CookieChat Affection Guide: Levels, Hearts & Favorite Gifts

Updated 17 October 2026: This guide has been rewritten. The earlier version was built on mechanics CookieChat does not have: a favorite-gift list of items that are not in the game ("Antique Book", "Obsidian Shard", "Ritual Knife" and the rest), Favorite gifts worth "3-4x" a Neutral one, titles and Soulstones at levels that give neither, and Pomegranate and Poison Mushroom Cookies, who are not in CookieChat at all. Everything below comes from cookierun.wiki: its CookieChat page, checked on 17 October 2026 against v7.9, and its v7.2 patch notes for the launch date.

CookieChat raises each Cookie through 10 Affection levels, from Stranger at 0 Hearts to Understanding at 12,000. Every level pays 200 Crystals and opens a new chat; Level 5 adds a title, Level 6 starts a daily gift and Level 10 adds a profile picture. Hearts come mostly from gifts, and the number that matters on a gift is its rarity, not whether the Cookie likes it: a Legendary gift is worth 300 Hearts to a Cookie that is neutral on it, while a Common Favorite is worth 27.

How to unlock CookieChat

CookieChat arrived in v7.2 (March 11, 2026), together with the CookieChat Friend Guide event that introduced it. To open it you need to:

1. Clear Crispia stage 2-12 in World Exploration.
2. Create your MyCookie.

You chat with your Cookies through your MyCookie. You can also set a CookieChat Cookie as your Main Cookie, which makes it show up every time you go to the Home menu.

Which Cookies are in CookieChat?

Only some Cookies can chat. As of v7.9 the wiki counts 72, and describes the roster as including all Cookies above Super Epic rarity. It launched with 30, and each update since has added 6:

Pomegranate Cookie and Poison Mushroom Cookie are not on the list, so as of v7.9 neither has an Affection track.

How chats work

Each Cookie has a private chat where you answer with pre-written replies. A new conversation can arrive only once per day, but you can unlock several topics in the same day. Ways to unlock new topics include:

• Level up the Cookie or one of its Skills
• Promote or Ascend the Cookie
• Equip Toppings or Beascuits on it
• Gain enough Hearts to raise its Affection level

Affection levels and rewards

Hearts are CookieChat's experience points. This is the full Affection track:

That is 2,000 Crystals per Cookie across the 10 levels. The two cosmetics sit at Level 5 (a title) and Level 10 (a profile picture), both named after the Cookie.

Daily gifts from Level 6

Once a Cookie reaches Affection Level 6 (Connection), it starts giving you a daily gift. Up to 3 Cookies can give daily gifts each day, and raising Affection past Level 6 does not make the gift bigger. The wiki lists the daily gift rewards as 45-50 Crystals, 10,000 Coins and 10 Beascuit Dough.

That makes Level 6 on three Cookies the first milestone worth planning around. Past it, a Cookie's higher levels add 200 Crystals each and the Level 10 profile picture, but no better daily gift.

Trust Levels after Level 10

Reaching Affection Level 10 opens a second track, Trust Levels. They unlock extra unvoiced lines of dialogue, shown as brown text in yellow dialogue boxes.

How to earn Hearts

Hearts come from three places:

• Sending Hearts: you can send 20 Hearts to any CookieChat Cookie up to 5 times a day, with a 30-minute cooldown between sends.
• Battles: Cookies can gain 40 Hearts up to 5 times a day, usually from winning a Kingdom Arena battle or clearing a World Exploration stage. On certain occasions, Arcade Arena and Trial Grounds battles count the same way.
• Gifts: the wiki calls gifts the most common and efficient way to give Hearts. How many a gift gives depends on its rarity and on the Cookie's opinion of it.

Hearts per gift

The wiki gives two values per cell and does not say what the split means. It also notes that some Cookies, such as Dark Enchantress, give fewer Hearts for some gifts. Any gift that is not on a Cookie's Favorite or Least Favorite list counts as Neutral.

What the table tells you:

• Rarity does most of the work. A Neutral Legendary gift (300 Hearts) is worth 12 Neutral Commons (25 each). A Favorite match adds 8% at Common (27 vs 25), 10-30% at Rare and Epic, and 30% at Legendary (390 vs 300).
• One Neutral Legendary beats eleven Favorite Commons: 300 Hearts against 297.
• Least Favorite hurts most at low rarity. A Common gift the Cookie dislikes gives 15 or even -5 Hearts, a Rare one 40 or 0, and an Epic one 85 or 80 (against 100 for Neutral). A disliked Legendary still gives 300, the same as Neutral.

So check a Cookie's Least Favorite list before handing it a Common, Rare or Epic gift, and don't sit on a Legendary gift waiting for a perfect match: a Favorite adds 90 Hearts to the 300 it is already worth.

The 30 gifts and how to craft them

Every gift has a type and an ingredient. Six types (Food, Clothing, Trinkets, Weapons, Tools, Magic) times five ingredients (Choco, Jelly, Sugar, Fruits, Nuts) makes 30 gifts. Gifts come in 4 rarities: Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary.

Crafting at the Gift Workshop

Gifts are made at the Gift Workshop, and you don't pick a specific gift: you craft a Random Gift Box of the type you choose, and the ingredient comes out random. Every box takes 30 minutes and costs 2 Purity Crystals plus a material that depends on the type:

You can craft 10 gifts a day. More production slots come from Caramel Tonic, which is mostly a progression reward from the paid Kingdom Pass and occasionally turns up as an event reward or in event shops. Your MyCookie can work at the Gift Workshop once the building is fully built.

Why the box type matters

Because you choose the type but not the ingredient, the Cookies you can reliably craft Favorites for are the ones whose Favorites cover a whole type:

A Cookie whose Favorites follow an ingredient instead (Hollyberry and Fruits, Sea Fairy and Jelly, Dark Cacao and Choco) can get a Favorite out of any box type, but no box guarantees one. With a Favorite bonus this small, that costs little: rarity still decides most of what a gift is worth.

Every Cookie's Favorite and Least Favorite gifts

These are the wiki's lists for all 72 CookieChat Cookies as of v7.9. A gift not listed for a Cookie is Neutral for it. The wiki marks its preference data as still being filled in, so treat a one- or two-item list as possibly incomplete. The number in parentheses is how many gifts an entry covers.

Ancient, Beast and Witch Cookies

Legendary and Dragon Cookies

Super Epic Cookies

Epic Cookies

Special, Rare and Common Cookies

Quick checklist

• Clear Crispia stage 2-12 and create your MyCookie to open CookieChat.
• Send Hearts 5 times a day (20 each, with a 30-minute cooldown).
• Run all 10 Gift Workshop crafts every day; Caramel Tonic adds more slots.
• Spend by rarity first: a Legendary gift is worth 300-390 Hearts in the wiki's table, a Common 27 at most.
• Check a Cookie's Least Favorite list before giving it a Common, Rare or Epic gift.
• Where a Cookie's Favorites cover a whole type, craft that box type for it (Magic for Pure Vanilla, Weapons for Burning Spice, Clothing for Cotton).
• Get three Cookies to Affection Level 6 (7,500 Hearts) to collect three daily gifts.