CRK Beast-Yeast Guide — Episode Runs & Boss Comps

Beast-Yeast is where your account graduates from "I have Legendaries" to "I can actually use them." It is the second continent in Cookie Run: Kingdom, and it is brutal in a way the original story never bothered to be. The first map taught you how to put five cookies in a row. Beast-Yeast teaches you that those five cookies need to be built, geared, treasured, and positioned correctly or they get vaporized in under twelve seconds. Most of my friends bounced off it somewhere around Episode 10 and concluded the game "got too hard." It didn't get harder. It just stopped accepting half-finished teams.

That is also exactly why it is the most valuable mode in the game. And if you push the latest episode the week it launches, you walk away with currency and prestige that compounds for months. This guide is the comp ladder, the boss notes, the treasure picks, and the investment path I would give my own account if I had to start Beast-Yeast over today.

What is Beast-Yeast (and why it matters)

Beast-Yeast unlocks after you clear Story stage 8-30 on the original World Map. From there it opens as a full second continent with its own story episodes, its own gear (Beascuits) and its own stamina, Juicy Stamina Jellies.

Episodes are story-mode stages with a final boss at the end of each. Every stage clear pays out a random Beascuit, and the stages also pay Bites and are the main source of Beascuit Dough; each Episode's Star milestones pay Crystals. Beascuits are gear that any Cookie of the matching type can equip, not just a Beast Cookie, and Beascuit Dough rerolls their bonus effects. Beast soulstones come from the Cookie Gacha, the Beast Gacha banners, the guild Honor Shop and the Beast Raid Shop. Beast Raid is a separate, seasonal boss event, and each season's shop has stocked soulstones for one Beast Cookie plus Beascuit Dough.

The reason hardcore players obsess over Beast-Yeast is simple math. Crystal-per-hour from grinding old story maps is essentially zero past account level 65. Crystal-per-hour from completing Beast-Yeast episodes the week they drop is the best the game offers outside of paid passes. Skipping Beast-Yeast is leaving the most valuable F2P income source on the floor.

Beascuit Dough does not upgrade Beast Cookies. It rerolls a Beascuit's bonus effects, and a Beascuit fits any Cookie of its type, so spend it on the Beascuits your main team wears.

How episode progression actually works

Episodes are released in batches with each major version. As of v7.4, Episode 15 is the current ceiling (it shipped with v7.2 in March 2026), Episode 14 came in v7.1 in February, and Episode 13 in v7.0 in January. Devsisters typically adds one new episode per major patch, so plan on a new wall every six to ten weeks.

Each episode follows the same structure. You play through roughly a dozen story stages with light puzzle elements and standard squad fights, then a final boss with a unique gimmick. Clear the boss and the episode unlocks a hard-mode rerun that drops higher-tier resources for one clear per day per stage. That dailies layer is the actual reason to push.

Crucially, episode rewards are front-loaded. The first time you clear an episode hands you a fat lump of crystals and dough. The dailies after that are smaller per-run but consistent. If a new episode drops on Monday and you clear it Monday night, you bank both the first-clear chest and the entire week of dailies. Clearing it three weeks late means three weeks of missed dailies you will never get back.

Crystal numbers vary by event overlays and login bonuses but the relative shape holds. Three episodes per quarter, two of those have a real wall, plan your roster around clearing both.

Beast Raid bosses and what they drop

Beast Raid is the engine room. It is a boss mode where you fight one Beast Raid boss with two Cookie teams (three before v6.0) and swap between them mid-fight. It runs in limited-time seasons of five to seven weeks, each attempt costs a Beast Raid Ticket, and clears pay that season's coins for the Beast Raid Shop.

The bosses are not the same as Guild Battle bosses: each season brings its own boss with its own phases and weaknesses. cookierun.wiki records six seasons, the latest in October 2025.

Spectral Warmaster, the most recent boss, starts chained: while bound it takes 90% less damage from everything except Darkness and Steel, which deal 50% more. Once it breaks free it turns weak to Light, and its Quick Time Events can wipe a team that misses them.

Rewards scale with the difficulty you clear, each difficulty pays a one-time reward on its first clear, and the points from your clears place you in the season's tier rankings.

Beast Raid only opens during a season, so play each one while it runs. Tickets stop stacking at six, and one refills every six hours.

Recommended comps by tier

There is no single Beast-Yeast comp. The mode favors flexibility. But here are the three reference comps I run on rotation depending on episode difficulty and what I have leveled.

