Strategies, tips, and tricks


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Below are strategies, tips, and tricks from various Cookie Run lovers around the world.

Beginner's Guide
When you first start the game, you'll only have 10,000 and 1. Your starter cookie will be Brave Cookie, and your starter pet will be Drop of Choco.

Cookies
What are cookies? Cookies are the playable characters that you control in the game. Each cookie has a distinct ability that will affect gameplay. Cookies are ranked from C grade to S grade. S grade cookies have generally better abilities than those of the lower grades. Each cookie is available to purchase with Crystals at the start of the game, but if you complete a certain goal, the cookie can be bought with coins. Players are advised to buy cookies with coins, with the exception of Angel Cookie and Cheesecake Cookie.

Pets
Pets are the small creatures that tag behind the cookie during your run. Similarly to cookies, pets have their own abilities, and are ranked from C grade to S grade. However, pets cannot be bought with coins. They can only be hatched from Eggs or found in Pets Lucky Draw. When a certain pet is used with a specific cookie, the cookie will receive a special bonus, which is highlighted under the cookie.

Hatching Pets

Only hatch Extra Rare Eggs, as pets from other eggs can be found in Pets Lucky Draw. Pets will be randomly drawn from the egg, and repeated pets may appear. To prevent getting the same pet twice, fully upgrade all pets that can be hatched from the egg before buying the egg again.

Treasures
Treasures are objects that can further aid gameplay. They can be found randomly in treasure chests. Like pets and cookies, treasures have ranks. Treasures can be upgraded and evolved to improve their effects. At first, you'll only have one treasure slot, but if you complete the goals, you can unlock the other two slots. Do not use Crystals to open the other two slots!

Upgrading Treasures

Treasures may be upgraded in the 'Upgrade Treasures' section of the Treasures menu. A treasure's highest level is 9. Different treasure ranks have different upgrade prices and chances of failing. S-rank treasures are notorious for repeatedly failing treasure upgrades, especially in the last few levels. For the first 3 levels, upgrades will not fail, but starting level 4, failures will start to occur.

Evolving Treasures

Some treasures can be evolved into better treasures. To evolve a treasure, you must collect the 2-3 specified ingredients and the base form of the evolved treasure. You can check what ingredients you still need by tapping on the treasure in the 'Evolve Treasures' menu. If you do not have sufficient ingredients, you can buy them with Magic Powder. Similarly to upgrades, treasure evolution may fail. You will not lose the treasure or ingredients if you fail. Rarely, a treasure can evolve into a Blessed treasure, which has better effects than the original. Whether Blessed evolution can be achieved through coin evolution is still disputed.



Ingredients
Ingredients are objects that need to be collected in order to evolve treasures. They can be found in Mystery Boxes that appear during runs, or can be made with Magic Powders. Different episodes give different ingredients in Mystery Boxes.

These are only the basics of the game. There are many more aspects of the game to be covered later!

Lives
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You'll notice a bar on the top right corner that has hearts in it. That's the life meter. Everytime you play a game, one heart will disappear and you'll have to wait some time to get it back. When your life meter is empty, you'll have to wait some time before you can play your next game. To remedy this situation, go this forum and add people's Line IDs! Before long, your leaderboard will be full of people! Send people lives and they'll send you some back! Remember to turn your notifications ON, or else people will be unable to send you lives.

Invite some new friends!
Just below the Episode Map button is a yellow button called Invite Event. Tap it and invite some friends! By inviting friends to the game, you can get prizes such as Gold Drop, which is very useful for beginners' coin farming. After inviting 50 friends, you'll get 100 Crystals! You should use it to buy Angel Cookie, as her Magnetic Aura/treasure is very useful in the game.

Free crystals
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There are some secret codes that can be entered to get free Crystals in the game. This is not a cheat! Tap the Settings icon (the gear button at the bottom left corner), go to Coupon, and enter the working codes! You should get a bonus 320 crystals. Use these crystals to buy Cheesecake Cookie, as she will be very helpful for earning coins later.

Coins
Coin are the standard currency of the game. They can be obtained easily by playing and from Gifts Lucky Draw. They can be used to buy Cookies, upgrading Cookies, pets and treasures, and many others. It is unadvisable to exchange Crystals for them.

Crystal
Crystal is the premium currency in the game. Crystals are much harder to obtain than coins. Use them wisely, don't waste them!

