal events? I had time travelled to November for ACNH and started DV game in November forgetting about the time skipping thing. Do I now need to stay in November for DV? And will I lose out on any seasonal events or anything else if I’m playing 2 months ahead of real time?

[bright loom]

The Star Path system is inherently tied to real time. You will not be able to access it if you are outside it’s window (a month for now). We have had no seasonal events yet, so it’s impossible to know for sure, but it would seem like they would also be tied to real time.

[jaunty dust]

I guess I’ll have to restart 😭 thank you for your answer

[bright loom]

I’m sorry it’s not a great answer. The devs did not do enough research ahead of time to realize that their base audience on the switch mostly time travel for a similar game. There should be a time check at the start up screen to warn us our clock isn’t synced to game time correctly, if this was the direction they intended to go. Hopefully they fix it before it goes f2p

[jaunty dust]

Yeah that would have been great if there was a warning at the start. Hopefully they do fix it, thank you again!

[solemn kite]

You know, honestly, thinking this through - DLV is billed as a farming/sim/questing game. Pretty much targeted for everyone burnt out on AC. And why wouldn't they target that group?! It's in the top 5 highest grossing Nintendo games. Ever.

That said, you can't just change one of the biggest features that is a part of that game and expect the fan base that you targeted to agree with "because I said so". They had to know they'd just be getting a "Sure, Jan" back, right? 🤔

[shrewd pecan]

I can confirm, I just now restarted my game and my star path is as it was in my previous game with all I have unlocked so far. Also tells me I have 17 days and change left to finish it. Lol

[hollow lion]

Well I made the mistake of messing up my time because of animal crossing; and wasn’t aware of everything until further research. I can’t remember the dates I had. How do I check DLVs time to see how far out of sync it is? Scrooges shop not changing for awhile now 😢

[solemn kite]

It's going to be real time that you need to sync with at this point, I can almost guarantee it.

What's not syncing depends on if you went forward or back. Forward - Star Path locks you out and you always show as "offline" and can't sync up. Back - respawn and restock stops until you catch up to current time.

[wild cave]

So I just started playing yesterday, and I time skipped due to ACNH 🤦‍♀️. I was playing about two weeks early for no reason, so I adjusted to todays date/time. If I restart the game will the bug fix? I maybe have 30 minutes on it so far.

[solemn kite]

If you're only 30 min in and don't care about losing that, restart. Until they disentangle the game clock from the servers its a mess. And remember to not "cross streams" lol

[wild cave]

Thank you for answering!! I wanted to make sure that would fix it before I just did it, lol. :)

[solemn kite]

Yea, unfortunately for us all they have the game clocks linked to their sever clocks. So if you go forward, you lose connection to the Star Path. Back loses connection to respawn and restocking. (As well as Star Path)

[hollow lion]

How do I do that? Assuming it’s a realistic amount of time. (I’m certain I didn’t skip years).

I think I went forwards and back 🫠 I just need to know how to “catch up” with the game time. Am I supposed to time travel again? How do I know what time my game is not synced with, sorry just really confused

[solemn kite]

🤔 Honestly, the only way is to sync to today and see how long it takes for things to being to respawn. One of the fastest ways to get an actual time on it is Moana's boat. Unless it's bugged out to not register over 24 hours, it'll tell you when the next catch is due. I was 22 hours out of sync. I had to wait 22 hours for things to begin spawning again.

Does that make sense?

[frigid lance]

does anyone have a read on time traveling for AC as long as we don't open DLV? Right now my switch is on real time, if I time travel a few days ahead for AC, and then resynchronize to real-time before I ever open DLV, does this cause bugs? has anyone tried it?

[hollow lion]

ty for explaining! Just unlocked and checked Moana's boat, it says a fish in 30 minutes which seems normal. Not sure what else to do to predict when my game is normal time again 😦 My scrooge shops havent changed for over a week.

[stable pike]

I am wondering if this will cause issues when we switch off of daylight savings time in a few weeks here in (the majority of) the US.

[worn mauve]

I have time traveled for ACNH back To August, and did Not open DLV. I put my switch back to normal time Before opening DLV and have not had issues. The time on my switch has Never been synced with internet time though

[sand quiver]

So if I'm reading this right if I've time traveled I can go back to regular time and wait for it to catch up and it will be fixed ?

[frigid lance]

Thank goodness I was warned about this I would of time traveled myself

[naive zenith]

So I’m a idiot didn’t realise time travelling would break the game, did it, and now I can’t fish or do anything 😂 is there any way to fix it or I have broken my game for good 🫠😂

[solemn kite]

Nah - which way did you go? Back I'm guessing?

[naive zenith]

I went back and then back to normal time

[solemn kite]

ok - how far back? And when did you go to normal time?

Also, do you have Moana's boat finished?

[naive zenith]

A couple hours? I just needed to go back to morning. And then as soon as I got what I needed I set my clock back to normal time.

No I don’t at the moment

[solemn kite]

Ok - had you already played during the time that you opened the game? It doesn't typically affect it, but The easiest way to see if you are behind and need to catch up is to check her boat and see when the next fish is due in.

[naive zenith]

Yeah I had I guess. I’ve been playing for a few hours and not noticed anything until I needed to fish and realised I have literally no bubble spots anymore 🤣

[solemn kite]

So it just needs to catch up - If you can check her boat (if you have it at all) that's the fastest way. If not, you just gotta keep running around and/or kinda figure out how far you went back and do the math on how long you need to wait.

ie: you went back 5 hours, you need to wait 5 hours for it to sync, give or take

[naive zenith]

That’s what the boat says 🤷‍♀️

[hollow lion]

When you say wait, does that mean I cannot be playing the game?

[naive zenith]

So eventually itll just sort itself out?

[solemn kite]

You can play all you want, you just can't harvest anything that was already spawned

[hollow lion]

will Scrooge shop eventually rotate too?
Also if I choose to restart, can I import an avatar? I know it says one time per account but idk if that applies when I erase and restart?

[solemn kite]

ok - so lets say you had 10 things spawned at noon. You went back to 10am. Then back to Noon. Those 10 things will not be collectable for 2 hours

[naive zenith]

Ah okay. So eventually my game will catch up and I’ll be able to do stuff again like fish etc

[solemn kite]

Scrooge will rotate on the next cycle (whenever your day resets). As for importing avatars, not my jam so I can't help with that. Sorry

[naive zenith]

I’d rather not touch my clock ever again so I’ll wait for my game to catch up by itself without my intervention 😂 thank you for your help

[hollow lion]

No worries:) Thank you. I don’t know where my time is “frozen” at, but I just know that it’s been a week with no change in scrooges shop

[solemn kite]

You can fish now - you can always fish. Even without bubbles. It's just a crap shoot as to what you're going to get.

[naive zenith]

Aye I need squid so don’t think I’m gonna get it until my bubbles return 🫠😂

[solemn kite]

Never know... Might be surprised

No harm in trying

[frigid lance]

Looks like I’m waiting until December 31 2023 😐 that’s where I was on AC and accidentally loaded up Dreamlight 🤦🏽‍♀️

[bright loom]

If it were me, I’d just reset time correctly and then completely restart. It’s going to be difficult and not fun to try playing the game without a store and material spawn

[bright loom]

I think you can import your avatar again, just generate a new code. If you played the first week of release and had the choco croc, it will be missing now though.

[hollow lion]

aww bummer about the croc. ty for response!

update: restarted and choco croc is in my inventory! looks like you won't lose it. Am on switch.

[shrewd pecan]

You will not lose your founder pack items or your place on the star path if you restart your game. Best way to handle any issues with items not spawning. I have had limited crashes and it just feels better.

[slow cradle]

So what do I do if it's past the time I skipped to but nothing has changed?

Ps I skipped for animal crossing

[narrow oriole]

You may have to wait an additional 24hours if it hasnt fixed itself on the same day that you skipped too,

[slow cradle]

Ok thx

[bright loom]

Great news!! Hopefully you can get built back to where you were quickly!

[frigid lance]

That’s what I ended up doing….I learned my lesson though and will be double checking from now on 😅

[austere inlet]

I just moved two timezones back IRL, can I fix my switch to be accurate without bricking the game? I don't have access to wifi atm so it'd have to be manually choosing the time zone vs doing it through the internet.

[bright loom]

I’m so sorry it happened! Hopefully the warning gets put in game soon to save others all this hassle!

[bright loom]

Can you just leave it as is until you get internet and it can naturally sync on its own? I mean, some people swear it’s fine if it’s just a few hours, but I’m terrified! I’m never manually touching that clock 😂

[solemn kite]

It is fine if it's just a few hours. And if you're going back in time. You just need to then wait for the game to catch up.

I went forward 24ish, back 20, and then real time. All it needed was 22 hours to sync. You can check Moana's boat (if you have it) to see when the next fish is due to see how long you have until you can expect things to start spawning again.

They seriously need to unlink the game clock from their servers 🤦‍♀️

@austere inlet

[austere inlet]

thanks for the reply! i'm going to fix it tonight and hope for the best, lol. this really is such a simple thing they overlooked thats messing with a lot of people! crazy.

[solemn kite]

They marketed to the AC demographic...then locked out a massive component of that game that a majority of players utilize. I'm not sure what the logic was there other than it's based in Unity. 🤷‍♀️

[drowsy wyvern]

i time skipped a few days ahead a few days ago and thought it was today, i might be wrong, but i’ve also never had issues with moana’s boat, just issues with spawning anything from the ground :/ i’ve managed to get a lot done but i’ve just been waiting to see when i fast forwarded the time

[solemn kite]

I just use the boat as a clock to see when things will be spawning again since it's the only thing with an actually timer on it

[floral stag]

I didn't realize my switch clock was dated a year behind from the last time I logged onto ACNH (months ago) so it messed my game up when I logged on. I fixed it on my switch, but when I saved and went to play on my PC, I can't loot anything on my PC now and the time and date are correct here =/ Just my luck lol

[silent plank]

My switch is one hour behind real time. It was like that before starting and I didn’t notice. I must have done it for ACNH. Am I able to sync to real time or just leave it one hour ahead. It really doesn’t matter to me either way but my Scrooge keeps selling the same stuff in some of the spots.

[solemn kite]

Is there any spawning or Star Path issues in your game?

[silent plank]

No

[solemn kite]

Then I would just let it go.

[silent plank]

Okay thanks

[worn mauve]

I was expecting an Elsa gif lol

[vapid zenith]

I didn’t realize my online play wasn’t working because I wasn’t synced with internet. When I fixed it, everything online finally worked BUT it accidentally time skipped. 😑 Super annoyed they’re not prioritizing this fix on switch! Luckily I think I was only behind real time a day, so I can wait it out and see if my items ever respawn.

[sonic pond]

A **lot **of people are traveling on purpose, this is why its not being prioritized. It really sucks for those that have done it accidentally, or the few who were given very bad advice and told to travel to fix something, which ends up breaking things more.

[vapid zenith]

It’s so funny that is only the items I harvested/planted while I was playing the day before I synced it. So it’s like they purposely made it so you can’t time skip without breaking the game. Any item I didn’t harvest that day is respawning correctly. Hopefully that’s a good indicator that everything will spawn again once the time catches up!

[bright loom]

I mean, if this is how they want it… no time traveling, that’s fine. But they’ve got to have a warning!!! They have got to have a time check warning on the loading screen so people can choose!

[mortal kayak]

so in the original post, it says there’s uncertainty about crossing time zones. i’ll be traveling over a time zone this weekend, and i’m really hoping i can bring my switch, but if traveling a few states over is potentially going to brick my game even if i never open it, i’ll be forced to leave it home. does anyone have confirmation about effects of real-life time traveling?

also, separately, i have a friend whose switch is set to about a year and a half in the past (i have no idea why lmao). she bought and downloaded the game with her switch set that way, so if she travels forward to current time, will the game still be broken?

[solemn kite]

Yes - so I'm guessing you went forward and then back? As I have said before, you have access to anything that you didn't harvest/clear/pick or would have been available when you go back. Once you begin to catch up with the "correct" time things will become harvestable/mineable/etc.

[solemn kite]

And again, so what if they are? I travel for work. Maybe I'm doing it because I'm constantly in a different timezone? Maybe I'm doing it because I work in home with clients who all have different needs that require me to adjust to their wake/sleep cycle which is why I don't really have one of my own?

It doesn't matter - there's no reason for us to have to be bound to an arbitrary game server's time. For things like picking up a Shard. Or if it it's night or day.

[sonic pond]

This! So much this! All they gotta do is send a letter to us all in our little mailboxes right outside our cute little houses.

[bright loom]

I don’t think we have any solid answers yet. I would think that if you had your switch set to live time, it would naturally set itself and nothing will be hurt in your game. Please let us know what you discover if you take it with you.

[bright loom]

Or, better yet, when we log in and it’s on the main menu screen it could warn us and suggest we log back out and set clock correctly to avoid issues.

[mortal kayak]

thank you! does catching back up to “real time” fix the problems 100% of the time?

[sonic pond]

I dont know that we can say 100% it does. But from what i have seen, Usually it seems to help correct

[mortal kayak]

thanks for your answers guys if i decide it’s worth it to bring the switch i’ll let you all know what i find with it

[sonic pond]

This is all around a learning process for us all, We are testing and discovering with you. Small time shifts are less detrimental, but the larger ones can be really bothersome. I have a few friends who did a full restart just to "be done with it"

[mortal kayak]

do you happen to know anything about my friend’s case here? i would recommend she restart but she got it on her switch just for crossplay. she didn’t mention anything about her pc files being broken, but do you think changing her switch’s time and/or restarting the game would help?

[sonic pond]

I have heard that traveling forward isn't an issue, its going backwards that is the bigger problem. Id have her check her game on PC first and see if shes having any issues.
If i were here, i would uninstall the game on the switch. Fix the time to current, then reinstall if looking to cross play (which is osmething im about to do on my switch just so i can harvest my crops from bed lmao), cross her fingers and hope for the best

I imagine whichever platform in the cross play is the most in fthe future. That is the time that needs to be "caught up" to. So since the switch is in the past, I would think bringing it to the current (its future) should be ok. But again, there are no garuntees with anything during *early access *😅

[sonic pond]

Pass on the information you can, and let her decide what to do with it, and tell her our fingers are crossed for her ❤️ Hopefully you both get your games to a stable copacetic level.

[mortal kayak]

thank you!! mine hasn’t broken yet, so i’ll update with what i find if/when it does 🥲 and i’ll report back with what my friend decides!

[hidden matrix]

https://grantland.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/frozen-elsa.gif

there's one for you

[solemn kite]

https://tenor.com/view/dean-winchester-supernatural-let-it-go-dean-let-it-go-elsa-gif-20732975

[worn mauve]

It was a joke... since the comment "Let it go" so that's not even the gif I was talking about and completely ruins the joke

[worn mauve]

that's better

[hidden matrix]

it was a joke

[vestal relic]

My sentiments exactly

[worn mauve]

No you clearly didn't get my joke @hidden matrix

[hidden matrix]

nevermind

the mood is ruined

[sonic pond]

[vestal relic]

I get it!

[worn mauve]

It was ruined for me when you posted that gif honestly.

[vapid zenith]

@solemn kite yes, it was actually only a matter of hours off! It was about 6hrs ahead when I synced it. What really stinks is I can’t even access new realms in the castle. It should have caught up to regular time by now but I’m going to give it another 24hrs before I do anything drastic. Thanks so much for the intel!

[sonic pond]

Lets not get mean guys. Disney, Light hearted and happy and full of joy and wonder.

[hidden matrix]

why? because she's sad? that's the joke 😂

[worn mauve]

As someone who's brother died it's no joke Elsa's sister died.-_-

[hidden matrix]

💀

what...

[worn mauve]

Elsa's sister froze to death in that gif. My brother died. I don't Ever take that gif as a Joke. Ever.

Regardless it wasn't in any way related to the joke I made. Edowen's was. So let's be done with it.

[solemn kite]

Yea - this whole deal is a PITA, but it is what it is as of now. I would just keep checking random things. I found that as I was running around I could suddenly harvest things like spices that were "there" but didn't appear to be harvestable before. And then randomly flowers would start popping up.

