Icicle Yeti’s Winter Song - Part 1: Official Patch Notes
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November 22 Update Notice
Greetings from the Kingdom team!
Let’s take a look at the list of new features coming with the November 22 update.
※ Some portions of this update’s content may change before its release. The finalized changes will be available in the patch notes once the update is complete.
※ The update schedule may change depending on various factors. We’ll let you know the exact schedule in a separate notice.
WHAT’S NEW
■ NEW SPECIAL EPISODE: ICICLE YETI’S WINTER SONG
- This Icicle Yeti lives alone in the snowy mountains! They sing every day, longing for a friend to call their own… Will their wish come true?
- Follow Icicle Yeti’s heartwarming story in the new Special Episode, “Icicle Yeti’s Winter Song.”
- Advance through the story, complete the collection, and earn rewards.
- To advance in “Icicle Yeti’s Winter Song,” you will require Frosty Quills that refill with time or can be obtained through various events or purchased in packages or directly.
- Enjoy the discounted price of Crystals and the opportunity to get Frost Queen Cookie’s Fractal Crystal Droplets in battles as part of the time-limited event.
- Earn Catnip Coins by completing the Special Episode’s stage and quests; Catnip Coins can be exchanged for various useful items.
- The Icicle Yeti’s Winter Song Shop can be accessed by talking with Catnip Cookie.
■ FRACTAL CRYSTAL DROPLETS
- The harbinger of life, Frost Queen Cookie, has returned with the winter chill.
- You can access the “Fractal Crystal Droplets Gacha” in the Gacha > Legendary Gacha tab.
- You need x100 “Fractal Crystal Droplets” for x1 pull: these can be obtained through events and packages.
- In the Fractal Crystal Droplets Gacha, Frost Queen Cookie and her Soulstones have an increased probability. You can also obtain Life Jewels to craft and upgrade her Crystal Jam.
- If you reach x270 pulls in the Legendary Gacha, you can obtain a Frigid Frost Chest and choose Frost Queen Cookie. You can also obtain her Life Jewels from the chest as well.
- If you obtain items from the Legendary Gacha when you already have the maximum amount of Life Jewels, you will receive Mileage Points instead.
This is not a new Cookie. It’s a scheduled rerun of an existing Legendary Cookie banner because Frost Queen Cookie has been slated for a buff in terms of her new Crystal Jam.
■ NEW: CRYSTAL JAM & TRIAL GROUND
- Frost Queen Cookie’s Crystal Jam is here! Feel the chilling power of frost—freezing everything in her way into icy crystals!
- Crystal Jam Effect
· Eternal Frost
· The power of the Crystal Jam changes Frost Queen Cookie's skill and makes her immune to ATK SPD changes. The Cookie calls forth a Blizzard, dealing damage and causing Frost. The final hit of the skill will bring a Shard of Eternal Frost upon the enemies, dealing DMG and Freezing them. Enemies immune to Freezing will become Chilled, and once they lose the immunity, they will become Frozen.
It appears that Ice is going to be a new element this update, as Earth was with the now-ending Golden Cheese Kingdom update. Activation conditions for her enhanced skill are still unknown, but my guess is that this is a multi-hit attack with Freeze assurance similar to Moonlight Cookie’s Drowsy condition that induces Sleep after immunities expire.
- Rally Effect
· Team’s Ice-type DMG: +n%, Freeze n% chance when all allies deal Ice-type DMG to a Frost target
· Freeze Duration: n sec
· DMG After Freeze: n% of Frost Queen Cookie’s ATK
Teammates that deal Ice damage to an opponent who has the Frost debuff enjoy a chance to Freeze them directly with their own skill when dealing Ice-based damage. The post-Freeze damage dealt when Freeze expires normally (and not from being cleansed by another skill) scales with Frost Queen Cookie’s ATK stat. My tip? Bring about three winter-themed Cookies to make up your primary attacking force, leaving one space open for Frost Queen Cookie (to actually use her rally effect), and another space open for a healer of your choice.
