CRK Beast-Yeast Guide — All 15 Episodes, Unlock & Rewards

Updated 14 October 2026: This guide has been rewritten. An earlier version treated Beast-Yeast as a mode that still gains a new Episode every patch, with launch-week dailies to chase; everything below is checked against the game data.

Beast-Yeast is finished. Episode 15, Beyond the Horizon, arrived with v7.2 on March 11, 2026, cookierun.wiki describes it as "the fifteenth and final Episode", and no Beast-Yeast Episode has shipped since. The story moved on to Timeline of Fate in v7.4 on May 7, 2026, and that is where new Episodes land now. Its Episode 12 went live on October 7.

That changes the job. There is no launch week to race and no next wall coming. What is left is a fixed block of 15 Episodes and about 450 stages that pay a Beascuit and Beascuit Dough on every clear, plus one-time rewards the first time. The question is no longer whether you can keep up. It is which clears are worth your Juicy Stamina Jellies, and what the mode's rules do to the team you bring. This guide covers the unlock, every Episode, the rules and difficulties, the rewards worth chasing, the Beast Raid side mode, and where the story goes next.

How to unlock Beast-Yeast and what a stage costs

Beast-Yeast opens once you clear Story stage 8-30 in Crispia, the original World Exploration map. If you are still on that map, our World Exploration guide covers it. Beast-Yeast itself launched with v5.0 on January 19, 2024.

It runs on its own stamina. Every Beast-Yeast stage costs 12 Juicy Stamina Jellies, a separate pool from Crispia's Stamina Jellies, and they recharge at 1 every 15 minutes, or 1 every 10 minutes with a Kingdom Pass. Do that arithmetic once and it explains the pace of the whole mode: natural regeneration buys one stage clear every three hours, or every two hours with the Pass. A 30-stage Episode cleared once on one difficulty costs 360 Jellies, which is 90 hours of regeneration without the Pass and 60 with it.

The rules of the map:

• Stages inside an Episode unlock in order.
• A clear needs at least one of your Cookies still standing at the end. Summoned creatures do not count.
• A failed attempt refunds a third of the Jellies you spent.
• Time Jumpers instantly clear a stage you have already beaten, at its highest cleared difficulty or lower.
• Tactical Skills, stage-specific extra abilities, first appear at stage 1-14.

Episode order is less linear than the numbers suggest. You play Episodes 1 and 2 in order. Clearing Episode 2 then opens the first Episode of each Beast arc: 3 (Mystic Flour), 5 (Burning Spice), 7 (Shadow Milk), 9 (Eternal Sugar) and 11 (Silent Salt). Those five two-Episode arcs can be taken in any order, and the game summarises the arcs you skipped. cookierun.wiki's general note says any odd-numbered Episode can follow a cleared even-numbered one, but it does not spell out what opens Episodes 13 to 15.

Every Beast-Yeast Episode

Stage counts and dates come from cookierun.wiki's World Exploration: Beast-Yeast page and the individual Episode pages; the Fandom wiki agrees on every date.

Read down the Released column and the real cadence shows. Beast-Yeast shipped in two-Episode arcs: the Episodes inside an arc came 19 to 38 days apart, and the gap between arcs ran 11 to 16 weeks. The last arc, The Dark Enchantress War, ran three Episodes a month apart from January to March 2026, and then the continent was done.

The arcs also line up with the Awakenings. Each Ancient Hero's arc closed in the same patch as that hero's Awakening: Episode 4 and Awakened Dark Cacao in v5.6, Episode 6 and Awakened Golden Cheese in v5.11, Episode 8 and Awakened Pure Vanilla in v6.1, Episode 10 and Awakened Hollyberry in v6.5, and Episode 12 and Awakened White Lily in v6.10. Those five are the only Cookies with an Awakening; the Awakening guide covers what each one changes.

The rules every Episode plays by

Beast-Yeast is not Crispia with bigger numbers. Every Episode's effect list carries the same handicaps, and they decide what a good team looks like here.

• Topping bonus effects do nothing. The v5.0 patch notes put it flatly: "Topping bonus effects will have no effect in Beast-Yeast." Every Episode page repeats it. Whatever your team gets from topping substats is switched off.
• Healing is cut by 65%, and so is HP Shield capacity. Every heal and shield your team produces lands at about a third of its listed value. Episode 15 exempts its Story mode; Normal and Hard keep the cut. The cuts name healing and shields only. DMG Resist, DMG Dampening and revives are not on the list.
• Hard mode cuts your damage, and enemies resist debuffs. Episodes 1 to 4 raise enemy Debuff Resist in every mode; from Episode 5 the +40% applies on Hard only.