[hidden matrix]

I can understand why that situation would impact you negatively, but it's a disney movie and Anna never actually died.

[fast wind]

Hellloo.

[hidden matrix]

hello!! 💖

[fast wind]

Reading up

[worn mauve]

Can you please stop and move on? I told you it wasn't the gif I was making a joke of and that I found it offensive you chose to respond with that gif. I cry Every time in that movie at that scene. So it's litterally Not a joke, and she does "die" in a sense. Please Stop. It wasn't taken as a joke and ruined it for me so we are done. Thank you to Spring and Edowen who got what I meant. And not even on topic any more. I'm not responding further about that.

[fast wind]

Do not continue whilst I get the full picture of things. Please read the #📄rules and be respectful, we don't want things escalating here.

[vestal relic]

Np dude I’m sorry some people couldn’t get what you meant and my condolences as well

[fast wind]

I don't believe Nadia intended to be disrespectful, was merely a gif of Frozen (without knowing your situation too, condolences) think things just got a bit out of hand and misinterpreted.

[worn mauve]

It came across as not a joke was my upset. When I said I was expecting an Elsa gif I was referring to something completely different. I don't view that gif as appropriate to respond in use of a joke. That's all and then Nadia wouldn't stop when I asked them to that was my other issue. I asked for it to be stopped they did not.

[hidden matrix]

yes I've also lost loved ones! I would never make fun of someone for that. I'm strong and not affected by death in movies because I know it's fiction! Especially Disney movies where death is tame if it's there at all, but I can see @worn mauve is upset by it! I hope they'll recover soon from their loss, it's never easy. 💖

[solemn kite]

Again - I think it's time for everyone to channel their inner Elsa and "Let it go"

[hidden matrix]

yeah I'm totally chill!

[vestal relic]

https://tenor.com/view/iinventedchill-mr-frost-chill-chilly-snow-gif-5084351

[hidden matrix]

I'm not easily bothered ^^

thick skin for the win! o/

[fast wind]

As you can see Nadia is clearly sympathetic and didn't intend to be rude.

[vestal relic]

May I pm you privately

[fast wind]

Of course

[vestal relic]

Wait I meant to ping toothless 😅😅 sorry!

[hidden matrix]

did anyone get my pun

[vestal relic]

@worn mauve can I pm you privately if that’s ok with you?

[worn mauve]

You can't tell someone to just recover from their loss. It's been over 20 years. We don't and will not see eye to eye on this. Just because I am effected by death in a movie doesn't make me any less strong or don't have thick skin. PTSD , depression and anxiety are all real things and anything can trigger it, they don't make anyone less strong. Just because a movie is fake doesn't mean it won't affect someone and I'm sorry but your "joke" wasn't the best one. I am done with this now and won't be responding on the topic further. But in future just please be considerate when someone says they don't take something as a joke and don't push them to do so, because that's how it felt.

[worn mauve]

Sure

[vestal relic]

Thank you

[fast wind]

As a reminder:

1. Be Kind. Harassment, abuse, hate speech and disrespect will not be tolerated.

I think its best to avoid interacting with each other to prevent further issues.

[vapid zenith]

Well it’s officially been 24hrs and my crops are still frozen and my trees won’t produce fruit. 😦 I deleted the software and am now redownloading it. I guess if that doesn’t work I will have to just restart the game.

[vapid zenith]

I decided just to play offline a day ahead and that has fixed all my issues. I’m going out of town and won’t play over the weekend anyway so my hope is that when I get home I can connect to online again and it should all be ok.

[worn mauve]

I wonder if syncing time to internet has something to do with it? My switch has never been synced to the internet time wise, it's always been manual. And since you said you played offline and that seemed to fix it? Hopefully it stays fixed for you. 🙂

[rustic garnet]

Waiting for the game to catch up to the time I TTd to (which was just to the following morning) is like being in adult timeout with a heavy tantrum on the horizon 😂
I appreciate all the info on here though!
I go wait in the corner now 🙃

[bright loom]

What realms can’t you access in the castle?

[vapid zenith]

@worn mauve yeah I had no issues until I synced to internet to play online. My time only changed by hours and it still froze all my crops, trees, flowers and everything. When I disconnected from online and went ahead a day it fixed it. Hopefully it won’t revert back to being frozen when I connect online again. It shouldn’t because it won’t be time skipping from my last save but I will let you know if it does.

@bright loom I had completed the first 3 but couldn’t access the next 3. I would walk up to the door with plenty of dream light and it wouldn’t give me the option to open it. When I disconnected from online it fixed it.

[bright loom]

Oh, the only doors available are Remy, Wall-e & Moana on the first floor and Frozen on the second. I believe the Toy Story door is on the second floor as well, but not available yet. Is that what you mean? The rest will probably not be available until the game goes free to play in a few months unless we get a surprise.

And even then the doors will be unlocked slowly over years

[solemn kite]

I didn't even think to ask - good call @worn mauve - Yea, I'm not sync'd to the internet. I manually move time around. Seems like we might have found something to help with the TT's.

[bright loom]

But don’t you have to be online to get the star path? I know when my WiFi went down it wouldn’t connect to the star path. Or maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re suggesting.

[solemn kite]

You need to be online to have the Star Path. You do not need your Time & Date sync'd to the Internet.

However if it isn't set to the correct and current T&D for you (per your ISP, I presume) then the Star Path can't sync.

[vapid zenith]

@bright loom @solemn kite ok so that’s the exact issue I was having! I was “online” but nothing in my online game would work (star path, chests) UNLESS I was synced to the internet! That is when I unintentionally time traveled by a few hours and messed up my game. I’m “hoping” that when I get back from out of town I will be able to sync my game and all will be ok since I wouldn’t have played in several days anyway so it shouldn’t register as a time travel at all, if that makes since. But my online play wouldn’t work unless my time was synced to the internet, unfortunately.

[solemn kite]

Whereas I haven't had my Switch sync'd to the internet for D&T since I bought AC - I've always manually set it. So all I had to do was just move it to the "correct" time and I was good 🤔

[main raptor]

Does anyone know if I can time skip for ACNH as long as I don’t log into the game will it still effect it ?

[bright loom]

To be honest, if you scroll up this channel you will see completely different responses. Some say they did it and their game was fine. Some say they did it and their game was messed up. All we know for certain is that the devs say just don’t do it. So that’s my advice. Mostly we are trying to help people that did it unintentionally at this point or that have extenuating circumstances like moving time zones.

[worn mauve]

I have done it a few times but like above it doesn't mean it won't work the same for everyone. Just because it worked okay once doesn't mean it will work the same for everyone.

[lunar lion]

i did a stupid duuh moment .. playing acnh .. time traveled one year ahead ... took a nap ... got up and did DDLV and yeahhhh realized what i did ... and yeahhhh .... that wasnt smart at all ...

[grave junco]

Depending on how long you time skipped, you can just reset your switch and wait it out. I did it and now everything is A-okay. I only had my switch set for a day in advance though.

[lunar lion]

i timed skipped it one year like i explained lol ... and i did reset switch but i would have to wait one year .... 🙂

[grave junco]

Oh, I missed that part lol

Maybe you can wait for the next big update and reset it.

[lunar lion]

hoping praying lol

[sonic pond]

This is totally a mood lol. Thank you for making me smile today and I hope your game gets back to normal asap

[solemn kite]

#1020421359752458340 message

[bright loom]

Well thing is if you leave it a year you miss out on a major component of the game, the events. To me this wouldn’t be worth it. If you reset to normal time it’s almost guaranteed you’ll have spawning issues. That’s why this channel exists. Waiting out a year is just not viable. The devs seem to 🤷‍♀️ So are you waiting for us to encourage you to do the only step left that makes sense? Restart. It’s the only recourse that I see. You may even have time to whip thru the event, if you so choose. And definitely enough time to get everyone leveled up and quests completed if you grind a touch. And don’t touch your clock anymore. There is nothing on acnh anymore important enough to ruin this game for in my opinion. Anything you could every want on acnh can be gotten in much easier ways than tt, like all the free groups the have treasure islands you can visit for free, or break the bank and pay $5 to visit a treasure island thru Etsy if they still exist. 🤗. I’m sorry this happened. Many of us are in this specific channel because we are frustrated the devs have still not added some loading screen that warns people that their clock is set incorrectly. It boggles the mind. So sorry!

[solemn kite]

complete side note in response to above ⬆️ Please do not pay $5 for anything for ACNH, DM me. I work for the guy who made the sysbot base that every TI is made from.

And he's adamant that it all be given away and available to ALL for free.

[worn mauve]

Yeah I didn't go back/forward a year, only a back a month, then Before I opened DLV I set my switch to normal time. But I wonder, I've never been synced with the internet time wise, idk if full sync to the internet would mess it up which is why I wont. And when I was 12hrs a head and went back, after 24 hours of waiting it was totally fine. No issues I did Not have to restart.

[worn mauve]

Love knowing that.

[solemn kite]

Offer is open to anyone who would like anything AC or PKM

[lunar lion]

Yeah been debating on how to handle all of it .. event done for me except a few that has to deal with like the fishing .. where i cant fish in todays time .. mainly watching devs direction on how they are going to handle it .. if that makes sense .. then if i have to i will restart .... its just right now waiting to see what they do to know what i should do .. lol ...

[bright loom]

I hope we get a good answer soon! So many people were effected by this without realizing. Unfortunately most people don’t research ahead of time so don’t know until they’re a few days in and come looking for the info on why their game is broken.

[sonic pond]

what is PKM

I still havent started my AC ventures. I have it for the switch, the newest game that came out a year or so ago. But its still sealed. Waiting to get my capture card system all set up before I dive in.

[solemn kite]

Pokémon

[stuck onyx]

So I was a bit stuck on a Quest bc mushrooms didn't spawn that often and I needed them.
(It was my only quest available and I wanted to go further and now I need to wait even longer )
and then I thought maybe I could travel time for a bit until I have my mushroom. I did go 2 days forward but I didn't know that it would bugg my game with picking up items & spawning.
So I read this chat a bit but Im unsure.. Do I need to wait 24 hours or more until my game is synced again?

[solemn kite]

Reset to real time and wait for it to sync. Try not playing in the mean time as chances are you won't be able to collect anything anyway as they won't be "harvestable"

[stuck onyx]

Thank you!

[frigid prairie]

What about daylight savings? We're about to "fall back" an hour.. is that going to screw up the game for us?

[strong forum]

I apologize if I’ve missed it above, but looking for clarification on the Star Path specifically in regards to time travel. When I started the game, my Switch clock was set to June 2022. I then saw the information about time travel and have never done it. However, my Star Path says it has 83 days remaining (which would be correct if this were June). Will the star path update in my game when the new one is released, or am I going to be X-days out of it? I’m not willing to risk breaking my game otherwise, so am just curious if anyone/Dev has clarified the SP as being changed via DDV server side.

[sweet knoll]

I completed all I can do and was straight farming pumpkins without any online access. I went to sync my clock to the internet, thinking it would help. I play AC and had time traveled a year for that game before I started playing dream light. Now everything is frozen and my 300 pumpkins are just decoration. I can't harvest them. I'm thinking I'm going to have to restart but I'm so sad/mad I'm just not opening the game for a minute 😅

[bright loom]

The star path is locked to real time. If your clock is set to something outside the Star paths window (one month right now), then it will not be available. If you’re set to June 2022 then you will never get the events unless you change your time or the devs change their programming (highly doubtful).
The maybe good news is that you started out in the past. Most people say that if they started in the past and the reset their console clock to current time, it does not negatively effect their game. I mean, it’s worth the shot to try. At this point you’re missing a major component of the game with the events. If tt to current date does screw up your spawn, then better to just restart now than keep working on a broken game. Does that make sense? So my advice: set clock to current time and see how things go. Let us know here!

[rose mountain]

I only skipped 4 days ahead and it seems okay to wait... but just how much can I /not/ do while I wait for my Switch to catch up.

[strong forum]

Thank you for your reply…. I’ve now advanced my date/time to current. It now reads “3 days” left of Pixar event. So far, nothing seems broken; was able to claim blue chests, shop updated from what it was previously, and crops completed. We’ll see if things continue to progress now. Thanks again, and will write more if things seem broken after some time has passed.

[bright loom]

Oh awesome!! Great news! I hope it’s fine going forward!

[hallow sage]

Hey, I was referred to this chat since I time skipped before I knew it was not recommended to do so, and in the tips it says I should wait for the game to catch up and that catch up should have happened on Friday morning but it didn’t, and then I went away this weekend and now Sunday evening it still haven’t caught up and I was wondering if there was something else I could do like going back to a previous save that was before my issue arrived? Or if I have to restart from the beginning…(which I don’t want to do since I’m like 4 ish quest or something from “finishing” the game…)

[warm dirge]

I was referred to this and it does not help. I did not time travel the time was completely correct on my switch only thing was my clock wasn't synced to internet and won't do a single thing now

[solemn kite]

It's all up in the air so long as they have the game synced so securely to the game servers. I've never had my Switch synced to the internet, but also never had the issues @warm dirge described. I've TTd multiple times and only ever needed to wait for it to catch up as suggested @hallow sage so honestly, we're all winging it here. Does that suck- yup. And I'm sorry no one can be of better assistance

[hallow sage]

Okay, like I said I’ll see if it’s still a problem a week from now otherwise I’ll have to restart. Atleast then I know how to manage my resources 😂👍🏼

[solemn kite]

Good luck, sister

[worn mauve]

This has been my experience too. My switch never was synced with the internet and I've traveled lots of times for ACNH, then back to real time before opening DLV as long as I don't open DLV when on a different time I've had no issues

[bright loom]

Did you shut down your console completely? If it’s a switch, I don’t mean let it go to sleep… power it down. Then clear the cache in settings and see if that helps.

[hallow sage]

I’m on pc, unfortunately and I have closed the game multiple times as well as turning off my computer 😔

[rose mountain]

Wait, just a bit of a question 😅 I'm on the Switch and I started the with my clock not being in sync with the internet (I was 4 days ahead). I just recently synced it up to the internet. I was told I have to wait 4 days before things to respawn so the game can catch up.

Right now, I can only fish and decorate and collect what was left behind (sticks, rocks, etc) and that's what I'm doing to pass the time... is it recommended I don't play at all or can I interact with what's there?

[solemn kite]

Oh no! You can absolutely do those things to pass the time!

As a matter of fact, if you're playing while waiting for it to sync, you'll notice when it does because things will become harvestable that weren't a second ago.

Some of us have just gotten a bit...discouraged?...and are putting it down/ moving on

[rose mountain]

Ohh oki oki, thank you! I get it 🤍 I'm just glad I didn't time travel too far into the future

[west lantern]

I time skipped a day becuase Elsa got stuck inside her cave and wouldn't come out and I couldn't get in because the ice was still in the way. I was able to get her out like that and I reverted time back but now my crops that we're growing at the time of the skip and fish at certain areas. Aren't spawning or letting me farm. It's already been 24 hrs since the skip but least than 8 hours since I stopped playing and it hasn't fixed. Hopefully it does.

Less*

[grave junco]

It has to be 24 hours from the last time you played in the time skip. Basically, if you skipped to 8 p.m. on October 11th, you have to wait until 8 p.m. on October 11th for it to correct itself. However, it can sometimes take longer. There are some people that it took 48 hours and others took more.

[warm dirge]

So my game still hasn't fixed itself since Saturday when I found out that reason it wouldn't let me open blue chest or do online related things cause my clock on the switch wasn't synced to internet. Moanas boat says 2days 18 hrs till I can't get fish. Do you think it may be saying it'll be reset by then?

[solemn kite]

Most likely- that's how I know when I'm caught up

[warm dirge]

Awesome my fingers are crossed! Thank you that gives me hope I didn't screw my game up 🙂

[west lantern]

@grave junco thanks and it fixed that day like at 2 ish. Two hours after the 24 hrs passed.