- Ascended Effect
· ★1A: Frost Queen Cookie’s HP Up
· ★2A: Frost Queen Cookie’s DEF Up
· ★3A: Frost Queen Cookie’s ATK Up
· ★4A: Frost Queen Cookie’s DMG Resist Up
· ★5A: Gains Curse Protection upon entering the battle, additional Curse Protection every n sec
- Trial Grounds
· A new Trial Ground has been added. You can gather Life Jewels to craft and upgrade Frost Queen Cookie’s Crystal Jam in “Permafrost Plains.”
■ [SPECIAL] ICICLE YETI COOKIE
- Icicle Yeti Cookie turned into a Cookie to make friends! Their signature yeti horn is still visible, but it’s pretty close, huh?
- Icicle Yeti Cookie is a Healer Cookie that uses the skill “Let’s Be Friends!”
- Skill Description: Icicle Yeti Cookie buffs the allies and periodically restores their HP. They will assume the yeti form, jump towards the nearest enemy, and create a Shield of Ice to protect them. The Shield of Ice will absorb a portion of all incoming direct non-periodic damage and make the team resistant to Freezing. Then, Icicle Yeti Cookie will return to their position and deal a portion of the damage received in the yeti form with an icicle attack.
A frontline healer? That’s a new one for the canon lineup. Especially one that will most likely deal damage as part of their regular skill and not just something that changes as a last-stand effect (I’m looking at you, Carol). Seems more fitting to be a Defense Cookie imo, but this is what they gave us.
■ NEW: PAVILION OF PROMISE
- Meet a new friend at the Pavilion of Promise—a magnum opus built by Maestro Sugar Gnome!
- Fill the meter full to meet new Cookies.
- You will require Purity Crystals or other Special Items to fill the meter. There is a certain chance that you will meet the Cookie without having to fill the meter all the way up.
· Three new regular attempts will be added every midnight and accumulate up until a total of 15 attempts.
· There is a higher chance to obtain Cookies when you use their Special Items.
· The probability of meeting Cookies will increase according to the number of points on the meter. Once you have obtained the Cookie, the point meter will reset. However, if you have exceeded the maximum number of points, the surplus will be carried over to the next cycle.
The perceived rules here are probably going to be the same as it was when Snapdragon Cookie was added to the game, as it’s a permanent feature that allows you to gradually max out these Special Cookies over time and ascend them to 5A. The only way that these areas will close is if you ascend them to 5A. The fact that they renovated this area to fit a second Cookie suggests that they’re gonna do this semi-regularly and that this isn’t a two-off fluke.
■ WINTER COOKIE GACHA
- Increase your chances of pulling a frosty Winter Cookie from the Winter Cookie Gacha!
- You can access the “Winter Cookie Gacha” in the Gacha > Cookie tab.
- It requires x300 Crystals for x1 Cookie pull.
- Five Cookies: Sherbet Cookie, Pinecone Cookie, Cotton Cookie, Cocoa Cookie, Snow Sugar Cookie, and their Soulstones have an increased probability of being pulled.
- A guaranteed Epic Cookie will appear once every x100 pulls.
Because Icicle Yeti Cookie is the new Cookie and is rated as Special, that leaves no new Epic Cookie. This is their solution for that, but the good part is that it presents a chance to get Sherbet Cookie (Super Epic) with better odds without jumping through too many hoops unless you had insane luck like me, who got him from his event banner in 6 pulls last year. If you did that, then that’s for his Soulstones.
■ NEW MAGIC CANDY: SNOW SUGAR COOKIE
- Snow Sugar Cookie has a new Magic Candy! Now they’ll be able to play even more snowball fights!
- Help Me, Snow King!
- Magic Candy Effect: The power of the Magic Candy makes Snow King even stronger and makes this icy giant immune to ATK SPD changes. Snow King will deal additional damage to Freeze targets and restore Snow Sugar Cookie's HP for a portion of the damage dealt. Snow King will also absorb a portion of the damage received by Snow Sugar Cookie.
This Magic Candy skill is mostly centered around Snow King as Snow Sugar Cookie’s summon and their abilities to protect Snow Sugar Cookie more effectively. Snow King’s ice breath attack will deal more damage to enemies slowed down by their attack via their “Freeze” slowdown debuff, which also now heals Snow Sugar Cookie for part of the damage caused. Snow King will also take some of the damage directed towards Snow Sugar Cookie when Snow Sugar Cookie gets damaged. This damage essentially becomes nullified damage since Snow King’s HP is reset to full every time this skill summons them, allowing Snow Sugar Cookie to stay in the fight longer.