Put those together and the design is plain. Beast-Yeast discounts teams that survive on heals and shields, it blunts teams that win through debuffs, and it ignores the substats you rolled for everything else. What the mode-wide cuts leave alone is topping main stats, Beascuit stats, and any treasure effect that is not a heal or a shield, and DMG Resist and DMG Dampening are not on the cut list either.

The last rule gets its own section: every Episode has its own stage gimmick, and nearly all of them name the Cookies that beat it.

The Cookies each Episode rewards

Of the 14 Episodes whose stage rules are documented, 13 name specific Cookies that resist, cancel or exploit the rule. Episode 14's are not documented: cookierun.wiki's page lists only the standard cuts, and Fandom has no page for it.

Episode 15 also adds two Tactical Skills, Wings of Light and Darkness (15-7 to 15-16) and GingerBrave's Bravery (15-10 to 15-14), plus ten named, unnumbered stages. Plane of Silence I and II list Silent Salt as their required Cookie, and the other eight, Infiltration through The Circle's Core, list Espresso. The wiki says Episodes 1 and 2 hand you a copy of White Lily for her required stages; it does not say whether Episode 15 lends Silent Salt or Espresso the same way.

The practical read: before you throw more levels at a stuck Episode, check whether its rule names a Cookie you already own. An immunity to the stage gimmick removes the problem; extra stats only absorb it.

Story, Normal, Hard and Challenge

All three base difficulties are open on every stage from the start, and a clear on any of them moves you forward. They are not a ladder you have to climb. You pick per stage.

The recommended-power gap between them is steep. cookierun.wiki's stage tables list stage 1-1 at 78,031 power on Story, 888,048 on Normal and 2,669,214 on Hard, and stage 10-1 at 137,952, 2,089,670 and 3,423,967. On those two stages, Normal asks for 11 to 15 times Story's power.

Challenge mode arrived in v6.9. Each modifier comes in 2-point steps, Cookies for Hire are disabled, and the floor is 10 points, so a legal run can be one modifier pushed to 10 points, five modifiers at 2 points each, or anything in between.

What Beast-Yeast pays, and what is worth clearing

Every clear pays one random Beascuit from that stage's type pool (Episode 10's regular stages each list two types; its two boss stages list all eight), plus Bites, Beascuit Dough, EXP Star Jellies, Coins and Kingdom EXP. These figures are from Episode 10's stage table; the other Episodes follow the same pattern.

On top of that come the one-time rewards:

• First clear of a stage pays a first-time reward and a Star, plus the first-time rewards of every easier difficulty you have not claimed yet. One Hard clear collects all three for 12 Jellies.
• Stars are counted per stage at the highest difficulty you have cleared. They fill the Episode's Star counter, which pays Crystals at the one-third, two-thirds and full marks. Neither wiki publishes the amounts, so this guide does not either.
• Challenge clears pay 300 Crystals for each stage's first clear, from Episode 11 on.
• Clearing every Episode on Hard earns the title "Beast-Yeast Star".
• White Lily's Journey: some Episode 1 and 2 stages require White Lily and supply her. Their first clears collect entries in White Lily Cookie's Journey worth 100 Crystals each, the last of those at 2-10. Episode 7 adds a Pure Vanilla Cookie's Journey (100 Crystals an entry), and Episode 11 adds more White Lily entries.

Balloon Expeditions are the long tail. After you clear 1-30 and upgrade the Bear Jelly Balloon at the Balloon Dock, each cleared Episode becomes an expedition destination paying Bites, Radiant Shards and Beascuits, with Beascuit Dough on a Super Success and a chance at Yeast Ore. Each arc's Yeast Ore is a permanent Kingdom bonus: extra storage or Beascuit storage cells from Episodes 1 to 6 and 13 to 15, and +0.5% boosts to Trade Harbor Rainbow Pearls, Agar Cube melting or Sugar Gnome Laboratory research from Episodes 7 to 12. You can send three Beast-Yeast expeditions a day. The catch is the rarity gate: an Episode's expeditions pay Epic Beascuits only once every stage in it is cleared on Normal, and Legendary only once every stage is cleared on Hard. Our Balloon Expedition guide covers the dock itself.