[worn mauve]

Yes you would've had to wait for the 14 days to catch up. Or at least that's what they claim. Mine only had 12 hours to catch up so there was no major issues.

[warped raft]

I’m so impatient I just restarted haha

[woven spoke]

i skipepd a day or two on a differnt game, logged onto dreamlight, not knowing about the skiping issue...and now my fish say next time is in 59days

[rose mountain]

So my game is fully caught up already! All the rocks are re-spawning, I can pick up vegetables and other items I can forage.... however, I'm not getting any fishing bubbles (which is weird bc when the game was catching up, I had a ton of bubbles) and the Frosted Heights haven't had flowers respawn yet.

Plus Scrooge's shop + the character's likes haven't changed yet. Should I just wait it out?

[radiant radish]

When I first started DLV on switch , I didn’t realise I was a few days ahead. Changed it back to real time a few weeks ago and everything (moana’s fishing, wall-e’s garden, etc) has caught up except for some crops that I planted before I changed the date back to real time. Since then, I’ve watered these crops so many times and they still haven’t finished growing. Anybody else have an issue like this?

[worn mauve]

both of you may have to restart. If things aren't respawning, crops aren't growing and shops aren't changing then there may be no choice but to restart sadly. 😦 it's a bug in the game and it's not top priority to fix it right now

[radiant radish]

yeah, definitely not restarting. i’m at level 40 and pretty much finished all the quests. guess i’ll just wait for an eventual bug fix

[wooden gorge]

!support I recommend that you also contact support and let them know about this

[wicked sparrow]

Customer Support contact information:

https://gameloft.helpshift.com/hc/en/66-disney-dreamlight-valley/contact-us/

[rose mountain]

Mine eventually fixed itself!

[karmic pine]

I am a switch user and I want (need) to change my game time to the opposite hemisphere, permanently, so I can see in some of the darker regions without getting a migraine. I cannot get the game to recognize that the console is set to daytime, though… it just stays night time. I know changing the time is not recommended. I understand the risks, and am okay with potentially having to start from scratch if I mess something up. But is there someone who can help me understand why it isn’t switching to day time or how to make it recognize the console time the way I am trying to get it to? If the help needs to happen in DM so as to not directly condone a method used for cheating or anything I’m fine with that, I just need to be able to see 😦

[sturdy umbra]

So my date on my switch is 1/5/2022. It's in the past, will it mess up my game if I sync it to internet and return it to real time? I play animal crossing and didn't realize my time date was all messed up when I downloaded the game.

And I am pretty far into the game so just thought I would ask if it's ok or better to leave it be. I don't know that it's considered traveling ahead if im just bringing my switch up to the current date

[patent surge]

Just in case, do you happen to have the quest called The Curse active?

[patent surge]

Usually if you are in the past and then sync to today ("future") it can be "okay" or just take a day or two to sync back. I use quotes since I haven't experienced it personally and am just using what had been shared with me.

[karmic pine]

I did. I started and completed it last night. Upon completion it made my game daytime temporarily and I realized just how bad the night time mode is on my eyes. After entering and exiting a home it went back to night mode and now I’m suffering again 😅

[patent surge]

Darn usually after reloading the game after that quest it would show whatever the console time was set 😦 so I thought maybe that was your issue. Sorry

[karmic pine]

I appreciate it! I’ll try anything at this point, but I’ve resolved to pretty much knowing that switching my hemisphere and leaving it be will be the long term fix even if I have to wait for it to catch up or start over lol.

[patent surge]

Sorry I also have a heck of a time playing at night but with my work hours it's my only choice 😦 I'm hoping they'll eventually make it an option in game to shift the "clock" or lighten up how "dark" night can be. It wouldn't bother me to have sunlight at 9pm XD

[karmic pine]

Same, and exactly! I’ve been suffering through it but realized that it’s what’s been making my migraines flare up so I’ve gotta figure something out lol.

[pure ravine]

This issue meeds to he fixed. There is MANY people that paid for the early access when it is going to be free to play. The developers saying it is not a priority is WRONG. They are looking at an expensive lawsuit from MANY players if they don't prioritize a fix as they never released a statement BEFORE the game was released that time skipping was not intended.

[worn mauve]

Could not agree more. I can time travel for acnh and it hasn't affected my game, but I'm always triple checking my time to make sure it's correct before I open DLV. They knew their Switch players were ones who time traveled A LOT not to mention people who work who time travel on other consoles if they can. On an old (now archived) thread there was over 200 of us saying this needs to be fixed. I'm sure we have well surpassed that now.

[pure ravine]

Exactly. The fact that we paid for it and they won't make it a priority is 100% ignorant. They will be losing ALOT of interest if they don't fix it soon.

[hazy pewter]

Ah, so because I time traveled in acnh, and went back to my normal time for dreamlight, we're essentially being told we're SOL

That's great to hear after spending $30 bucks on this

[bright loom]

Are you having issues? Or just worried you will? What date did you travel to?

[hazy pewter]

I had my date in animal crossing at December, when I switched back to my normal time, I was unable to harvest anything or having crops respawn in Dreamlight. Ultimately I ended up restarting my game, it took a few hours to get back to where I was but it was extremely frustrating.

I really hope its something that gets fixed and isn't just ignored because to them its considered "cheating". For a lot of us it was a genuine mistake, and for people to even think time traveling is cheating is mad weird. Let us play how we wanna play and don't shove us to the curb because of our way of playing.

[bright loom]

I’m sorry that happened. At the very least there needs to be a check screen on the loading screen that warns if your system is time travelled.

[hazy pewter]

Agreed, either that or just an overall title screen warning to let you know time traveling can affect the game. I had bought the game on Friday and had no idea time traveling could harm the game and I strayed away from discords and looking up much because of spoilers

And I of course didn't wanna wait all the way until December to have it fix itself, so losing all that work and having to get back to where I was was a bit annoying.

[sweet knoll]

I had no idea. I played my entire game (full completion) until I realized the fix for online bugs was to connect to internet time. Everything is broken now and I can't play anything. I don't want to restart. I haven't played my game since.

[limpid kernel]

I didn’t realize that time traveling would ruin your gameplay and I time traveled an hour back and my crops/harvestables stopped spawning. I read online that someone put their time to a year advanced to fix it & I decided to try and it worked but now I’m reading that the game has to sync up to real time & with the new update coming up I would like to participate in the event. Does this mean I have to wait a year now to play my game or just the hour because if it’s a year I will cry. Or will the new update boot my game back ?

[worn mauve]

You could try setting your game to real time and see what happens but unfortunately going a year a head is hard to say. I've seen some here say it messed their game up and others saying it only needed 24-48 hours to fix.

[worn mauve]

And this is exactly why this needs to be fixed so many people who were used to time traveling for other games were never really warned until issues started happening. They couldn't not expect people who played acnh to not time travel tbh.

[deep oracle]

I'm sad that this is still not fixed in the new update. My timer is a month off and its going to be so hard to do any of the star path requirements :/

[worn mauve]

unfortunately they said from the start they wouldn't be prioritizing it during early access because they don't want us to change our time. They want us to play in real time so anyone who had their clock not synced is sadly stuck until they decide to to fix it. To my understanding they will at some point considering how many of us can't play in real time for certain quests, animals etc and how many players didn't have their time synced in the first place 😦

[deep oracle]

Yea I was playing on November on animal crossing because I love the November time frame. Totally messed up my game and I haven’t been able to enjoy it while I wait.

[limpid kernel]

So is it confirmed that the update won’t reset the in game timer and would be better off to reset ?

[worn mauve]

This update isn't changing the real time sync at all. So it's not fixing any issues that were caused by time travel according to the patch update in #📢game-news

[limpid kernel]

I had such hopes but okay thank you so much. I just finished reading the patch notes too. I guess I’m resetting 😭

[worn mauve]

Sorry you have to do that. 🥺🥺 I'm disappointed too honestly but not surprised. I hope they do something for those us who time travel for acnh or so we can play at alternate times.

[real scarab]

I have a question that somewhat pertains to time skipping:

My mom currently plays on Xbox and switch. She lives half the year in the states, the other half overseas. She has her switch with her but her Xbox is with me.

If I update the Xbox and log into her cloud save to start the Star path, cloud save, then exit will it cause problems when she loads up the game on her switch overseas? Not sure how it works with time zones

[zenith sentinel]

so sad i think i’m at this point. i can’t even progress in the star path or anything but i don’t wanna redo every single thing

[midnight wadi]

My wife and I are so sad as the new patch has broken the game for us. We were not switching time, but the console was not set to current time. New patch broke it

[zenith sentinel]

how much time did you guys skip? days, weeks?

[midnight wadi]

The console was set a month ahead of time so that we cloud do the Halloween events in ACNH

[zenith sentinel]

wait i’m assuming it was just incorrect time zone

[midnight wadi]

and collect mushrooms

[zenith sentinel]

oh gosh i’m so sorry that sucks, i came from animal crossing too so that would have definitely happened to me

[midnight wadi]

Its pretty devestating, and really shocking. We werent time traveling, we just didn't have the console set to current time. If a game needs the clock to be in real time, they should say that when you buy it

[zenith sentinel]

So far what i’ve been doing with my game is playing online once a day to collect the blue chests and complete every starpath option (only the ones i have the ability to do)

Then i fast forward to whatever time it was originally at and harvest, break rocks ect.

After playing just set your time back to the correct time via internet so you can slowly work towards being in the correct time

[karmic dirge]

sigh... I time-skipped A LOT to try to get dream shards (I'm sure you know which quest) when the game first came out... guess I'm stuck playing in 2025. I can't do the vast majority of the event duties because nothing is harvestable 😔

[midnight wadi]

I just dont understand why they built in a brick-your-game function. Like every other life-time game figured this out years ago

I opened a support ticket, I will be requesting a refund. I did not time travel. I just didn't have it set to real-time. They never communicasted real-time was required

[karmic dirge]

What irks me the most is that a lot of people time-skipped to cope with the game's issues (such as ridiculously low dream shard drop rates, or try to fix broken quests), and now they're being punished for it. it is ridiculous that we paid for this and they have no intention of fixing it in the foreseeable future

[midnight wadi]

If there are ways we cannot and can play a game those rules have to be provided up front. If they ambush us with these rules and then refuse to fix it, its unfair

[limpid kernel]

To be honest I just grinded tf outta the quests it’s annoying but worth it to be able to play the game

[fringe geode]

At this point I just need to know, will resetting my game fix the time travel issue or am I completely screwed? The fact that they didn't state anything about time travel being an issue is absolutely ridiculous. I time traveled back a couple months for animal crossing, not knowing about the time travel bug for DLV and was completely blindsided. Its a bunch of bull that it's not a top priority since it wasn't mentioned beforehand

[karmic dirge]

resetting supposedly fixes the game. I'm not sure if just starting a new save will work or if you need to completely wipe the software though

I also tried loading a cloud save onto a different console to see if that would fix the time travel issue but it didn't. the time flags are universal, unfortunately

[fringe geode]

Thank you for answering, I'll try this tomorrow as I'm honestly too annoyed to touch my switch at this point, thanks for the info about the cloud save as well

[topaz marten]

Resetting or restarting the game SHOULD definitely fix your problem, cause it's basically a new game so all values are set to their normal state, but I can't say for sure. Never had a game breaking issue with TT and so never tried it myself.

[worn mauve]

Resetting should fix your game for those that have issues. For Fellow ACNH players, what I do is I keep my Switch time Unsynced to the internet (I did it once to get the correct time because I was 5 minutes behind since I set my wall clock like that so I always have extra time lol) I can time travel in ACNH and then I make sure to alway set my switch back to real time (according to my phone, sometimes will turn Sync with internet on and back off) to avoid any time travel issues. This seems to be the best option until DLV can do something to fix this issue since honestly it really should. Not all of us time travel to skip to events, some of us do it because we can't play at certain times and will never get quests done

[rotund dagger]

I'm in the same situation; none of my spawns are working, even fishing spawns won't show up on Dazzle beach which I need for the event. I've tried just waiting for the game to fix itself but it has been two days and everything is the same. If I cloud save and then delete the game on my switch and redownload it maybe it will reset the date values so spawns will work correctly?

[zenith sentinel]

I want to reset because it’s so annoying traveling forward in time to see new things in shop and harvesting but i’m scared to lost all of last months star path items

[rotund dagger]

I agree it's scary and idk how it all works so I am also afraid to restart but it being completely broken is so hard... I'm hoping they will fix this issue so that Dreamlight Valley can be like other games with no game breaking bugs due to console time etc.

[vocal bronze]

Did you try it? Was thinking of doing it myself and then came here to see if anyone else tried

I myself was time traveled forward to October 12th when I realized about online thing in September so I stopped playing to wait. I started playing again on october 12th in real time after syncing excited to find rocks respawning but then realized shop hasn't changed at all since, character favorite item of the day won't change, can't pick herb mushrooms flowers or branches, and the bubbles to indicate fish aren't spawning, and night thorns aren't spawning

Just don't want to lose my items from last event and those exclusive items for playing in first couple weeks

[maiden plume]

when youve time traveled did your rocks, fish spot etc respawn eventually? I, too, didnt realize my switch was set just a couple of days ahead bc of animal crossing. Now the rocks ive mined, and fishing spots in dazzle & glade wont pop back up. Im hoping once time passes where i was time traveled to it'll fix. Id hate to have to completely reset my game

[karmic dirge]

yes, thankfully once IRL time catches up to the latest time you traveled to, everything will continue as normal

[maiden plume]

Oh thank goodness I was so worried, thank you for the help 💖

[zenith sentinel]

UPDATE: so i restarted because i just simply cannot wait a month to play. (worked out a bit better because i used the avatar design tool this time and love my avatar sm more) I have all of my starpath items i bought from the pixar event and the ones i bought from the villain star path before i reset!

[kind bramble]

Is time travel a switch thing because I have no idea what youse are talking about 😂

[topaz marten]

It's also possible on PC

[vocal bronze]

When I waited the couple weeks to catch up and came back only half the issues have resolved so far and it’s been about 10 days of being caught up now so don’t get too much hope

[maiden plume]

oh no, sorry to hear. I'll keep that in mind but I like to stay hopeful. I was only 2 days ahead so maaaybe it didnt mess up my game tooo much. But we shall see. Thanks 💖

[vocal bronze]

All good I hope it works out for you! I just know I was super hopeful and excited cause I didn’t want to restart then I got crushed because of it. Now I’m just not playing the game unless they patch it cause I’m not restarting at this point lol

[midnight wadi]

Honestly, respawn timers being set to RL time rather then relational time is such a huge error. Imagine if you travel for work, world clock goes down, internet comes desynced, your PC is hacked. a hundred reasons why real time might be off, and they bind the whole progression of the game to it. its Amateur hour at Gameloft

I cant wait for the next big spyware to just set your PC's clock forward a year and watch thousands of players games break

[topaz marten]

Back Ups ftw 😄

[solemn kite]

I never have my Switch sync'd to the internet date/time wise. I have it connected for signal, but not the date/time. That's all manual. It's def going off IP's

And cloud save data

[midnight wadi]

If time is static you're mostly ok, unless time jumps past an event end date, then you're locked out of the event because the event dates are fixed

But if time is not static, your file is ruined

[solemn kite]

I have jumped around a bit and haven't had too many issues. But it's all been experimental and just to test some theories and see if I can help out anyone here

[topaz marten]

Same, I'm only jumping to test things out and then restoring my old save, especially when I jumped into the future. Past isn't such a big deal

[solemn kite]

Oh hey - I saw your posts in the Halloween thread! Thank you for that! Very much obliged!

[sudden acorn]

Omg I had skipped to next MAY to set my Animal Crossing dream address……. I’m TOAST! Had no idea it was game breaking since I wasn’t paying attention to online discussion (to avoid spoilers) did I ruin my entire game?

Crops are growing normally, mining spots are respawning normally. Materials like wood are respawning normally. I’m having problems with fish, favorite items and Scrooge’s shop.

