☁️ Crisis averted. After that show of verbal force and probably another truck protest outside their HQ, they’re withdrawing on the Ancient+ rarity they had planned to market before it even took off. Instead, they’re opting for another awakening system to work with your current Ancients to make them stronger.
⚙️ In this case, their first main test on this is most likely going to be Dark Cacao Cookie.
🌰 A bundle full of free stuff is gonna be in your mailbox until the 27th. It’s probably their compensation for making a big mistake!
Text has been copy/pasted from the official Discord server with details from both their first announcement from June 19th and their second announcement posted today, omitting any details about a would-be Ancient+ Cookie, and slightly reformatted for appearance. Images are sourced from the announcements posted there. Personal Editor and staff remarks will be added using indented lines. The update is slated to release post-editing on June 28th.
[EN] June 28th Update: Feature Adjustment Notice
Greetings from the Kingdom team!
We would like to start our message by apologizing for the delayed June 19 update and thank you not only for your patience and understanding but also for the valuable opinions and suggestions you have provided. We promise to keep paying close attention to your feedback to make our game enjoyable for everyone.
In this announcement, we will cover the upcoming changes in detail.
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■ AWAKENING SYSTEM
To elaborate a bit on our initial idea, we wanted to make it possible to experience Dark Cacao Cookie’s new powers as a separate new Cookie without the need for prerequisite upgrades for the existing Dark Cacao Cookie. However, what we did not consider was the burden of extra upgrades for a new high-rarity Cookie and the potential confusion caused by the appearance of a separate yet similar Cookie.
To alleviate the issue of the upgrade burden, we have decided to change directions from the separate Cookie to a new upgrade system for the existing Dark Cacao Cookie with a greatly reduced number of new Soulprism items required for the Awakening upgrades.
[Awakening System Details]
Collect Soulprisms to awaken Ancient Dark Cacao Cookie.
Anyone can awaken the Cookie without additional requirements: collecting the required number of Soulprisms is all that is needed!
Soulprisms required for awakening Dark Cacao Cookie can be earned through various events, obtained from the gacha, or purchased in the Rainbow Shell Gallery. More sources of Soulprisms will be added in future updates, such as the Arena Tier Shop, Season Rewards, etc.
There are a total of 6 Awakening levels: each level will add a new star, and the stars will be merged into one great star at the final level.
After the initial Awakening, the Cookie’s appearance, background artwork, and lines will change.
Dark Cacao Cookie will gain extra appearance elements on Awakening Lv. 1/2/4/6, and his background will change on Awakening Lv.1/4/6.
⚙️ To attempt to interpret their thought process, they wanted to throw in all of these new features on a separate Cookie from the get-go, which resulted in the initial conception of Ancient+ Cookie Dragon Lord Dark Cacao Cookie. However, the kinds of upgrades and gacha promotions necessary to get a new Cookie regardless of their rarity to a usable level for things like Kingdom Arena and late-game World Exploration were ruled by the community as ridiculous, expensive, and unnecessary, which resulted in the amount of protesting they did on both local and international scales. After all, we have recently-added Beast Cookie Mystic Flour Cookie to use as a reference for a new standard in higher-rarity power. Instead, Devsisters is planning to add a new version of these features to Dark Cacao Cookie as he stands now by adding a new resource called Soulprisms, which can be accumulated by any and all players through most of the same methods that you would obtain Ancient/Legendary Soulstones. More collection methods will be added in the future. No additional upgrades are necessary to use them, meaning that you can Awaken Dark Cacao Cookie from level 1 if you already have enough Soulprisms in addition to the necessary Coins and Legendary Soul Essences.
As for the Awakening levels themselves, here is what you need for them:
20 Soulprisms and 500 Coins
30 Soulprisms, 10 Legendary Soul Essences, and 5,000 Coins
40 Soulprisms, 20 Legendary Soul Essences, and 10,000 Coins
50 Soulprisms, 30 Legendary Soul Essences, and 50,000 Coins
60 Soulprisms, 40 Legendary Soul Essences, and 100,000 Coins
70 Soulprisms, 60 Legendary Soul Essences, and 150,000 Coins
※ Ancient Cookies will acquire new Leader Effects after Awakening, and their skill will be changed to a new Awakened Skill.
