Stepping into Dreamlight Valley's bright and colorful world for the first time, I was presented with acres of ugly purple vines called night thorns growing out of nearly every inch of the ground. My job was to pull them out. All of them. One by one. I'm given a reward, slowly, in the form of dream shards, but getting a reward isn't quite the same as doing a task because you have a clear goal at the end of it.