[fallen briar]

I wish I had seen this before I fixed my time zone 🤦🏻‍♀️
I saw my time was set back to a year and fixed it to real time(animal crossing)……. Am I gonna have to wait for a YEAR for my game to be fixed?? Right now the issue that I’m seeing is the river- the quest is done but the river is broken… I certainly don’t want to restart my entire game from scratch either

[topaz marten]

So basically you won't get any herbs (not sure about flowers) and special fishing spots until the game catches up. Also scrooge will display the same items or nothing if you bought them already.

If you mined something in the future, those stones you mine won't respawn. Crops you planted in the future won't grow ... the list is long 😅

[topaz marten]

Time Travel issues get only fixed by letting the game catch up to realtime and some Bugs aren't fixed at all.

[fallen briar]

That’s awesome… I think it’s stupid that they haven’t fixed issues like this..

[topaz marten]

The devs stated already that timeskip issues aren't their priority, since it's not endorced to play the game that way and therefor it won't be fixed soon.

[bright loom]

If your clock was set in the past originally, and you just brought it up to the future, try clearing your cache, powering down the switch, the opening game back up. There’s a small chance it may fix itself. Most of the big issues are when people are in the future and they set their time back to present. Or if they continue going back and forth while playing. If that doesn’t fix your river, then restarting completely may be your only recourse sadly.

[fallen briar]

Thank you! I’ll try doing that :)

[sudden acorn]

I understand this problem not being a priority but it’s unfair to people who (like me) didn’t know it was game breaking. It would’ve been nice to get a warning like “your console time is different from the online synched clock. Continuing may cause irreversible bugs”.

[snow spire]

Are you playing in switch? I want to start over but I’m afraid I’ll lose the Pixar UP Balloon

[sudden acorn]

I'd also like to know. I'd be losing 65 hours of gameplay and that's whatever but I dont want to lose my event items

[snow spire]

I also got over 65 hours

[vocal bronze]

On Switch just reset kept first week items and star path items from pixar and kept progress and items so far for current event as well

Also kept moonstones, lost everything else.

[bright loom]

Add this to the suggestions please

[sudden acorn]

added!

[snow spire]

Yeah I already tried it and I kept all the Pixar stuff 😂

[azure wren]

Im a trophy hunter on PlayStation with how tedious/Grindy most of the achievements are, doing daily discussions for 2 and half + months is crazy and was wondering if the discussions reset every day u skip after u complete them. I don’t care about Scrooge shop, harvesting, mining or event stuff just wanted to make sure the game doesn’t spaz out or anything

[honest robin]

When you reset, do you still have the mails in your mail box?

[wicked jewel]

reads entire thread and still has/had no idea what or how to time skip lmao

[honest robin]

Usually it's something people are familiar with from Animal Crossing, so you would set your device to a desired time like Christmas instead of having to wait for it in real time. It's in a grey zone as it's definitely not how developers intend for us to play and can't be recommended for Dreamlight Valley as that will break the ways in how your game works.

[wicked jewel]

Yeah.....i can barely play games let alone try and trick them like this lol. My entire game is still basically the same as i know NONE of the tips to better anything in it lol

[honest robin]

@wicked jewel You don't need to time travel at all to get good at or enjoy this game, so don't worry about this. Just play at your own pace. There's no rush.

[wicked jewel]

I figured that much....im jist trying to find right thread to help me get better rss drops.... thanks!

[honest robin]

@wicked jewel It has a slow pace so it's about learning to enjoy that since many other games give you that instant reward / gratification much faster.

[worn mauve]

When ACNH first came out in March 2020 those events were still time locked though. (older games it wasn't but at first it was for ACNH) I remember tons of youtubers made videos explaining this. This was to avoid spoilers. The biggest perk to time travel for many who played (at least in groups on FB anyways) was so that those who worked and took care of kids, could actually play ACNH when stores were open and villagers were awake etc, since most couldn't get on until after 9pm or later when everything was closed and villagers were asleep etc. We could set our time of day to whatever time we wanted.

Just because time travel isn't needed to enjoy a game, doesn't mean it's not wanted. If an option to simply change from say 9pm to 9am was added -without having game breaking risks, it would make it enjoyable for those who can only play at certain hours when characters like Mickey or Ursula may be asleep etc.

[honest robin]

Yeah, I hadn't really thought of that when I replied. I thought more about it in the context of "getting better/faster drops". I'm also stuck playing mostly at night so I do hope they bring us a way to change manually between day and night.

[worn mauve]

yeah I agree it shouldn't change the drop rate, but maybe an option like the Animal Crossing Wild World version where it would let us change our time from PM to AM maybe when we first log in (when you picked your character in that there was an option for Time Settings for that game only though. So while My old DS is stuck in 2006 for some reason, I can keep Wild World to current time if I chose to play that is lol)

[vocal bronze]

I did not have mail everything was in my inventory, had to play it through a tiny bit for it to appear

I was scared for a minute at first though before I played through a little

[frigid lance]

Hi everyone, I’m a completionist and realized I can’t finish the last Halloween event task “3 course meal’ the candy buckets won’t show up 😪 I suspect the error is due to the fact that my switch time is in September- I want to time travel to October 24th but am scared I might break the game and if I wait an actual irl two months till my switch is on October 24th idk if the baskets will still appear

[bright loom]

That stinks, I’m so sorry! Did you look thru some of the pins and responses in this channel? Many people seem to say that their game was fine going forward to the present. The spawning issues seem to be more prevalent for those whose clocks are set in the future and they need to set it back to present. It also affects those continuing going back and forth in time. There is always the possibility of long term affects with any time discrepancy though. You have three choices: leave time as it is. No events will be available in the game until such time as the developers decide to change the way the game works. Secondly, you can change the time and see what happens. Hopefully it will all be fine and you’ll have the events. Thirdly, you could set your time correctly and restart with a completely new game. All your founders items, first week bonuses (if applicable), and Star Path items should be retained as long as you had made a cloud save account at some point. Your game should be clean and as should be fine. This is all my take after reading this channel from the beginning, afaik. Does this make sense?

[honest robin]

Thanks for the info! 😊

[frigid lance]

Hi @bright loom thanks so much for the thoughtful response, very kind of you! I think I may just TT to the present and see what happens, if anything goes wrong I’ll have my cloud version as well to go back to

[marsh atlas]

A week a ago I time traveled 1 day ahead and went back to the morning before normal time and then went back to current time. My crops still aren't growing and the orb isn't restoring. It's been a week! What can I do? I'm on PS5

[topaz marten]

Usually the ingame mechanics work fine again, after the game catches up with realtime. If that's not the case, you might have a problem, since devs are not prioratizing bugs that are caused by timetraveling.
Maybe someone else will know a solution for your problem but if not you might need to start over with your game.

[low comet]

My switch date got changed from someone else playing animal crossing and I had restarted my game I got the founders pack still and my hard work on the star path saved. I also wasn't that far into the game yet because I just started playing about 2 weeks ago.

[pale fog]

I would like to travel to when the red fox comes out (by a few hours) do we think it’ll affect the game because staying up till 2 am is murder

[worn mauve]

At the moment we are being told Not to change our time for this game as it can risk ruining your game. I personally would not risk it.

[fluid mist]

Anyone here time travel and have plants not grow? How do I fix it:(

[regal trellis]

the very first post you should have seen when you came in here is this one: #1020421359752458340 message

[fluid mist]

Some of us played before knowing there was a discord.

[topaz marten]

You basically have to wait until the game catches up with realtime

[weak siren]

As stated above you can wait till the actual time u jumped to, i.e 1 day ir 1 month or 2 hours. Playing for 2 weeks depending on how far you got... I restarted bout 1 weeks in because I wanted to play on my switch and I learned so much in thst week thst my new play through went better

** cloud saving was still a nightmare so I had start over in switch

[low comet]

I wasn't far into the game so I restarted it. It was 4 months ahead and I couldn't pick anything

[weak siren]

Ouuf, yea just don't let anyone time Travel on your device x.x

[past ivy]

I'm having a problem where I travelled home and my timezone changed automatically on my system but the game isn't recognising it, it plays like I'm still 5 hours behind. I know time skipping is not advised, but I didn't think about my system automatically doing it. It's frustrating because at 2pm Eric is still sleeping..

[crisp flower]

Can you time travel ahead of time and just keep the switch there and it will start to act normal? For example, I’m stuck with literally nothing growing, but if I changed the time a few months ahead past where I time traveled from would it fix itself as long as I stay in that time and don’t switch it back?

Also how is the game effected if I was backwards, not forwards?

[tidal void]

Hi

I closed out Disney dreamlight valley to play other games on my switch? Apparently this affects dreamlight valley?

My fruit isn’t spawning at all?

[worn mauve]

I've changed my time for other games and it hasn't effected my DLV as long as it's set to current real time when I open DLV

[bright loom]

You won’t be able to do any events if your clock isn’t set to current time. For example, the Halloween event today with the candy you have to be set for today.

[tacit raven]

Someone traveled back in time on my switch for animal crossing.. now my games messed up 😦

I can't wait a month cause they traveled back in time, what do I do??

[topaz marten]

If they traveled back, just go back to realtime

[royal solstice]

Hello I time traveled forward two days on this past Sunday (10/30) and then reset my time back to normal and of course all my foraging and fish spawns have stopped working. I have waited until real time caught up to the time I traveled to (11/01) but my spawns have not resumed. I read something about using Moana’s boat as a meter to gauge when it will correct itself but Moana’s boat is functioning perfectly fine for me. It keeps producing fish while the pond spawns and other foraging items are broken. Has anyone experienced this issue? Would this be a wait it out and hope it come back situation or bite the bullet and restart?

[topaz marten]

Moanas Boat works only as an indicator of how far you have traveled to the future, if you picked up fish from her in the future and then went back in time to the present.

I've read a few times, some people saying you have to wait like the double of time you traveled, for your game to function normally again.
This doesn't make sense to me tho and also can't confirm that with my own experiences. It never has worked like that for me, so can't really tell you if that's a thing (most likely not).

So my best guess would be, if your game doesn't fix itself, your only options are pretty much to deal with it, until the devs fix this problem (which won't be in the near future) or start all over again.

[tacit raven]

Already did that and it's still not working

Nothing is spawning now

[tacit raven]

I time traveled backwards for animal crossing and it broke my gane. Doesn't matter what you time travel for.. its actually completely unfair for everyone...

[topaz marten]

That sounds not good, tbh. If the game catches up with realtime and still isn't working properly, that's not a good sign 😬

[tacit raven]

I definitely won't be restarting, again. I time skipped for another game, not even this one..

[turbid sapphire]

Hey so my mother in law was playing animal crossing before playing dream light and was fixing her time back to normal and the time traveling is preventing her to pick up basil and oregano and some planting how long does she have to wait to be able to pick them back up

[tacit raven]

None of my other games have this issue, just dreamlight valley haha

I time traveled backwards the other day for animal crossing and it still hasn't fixed itself

@turbid sapphire

[topaz marten]

If she traveled to the future, then she usually needs to wait until the game catches up. Doesn't work always tho

[turbid sapphire]

Yeah she time traveled back to today's date and time earlier will she need to restart the game

[worn mauve]

I have adjusted my switch time for ACNH (Never had my Switch Synced to the internet. Since I got it it's been manual) and then set it back to the current date/time before opening DLV. And it hasn't caused me any issues. I Always tripple check I'm on current date/time for DLV

[topaz marten]

This might be her only option, if she traveled to far ... or waiting for a patch, which can take a while, since it's no priority

[turbid sapphire]

She just restarted she wasn't that far to into the game she just started not to long ago

I can help her back to where she was I was just curious

[tacit raven]

I made sure I was back on regular day and time before I loaded in and my games all messed up

[topaz marten]

Yeah, if you do it without starting the game, there's no problem, since no files of the game are impaired.

[tacit raven]

I'm far tho 😦

I did it without starting the game and my games not working

[turbid sapphire]

I wish it didn't effect the game 😦 even not loaded in

[topaz marten]

Then it's not a time skipping issue, since you haven't skipped the time

[worn mauve]

It's clearly a bigger issue then the Devs realized. And I understand it's not what they intended, but obviously all of us who work and are only able to get on at certain times are really suffering because of this whole "don't time travel thing" I totally get they don't want us to, but I don't think we should be punished the way some are.

[regal trellis]

If it's only a day or so, it's not too bad because you can wait it out. But if it's more than a few days, I would just restart honestly because you can get back to that quicker than waiting it out!

[tacit raven]

Not true. Cause I did the same and mine broke.. I never started my game until everything was back to normal 😦

[regal trellis]

It's not a punishment, it's a side effect...

[tacit raven]

It's bull pucky

[topaz marten]

I only can say how the things work, not what affected your game.
Infacto a game that's not loaded, can't be affected by date changes. Simply impossible.

[tacit raven]

So we can't even time travel for animal crossing now? 😦

[regal trellis]

If you don't like it, head over to #1024079221070512149 and tell them. This channel is a guide for helping players sort out their issue.

[turbid sapphire]

She said she was on the wrong Date when she started the game so she just restarted

And nope I'm sad about that with animal crossing

[tacit raven]

So it's either I stop playing animal crossing or stop playing this game haha 😦 I'm so sad

[worn mauve]

they're treating it like a punishment though. They knew many of us time traveled coming from Animal Crossing and like games so saying "this isn't how we want you to play" and then not fixing on the issues.

And just so you know there is in fact a thread about this in game discussion. Lots of us want it changed.

[turbid sapphire]

Even with it being on a different switch and same account will that effect anything with animal crossing

[worn mauve]

Idk what to say honestly. I time travel a lot for acnh so I can do things I'd miss during work hours like shop, bug offs etc but I never have it affect DLV. 😦 I'm sorry it's affecting yours

[tacit raven]

Sad day, controlling is what it is

[turbid sapphire]

Will it effect if we have the same account on a different switch and time traveled on that switch and playing dreamlight kn a different switch on the correct date

[worn mauve]

Don't think so. I have the same Nintendo account and play ACNH on two switches, one is set to August so I can set up my Dream Address

I only play DLV on one switch but ACNH on two

[tacit raven]

I only have this one switch :/

[turbid sapphire]

Okay so I can still time travel on that switch then just not the switch I play dream light on

[tacit raven]

I bought the game for 50 and got all kinds of stuff with it... if I restart I might lose it all, so I'm stuck. I've made it far and have almost everything open 😦

[turbid sapphire]

I think even restarting u should be able to keep the founders pack

[tacit raven]

I'm super far tho 😦

[turbid sapphire]

Yeah I feel that 😦 hopefully it'll work it self out

[tacit raven]

This is not cool of them, didn't even time travel for the game haha

[regal trellis]

#1019716077044904038

[worn mauve]

if you restart you're not supposed to lose your founder pack items. If you do contact Gameloft. They're tied to your account,

[turbid sapphire]

I did have my mother in law add to the discord for future help 🙂

[tacit raven]

Ok awesome, thank you

I have all biomes open but one, so restarting is going to suck

[regal trellis]

She is absolutely welcome to come over to the #dreamlight-help chat for any help she needs. 🙂 We are more than happy to help, even if we do have to redirect sometimes to other guides.

[worn mauve]

how long have you been waiting for it to catch up? Some said it took 2x the amount of time (so instead of 1 day it took 2 days)

[tacit raven]

Since early yesterday but I time traveled a few days backwards to the 18th(then forward to the 19th) or something

Oh ok, so if it doesn't fix by tomorrow then I have to restart everything 😦 I'm so far in

[worn mauve]

Before you restart I would give it a little time. Since you went backwards then went forwards you may take longer possibly even an extra week

[tacit raven]

Ok, thank you. Just makes me sad that it works this way 😦

But if I restart then I lose all of my halloween stuff also 😦

[hazy pewter]

This is sorta odd, but will the game be affected at all by Daylights Savings when that happens?

[worn mauve]

To my understanding those in Europe who just had theirs it didn't affect their game

So hopefully the same for the rest of us

[royal solstice]

Update: I logged on just now and my game is fixed. So it really did take about twice as long as the amount of time I traveled to reset. For reference I traveled from 10/31 to 11/01 and it fixed itself on 11/02

[worn mauve]

YAY! hopefully it will work the same for @tacit raven

[tiny wraith]

Since we cannot time travel to the launch date? Does this mean the limited time quest won’t go away? I bought the game a month ago, updated it, and am trying to play to catch up. I just don’t want to miss the Scar quest?