The mid-game comp is the workhorse. Its two Healing Cookies, Pure Vanilla and Sugar Swan, sit behind a damage-reducing front, which is the shape you want for sustained-damage bosses. Dark Enchantress sweeps trash and contributes consistent DPS. Pavlova is the damage-and-debuff slot, not a healer: his arrow rain applies Red Thread, which raises the damage enemies take and stacks faster the more enemies it hits, and each cast gives the team CRIT% +17.5% and CRIT DMG +25% for 15 seconds. Sugar Swan's revives are off in this comp, because she only revives when no other Healing Cookie is on the team and Pure Vanilla is one. She is here for her team heal and her Sweet Sugar Feather buff (ATK +45%, DMG Dampening +26% and DMG Resist +10% for 20 seconds).

The endgame comp swaps in Timekeeper for Pavlova when you need burst windows lined up with boss mechanics, and Venom Dough for Pure Vanilla when stacking debuffs matters more than raw heals. That second swap also leaves Sugar Swan as the only Healing Cookie, which switches her revives on: up to two per battle, each bringing one fallen Cookie back at 100% HP. Aegis Hollyberry stays. Sugar Swan stays. Those two are the spine.

The Beast-Core comp is what you graduate to. Eternal Sugar is a Middle-row Bomber, not a tank: her heals and shields cover only herself, but her Cotton Candy Angels passive gives all allies DMG +25% and her skill Charms enemies, so Aegis Hollyberry still holds the front. Mystic Flour is a Beast Healing Cookie in the Rear row, which means Sugar Swan's revives are off in this comp too. Burning Spice is the Front-row Charge Cookie. Shadow Milk slots in over Burning Spice for fights that punish AoE. This is the showcase comp. It also costs months of investment.

For positioning fundamentals and gear priority on these cookies individually, see the Aegis Hollyberry build, the Sugar Swan gear guide, and the Eternal Sugar Cookie page.

Episode-by-episode difficulty walls and how to push through

You do not hit walls evenly. There are two main spikes that filter the player base, plus one early grinder.

Episode 6 is the first time Beast-Yeast says "your jungle of half-leveled epics will not cut it anymore." Power up your front line, finish ascending your healer, and it falls quickly.

Episode 10 is the first real wall. The mid-stage trash is fine. The boss has a sustained-damage phase that one-shots dry teams. The fix is double healer plus a damage-reduction frontliner. If you have Aegis Hollyberry, level her now. If not, sub in your best tank with a defense set and run Pure Vanilla plus a second Healing Cookie such as Cream Unicorn for double sustain. Pavlova does not count as the second: his kit has no heal, shield or cleanse. Brute force works here. You do not need anything exotic, just enough HP and healing throughput.

Episode 13, At the Edge of Light and Darkness (v7.0, January 14, 2026), is the wall that filters serious accounts from casual ones. Bring the Endgame comp above, or the strongest Awakened Ancient or Beast Cookie you own. Only five Cookies have an Awakening: Dark Cacao, Golden Cheese, Pure Vanilla, Hollyberry and White Lily. Dark Enchantress is a Witch and has none.

Episodes 14 and 15 are tuning passes on Episode 13's bar. If you can clear 13, you can clear 14 and 15 with the same comp and slightly more gear refinement.

The pattern is clear. The big walls are 10 and 13. Everything between them is a question of investment depth, not roster width. If you have one strong endgame comp, you can push through, full stop.

Pavlova is not a healer. His kit has no heal, shield or cleanse, so Pure Vanilla plus Pavlova is a one-healer comp. Count your Healing Cookies before an Episode 10 attempt and bring two.

Treasures for Beast-Yeast (different from Arena)

The treasure meta inside Beast-Yeast diverges sharply from what you run in Kingdom Arena. Arena is short, bursty, and rewards opening-skill manipulation. Beast-Yeast is long, attritional, and rewards sustain and DPS uptime.

For PvE Beast-Yeast pushes, two treasure slots are fixed: Old Pilgrim's Scroll for the consistent damage amp (all allies get +30% ATK at level 1, +60% at level 12) and Squishy Jelly Watch for skill uptime (it cuts every allied Cookie's skill cooldown by 10% to 25%, so over a long fight your healers and damage dealers simply cast more often). Both are Passive, so they run themselves.

If you own Sleepyhead's Jelly Watch, it is an Epic variant of Squishy Jelly Watch that does the same job: Cooldown -15% to -25% plus ATK +1% to +5%. The game does not let you equip two variants of the same treasure at once, and v7.4's TBD Ticking Jelly Watch belongs to the same family, so run one Watch.

