LINE Cookie Run


 * This wiki only covers the Line version of Cookie Run, which is significantly different than the Kakao version for Korean players.

Cookie Run is a side-scrolling running game by Devsisters for iOS and Android. Players guide cookies to run as far as they can. Cookie Run is the spiritual successor to Devsister's older game, Ovenbreak. This game is a social game powered by Kakao for Korea, QQ for China, and LINE for the rest of the world.

Cookie Run has only one game, but the game itself has undergo four seasonal (or content) change, changing a lot of gameplays and adding variety of new content to the game, thus refreshing the game periodically.

While the mechanics are seemingly pretty simple to understand, it takes a lot of practice to truly master. It could be a lighthearted run at first, but turns to be a real challenging and adrenaline-pumping escape in mere seconds.

Players compete with their LINE friends in the weekly leaderboards. The weekly leaderboard will reset every Sunday at 9PM (GMT +9). Depending on how much people the player surpass, they will be given a weekly rewards, and players will compete from 0 again.

Controls
There are only two keys to control the cookie: Jump button and Slide button. Tapping the jump button twice will allow the cookie to perform a double-jump. Tapping the slide button allows the cookie to slide. Players will only rely on this to guide the cookie to avoid obstacles, pitholes, and getting various power-ups.

Players are able to flip the jump and slide buttons to the other position if they wish. It doesn't affect the play style of the game. Some player might be comfortable using this setup than others.

Season
Cookie Run has gone several changes to further expand the game. Every new season, the game changed the score of jellies obtained, redesign the stages, and adding more twists to the game.


 * S1: Cookie Run - 2013
 * S2: Cookie Run: 2nd Story - May 28, 2014
 * S3: Cookie Run: Edge of the World - October 20, 2014
 * S4: Cookie Run: New World - December 18, 2014

Cookies


Cookies are the playable character that possess its own unique skill, which is useful to collect coins, run longer, and gain points. Players can buy cookies with coins or crystals. Cookies are available to buy with coins after players completed the requirement to unlock the said cookie.

Cookies are divided into five categories.

C-grade cookies are the most basic cookies which have no distinctive skill other than giving the player extra XP. There are only two cookies in this category.

B-grade cookies are cookies with basic capabilities which can help boost gameplay.

A-grade cookies are cookies with an stat-modifying skill that could help players boost their scores in the game.

S-grade cookies are the most superior cookies with varieties of visual skills that could significantly boost the player's score. New S-grade cookies are always added in a set interval for the players. There are more than 20 cookies in this category.

L-grade cookies are cookies that cannot be bought and can only be obtained by collecting Mystery Jewels. Other than gaining additional health points from the S-grade cookies, its abilities are similar with S-grade cookies.

Pets


Pets are the accompanying creatures with their distinctive abilities to aid cookies in their run. Combined with the Cookies, players can match the best Cookie/Pet combo to run and boost their gameplay. Pets can only be obtained by hatching eggs, completing events, or get Pets Lucky Draw.

Pets are also divided into the same category as cookies. Their grade represent the rarity of the pet on hatching eggs. There are three type of eggs for players to hatch, and it depends on chances. Lower grade pets have more chance to obtain than higher-grade pets.

Treasures


Treasures are items that can be equipped to further customize your style of playing. They can be used for additional power, abilities, and bonuses. Players can equip up to three treasures at a time.

While some treasures assist players in the game, other treasures helped you gain free items every day and are marked as POWER+ treasures. This is one way players can earn additional crystals every day.

There are four grades for each treasure, C, B, A, and S-grade treasures, where C-grade treasures have a weak effect, and S-grade treasures have a strong effect. Players can open treasures by opening up treasure chests. There are four packages Treasure Merchant has to offer:

Unlike Cookies and Pets, players may obtain the same treasure multiple times.

Treasures are upgradable up to +9 with Coins and Crystals. While C, B, and A grade treasures has low chance to fail, with coins, S-grade treasures have a very high chance to fail on later upgrades. Crystal upgrade will always guarantee an upgrade.

Evolve Treasures
With the New World update, players have the option to Evolve their treasure into a better treasure with an augmented effect. Players have to collect specific ingredients found in the game to evolve. There are two types of evolutions players can use:
 * Common Evolution
 * Special Evolution

Common Evolution have a failure chance upon evolution. Once it fails, players will retain their treasure and the ingredients. Once they are successfully evolved, the evolved treasure may retain its level. An evolved treasure are represented with gold bars on top and bottom of the treasure icon.

Special Evolution guarantees the player an evolution, and players are given a chance for the treasure to have a LUCKY (or Blessed) Evolution where the effects are significantly augmented, slightly more than the regular evolved treasure. A special evolved treasure are represented like regular evolved treasure but with a glow and shine.

Stages
Prior to the New World Update, players can only play in one fixed stage, but with the update, players can play in more than one stage. Each stage has a fixed pattern with some small random elements inside carefully designed for players to pass through. Players may choose the combination of Cookies, Pets, and Treasures to go through stages. There are currently four Episodes for players to play in.

In the special stage, Ghost Pirate's Island of Coins, players compete to collect as much coins as they can. There are no other jellies beside coins and large Health Potions, and scores isn't counted.

Power Upgrades and Boosts
There are other tools that players can use to enhance their abilities in Cookie Run. Most of these are necessary to upgrade to ensure longer runs and higher scores.

There are three powers that are upgradable up to Level 50. In the first season, the maximum level that can be upgraded is capped at Level 20. It was then increased every seasonal updates.

An upgrade starts at 800, and every upgrade adds an additional  500 to the previous nominal.


 * Energy Upgrade - Increases the maximum amount of energy for the cookie. Note that a full health in the game consists of this energy upgrade plus the health of the cookie.
 * Jelly Upgrade - Increases the score of each jellies obtained. This only includes normal jellies. Note that on upgrading from Level 21-30, the upgrade gets increasingly higher, up to additional 3,000 coins before going back to the original pattern on Level 31.
 * Bonus Time Upgrades - Increases the length of bonus time and bonus points for jellies gathered during Bonus Time. The first 30 levels of the upgrades allows players to increase the length of bonus time from 3 seconds to 11 seconds. The last 20 levels deals with additional points gathered from jellies during Bonus Time.

There are also six one-time-use boosts that players can buy to gain additional abilities. These are optional, but needs to invest coins for it to operate.


 * Energy Boost ( 800) - Allows an additional 40 energy to play on that turn. Prior to the New World update, the extra 40 energy will disappear once it has been used and cannot be recovered by Health Potions. With the New World update, players can refill the extra energy with Health Potions.
 * Power Jelly Boost ( 800) - Power Jellies will last longer. This only affected time-based power jellies like Magnet Jelly, Blast Jelly, and Giant Jelly.
 * Double XP ( 800) - Doubles the XP during the run.
 * Fast Start ( 1,600) - Blast Through the first stage, collecting all coins and jellies. Some cookies may benefit from this.
 * Cookie Relay ( 3,000) - Have another cookie continue running with the first cookie runs out of energy with half energy. This is necessary to gain a really high score. Having a combination of relay and treasures are the key to dominate the leaderboard. Some treasures may benefit from this.
 * Random Boost ( 1,200, then 600) - Giving player a random exclusive boost. Players can buy for  1,200. If players are not satisfied with the boost, players can replace the boost with another random boost for  600. Players cannot have the same boost after rebuying, but the tossed random boost may reappear after lots of replacing.