Halloween?

Hope TT/TS won’t always mess up the game.

PS, I haven’t TS yet.

[worn mauve]

I don't think you can go back and get the ones you missed

[tacit raven]

I hope soooooo

[worn mauve]

Once the event is done it's done to my understanding. There wasn't really an event on Halloween anyways. Others who could play then said spoiler a head ||it was just giving the characters candy as their favourite item||

[tiny wraith]

Okay thank you. Did I miss the scar quest?

I’m literally trying to get through the tool find

[worn mauve]

No his quest is part of the main story of the game

[tiny wraith]

Phew. Yay

I’m so happy 🤓

I can deal with no Halloween pumpkins

[worn mauve]

His quest will stay until you complete it.The current Star Path has 19 days left. But the event on the 31st wasn't anything major

[tiny wraith]

Okay I’m lost, what star path has 19 days left?

[worn mauve]

When in the game if you go to the event tab there's a Villains Star Path with exclusive items you need to use the Moonstones to unlock

[tiny wraith]

Okay.

Thank you. I’ve got a lot to do 🤓

[worn mauve]

It's mostly design motifs and things like that. I haven't done it, no interest for me lol

[tiny wraith]

Okay. Makes me feel better. Thanks again

I hate missing out. 🤣 virtual hoarding issues

So glad I found this discord

[tacit raven]

2 days after time traveling backwards and my games still broken 😦

[regal trellis]

You may have to give it a day or so after it catches up to real time for it to go back to normal. Some have reported that it takes twice as long as you went - so if you went 2 days, it would take 4 once you were synced to real time again.

[tacit raven]

I tt backwards lol

And it's been 2 days. I went back to Oct 18th then to Oct 19th..

[tacit raven]

Had to wait 3 days but it's better now! Just can't tt for animal crossing until this games fixed -_-

[regal trellis]

They will likely never every allow time travel. It's not the way they intended the game to be played, so it's a side effect of traveling for AC.

[worn mauve]

They honestly should allow it. They don't get to say how we play any game and how we play other games shouldn't affect other games either. It's Not okay. Not all of us enjoy playing at night and not all of us have the ability to play whenever we want. We work, kids have school, we have families etc. It's not a side effect, it's punishment for playing how we like to play and we should be allowed to change our time as we want.

I'm 100% okay if events are time locked, but we should be at least allowed to switch our time from AM to PM and not have issues from TT in other games.

[regal trellis]

Then you should go put that in #1024079221070512149 under whatever the appropriate thread is.

[tacit raven]

That's some bull spit

[worn mauve]

If you haven't looked there is literally a thing for time mechanics. However this is an okay place for us to voice our opinions on it too. You don't need to correct someone every time they comment here about it.

[tacit raven]

Shhhhh

[regal trellis]

I was only trying to help make sure your voices get heard, that's all.

[hearty dew]

!timeskip

[wicked sparrow]

We recommend that you DO NOT Time Skip. While we understand that there are benefits to time skipping, there are also unintended errors. As we are currently in the Early Access period, we will not be prioritizing issues caused by time skipping, as it is not the intended gameplay experience.

[hearty dew]

This is the official stance on time skipping. This thread is for discussion and information regarding time skipping and its effects, but please keep the #📄rules in mind and be respectful of others in your interactions, even when you disagree 🙂

[regal trellis]

<@&994257677192536106>

[solemn kite]

@regal trellis can I ask why you and the <@&994257677192536106> felt that was necessary?

[desert lintel]

This is the official stance on time skipping. This thread is for discussion and information regarding time skipping and its effects, but please keep the #📄rules in mind and be respectful of others in your interactions, even when you disagree 🙂

[solemn kite]

In what why did I violate a rule?

I was offering information regarding a question I saw in my notification that I was capable of answering from personal knowledge

[outer forge]

GameLoft advises against time skipping. Please do not encourage it.

[solemn kite]

I wasn't encouraging it, I was answering a question

[fast wind]

"If you haven't played, you can go back feed that critter, then go forward to the correct time without any real consequences." is encouraging time skipping.

[solemn kite]

I beg to differ, it was a direct answer to the question that was asked.

Which I would also be able to reference had it not be deleted. Something that seems to be happening a lot recently.

I'm not trying to pick a fight here - but this seems to have gotten out of hand. There is no real discourse if people are afraid to speak and when they do their voice is taken away. Run the server how you choose. But I was simply answering a question.

[fast wind]

Please respect the moderators decisions, Even if you had no issues with time skipping in this case does not mean it'll be the same for others. You're welcome to reach out to @dusky dagger if you have a complaint regarding our decision. Thank you

To clarify: Timeskipping whether it be on purpose or on accident has caused people to create a new save game due to timeskipping weeks or months ahead so that's why we're cautious when people suggest to timeskip. Deleting the message was just a prevention incase others joined this thread and saw it as "Oh they time skipped so it must be safe to do so?" - We're just preventing anyone from losing game progress or messing up their game.

Especially when you add without any real consequences to your answer, hope you understand.

[solemn kite]

I don't need you to clarify - I'm perfectly capable of understanding that and how the team has changed their "techniques" on moderation.

That exact question, as well as answer (given by myself and others) is just a scroll up in this thread. However, as I said, run the server as the team sees fits. I was simply answering a question.

[fast wind]

You're welcome to discuss time skipping just perhaps add a disclaimer warning in the future so people know beforehand. We were just concerned about the end part of your message "without any real consequences" 💚

[solemn kite]

I swear, Sophie, yes, normally (when I was much younger) it was my primary goal in life to have the last word, but that's not the case here.

My real discomfort with this entire discussion is stemming from the fact that not only was the original question deleted - but my response to it was immediately tagged (and not by a moderator) then deleted, then the celebrated by 2 moderators via reactions for the ... frankly without a better word - tattling.

[toxic hawk]

Alright, going to pop my head in here for a moment

Edowen, I completely understand your frustration with the situation that is currently taking place. I will say that the individual that tagged a moderator is aware that we do not wish for time skipping to be encouraged in which your comment did come across that way. While I also understand that the original question was deleted, I do not think it was deleted by our moderator team, if anything, the original poster more than likely deleted it. So please try to not jump to conclusions. People in the Discord are allowed to delete their own messages, it is not only the moderators who can.

Just to clarify a bit on the comment "the team has changed their 'techniques' on moderation" - The team has to adapt to the way the community is and well there are new people that join this Discord every minute, which means new experiences. Just the same with when new rules are implemented, it's because it's due to community changes. I will say though that our moderation on encouragement of Time Skipping has never changed. We always ask that community members not discuss Time Skipping that may come off as promoting as like Sophie has stated, has truly destroyed other player's game and we do not wish for that on anyone.

Also there was no celebrating, the emotes you are seeing are "thumbs up" not to be like "Good Job buddy!" but to merely let the individual know that a Moderator is looking into the situation. Perhaps we can create a moderator "under review" emote to not cause confusion in the future 🙂

Either way, there is no rule break Edowen, merely just a request to please refrain from promoting Time Skipping. If this was not your intention, then perhaps wording your sentence in a way that doesn't seem that way could help in future situations.

[solemn kite]

You are absolutely correct in that it did not occur to me that they would have deleted their own question - I moderate a server of over 23k, and while it happens, they tend to wait until after you answer to delete their questions - so it wasn't something that was on my mind as I've seen comments disappear quickly and with more frequency recently than I have before.

I will endeavor to be more aware of my own wording as well. Things are easily misconstrued via text - I'm fairly certain we are all painfully firsthand familiar with that. Thank you for having the discussion.

@fast wind Thank you, as well.

[toxic hawk]

No worries at all, I completely understand all of this! Humans are a weird species 😉 As someone part of multiple Discords and have moderated a few myself, I have witnessed so many people who post something and then a few minutes later delete it. Glorious thing about Bots is that we can see this stuff hehe It's interesting to say the least! Sometimes it's due to finding out the answer on their own or simply being shy and running for the shadows 🙂 And yes, I am a victim of bad wording hehe

Either way, you are amazing and I appreciate you for understanding ❤️

[craggy chasm]

i know they said not to time travel, but my date on my switch was already in the future and i progressed so far in the game.. does anyone know if they fixed this issue yet?

[regal trellis]

(a reminder that this is not an issue, it's just not supported game play and as far as we can tell, they have no plans to make it be supported)

[solemn kite]

They have not - how far ahead are you?

[craggy chasm]

like until august i believe

[solemn kite]

Wait - so are you ahead or behind?

[craggy chasm]

ahead

[solemn kite]

So Aug '23?

[craggy chasm]

mhm

[solemn kite]

Ok...that's a little more complicated 🤔 Give me a sec

[craggy chasm]

okay!

[solemn kite]

"Technically" if you don't cross streams TT isn't too consequential. It can still have repercussions, but they aren't bricking. With you being over a year ahead, you've already "played" all the time that you would be going back to.

If you are on Switch you can test with one of two ways: (and I'm not sure either will work as I'm just kinda doing this coding/math in my head)

• start a game on a new profile with the cloud save in the correct time, see where you stand with trees/flowers/Moana's boat <- issue here would be the potential to mess with the original game on the primary account

• take your Switch completely offline, no wifi at all, change the time, play, do a local save, then close the game; when you open it again, choose the local save instead of the cloud save then go from there <- I honestly cannot say what this will do, but in my head, with how mechanics should work, this makes sense

OR

• start a game on PC with the cloud save via gamepass and see where you stand (you can always trash this game and when you go back to Switch say no to playing with this particular save and go with the last one one you played before trying this)

Either way, I'm almost certain that the Star Path this month is probably lost for you (though considering how far ahead you are, I'm guessing you know that if you played the last one as well)

They are all going to have risks. And there's no guarantee for anything. But considering how far ahead you are - either way, it's take a risk, continue on, or start a new game.

[craggy chasm]

thank you!

[solemn kite]

Good Luck!

[craggy chasm]

if none of these things work the. I will wait till august in the meantime I could always decorate my plaza

[solemn kite]

Hey - I made the mistake of scrolling through the pics posted here and that's what I've been doing for the last 3 hours

[bright loom]

Actually, if you’re almost a year ahead, I’d just restart if none of @solemn kite ‘s very clever suggestions work. Or at least get started on a new profile. With how your game is now, you are missing out on all the events. Once you set the game to the correct time, very likely it will become unplayable since crops and mining spots, fishing spots, and herbs will likely stop spawning. It’s lose lose in my opinion. I’m sorry you got caught in this predicament.

[craggy chasm]

If I do restart do I still get the candy crocodile?

[bright loom]

I believe it is locked to the account with all the other founders items. Let me scroll up and see. I know people have mentioned it but I don’t honestly remember what was said.

[bright loom]

So in this channel a few people specifically mention that they still had their choco croc:

https://discord.com/channels/938880698478125057/1020433563876872192

[craggy chasm]

ok, thanks so much!

[warped raft]

I started with my switch in the future and it bricked my game. I didn’t cheat or try to cheat. I was just on a different time to play animal crossing. I lost my 30+ hours suddenly one day. had to start again. I could never cloud save either. I don’t have any other platforms. my game broke through no fault of my own. sorry for the harshness but this is what’s happening to people and I guess we aren’t rlly being listened to

[wooden gorge]

Hey there Bunbun ❤️ I’m sorry to hear that you feel that you aren’t being listened to. The developers are working on urgent fixes for the game at the moment which is why time travelling issues aren’t currently a priority. I do recommend that you keep an eye on the official Disney Dreamlight Valley Trello Board over in #known-issues for updates on bug fixes etc. If you have any further suggestions for the team, feel free to let them know in #archived-suggestions-chat and if your Cloud Save is still not working I do recommend that you contact support and let them know ❤️ I’ll link them for you below.

!support

[wicked sparrow]

Customer Support contact information:

https://gameloft.helpshift.com/hc/en/66-disney-dreamlight-valley/contact-us/

[solemn kite]

@warped raft if you haven't already, make sure you take a sec to fill out the survey -> https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R89Q8M7 that they post so that you can be another voice added to this issue. TT is specifically mentioned and you can add to it, as so many others have, that it wasn't TT in this game that bricked it (which, frankly, is beyond asinine) but in another. The survey is approximately 10 min? I did it in bed, on my phone while I was waking up lol

[fair loom]

If you accidentally time travel for ACNH and you travel to 15 days into the PAST and then log into dreamlight valley does the time traveling affect your game right away? Or only once you try to go back to the present? 😱

I get the checking when the last catch is but got lost after that.

If it says next check is in 15 days then you know the game knows you TT right?

[solemn kite]

Right, so if it says the next catch is in 15 days, you didn't close out fast enough. You could choose to open on a local save instead of a cloud save, but that's going to be more complicated than necessary and frankly shouldn't be something anyone needs to worry about! - but that's neither here nor there (fill out the survey please and express your concerns and voice so that they begin to take us more seriously)

Without being able to access on another platform to trigger a different save and then choose the local save, it's just a hassle.

In the future, for AC, when TT, make sure that you take your Switch offline completely. Like, no wifi. Then you can jump around all day and night and logging back into DLV can't accidentally trigger a cloud save because you won't be connected online. I know - you shouldn't have to do that just because of one game. But, it is what it is for now.

The freezing issues stem from when you cross into timeframes that you've already played (per the save file) - so like with people who are ahead in the game, if they came back to the present, the game thinks they have already played all those days - so they are "locked out" of playing them again. Do you understand? No harvesting, fishing, mining.

Going forward may be all well and good to grab the next day's inventory for the shop, but now the blue chests won't open because they are linked to RT. And you can't go back because the game will freeze in spawning since you already played that time frame.

Make sense?

[fair loom]

I wonder how the game would react if you started a new game file from the past? I wonder if it would still freeze the game.

What would happen then if you tried to go to the present?

[solemn kite]

That I do not know. I started a second game on a different profile but it was in RT. And I had already adjusted and waited out my main profile to be fixed as well. So a lot of my advice is both from a practical and hands-on knowledge.

[solemn kite]

Edited response from before to Kate (just for reference)
That depends on if you have played DLV or not. So like I was saying earlier, TT without "crossing streams" is less consequential than jumping around and overlapping timeframes. If you go back into a period that the game thinks you've already played, then it'll, essentially freeze until you catch up.

If you managed to NOT SAVE (like logged in, "oh ....", logged out/shut the game down) and swapped the time back to the correct time - in theory - you should be fine.

Easiest and fastest way that I have seen to check this is with Moana's boat (providing you have it upgraded) and see when her next catch is. If it's 15 days from now , if it's not

[pure meadow]

@regal trellis it's really far up but I'm not risking it

[regal trellis]

Yeah, don't. We see this ALL THE TIME in the Help channel and the amount of times people have to restart because they TT'd just isn't worth it,

[fair loom]

To try to get your game resynced with time is it better to go forward one day at a time or is it better to jump to the correct day in 1 big leap?

[regal trellis]

Best to set it in the one big jump because you're in the past, and it should catch up pretty quickly.

Forward is worse and breaks a lot more things (although neither is suggested AT ALL)

[solemn kite]

Kate weren't you a year ahead?

[regal trellis]

#1020421359752458340 message

[solemn kite]

OH- Morgan was the year ahead

One day at a time might get you the benefits of the store, but you're losing out the harvesting regardless

And frankly, that's kind of a big might - since you went back and the game thinks you already played that timeframe. If you skip a day, see no store change, skip another, still no change - just rip the band-aid off and bite the bullet.

[fair loom]

I’m in the past. I’m experimenting with the time space continuum 😂 I figured since we are in between updates I have nothing better to do.

[solemn kite]

Yea, I skip around, but again, I have figured out how to do it without damage and it's seriously convoluted. And not all that easy to explain. So best I can say is just decorate and chill, try and resync

15 days is going to be hard enough without spawning

[fair loom]

Does it matter if I try to “play” the game the best I can while my game resycs

[solemn kite]

No not at all - as a matter of fact, you'll be able to see when things begin to resync that way!