The third slot depends on whether Sugar Swan Cookie's revives are switched on, and they only are when she is the sole Healing Cookie on the team. Of the three comps above, only the Endgame comp qualifies. The Mid-game comp also runs Pure Vanilla and the Beast-Core comp runs Mystic Flour, both Healing Cookies, so her revives are off in those two. On those teams, and on any team without her, Sugar Swan's Shining Feather is the safety net, and in the Mid-game and Beast-Core comps it is the only revive that works on any fallen Cookie (Dark Enchantress's own revive in the Mid-game comp brings back only herself): the first Cookie to fall is revived with 20% to 100% of their Max HP and a reset skill cooldown, once per battle, and it is Passive too. When she is your only Healing Cookie, as in the Endgame comp, leave the Feather off. Equipping it cuts Sugar Swan Cookie's own revivals from two per battle to one (hers bring an ally back at 100% HP plus a 10% Max HP shield), and she loses the extra DMG Dampening she holds while two revivals remain. Put Mysterious Jewelry Box in that slot instead: it deals area damage worth 441% to 735% of your highest-ATK ally's ATK and stuns its targets for 2.5 seconds, so trash waves go down faster and your healer spends fewer casts on chip damage. It is Active, so you have to tap it.

The swaps below are Active treasures too, and they replace that third slot. On boss-only stages, swap in Pilgrim's Slingshot: it lowers the farthest enemy's DEF by 30% to 70% for 5 seconds, and with a lone boss on the field the farthest enemy is the boss. Against a boss with a telegraphed burst phase, swap in Sacred Pomegranate Branch and tap it just before the burst lands: it shields every Cookie for 55% to 70% of their Max HP for 13 seconds, but its cooldown is 60 seconds, so save it for the burst.

For the full treasure leveling roadmap, the CRK treasures guide covers which to upgrade first and how to handle priority conflicts between Arena and PvE.

Beast Cookies — when to invest soulstones

Here is the hard truth about Beast Cookies. They are the strongest cookies in the game. They also cost 540 soulstones, 315,500 Coins and 290 Soul Essence to take from unlock to ★6. Pulling one to a usable state from zero is a 4-6 month F2P investment.

So which one do you invest in first? The answer depends on your existing roster and your goals.

• Silent Salt Cookie is the best opener pick for PvE-focused accounts. He hits like a truck, scales with both attack speed and crit, and his kit punishes single-target bosses, which is exactly what Beast-Yeast episodes throw at you. Topping priority is covered in the Silent Salt toppings article and the Silent Salt Cookie gear guide.
• Eternal Sugar Cookie is the team-wide damage pick, not a tank. She is a Middle-row Bomber whose heals and shields cover only herself, while her Cotton Candy Angels passive gives all allies DMG +25% and her skill Charms enemies for 3 seconds. Keep a Defense Cookie such as Aegis Hollyberry in front of her. See the Eternal Sugar Cookie gear guide.
• Mystic Flour Cookie is the Beast healer: a Healing Cookie in the Rear row. Her skill heals allies over time, wraps them in an HP Shield worth 20% of their Max HP, and gives them DMG Resist +25% and Debuff Resist +35% for 15 seconds, and her Lantern of Apathy keeps healing allies even after she is defeated. Pick her if sustain is your gap, but because she is a Healing Cookie she switches off Sugar Swan Cookie's revives. The Mystic Flour Cookie page has the topping math.
• Burning Spice Cookie is the AoE crusher. If you are still farming trash-heavy episodes, he turns 90-second clears into 40-second clears. Less essential for boss fights. See the Burning Spice Cookie guide.
• Shadow Milk Cookie is the control specialist. He is the best counter-pick into bosses with reactive mechanics. Skip him unless you specifically struggle with Spectral Warmaster or the Episode 13 boss. The Shadow Milk Cookie page has the kit breakdown.

The investment order I would recommend for a new Beast-Yeast pusher: Eternal Sugar first (her passive gives all allies DMG +25%), then Silent Salt (DPS scales your clear times), then situational picks based on which episode boss is filtering you.

For broader roster context on which Beasts are top-tier this patch, the CRK tier list ranks them against the rest of the Legendary pool. And if you also push Guild Battle, Beast Cookies will eventually replace half of that comp too.

Quick Action Checklist

• Play every Beast Raid season while it is open, and spend tickets before they reach the six-ticket cap
• Episode dailies on every cleared episode for the crystal trickle
• Push new episodes the week they launch to bank first-clear chests plus dailies
• Run two Healing Cookies on an Episode 10 first-clear attempt (Pavlova does not count)
• Equip Old Pilgrim's Scroll plus Squishy Jelly Watch, then Mysterious Jewelry Box in the third slot only when Sugar Swan Cookie is your sole Healing Cookie; on any other team, including the Mid-game and Beast-Core comps, run Sugar Swan's Shining Feather
• Pick one Beast Cookie to invest in based on your roster gap, not hype
• Spend Beascuit Dough on the Beascuits your main team wears: a Beascuit fits any Cookie of its type, not only a Beast Cookie
• Cross-check current meta against the tier list every major patch