■ HALL OF ENCOUNTER: ICICLE YETI’S WINTER SONG
- The Hall of Encounter has been updated.
- Check out Icicle Yeti, Snow Sugar Cookie, Frost Queen Cookie, Cotton Cookie, and Sherbet Cookie in the Hall of Encounter.
- Obtain Monument Fragments, Unity Essence, Legendary Cookie Soulstone Choice Chest, Frosted Crystal Toppings (5 kinds), Magic Cookie Cutters, Special Cookie Cutters, Radiant Shards, Aurora Pillars, Aurora Bricks, Aurora Compasses, Treasure Tickets, Topping Pieces, EXP Star Jellies Lv.5, EXP Star Jellies Lv.6, Crystals, Coins, and more in the Hall of Encounter Random Reward Chests.
■ SPECIAL TOPPINGS
- NEW: FROSTED CRYSTAL TOPPINGS
· The new Resonant Frosted Crystal Toppings that can only be equipped by specific Cookies have been added.
· Find out which Cookies can equip the Toppings in Topping Details.
They’re really gonna make us guess? My guess is that the six Cookies announced or otherwise given a banner this round can use these new Resonant Toppings.
· The set effect of Toppings will activate regardless of whether they’re regular or Resonant Toppings, as long as all of the Toppings equipped are of the same set.
· When the Bonus effect of Resonant toppings is enhanced, Resonant Toppings have a higher minimum Bonus Stat value than regular Toppings.
· Additional bonus effects of Resonant Toppings may differ from those of regular Toppings.
■ COOKIE ALLIANCE IMPROVEMENTS
- A new and improved Cookie Alliance is here!
- We have decreased the number of waves from 60 to 20 and added overall improvements regarding difficulty levels, Cookie element types, and the auto mode.
- There are a total of 6 difficulty levels, and each level has a varying number of waves.
- New tiers: Elite and Grandmaster have been added.
- New tier rewards have been added.
- You can receive First Clear Rewards for completing the campaign on each difficulty level.
- Rewards are renewed each season.
- You can receive First Clear Rewards for 60 waves for completing EXPERT.
- You cannot receive additional First Clear Rewards for 60 waves if you have already received one.
This is worded weirdly. Basically, the current existing reward for clearing the entire campaign in a season of Cookie Alliance (lots of Crystals, Tea Knight Cookie’s exclusive Epic Costume, etc) can be claimed by clearing the 20-wave Expert difficulty level if you haven’t claimed it already.
- A new feature where you can enhance Cookies’ elemental skills called “Artifacts” has been added.
- Artifacts will give you an edge in battle by enhancing Cookies’ elemental skills.
- You can obtain Artifact Points as rewards by playing in the Cookie Alliance campaign.
- Artifact levels are reset at the beginning of each new season.
- You can claim a portion of the sum of Artifact Points used and remaining by the end of the previous season.
TLDR on Artifacts: Buff your Cookies’ elemental damage skills on your team in a given season.
- The Beacon of Valor’s feature has changed.
- Beacon of Valor’s cost has been reduced.
- Relic effects for Blast Mode will not be applied on MASTER and HERO difficulties for fair competition.
- Effects previously applied from the Beacon of Valor will be reset due to feature changes and Cookie Alliance improvements.
- Your remaining effect duration will be converted to Coins. If your remaining duration is N days and n hours, it will be rounded off as N+1, and your compensation will be sent to your mailbox after the Cookie Alliance update.
- Relic effects for Blast Mode will not be applied on MASTER and HERO difficulties for fair competition.
- Effects previously applied from the Beacon of Valor will be reset due to feature changes and Cookie Alliance improvements.
- Your remaining effect duration will be converted to Coins. If your remaining duration is N days and n hours, it will be rounded off as N+1, and your compensation will be sent to your mailbox after the Cookie Alliance update.
