Surprise Bear

For an official statement regarding this mechanic, please visit Patch Notes/December 26, 2023.

Surprise Bears are a game mechanic added with the release of The Sweet Signals from Space update. They can be found while running across most of the game's modes.

Description
Surprise Bears replace the Magic Ingredient Pouches, Mini Crystal Jars, and Lucky Cookie Jars of prior updates. In turn, they contain almost all the previous rewards of those three, minus the Guild Run ingredients (which went to the Gem Exchange Center).

A maximum of one Surprise bear can be found per run, which can have one of six possible rarities, indicated by the number of stars and its color upon retrieval. Collected Surprise Bears are not opened right away, but are instead stored in the Rewards tab in one of three slots; if all three slots are full, Surprise Bears stop appearing. Each Surprise bear requires completing a specific mission, and while all 1-Star Surprise Bears require running once, all other rarities have a specific game mode to run in, and rank requirement to achieve.

Collecting and opening Surprise Bears rewards mileage, which can be stored to instantly rank up any given Surprise Bear of choice. 3,000 Mileage is required in order to do this once. If the player does not wish to open any given Surprise Bear, they can choose to break it for a set amount of Crystals; doing this rewards the mileage, but not any other rewards.

Differences by Type
Along with the six possible ranks, there are six possible types of rewards that each Surprise Bear can give. Not every type can be accessed at every rank. Below is the list of rewards per type at each rank.

Trivia

 * In announcements related to the introduction of the Surprise bears, the amount of mileage needed for ranking up was 1,000. However, when they were added to the game, the amount needed was 3,000. No reason has been given for this change.