As the game syncs, you'll notice that things become "Harvestable" when you walk over them that previously weren't. Mining nodes will light up and such

[fair loom]

With going forward 1 day at a time will that make the game respawning still take the same amount of time?

[solemn kite]

Yes, time to sync is set in stone. There's no adjusting that

[fair loom]

and how does the game know what is suppose to be the “correct” time?

[frigid lance]

It doesn’t apparently

I think,correct me if i am wrong

[solemn kite]

There is a lot of tracking data in the coding - most of it locks it back to the game servers. And it relies heavily on the cloud sync and that save file. (Which is why when I said that when you TT for AC, make sure to take your Switch offline just in case) If your IP data, the save file data, the cloud data, and the server time are all wonky - the game gets irritated.

[frigid lance]

Time Travel is not suggested in Dreamlight Valley. And that’s not something Dreamlight Valley’s Staff and Devs are able to fix.

[fair loom]

How do I make sure to take my game off-online?

[solemn kite]

So you can either a) go into Airplane Mode on your Switch (super easy), or b) turn your wifi off (also easy, just an added step)

[fair loom]

and when should I turn it back on?

[solemn kite]

I would turn it back on once you know you have reset it correctly. Say you play today at noon. And then save and play AC for a few hours. Write a note to yourself or something like that just saying 11/12 Noon so you know when the last save on DLV was. That way you never accidentally open the game during the wrong time and you are able to set it correctly when you go back to it.

Unless you are using NSO for AC, just keep it off or make note of when your last DLV save was - just in case. Always better safe than sorry

[solemn kite]

They are, they choose not to. There's a difference.

[fast wind]

To add a disclaimer:

!timeskip

[wicked sparrow]

We recommend that you DO NOT Time Skip. While we understand that there are benefits to time skipping, there are also unintended errors. As we are currently in the Early Access period, we will not be prioritizing issues caused by time skipping, as it is not the intended gameplay experience.

[fair loom]

If my roomate is playing the game on the date 11/07/2022 (according to her switch) is it possible for her to get her game to sync up to the correct date of TODAY

[frigid lance]

They are what?

[solemn kite]

Yes, but again, it's going to be a process.

[regal trellis]

Edowen believe that the devs ARE able to "fix" the timeskip issue but choose not to, and are very salty about it. 🙂

[frigid lance]

Oh thanks for the clarification

[solemn kite]

Less a "belief" and more a knowledge of how gaming works.

[fair loom]

So it’s just the same process that I need to take but at a different point in time 😂

Me and my roomate May never see each other again.

[solemn kite]

Your roommate will probably have an easier time, as they haven't already "played" the timeframe that they are going to (unless I'm missing info?) than you will.

Like I said, lol, it's convoluted

[fair loom]

Dear roomate, I made you a PB & J sandwich. Hope it finds you well (within the appropriate time frame of consumption, love Kate) 😂

Option 1:
hey roomie where’s that PB& J sandwich you said you made me?

Me: I didn’t make you a sandwich….

Option 2:
Hey roomie, where’s that PB& J sandwich you made me?
Roomate: you mean that sandwich I made for you over 5 weeks ago that’s still sitting on the counter?

Me: I thought that was sour apple cotton candy! 🍏

No man that’s what you call MOLD!

[bronze flume]

Don't do a time skipping. Give us an in-game clock on the UI. So we can track the time of day. Not a "Jump' in time .. but basing the game of the time of day of your location can and will cause in game issues for time gated questing...

Some type of hourly rotation would be better. Not per hour persay, but change the type of day every 2 to 3 hours?

[worn mauve]

to clarify more, the devs have said " As we are currently in the Early Access period, we will not be prioritizing issues caused by time skipping" meaning there is still a chance if enough continue to point out how it now affects how they play other games (Which should not be the case. No One here or anywhere is allowed to tell you how to play other games, and no game should affect how you play other games either) there is a high chance (considering how many it has already affected since most ACNH players did not know before hand) once it is out of Early Access it could be fixed.
The devs never said "We are not ever fixing this"

[frigid lance]

It’s not the Devs job to fix time traveling. It’s the players who break the game.

[tepid portal]

This is such a dismissive response from the devs. This is a game breaking glitch that often affects people entirely by accident. And there is no indication that this could happen when purchasing the game. There are people who paid to play this game and can't now without losing everything. It's unacceptable as is the continuous dismissive response to it.

It's also an accessibility issue. It's essentially telling people that the game is intended to be broken for anyone with traveling, schedule, and system conflicts. When the game's clock is tied to real time, when quests and features of the game are tied to real time, not allowing people to adjust this time just means the game isn't intended to be accessible for everyone.

And if it's something that will continue to be ignored:

Please add a disclaimer on the store page that the game is not intended to be accessible for everyone, and that major and essential features will not be available to anyone with common schedule conflicts. Make it clear that this also applies to anyone who needs to adjust the time on their game system for any reason, as long as this game is installed.

As it's clear that the one "solution" offered is unreliable and not easy for consumers to find, give an additional warning on the game's store page that the game can break irreparably entirely by accident and there is no effort being made to fix it.

If this is something that is intended to be fixed eventually, then the devs really need to let people know so that they can decide if they want to wait for the fix or delete their save. The lack of communication about this, other than the copy and pasted "we recommend not doing the thing you already did unknowingly" is really disheartening.

[worn mauve]

The Devs Do NOT get to tell anyone how to play other games. They have Never said they weren't fixing bugs related to it in future, just not during the early access period. (There's a difference) No one gets to tell anyone how they play Animal Crossing and how people play their game should not affect DLV and it's not okay that it does. The devs knew acnh players were going to be playing this game and knew a lot if players time traveled for that game for the last 2.5 years. Time Traveling isn't considered cheating to everyone. If you view it like that then it's fine. But don't treat others like they're bad just because you don't like it.

[worn mauve]

100% agree with this. I hope they are looking at this and the #1024325934955905097 threads to see how frustrated we are about "Real Time Sync"

[warped plinth]

I'm very much in the same boat. I haven't been able to play in weeks because I had to adjust my time on my PC, not even intending to time skip in the game. I'm so frustrated and I've gotten far in, I don't want to wipe everything out.

[bright loom]

At the very least, as I suggested to them week one, the devs need to add a clock check in the loading screen. It can simple pop up with a message stating the user is not synced to game time and this could cause unforeseen complications in the game. Then give them a choice to close and correct the time or continue on.

It seems like it would be a simple bandaid that wouldn’t add too much extra programming.

[oblique fable]

Does anyone know how travel affects the game? I will be crossing 10 time zones there and back but will need to use wifi on the switch so can’t do airplane mode the whole trip.

[rain sandal]

Those that have traveled have had their game bug out in the switch so far from what I have seen overall,

[solemn kite]

This is horrible advice, but as it's all on GL it is what it is - play DLV in Airplane mode only. Everything else you should be fine. Take your Switch date/time and unsync it from the internet. Just keep it as though you were home.

You will not be able to claim blue chests (however one will appear every day and stay until you do claim it).
You will be able to claim the green chests.

Once you get back home and play normally it'll ask if you want to use the local save or the cloud save (it'll recommend using the cloud save) - if you've stayed offline the whole time you want to choose the local save (it should show longer hours played).

Other than that - take the survey. And don't allow others to tell you you're doing something wrong or taboo simply because they can't grasp larger concepts.

[oblique fable]

But I can’t play in airplane mode only. I’ll want to do the new Star path and will be gone for 5 weeks 😢

[solemn kite]

... ok... So make sure you are not synced to the internet date/time wise. But DO NOT change it when you travel

I'm not 100% on this, but in theory... that should be a work around for you

Risk is yours in the end, take any and all advice with a grain of salt

[oblique fable]

Thanks for the help! I’ll have to figure out how to do wifi without the date and time changing. Just sucks that they have lumped time travelling in with just travelling.

[solemn kite]

It's really simple, go to your settings, go to Date/Time and unclick sync to internet (or some such wording) but don't actually change the date and time

[oblique fable]

Thank you!!!!

[tepid portal]

Very sorry to anyone whose game breaks just from living their lives, and have been given no solutions from the devs on how to avoid it.

As of now** there is no sure way to avoid it other than not using the device where you have the game installed, if the time is going to be affected in any way. They've stated fixing this issue isn't a priority for them and have given no indication that they ever intend to fix it in the future. **

Thankfully there are players who care enough to try to offer a work around, but they can't guarantee it's safe. While there is a simple fix that can be implemented by the devs, whoever is in charge of these decisions has chosen not to because this is the way the game is intended to be played.

So, to clarify: You've purchased a game you can only play under specific circumstances, unless you want to risk it breaking irreparably. This means you'll potentially be unable to use the devices where you have it installed, and unable to access anything else you have on the device. (Other games, work and school projects, etc.) If you share the device with anyone, they'll also be locked out.

Since there is no indication that you can be locked out of your devices and other games on the store page, and no clarification on what qualifies as "time skipping," I thought I'd leave this here so people are aware.

[hollow comet]

I haven't played since the 13th because I'm in Mexico and I'm afraid my game will be messed because time difference was 2 hours.

[bright loom]

Most of us had a time change.
It didn’t leave any lasting effects except now most timed things like critters, sleep schedules, Dawn/dusk fragment times etc have changed by an hour.

[rotund dagger]

Yes, this notice is important and I also feel bad for those affected; I have paused playing DDLV until it syncs back up but I strongly believe the developers will eventually fix the entire time skipping issue as it is not a standard for any game on any platform I know of to function this way (ie shops, fishing, spawns broken). Idk I feel like if I were a creator I would want the game to get the respect it deserves by at least having it functioning correctly so I think they will fix it if that makes sense?

[tepid portal]

It makes sense and I hope you're right. Until they fix this people's games will continue to break.

[deep oracle]

My game finally caught up!!!

It's been wrong since the first week the game came out and it finally caught up and i'm so excited!

[deep oracle]

so my pumpkins still wont grow... but everything else is working?

[rain sandal]

#1032324845716906084 would be a place to post that some crops have been a bit weird lately it is a known issue they will appear watered but not grow even without time traveling, some people have watered them without the indicator and have had luck with that but the growth is a little buggy currently for some reason

[primal grove]

I find this time skip issue really irksome because this isn't a mobile game. I paid to play the game, I should be allowed to time travel. tldr: Depression took me outta commission and now a game I play for relaxation is suddenly unplayable and i just wanna break down and cry because this isn't fair? If I were playing a mobile game, I wouldn't be so upset. But I have to loose everything to restart my game, especially to enjoy it when the new patch comes out?

I wouldn't have been able to finish my star path without time travel.

That's all I wanted to do: complete the duties I had because they relied on multiple days. It wouldn't have been an issue at all if the duties didn't go, "oh look, WHEN you finish all this, you get 50 points and complete the pass so I'm not gonna give you any more duties".

The only option I had was time travel or suffer. Since time travel on animal crossing is a thing, I didn't even think to look into time traveling until after I screwed myself over. Maybe if the game warned time travel shouldn't be done, I'd feel different but there wasn't even a warning, I had no idea I'd be taking such a risk and screwing my game over. And now I have a useless game that I can't even get a refund on.

[bleak slate]

Hi skysawake, I am so sorry to hear you're going through this. To make sure your voice is heard, would you be able to copy/paste this over in the #1024325934955905097 thread so devs can see? As far as I know they don't look in this player guides section too much, and I want to make sure your voice gets heard 💜

[hexed willow]

So my issue is, I play on my nintendo switch. I downloaded the game to play on my son nintendo switch. I didnt know his time was different from mine when i logged into my cloud save. I opened the game to play and everything was the same for my switch. But i never played once i logged in.

I went on my Original switch to play, and played like normal. But its been 5 days and my day is the same as it was 5 days ago. So technically i didnt time travel, but i guess because i logged in on his, the game considered it time traveling. His switch is set like 10 days after my day because he time traveled for anch. Will i have to wait as well, or just give it up and start over?

[patent surge]

If it's just 10 days I would try to wait it out and see if it will resync properly back up. But it's your choice if you'd rather restart the save. My concern would be having your save on the switch that isn't set to local time and that it might happen again for you.

[hexed willow]

Yes i took it off that switch. And i think i may wait it out. Thank you

[vast sierra]

So apparently altering your computer's clock for any reason even when the game isn't open breaks stuff, even if you change it back before playing DLV. So uh, yeah. That is, bluntly, really frustrating and I think a good case for turning off the stupid time sync.

[bleak slate]

@fast iris this channel has a pinned message that will have info on how to help you.

[rich hawk]

ok so if i time skipped very far ahead like several months at this point my only option is to restart a new save from the beginning in current time? that is so sad

[worn mauve]

for now yes, it's not a priority fix unfortunately because it's not how the devs want us to play. 😦

[rich hawk]

could anyone not unlock the premium star path after resetting?

[bright loom]

Still having that problem with the new update? Sorry, I didn’t see your post because, well, new update. So you set your clock correctly and restarted? You have to get past the point where you open the castle to see the star path.

[unborn flax]

Hi just wondering if anyone has actually had this problem be fixed. As it’s happened to me and I can’t pick up herbs, the store won’t reset, I can’t access my event rewards. And I logged into my switch yesterday and it was like a day ahead but I can’t remember what the time was and nothing has changed.. it’s still the same. Iv done over 300 hours and I don’t want to have to start again.. I’m not sure what to do at this point as I’m worried I’m going to have to start all again.. am I supposed to just leave the game running for it to get back into the normal time or what.. 😦 thank you x

[bright loom]

Did you read the pinned post? What date was your console set to before you went to normal time?

[frigid lance]

!timeskip

[wicked sparrow]

We recommend that you DO NOT Time Skip. While we understand that there are benefits to time skipping, there are also unintended errors. As we are currently in the Early Access period, we will not be prioritizing issues caused by time skipping, as it is not the intended gameplay experience.

[bright loom]

@unborn flax So say you were set to 5 days ahead (or purposely ttd that time), then you realized it and set the clock to real time. Usually you have to wait out that 5 days now, plus usually a few extra, before stuff will start to act normal again. You can do it either way, continue to play in a limited manner since many things don’t spawn correctly. Or you can just not play at all that time and log in once the time has elapsed.
Like I said, some people need to wait a little longer than the original time, occasionally double, for full function. Sometimes it never gets right. And if you’ve ttd to far to wait it out, then you really only have the two options of restarting completely (you’ll keep your founder items and any star path items you bought) or just waiting for the devs to decide to fix this issue. One thing you could do is just abandon the broken game and start a fresh game on a new profile on the console. You’ll need a different email for its cloud save. Usually separate profiles of the same console get a standard founders starter pack.

[worn mauve]

sadly the devs aren't prioritizing a fix for this at this time. The only solution is to wait or restart sadly. In time it may be fixed since it's messing up things like people travelling (especially when they travel somewhere a head of their time zone) I bet in the Spring when clocks Spring Forward an hour it's going to mess things up again too because the game will see it as "time travel" just like it does for those who physically change locations to somewhere a head of their usual time zone.

[opal socket]

Is there any way to fix my save my cousin accidentally timeskipped over a month

[bright loom]

Read the pinned post and my response to someone else two above yours

[opal socket]

It was well over a month so I just started over

[tepid portal]

You can keep playing from the latest date you traveled to on that save, but you can't go back. So if you've progressed very far and don't want to start over, you can just play from where you are and don't time skip anymore. Hopefully a fix will be implemented that lets you go back to real time at some point. But for now your options are staying out of sync with real time or losing everything and starting over.

I haven't seen this option posted anywhere and I think it's important for people to know before they decide to delete their save.

[regal trellis]

While this is true, it means that they will miss out on things that are time-gated in any manner, events, everything....which is why we don't recommend it.

[patent surge]

Yeah they'd be missing out on the Star Path and seasonal events if they don't stay connected

[tepid portal]

I've seen mixed results on whether it prevents you from accessing the star path. So you can try, or decide if you'd rather wait and potentially miss out on some star path items than nuke your save and have to do everything over.