※ The Cookie’s appearance, background, and character lines will permanently change after Awakening.
※ Awakened Dark Cacao Cookie’s costumes and Cookie Decor features will be temporarily unavailable. We will do our best to introduce them as soon as possible.
■ BEASCUIT IMPROVEMENTS
In addition to your feedback related to Dark Cacao Cookie, you have shared numerous suggestions regarding the Beascuit system. Contrary to our intention, which was to provide additional strategic diversity, this upgrade system felt overly complex and restrictive.
This is why we are planning to increase the number of obtainable Beascuits and reduce the related expenses in order to make this feature more easily accessible and enjoyable.
Here is the full scope of changes:
Increased chance of obtaining Legendary Beascuits
Cheaper Attunement
Cheaper Resets
More sources of Radiant Beascuit Dough
In addition to that, we intend to keep a close eye on your suggestions related to the Beascuit system to make further improvements.
Increased Appearance Rates
Enjoy an increased rate of appearance for Legendary Beascuits, more accessible Attunement, and more ingredients obtainable through breaking down unwanted Beascuits. Additionally, we are planning to increase the amount of obtainable Juicy Stamina Jellies that serve as the primary consumables required to obtain more Beascuits.
Increased amounts of Radiant Beascuit Dough obtainable through breaking down Legendary Beascuits
Shorter Juicy Stamina Jelly cooldown
BEFORE: x1 per 900 sec
AFTER: x1 per 720 sec
Juicy Stamina Jellies will now restock 1 every 12 minutes, which is faster compared to the 15 minute restock they had before. They will still only refill to your maximum limit.
Attunement & Resets
Enjoy the decreased prices of Attunement and Bonus Stat Resets.
Attunement
1–4 Attempts: Crystals x100
5–8 Attempts: Crystals x150
9–12 Attempts: Crystals x200
13–16 Attempts: Crystals x200
Resets (Beascuit Dough)
Common: x10
Rare: x15
Epic: x20
Legendary: x30
Package Improvements
Another way of upgrading your Beascuits is by purchasing the required materials with various packages. However, in some cases, packages ended up being the primary source of specific materials which was far from ideal.
Said packages will be removed and reworked together with the Beascuit improvements, namely the ones focused on Radiant Beascuit Dough.
To compensate for the disappearance of a potential source of materials, we will introduce new events and mailbox rewards with more ways of obtaining those materials in future updates.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for understanding.
※ Please find more details about the events to be added with the upcoming update below.
■ UPDATE REWARD
Once again, we would like to thank you for your passion for CookieRun: Kingdom!
As a token of our apology, we have prepared a reward for every player, which we will deliver together with the update.
Dark Cacao Cookie x1
Light of True Resolution x2,000, Rainbow Cubes x1,500, Crystals x3,000 (delivered to your in-game mailbox)
※ For those who have already upgraded Dark Cacao Cookie until ★5A will receive Light of True Resolution x3,000.
※ The compensation reward can be claimed after the June 28th update maintenance until July 16th, 23:59 (GMT+9).
🍮 This is the moment you’ve all been waiting for! To celebrate the new update improved with the community’s comments, everyone gets Dark Cacao Cookie for FREE alongside some extra sparkly goodies to get a head start!
⚙️ Here’s a tooltip if you’re a new account-both brand new and alts can enjoy this- in this game for the time being until July 16th. Claim this community reward between 6/28 and 7/16 once you have access to the mailbox for one free Dark Cacao Cookie, then use the two parts of the Might of the Ancients permanent events to get two more Ancients for free! In addition, you can choose Dark Cacao Cookie for Part 1 and you’ll already have a duplicate with 20 Soulstones you can use to immediately promote him to 1 star, all while being able to play with him in all game modes without ANY unlock restrictions that come standard with Might of the Ancients.