Other than purchasing, you can earn Crystal from:


 * Leveling up
 * Playing daily (1 per day)
 * Power+ treasures that generate crystals
 * Limited-time events
 * Invite Event
 * Coupon codes

Some treasure gives chances for getting free Crystal for logging in daily. Most of them can be earned from purchasing Supreme Treasure Chest, but some can be obtained for free. Most users will recommend using the Crystal for purchasing the Extra Rare Egg, which gives a random A-grade and S-grade pets, but it may not be the best idea for you.The only exception is the B-grade Cozy Yarn which can be earned from Pets Lucky Draw, not Extra Rare Egg.

Remember again to use them wisely. Some players are managed to get high scores and good wealth because they're excellent on using Crystal very carefully.

Other Currency
Magic Powder is a special type of currency that cannot be purchased with Crystals. It can only be gained from extracting Treasures and Ingredients (or failing to evolve treasures), and can only be used to create ingredients.

Gift Points can be obtained from inviting friends, sending/receiving lives, purchasing things and failing to upgrade treasures. For every 100 Gift Points, players may participate in the Gifts Lucky Draw, which allows players to win Coins, Boosts, Pets and rarely Cookies.

Keys are used to play on Special Episode 1: Ghost Pirate's Island of Coins. They cannot be sent or received and regenerate once every 20 minutes. They can be exchanged, 1 Key for 20 Lives 5 times a day.

Coin Farming
There's a main technique for harvesting coins called "Coin Farming". However, these tips will help users maximizing their coin farming.
 * Use Cheesecake Cookie as the main cookie. Equip Buttercream Choco Cookie as a relay.
 * Equip the Coin Scale pet, which converts points into coins every 4 seconds. If you do not have any treasures that increase points obtained from coins (such as the Hefty Elephant's Money Box), Fluffy Cheese Cat is more effective.
 * More coins can also be earned from using the Double Coins boost from Random Boost.
 * This combination is the most popular among coin farmers.

However, these cookies and treasures may not be easily accessible to newer players. If you do not have Cheesecake Cookie yet, this combination is a viable alternative.

Auto Farming
Another type of coin farming. Unlike coin farming, this type of farming does not require the player to pay attention to the game at all. Soda Cookie is used as his soda waves can help the cookie cross holes safely, while knocking away obstacles. This kind of farming usually gets around 7000-9000.

XP Farming
This type of farming focuses on earning XP instead of coins. It is very helpful for players at higher levels as leveling up becomes extremely challenging at those levels. The Chocolate Hardcover Workbooks can be replaced by any treasure that gives extra XP.

Scoring (Episode 1)
Although there is no definite combination for scoring, this combination is highly popular in Episode 1: Escape from the Oven. In later episodes, however, it becomes less effective and more diversified combinations will be seen. The 30% Increased Base Speed boost is used in lieu of 25% Slower Energy Drain to allow longer Coin Firework Parties, although this might be slightly more difficult to control.

Higher Scores
Although some users may agree with a specific combination that will hit the highest score of the leaderboard, some players have proven themselves that different combination requires different technique. Each player has their own unique skill. Some people's recommendation for high score may not work for you, it's better to find out and keep trying what's fit better with you.
 * Check your friends' high score combination using the Friends button, at the bottom of the leaderboard screen.
 * Try to avoid hitting an obstacle and causing you to lose energy. In fact, each obstacle hit will make you lose millions of potential points in the future.
 * If you don't know when to jump or slide, just follow the jelly trail. Some stages may prove to be a challenge due to their lack of one, so you'll just have to go by experience.
 * The Angel Cookie's Rainbow Feather treasure is extremely useful, as not only does it give Magnetic Aura, it also increases the points gained from jellies. Its power is very vital for high scoring with any combination you own.
 * Interestingly, two Magnetic Drink treasures have a stronger combined Magnetic Aura than one Angel feather. Since the magnetic drinks' side effects are considered better than that of the feather, some choose to use two drinks instead.
 * Both Magnetic Aura and Slower Energy Drain effect are vital for earning more scores while sustain on the longer run. Random boost can be reshuffled at half price until a useful one is in effect.
 * Here's a list of the most popular combinations as of Season 4.
 * Like any other game, don't get too nervous when playing. Just relax and believe in yourself.