At this point there are people who have been playing for months. So it's a choice between losing all your progress and the items you've worked for, or missing out on current star path items for a bit until there's a fix. Just think the information should be out there so people can decide for themselves.

[remote hamlet]

Hi not sure where to go for this but I screwed up my dlv 😭😭 I hadn’t set my time back to normal date and time and forgotten to change it so when I went into to dreamlight valley I didn’t even think to do and carried on with my duties etc and then I can’t pick anything up 😭 I’ve now set it back to normal date and time bt I still can’t pick stuff up etc I think I’m like 20 days 😞

[regal trellis]

Friend, we helped you with this over in #dreamlight-help like 20 mins ago!

[gritty berry]

What about changing timezones due to traveling/moving? - THIS WILL IMPACT YOUR GAME! Don't do it. LOL

[lunar lion]

HI ...so complicated question ... so i have the mistake of timetravel im a year out .. i did it accidently due to ACNH ... ok so with that said ... odd question maybe a way i can fix it .. i play DDLV on the switch ... if i pay for the pc version and link the 2 (switch and pc) would that fix it .. and also im still not clear on the different platforms working together .. can someone also explain that process... thankyou in advance

[fringe ravine]

Do you have a Gameloft account linked on the switch, and if yes, did the game sync with that cloud at any point after the time travel?

[lunar lion]

yes and yes

[fringe ravine]

Then loading it on another device will not fix the issue, as another device pulls that same Gameloft cloud save. You should always #1047579586361311233 so you can fix this issue by downloading the backup from the Nintendo cloud.

[lunar lion]

ok sooo from what im reading i think i already did all that cause i just recently went from a standard switch to a oled switch (awesome husband) i have been living with my timetravel for a while .. and was thinking a fresh platform might help ... dang it .. wish they would just lock it where we cant time travel and reset us that did it before any warnings .. but it is what it is .. i know they arent planning to fix it .. was thinking of other ways to fix it ..

[thorn helm]

Hello, I time skipped yesterday but it was backwards, how do I do to fix it ?

[rain sandal]

Set your time back to normal, and then give it about a day, to recover and see how it goes from there is all I can really say to potentially fix

[thorn helm]

Ok thank you very much

[thorn helm]

I solve it

I put the time of my switch one year ahead and it worked for those who might need it

[rain sandal]

Only downside to that, when you set back to normal fully, that 1 year you already went through, nothing will be harvestable and such in your game since the servers register you did those days.

[regal trellis]

Your Scrooge store/Moana's boat may not reset, mining/fishing nodes won't spawn, daily gifts/conversations may not refresh.

You would have been much better off to just wait out the time.

[prime tiger]

okay okay I have the game \ on the system but I haven't played it at all yet or opened the application so it has nothing to affect yet!! (I also have the game on my old switch that I don't tt on) but this should be fine right

[worn mauve]

It hasn't caused any issues for me but that doesn't mean it won't for you. I only time travel backwards (ex ACNH I'm in October of this year) and set it to the current date. My Switch has also never been Auto Synced so idk if that has anything to do with it either.
It's one of those try at your own risk, especially if you went forward in time.

The one time I was forward in time was at the game's release. The first week my switch was set 12 hours a head (so I could play ACNH when I was off work but still get things done in game) and I only had to wait a day for it to be back to normal when I set my time back to real time for DLV. Since then I've gone backwards in time only and never ever going past the real date
Again, it's a chance you take so it's an "at your own risk" kind of thing

[regal trellis]

(I tagged them over in help so we can try!)

[vestal vortex]

I wish I had seen this! I guess I won’t be harvesting oregano or basil for 8 more days.. (low key the rabbit was worth it)

[sweet sierra]

i wish too .. i need to wait since 30 december

but it's not so long so , nevermind

[ashen elbow]

Oop I did this to get Stitch then realized my error and checked here 🥲🥲. I’ll have to wait about a week for things to catch up then. Oopsie! Getting Stitch was worth it though 😉!

[turbid sapphire]

I just deleted my game and have my save data and Uninstalled it cause I wanna work on my animal crossing and I need to time travle for that I also have another account on my Xbox as well

And I deleted it from my switch not xbox lol

[icy prairie]

Ummmmm what if we time travel for a living lol

[regal trellis]

Then you'd have to be the Doctor....

[icy prairie]

[prime tiger]

Okay so just to ask time traveling backwards does not seem to effect the game right? (I only need to time travel like back and forth on the same two days because I am moving things in ACNH (but I don't want to mess it up too badly obviously)

[worthy echo]

i traveled back to see if i missed any new years eve event and i can't pick up herbs

or planted crops rest to current time and edverything works but that

[prime tiger]

another weird question but has anyone tried just changing their time zone back and forth or has that also effected everything (I know this is semantics etc I just need to move buildings around and I am impatient)

[prime tiger]

Just asking about this again (If i were to go back to yesterday then to today over and over again (so buildings finish etc)

[prime tiger]

as in you can't at all ever or just for a short period of time

[worthy echo]

Don't travel in Disney it will screw up your game

i went back in time to see about new years eve my crops and herbs i can't pick up and fish on dazzelbeach not spawning

[worn mauve]

It's a chance you take. I've set my switch back a few months, then moved forward (as in forward from the backwards date. Ex I go to say November 5th, then November 6th, 2022, then set it back to real time with no issues. I've done this multiple times.

[prime tiger]

Oh I wasn't going to actually open the game (which I know it doesn't matter still messes it up) I just was curious Because I like I said I would travel back to yesterday then to today

[worn mauve]

that being said it's a chance you take. I have Never had my switch synced to real time. It has been manual since the day I got it. (because we travel sometimes to different time zones and I didn't want it to automatically change for other games either,) I have also ever once gone a head in time. (excluding when I didn't realize my switch was set 12 hours a head instead of 12 hours behind. I fixed that and again had zero issues.

Just because I haven't had any issues traveling back in time for acnh doesn't mean others won't though

[prime tiger]

That is okay I probably won't do it I was justing figuring out gauging how everyone elses games have been impacted

[worn mauve]

Like I said, mine hasn't been, but I know everyone has a different expierence with this. TBH I'm still hoping they remove the real time sync. I know it's how they intended the game to be played, but for those of us who work and can't play until late in the day, we miss out on a lot of things.

[prime tiger]

Im mainly frustrated because it means I can't decorate effectively in animal crossing and for example my nooks crannie will be closed all day tomorrow which like I said is inconvenient its hard to progress at the moment

[regal trellis]

all TT breaks things. This includes changing time zones back and forth because you are still moving through time.

[prime tiger]

ughh not so much for intentional tt but the fact that I go back to school at the end of the month in a different time zone

[regal trellis]

Yup, and there's no way to tell the system that's why. You can do what Toothless does, just understand the risk. We have some who change manually to a different time zone and leave it, never changing again. It will break for a bit but should recover. Not always, there's always a risk, but should

Before you do anything, just follow the steps in #1047579586361311233 so that if something does go wrong, you can roll back!!

[gloomy forum]

i don't think anyone has mentioned this here (i used the search feature to check) but just in case anyone has accidentally time traveled and now you have dry crops that wont grow, just use a magical growing elixer on them and they will grow immediately, for you to harvest. it worked for both myself and one of my friends who also had 9 crops that haven't grown in weeks. just thought I'd share for anyone else who was experiencing the same issue. but FYI this won't correct other issues in the game, like not being able to pick up items. so yeah, don't time travel. this is just to correct the issue if it happened to you by mistake.

[humble brook]

i read somewhere else in this server- you can tt for animal crossing as long as you dont open ddlv on a false day. doing stuff on acnh and then opening ddlv on realtime should be okay. it’s at your risk and discretion though, just bc it was okay for someone else doesnt mean itll be okay for you!! maybe it would be better if you flipped between past days for animal crossing? if you’re desperate to move those buildings haha

[regal trellis]

If you decide to do that, you definitely risk your game. We've seen people try this and it doesn't work. For those it does, it's a miracle.

[weary lake]

i accidently skipped a year ahead. is there a quick fix. everything is working expect herbs and scrooges store. i really do not want to reset my game

[regal trellis]

There is no fix. You will need to set back to normal and wait out the time - in your case, a full year. During that time, everything will break. At the end of the time, hopefully your game will reset to normal.

[weary lake]

looks like o better buy another copy of the game for a different console to keep playing 😩😩

[regal trellis]

If you do, you'll likely still be having issues because your save is saved with the time skip.

You do know that you keep all moonstones/founders pack items/star path items if you reset, yes? And you can craft a copy of Ariel's crafting table. 🙂 It goes smoother and faster the second time through too. 🙂

[weary lake]

yeah but i’ll end up loosing all the stuff from previous star paths ect

[regal trellis]

You will not! 🙂 You keep ALL of that, because it's account bound, not character bound.

[weary lake]

interesting. would it be possible to tt back to the launch week to get those rewards i missed out on and then reset everything

[regal trellis]

like first week rewards? No. Because they are account bound, and your account wasn't created then.

[weary lake]

ahhhh interesting

[regal trellis]

That's why you keep all the other things if you reset - because they are bound to your account, not to your character. And why you lose the things your CHARACTER gained, because they aren't tied to your GL account.

[weary lake]

i really appreciate this information though, i was so scared for loosing all my limited time items. the only real thing i’ll be missing out on is the festive fish

[regal trellis]

I will specify - anything you got from the village duties for the limited stuff will be gone. Anything from the halloween things like trick or treat, or 3-course-meal, or the ones we currently have like ho-ho-ho. SOME can still be done but some will have to wait for the next time.

[weary lake]

oh so those duties are still going to be there next year?

[regal trellis]

we assume so. None of us will know until we get there, but they are still there in the duties list even for those who weren't playing at the time or who missed them. Based on gameplay from other similar games, it goes to figure that they should be here for the next holiday.

[weary lake]

does the tt glitch happen if you start in the past. for example say if i go to halloween time, do those, go to christmas, do those and then go to present day

or will it still break for the month ?

[regal trellis]

It will break it AND it won't work. Those things won't spawn.

[weary lake]

fingers crossed i can get them next year then 😂, it’s so satisfying to see the collections full

[plucky tartan]

how to fix time travel backward? or should i play new game? 🥲

[worn mauve]

I don't think you can fix it if you went backwards and then to real time

Because there's no date you can wait for since the date was in the past

[regal trellis]

It should fix itself, it's just weird. It doesn't fix itself like the others do because yeah, there's no date you wait to. It just gradually fixes itself. Usually takes a few days. But just like going forwards, there's absolutely no guarantee that it will fix itself because backwards is just WEIRD.

[winter chasm]

I was told to wait 24 hours after the date I skipped to but it’s still not working. Am I s*** out of luck? I opened a ticket with gameloft but haven’t heard back.

[regal trellis]

You likely won't, as they will not be fixing issues related to time skipping, at least during early access. How far did you skip?

Also, please do not use creative spelling or punctuation/special characters to avoid the bonk bot.

[winter chasm]

3 days. it’s been those 4.5 days since I did that

[regal trellis]

Then you have 2 options. You can continue to wait and see if it resets itself, but it really should have by now. It generally only takes an additional day, especially with such a small jump. Or you can restart. If you have questions about restarting, I can answer those or you can head over to #1020433563876872192 and check the pins.

[winter chasm]

dang, I will give it another day before I restart. thank you! I’ll be back soon. hopefully for happier reasons. 😌

[regal trellis]

You can almost always find me hanging out in #dreamlight-help although you can tag me pretty much anywhere, LOL

[brisk tundra]

I’m wondering if it matters if the game is on or off while waiting for the 24 hours?

[regal trellis]

To catch up to time skip? Doesn't matter at all.

[brisk tundra]

Oh, word! Thank you! I was hesitant to keep the game open while waiting.

[regal trellis]

No, time passes as it do whether the game is on or off. 🙂

[fluid mist]

I caught back up to my time jump and don’t plan on time jumping again but some of my plants aren’t growing. Including the one for Scar’s quest where you clean the water in sunlit. Anyone have this issue

[regal trellis]

Are you at least a day past where you skipped?

[fluid mist]

Yep

[regal trellis]

How far past?

[fluid mist]

About 20 hours total

[regal trellis]

How big was your jump?

[fluid mist]

…large.

A couple months. Didn’t know it was an issue until I did it and then joined here.

[regal trellis]

Oh crud. Well ...you can give it another day or so and see if it fixes but if it doesn't, you're toast and will have to start fresh.

[fluid mist]

Poo

[regal trellis]

It's the danger in skipping. Most of the time it will reset itself eventually but sometimes it doesn't.

[fluid mist]

Damn. Ok

[frigid lance]

if i time skip for acnh will it affect ddv?

[regal trellis]

Absolutely. TT is not intended gameplay and any TT on a device that has DLV Installed will affect it even if DLV is not open.

[frigid lance]

awh man ):

[regal trellis]

Make sure your game is set to the correct times BEFORE you start to play.

[odd knot]

My game is not yet at the right time. Some people have said that you can see on moana’s boat how long you have to wait. And that was 6 days and 21 hours. Then i upgraded the boat and it said 7 min. But it is over 7 days ago and the game still does not work. Any tips? Or what can i do?

[regal trellis]

Are you caught up to the farthest time you skipped? The boat isnt always a good indicator, as it doesn't always break.

[worn mauve]

What about your crops? Are you able to harvest them or not?

[odd knot]

I don’t know how much I skipped. So I just wait.

[odd knot]

No I can’t

[regal trellis]

Okay, it's up to you how long you want to wait and see if your game recovers, since you don't know how far it went.

[odd knot]

I know. I have a new account. But there I keep getting the message transaction error. So I am thinking of starting over on the other account.

[sterile phoenix]

So it turns out I was playing my game a month ahead from the start 🙃 I didn't realise this and had issues when trying yo collect the festive fish and wrapping paper. One of the mods assisted me and we thought it was because my time on my switch wasn't linked to the Internet (as I said I dumbly didn't even realise it was a month ahead when I initially checked) so I connected the time to update through the Internet and obviously had all the issues above. I very patiently waited a whole darn month and everything is back working again. Unfortunately the 150 pumpkins I planted before hand are never ready for harvesting, they still require watering, but are never ready. This has been a week now. Any ideas?

[regal trellis]

Use the miracle grow elixir on them when they dry out. It's gonna be expensive in terms of mats, but that should work. Test with a small one first of course.

[sterile phoenix]

I'll give it a go if it every stops raining 🤣 thank you 😊

[frigid lance]

What if we uninstall DLV whenever we want to TT for AC ? It should not mess up with the game, since it won't be installed anymore. I'll try and I'll tell you.

[hearty dew]

#1067525785788878949 has some information about that!

[swift vessel]

I messed up very early on because I play pokemon and there are times we date skip. I forgot to switch it back. So I restarted on a different profile which kinda gives me a heads up somethings different double check date if I've been playing pokemon

[hybrid ginkgo]

Hi everyone, silly question but what is time travel in the game?

[regal trellis]

It involves changing the time on your device. Since the game uses real time to grow things, spawn nodes/plants, and reset everything, changing the time on your device is strongly discourage doing so as it breaks the game

[hybrid ginkgo]

Ahaaaa understood thanks! So in short - don’t do it! Haha

[regal trellis]

Yup, that's why this thread has the title it does.

[hybrid ginkgo]

Got it:)

[sullen quartz]

has anyone tried to tt backwards to complete star paths? i’ve gotten all the characters maxed and quests done. i’ve just been mining lots of gems and stocking up dreamlight and wanna do the starpaths i missed

[regal trellis]

Absolutely do not TT. Also, past star paths don't exist, if I am not mistaken. Once they're gone, they're gone.

[frigid lance]

please don’t TT! It can and will break your game which sometimes cannot be fixed. in addition, this won’t work if you’re trying to obtain previous star paths. once they are gone, they are gone!

[inland pulsar]

I learned this the hard way. listen to them. I lost a save file of over 100 hours because I wanted to update my store.