The Beacon of Valor’s effects have been nerfed. Cookies will no longer get a temporary level 60 boost, and the Opening Blast will become shorter. The duration of the Blast is now based on how many Cookies in your campaign group (out of all 15 Cookies used) are level 40 or more. Relics that boost your Blast effect have also been nerfed down to a maximum of 14 seconds from 22. The Master and Hero difficulty levels (the two highest levels) remove the Blast buffs given from Guild Relics down to the raw 6 seconds maximum provided by the Beacon.
To compensate this, the Coin cost to ignite the beacon has been reduced by 60%. With the new update, you will lose your existing Beacon and get a Coin refund based on the number of days left if you have an active Beacon.
- Suggested element types and effects have been added to the Cookie Alliance lobby.
- Battles can be played in auto mode.
- The default is set in auto mode, but you can choose to play in manual mode.
Manual mode is new for Cookie Alliance, but it will allow you to manually use skills as needed just like in other modes instead of vigorously relying on timing through Toppings and Treasures to get a synergetic combo usually seen in Arena.
■ GUILD MUSEUM: HALL OF HISTORY II
- New relics from the Dark Cacao Kingdom and the Golden Cheese Kingdom are on display in the Guild Museum! Don’t miss out on your chance to see some rare artifacts!
- A new Hall of History II is opening on the second floor of the Guild Museum. There are a total of 6 Galleries in the new Hall—brimming with rare relics to glean the lives in the Dark Cacao and Golden Cheese Kingdoms!
- Relic and Gallery effects are applied in the Hall of History II. Relic effects are special effects from Legendary Relics, and Gallery effects are applied when you collect all Relics in one Gallery. Each effect is applied to all Guild members, and the higher the level, the more powerful the effects.
- New Relics can be obtained by opening Relic Chests in Cookie Alliance. You can also purchase them from the Rainbow Shell Gallery and Guild Shop.
- You can donate several Relics at once by tapping on the “Relic Donation” button on the right side of the screen in the Guild Museum. The donations are capped at the maximum level of Relics.
ADDITIONS, CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS
■ MAGIC LABORATORY
- Magic Laboratory’s production screen has been changed. You can now search the goods you want to produce through two tabs: Resonant Ingredients and Upgrade Ingredients. More goods are displayed on the screen for your convenience.
■ CREAM PUFF COOKIE
- Light-type damage has been added to Cream Puff Cookie’s skill.
- Light-type damage has been added to Cream Puff Cookie’s Magic Candy.
As far as I know, nothing else has changed with her besides adding the Light element to her skill (which is a small buff for anyone who boosts Light damage)
■ TRIAL GROUNDS TICKETS
- Tickets to add more entry attempts in Trial Grounds have been added.
Obtain method unknown, possibly exclusive to packages and events
■ POISON MUSHROOM COOKIE
- Fixed an issue where Poison Mushroom Cookie’s attack duration time was not displayed correctly.
Mostly a bug fix. Game balance for Poison Mushroom Cookie hasn’t changed.
Okay, I swear, this treasure sticks with me because of the whole “half-Cookie, half-beast” bit. What does it mean?
Does it mean as in, one of the creature’s parents is a Cookie and the other some beast, or does it mean like in appearance, like how you’d call a centaur a half-man, half-horse?
I decided to go through my Guild’s Museum, and I just wanted to voice some opinions on things I found
This one’s just sad
Maybe this belonged to White Lily? I dunno, it could just belong to any member of the Vanilla kingdom, but the “dear memory” bit makes me think of those two
Aww :(
For some weird reason it reminds me of Flowey, though I’m not sure why
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(Are the Legendaries all supposed to be dead or something???)
I’m just curious about what this guardian was. Is it a reference to something in Ovenbreak, like Sugarteara? I wouldn’t really know. But regardless I do want to know more about this, and explore an underwater setting in Kingdom (though probably after the Dark Enchantress Storyline, or as a side story)
This is just another thing I found interesting. What’s the deal with the Licorice Sea? I haven’t gotten to Episodes 13-14 yet so I don’t know much about the actual setting there
This is just another I thought was interesting, though less so than the other two, considering it’s just your typical “tome of forbidden magic”. Though if we get a City of Wizards update and something like this comes into play, I will be intrigued