Additionally, on top of the above rewards, we have a special Login Event prepared that will begin on June 28 and last for 10 days. (GMT+9)
Lastly, we want to thank the CookieRun: Kingdom community for bringing up the problems we clearly overlooked in our attempts to deliver a greater variety of content over a tight schedule. We are deeply sorry for the disappointment we caused. Please rest assured that we will take your opinions to heart and will keep striving to deliver the best experience in CookieRun: Kingdom!
We thank you for your trust and support!
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■ WORLD EXPLORATION: BEAST-YEAST EPISODE 4
Dark Cacao Cookie’s adventures continue in the new story episode, “Dark Resolution’s Glorious Return.”
Episode 4: Dark Resolution’s Glorious Return
Dark Cacao Cookie is set out to avenge his crumbled Dark Cacao Warriors! Follow him in his journey to find Mystic Flour Cookie.
Some battle stages have the Yin and Yang effect applied.
Beast-Yeast Episode 4 Battle Effect: Yin and Yang
White Effect (Yang): Enemies gain buffs when the Yang gauge is full. Their ATK and DMG Resist increase for a certain period of time, and they will receive less damage from Darkness-type attacks.
Black Effect (Yin): Allies gain buffs when the Yin gauge is full. Their ATK and Darkness-type attacks, DMG Resist, and Healing from Channel Darkness increase for a certain period of time.
In certain stages, Cookies become affected by Apathy and lose a percentage of their Max HP when hit by enemies.
The Tactical Skill “Twin Dragons" becomes available starting from stage 4-10 in “Dark Resolution’s Glorious Return.”
Witness the power of the awakened Dark Cacao Cookie with this Tactical Skill. Upon using the skill, the team’s Yin energy greatly increases. If Yin and Yang has already been triggered, this effect will be activated at the end of Yin and Yang’s duration. Whenever enemies gain a buff, it will be removed. If Dragon Lord Dark Cacao Cookie is on the team, Awakened King will enhance the Twin Dragons skill.*
*Potentially forgotten edit in their patch notes from their Ancient+ draft. Unknown if this refers to Dark Cacao Cookie’s skill after being Awakened.
You can claim “Fateful Cookie Cutters” for clearing Beast-Yeast episodes.
For players who have already claimed rewards for earning 3 stars in the Beast-Yeast episodes, “Fateful Cookie Cutters” will be delivered via the in-game mailbox once maintenance is completed.
“Fateful Cookie Tickets” can be earned through various events for a set period of time. Please note that the “Fateful Cookie Tickets” will disappear once said period is over.
■ [EPIC] PEACH BLOSSOM COOKIE
Peach Blossom Cookie is a Support Cookie who uses the skill “Heavenly Fruit.”
Skill Description: With a gentle flick of a peach tree branch, Peach Blossom Cookie summons a Peach Tree that will periodically heal the team and bear Peach Bao fruits. The ally with the lowest Current HP will receive additional Healing. Peach Blossom Cookie will give Heavenly Fruits to the allies to increase their DMG Resist and Debuff Resist. The fruit will also grant resistance to Apathy, and ATK and DMG Resist buffs when affected by Apathy. Enemies will receive Unripe Peach Baos, inflicting DMG, reducing their ATK SPD and MOV SPD. Peach Fragrance will protect Peach Blossom Cookie, making him immune to Apathy.
Note the him pronoun noted above. As for the skill itself, let’s break this down starting from the peach tree:
Allied healing, teammate with the lowest HP gets healed more
Buffs DMG Resist and Debuff Resist
Grants resistance to Apathy, and ATK Up and DMG Resist buffs when affected by Apathy
Enemy impact damage from Unripe Peach Bao Fruits
Lowers ATK SPD and MOV SPD
Peach Blossom Cookie is immune to Apathy
■ NEW MAGIC CANDY: DARK CHOCO COOKIE
Dark Choco Cookie’s Magic Candy has been added.