[opal hemlock]

I did this once only went 1 hour into the future and it made Moanas boat time to collect be 28 days! It took me upgrading her store to be able to fix the time on her boat

[uncut bronze]

So, in regards to traveling across the world, what about this situation? I moved from South Korea back home to Maryland, USA four months ago. I decided to play Dreamlight Valley again a few days ago. I do not have any of the time-traveling effects (crops frozen, store not refreshing, etc), but I do have the issue where when I log in, the game is not in the correct time zone. Like, I logged in this morning at 9:22 am and it was nighttime in-game. In Korea, this would make sense, as it was 11:22 pm.. but my computer settings have long been fixed to the current time and time zone (EST). So, I can't figure out, save from starting over, how to fix the time back to normal so that I can interact with everyone.

And I have brought up this issue with Gameloft Customer Care, but they are treating this issue as if I time traveled and that I shouldn't have done that.

[patent surge]

Sorry we don't have a way to fix this; the game seems to stay in the timezone it was created. You can use the daylight slider to visual make it look like day but I think all the schedules will stay on your old time unless you choose to restart the save.

[uncut bronze]

And that's what I was afraid of. It wouldn't be much of a problem if I had moved only a few timezones, but there's a 13-14 hour difference (depending on DST, which Korea doesn't practice) and that sucks. 😄 But... luckily, I'm not too terribly far into the game. I just ||unlocked the Star Palace||, so I can easily get back to that point. Just sucks because I got my land all cleaned up too. 😉

They really should work on that at some point. Either way, thanks for your help! ❤️

[patent surge]

Sorry for the trouble dear; I wish you luck going forward!

[uncut bronze]

Thank you. It'll be worth it in the end. 🙂

[plucky robin]

I did the same (only for AC and changed it back before starting DDV) but mine has broken. 😢

[hearty dew]

Check out #1067525785788878949

[shrewd pewter]

Sooooo I just found out that i broke my game by TT.... So dumb but it was by accident (TT for ACNH and then forgot to change the time back to normal before starting Dreamlight Valley) Luckily I'm not the only one 🤪

My whole world isn’t refreshing, Scrooge’s store is the same for like 5 days in a row now, I can’t pick up garlic/ginger - kind of plants, my villagers aren’t refreshing so I can’t do daily discussions and favourite gifts, my apple trees stay empty and so on…

I already filed a bug report but im very impatient hehe 🤪 , does anyone know how to get your world normal again?

[rose edge]

Be sure to read the pinned message. Should give details on how it has resolved for others.

[shrewd pewter]

Thanks! Couldn't find the pinned message but now I have 😊

[regal trellis]

You may also find #1067525785788878949 to be of benefit for you

[shrewd pewter]

Thanks! Problem is, I can't remember what time I traveled to, could be summer time...... 🦗 🦗 🦗 Guess i'll just have to wait and see... 😭 I'm never TTing again!!! 🙅‍♀️

[regal trellis]

If you wait, you won't be able to really do much between now and then. This means missing out on all the star paths that happen. If you skipped until summer, imo you're better off restarting so you are able to play and participate fully!

If you have concerns about restarting, check the pin in #1020433563876872192 For information or come to #dreamlight-help and we can assist over there!!!

[keen junco]

Sorry if this has been asked already but I TT'd a whole year ahead following some bad advice to fix a separate issue and of course now dealing with the consequences. After all the hours I've put into the game I don't want to restart so I've accepted that I have royally screwed myself until my game catches up/devs eventually find a fix. My question is could I at least keep playing and have things spawn if I went way backwards, say 2021, and just kind of lived in the past for awhile?

[regal trellis]

@fringe ravine @patent surge ? I don't believe so, it will make it worse, but Mandi or Bear might know better.

I'm also 99% certain it will mean you have no access to star paths.

[fringe ravine]

Going backwards, no. If you put your game back into the future however you could keep playing and have things spawn etc, but if you are in either the past or the future you can't do any star path events, and devs have already said they won't repeat. Also I don't know that they are looking into fixing it as it's not intended gameplay.

[keen junco]

@regal trellis @fringe ravine major bummer 😕 the whole thing makes me not even want to play anymore but thanks for the quick answers!

[old halo]

Quickest way to see if you have broken your game im gonna cry if I have 🥹

[regal trellis]

Can you harvest herbs/spices? That's the first thing that breaks.

[hearty dew]

@rare pewter tagging you here becuase #1021059232637927535 isn't for reporting issues, but it sounds like it may be a time sync issue so hopefully the information here may help! Check the pinned message and feel free to ask for more help in #dreamlight-help

[lunar lion]

welp ... will be moving in a week from Nebraska to Nevada ... not like that's gonna screw up the time problem (yes sarcasm) i really wish they would fix all of this ... its just gonna get worse and worse ... and not the work around of just wait until xyz .... feel sorry for military who have to move all the time and travel alot .. not just within USA but world wide .. imagine that time warp screw up ... i just wish they would fix it to reset time and to LOCK IT to them since we have the day night thing now ... something ...

[regal trellis]

#1067525785788878949 might be of help to keep the game from breaking while you move!!

[frigid lance]

Hello, I was told to come here for my problem. I can not collect herbs (basil and others) and for Animal crossing I had done a Time travel in March .. I haven't had any bugs so far except for herbs.. What can i do about it ?

[patent surge]

Please read this post it should help explain it: #1020421359752458340 message

[frigid lance]

Oh ok , i'm so sorry I'm French so I didn't think to read before (I use Google Trad so it's complicated haha)

[frigid lance]

Phew, I just finished reading/trad. Thank you for your help, all I have to do is wait until March 17 😂

[patent surge]

No worries dear; sorry for the extra work on translating

[regal trellis]

That's quite a ways away! In the meantime you won't be able to do stuff and you'll miss out on the star path. 😦

[frigid lance]

Oh that's not a problem! It's fun haha and then it helps me learn ^^

[frigid lance]

If you want to do the star path I would recommend restarting!!

[frigid lance]

Oh noo , i just realized it ! 😢

[regal trellis]

You might be better off restarting from scratch. 😦

[frigid lance]

on my main account? but I used an app to create my character and it says there is only a one-time code .. So I couldn't remake a new custom character? :/

[frigid lance]

I think this is the only solution indeed.. but it's so long x)

[regal trellis]

It's once per save, not by account. 🙂

[frigid lance]

Ahhhh ok It's great then! Thank you to all three of you for your answers 😊 🥹

[valid barn]

I definitely broke my game didn't know tt was gonna break my game I tt a month ahead so I just decided to delete the game and reinstall hoping that it will fix it I really don't want to start over since I have so much stuff that's not available anymore

[worn mauve]

You keep anything from previous star paths if you restart

It's supposed to be tied to your account from what I've seen said in this thread

[valid barn]

Oh really even the stuff you buy with the moon crystals and such?

[worn mauve]

Pretty sure yes. One of the mods would be better to confirm, but I'm 99% positive I've seen people say yours supposed to keep it all

[valid barn]

Oh okay I hope tysm!

[regal trellis]

#1020433563876872192 Has a pin that tells you all about starting over. 🙂

[little osprey]

Oh I never knew all that. Definitely good to know.

[naive sleet]

Is there any way to know when my game may fix itself? In the beginning of January I time traveled back to December 6th (I know... found out after the fact...sigh) to try and friend the Brown Raven. LOL Of course once I came back to real time things started happening.... Empty Store, No Ground Harvesting, No Fish, etc BUT once I figured out I messed up my game I read that if you "wait it out" it would fix itself. I counted the days I went backwards and then have just kept popping in to check it. When the middle of February rolled around and the update happened I thought for sure it was time. Now it is the beginning of March and now it's worse. 😦 I'm trying to complete the Star Path so I don't lose out (hoping for the day my game fixes itself), but now over the last couple of days it won't "advance" days either. I can't talk to multiple characters now because I already have (days ago), so now I'm stuck finishing the Star Path chores as well. Is my game just lost forever? I have 150,000 dreamlight... original founders gifts (my chocolate crocodile) and almost 4MM coins. I've been holding out so I don't lose all of that.... Is there any way of transferring those things to a different profile? I started a 2nd profile on my switch so I could keep playing in the hopes it fixes itself. I wish I had read up on the TT issues BEFORE. The downside to playing ACNH for the last 2+ years. 😦 I'm not a gamer (50+yo mom who LOVES these two games...lol) and this is my fun escape. I really wanted to cry when I realized I ruined my game. I've tried searching multiple places to see if there is a chance it will fix itself, but am afraid to ask questions in groups because people are not very nice when you realize you screwed up. LOL Thank you in advance for reading my sad long message. 🙂

[regal trellis]

If it hasn't fixed by now, friend, it's fully broken. Going backwards isn't as bad as going forwards, so it should have fixed itself within a few days. If it hasn't, it's not going to.

If you restart, you would normally keep all your founders pack/first week/star path items, etc., but right now there's a bug that is preventing that from happening. You just need to submit a ticket to support and wait for them to get the items back to you (it takes a few weeks).

[naive sleet]

@regal trellis thank you so much for responding. I'm so sad... before I blast my original game off to oblivion is there a chance with "online play" that we'll be able to share things with others like ACNH? That's another reason I've been holding on to that game with hope. I have SO MUCH I've collected that has not popped up in my new profile.

[regal trellis]

We have no idea what will happen when multiplayer is available. All the things with Scrooge will eventually show up for your new profile, it will just take a while because dangit scrooge be nice!!

[naive sleet]

@regal trellis hahahaha... my daughter and I say that ALL the time. Every day its always the SAME stuff. Well I guess for now I'll just keep it "hanging out" and pop in every once in a while to see if by some small miracle something happens with it. I was really hoping with the Feb update that it would right itself. Wishful thinking!! Have a fantastic day!! Thank you for not making me feel more horrible than I already do. 🙂

[regal trellis]

We don't yell at people who TT. We are sad for them and their broken games. You're already suffering the consequences, why make you feel worse? That's not okay. You might find #1067525785788878949 handy for the future though! 🙂

[honest robin]

Are you on Switch only? If you get the game on PC you have the option of making a manual copy of your old profile as a save file that you can use any time. That way you can restart and still keep your old file for whenever you want to check up on it. That has saved me many times from game-breaking bugs and hiccups, especially on Switch.

[balmy cloud]

I time traveled for animal crossing backwards in time a few days and I accidentally left at that time. I opened DDV at that time and claimed the new items in the mailbox before I realized I had time traveled and closed my game. I opened the game on my second switch which is where I had last played the game and it says there's a conflict with my cloud save and it's asking me if I want to load from my local save or cloud save. I understand my only options now are to load a backup and lose the items or continue the game from the other switch where I accidentally time traveled. I'm not sure if my game is broken or not I closed it fast if I restore my back up is it best I restore from the local save?

[naive sleet]

Thank you!! Yes... I'm only playing on my switch. I was very happy though when my son helped me realize I could start a 2nd game without having to rebuy using another profile. I have the online family membership so right now I have 2 ACNH and 2 DDV. LOL Once I run out I'll have to give my adult kids the boot to get their own membership. 🤣 Thank you so much for replying!!!

[regal trellis]

#1067525785788878949 might be helpful for y'all

[odd talon]

I time jumped for a quest. I had to play in the morning, afternoon and evening. I got the afternoon and evening easily but I time jumped backwards to get the morning item. It made where I couldn’t harvest anything. I got the item and went back to the right time and all was good again. Also I play on the switch

[regal trellis]

Correct, time skipping breaks the game. Doesn't matter why, or even if DLV isn't open, it will break it if you time skip on your device. To fix it, set your device back to the correct time and then wait out the difference. You went backwards, so hopefully it will only take a few hours to recover. If it's not recovered after a full day, come to #dreamlight-help

[odd talon]

It is all good. I have played is since then. And all is good.

[balmy cloud]

If I restore my local save on my other switch how do I fix what happened on my other switch? Hoping loading the save protects my game from having potentially broken but then do I create a new back up with the switch system and override the data on the other switch or do I save to cloud after logging in and load the cloud back up? Will overriding the data screw up my game in some way has anyone tried this before?

[patent charm]

I really really don't want to time travel, but I never caught the festive Anglerfish so that Even the Fish Are Festive! is still there, if I go back to Dec 18th to fish and then jump back to the present, would I have to wait 4 months for my game to catch up?

[frigid lance]

We don’t recommend going backwards. It could break your game. We are hoping the festive fish return but there’s no use for them right now anyway

[patent charm]

Gotcha

[rain sandal]

And there’s also a high chance it won’t spawn, because you always did those days, so it would be a potential ways to break your game, for no reason most likely

[clear cobalt]

hi! i’m traveling from the east coast to the west coast for an extended period and i know the devs said not to change your internal clock but i’m wondering can i change my timezone without it affecting my game? i’m gonna be there for a while and don’t wanna be three hours behind in my game

[regal trellis]

It's the same thing according to the servers. I think you can turn off the sync to time feature and it will be okay. @fringe ravine might be able to help more when she gets online.

[fringe ravine]

Changing timezones still counts as time travel, and while your game can recover from doing so, all your critters etc will stay on the prior timezone even after the switch. Best thing to do is leave your time alone and turn off sync time to internet and stay three hours off in the game, that way it will go back to normal when you get back home.

[clear cobalt]

what if i’m moving to another country this year? i should just plan on playing in an incorrect time?

[fringe ravine]

If you are moving, change your timezone after you move and hope for the best, but know that most likely your critters and all will still spawn on your old timezone, even though your time will be correct. The game works on the timezone the save file was created in, even if changed later. It's a current bug.

[clear cobalt]

gotcha, i’m sorry for pestering with questions i just really want to make sure i don’t corrupt my save file

but i’ll be moving abroad for grad school this fall so i’m really nervous about changing my time zone

[fringe ravine]

Always make a backup just in case, that way you don't have to worry! #1047579586361311233

[fickle ore]

So what if my frend skiped ahead untill 2045?

[regal trellis]

Then your friend needs to restart their game.

[valid barn]

After 2 months my game finally fixed itself because of time skipping

[dusk shale]

Does switching to daylight saving time also count as tt? Is it bad for my file or anything?

[regal trellis]

No, you absolutely should have let it update. There were zero issues.

[golden parcel]

So my hubby is military and we just moved from England to California Nov 2022. My game to this day is still in England time, so it’s very frustrating when I want to play and there are certain characters I need to give gifts to or level up they are sleeping and it’s morning for me. I have deleted and redownloaded the software multiple times and my switch is on the correct time zone but my game is still on England time . Any advice or do I just wait til the game is fully released with all the fixes

[sonic quartz]

@shrewd vortex did you time travel?

[solar mist]

What did you end up doing?

[naive sleet]

@solar mist my game is dead. I started a new profile back in January so I could keep playing hoping it would resolve. For now I pop in every week or so to see if some miracle it fixed itself but I am waiting out for hope of sharing. I have the founders pack and all Star Paths from start so I don't want to lose them. Lol The weird thing is new stuff spawns (ie new big ice crystals in frozen) but no thorns, fish, flowers, etc. It makes me so sad!!!

[sweet prairie]

Does anyone if I time travel while playing animal crossing (as in ONLY opening animal crossing and NOT dlv during the travel) if it will mess up dlv when I return to normal time and open up dlv? I missed the cherry blossoms for ac but I don’t want to travel back if it’ll mess up dlv

[frigid lance]

#1067525785788878949 will be your friend

[sweet prairie]

Thank you!!!

[balmy cloud]

I read somewhere that someone switched devices once to a time traveled device and it broke their game. I time traveled for animal crossing before I knew about the guide on both of my switches. On one switch I forgot to sync to Internet accidentally and opened the game on the time travel. This was in February I waited it out and thankfully my game was fine and I've been playing ever since. On my other switch I never opened the game while I was time traveling. After I finished time traveling later I opened the title screen for a few minutes then closed out the game. I want to switch to playing on this switch but I'm worried what will happen I created a back up of the last game play on my other switch and my game was working if I override the data on the other switch and download the backup on the other switch will my game be fine or is there a possibility it could break? I haven't played ever since on that switch other than the time I opened the menu screen for a few minutes the last time I played the game on that switch was before the time travel.

[regal trellis]

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