How to solve the Skull Rock puzzle in Disney Dreamlight Valley

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Once you’ve gotten each area’s Pillar restored with its respective orb, you may have noticed there’s an extra, second Pillar on an island in Dazzle Beach. It turns out there’s actually a reason and purpose behind it. If you go back into the Dark Castle after completing Act One of the story, there’s an Orb of Unity just lying on the ground where you and The Forgotten stopped the spell. You can put this in the Pillar to trigger a mysterious puzzle. But if it confused you as it did me, I have you covered. Here’s how to solve the Skull Rock puzzle in Disney Dreamlight Valley.

How to Complete ‘Between Skull Rock and a Hard Place’ puzzle

Once you put the orb inside, ruins appear in the sand in a circle on the little island. A quest starts called ‘Between Skull Rock and a Hard Place’. While it’s framed as a Merlin quest, if you talk to him he has no idea what’s going on.

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There is no hint given as to what you have to do. Instead, the hint is in studying the symbols of the ruins. They match the symbols inside the orbs of the other Pillars.

That is to say, you literally have to move the pillars. Did you know you could do that? I sure didn’t.

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Each Pillar has to be moved onto its respective ruin. When you’re finished, it should look like this:

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Frosted Heights in the front, followed by Forest of Valor, Plaza, Peaceful Meadow, Glade of Trust, Sunlit Plateau, and finally Forgotten Lands.

Now you have solved the Skull Rock puzzle in Disney Dreamlight Valley. The quest completes once you talk to Merlin, but nothing further comes of it for now. Presumably whatever happened to Skull Rock will become relevant in a future story update.