Skill Name: Downpour of Darkness
Skill Description: Blades of darkness rain down on the enemies, dealing extra damage and inflicting them with a debuff Darkness-type damage. The rest of the team will gain a buff increasing Darkness-type damage dealt.
ADDITIONS, CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
■ EVENT REWARD
The reward for clearing Beast Raid on Master difficulty has been changed.
Light of Apathy x1,000 > Light of True Resolution x1,000
Unknown what this will change into for now, as this note is from the Ancient+ draft
■ WINDMILL GARDEN
You can now favorite individual Cookie Houses individually.
You can now enter the Windmill Garden focused on a newly leveled up building.
Your position in each tab will now be saved and when flipping between the Windmill garden tabs.
■ RALLY EFFECTS
Names for Crystal Jam’s Rally Effects have been added.
Black Pearl Cookie: Predator of the Abyss
Frost Queen Cookie: Harbinger of Ice
Sea Fairy Cookie: Power of the Blue Waves
■ LEADER POP-UP & RALLY EFFECT TOOLTIP
The following UI elements have been improved:
Team Setup > Leader > Leader Pop-up improved
Team Setup > Crystal Jam & Rally Effect Tooltip improved
Battles > Crystal Jam & Rally Effect Tooltip improved
■ COOKIES
Some Cookies’ stats have been rebalanced.
🥁 Macaron Cookie
Base DEF: +10%
Base HP: +30%
CRIT% increase per stack upon using skill: 11.5% -> 15%
🪔 Affogato Cookie*
Base DEF: +18%
Base HP: +30%
*This will most likely not affect his boss form. If you don’t know the context for this note and haven’t been spoiled yet, you’ll find out in Crispia Episodes 13 and 14.
📚 Eclair Cookie
Base DEF: +45%
Base HP: +35%
HP Shield Duration: 3 sec > 7 sec
🐑 Cotton Cookie
Base DEF: +35%
Base HP: +30%
Periodic Healing upon using skill: 20% > 27.5% (at skill Lv.80)
🪴 Herb Cookie
Base ATK: +15%
Base DEF: +30%
Base HP: +40%
Healing upon using skill: 47.27% > 90%
■ TOWER OF RECORDS
The Laboratorium cutscenes have been added.
The text explaining the requirement for unlocking the Tropical Soda Islands has been edited.
■ NO DEBUFF IMMUNITY EFFECT
The Debuff Immunity animation and icon will not be displayed while under the No Debuff Immunity effect.
BUG FIXES
■ Fixed an issue where a certain cutscene unlock requirement for Tropical Soda Islands was “Explore Clouded Areas of the Tropical Soda Islands once.”
■ Fixed an issue where produced items could not be claimed in the Windmill Garden.
■ Fixed an issue where Star Jellies could not be claimed if Cookie Houses are placed in the Windmill Garden during an upgrade.
■ Fixed an issue where Stormbringer Cookie’s audio would not be played after equipping the Mystic Gold Costume.
■ Fixed an issue where the number of songs in the April Fool’s Day album would be displayed as “4” even for players who have not received them.
■ Fixed issues related to Immunity and Curse effects.
■ Fixed an issue where character touch lines would not show up for Mystic Flour Cookie.
🌰 Okay, we are LIVE in the Tower of Adventures! Don’t forget your bundle of free stuff in your mailbox for 2.5 million pre-registrations, it should be accessible after the first couple stages scripted in the tutorial! Here’s what you’ll find in it:
3,000 Crystals
2x Small Heart Jelly Potions (restores 20 Heart Jellies)
2x Raid Tickets
10x Basic Artifact Tokens
10x Basic Cookie Tickets
Chamomile Cookie (Epic Cookie, Assist)
“Welcome!” Stamp
⚙️ A working master post is being built for the Crepe Archives right now, so wait until it’s done so we have something functional to work with!