Two more sources run alongside:

• Monster Menace (v5.10, permanent since v6.0) puts three chests on three stages. The World Exploration page says each can be claimed twice per day; the Monster Menace page says twice every 12 hours. Their contents include Beascuit Dough, Radiant Beascuit Dough, Crystals, Epic or Legendary Beascuits, and Soulstones.
• The Exploration Logbook (v7.1) tracks Traces from enemies (1 per clear on Story, 2 on Normal, 3 on Hard), boss surveys that pay Crystals, six Memory Fragments per chapter that appear on the map after you clear the Episode, and eight Relic Fragments that drop by chance. Chapter rewards can include Radiant Beascuit Dough and Soulstones.

So where should the Jellies go? Here is the order the reward rules point to:

1. First-clear every stage on the hardest difficulty you can win. The easier first-time rewards come along for free.
2. Finish Hard on every stage of an Episode whose Beascuit types you want from expeditions. That is what turns its Balloon Expedition into a Legendary Beascuit source.
3. From Episode 11 on, run Challenge clears for 300 Crystals each once a stage's Hard clear is done.
4. Farm Dough on Hard. Twelve Dough for 12 Jellies is three times Story's rate.

Elemental Beascuits drop from specific arcs, which matters if you are hunting one element:

What you are farming, briefly. A Beascuit fits any Cookie of its role, not only a Beast Cookie: Crispy is Ambush, Hard is Defense, Chewy is Charge, Light is Ranged, Spicy is Bomber, Zesty is Magic, Hearty is Support and Sweet is Healing. Common to Legendary Beascuits carry one to four bonus-effect slots, and a bonus effect only works when its slot is attuned to the Beascuit's type. Beascuit Dough rerolls all of a Beascuit's bonus effects; Radiant Beascuit Dough rerolls one effect you choose and lets you keep either the old or the new roll. Neither upgrades Cookies. The Beascuit tier list ranks the types, and the Beascuit Dough and upgrade costs page has the numbers.

Every boss stage, and three fights to prepare for

Hard HP comes from cookierun.wiki's boss tables. Where no HP is given, the wiki has no figure.

HP alone tells you little about which fight is harder. Episode 8's mid-Episode boss, Black Sapphire, has three times the Hard HP of its last boss, Shadow Milk, and Mold Dough at 13-30 has less than half of Eternal Sugar's HP at 10-30. Mechanics decide these fights, and three of them are documented in detail.

10-30, Eternal Sugar Cookie. She is immune to debuffs (bar effects that bypass immunity) and enrages as her HP falls, gaining ATK, ATK SPD and DMG Resist. Her key move is Shield of Pure Joy: break that HP Shield before it expires and she goes Groggy; let it hold and she gains ATK while your team's damage drops. cookierun.wiki's tip is to save Very Berry Bomb, the Episode's Tactical Skill, for that shield; the Berry Bomb line deals extra damage to targets carrying HP Shields. Expect Charm, Petrify and a Vortex of Sloth pull too, and Guilt: Cookies that damage her stack it, and at maximum stacks it hits them for damage scaled to their ATK. The Episode's Sticky Jam rule makes Sugarfly and Hollyberry immune, which is a reason to bring Hollyberry here.

13-30, Mold Dough Cookie. He has DMG Dampening. His Perseverance shield heals him but makes him vulnerable to Chaos damage; break it quickly and he goes Groggy, leave it up and he gains DMG Amplification. The wiki's tip names Chaos-type Cookies such as Dark Enchantress, and Episode 13's Dough Infection rule makes her immune as well, so she is the one Cookie the wiki points to for both the Episode rule and its last boss.

Episode 15, Dark Enchantress. Her monster form at 15-2 cannot be beaten: her HP stops at 1. You face her again at 15-9 and at 15-15, where you fight her as the Avatar of Destiny. The finale, 15-16 The Two Minds, is Dark Enchantress Cookie (Witch) at 117.8M Hard HP. That stage fields a hidden deck of Awakened Pure Vanilla, Awakened White Lily, Awakened Dark Cacao, Aegis Hollyberry and Awakened Golden Cheese under the Strength of the Heroes buff, and the wiki still recommends gearing those five, because the buff alone is not enough. From 15-3 on, Primordial Flames cut your damage, raise the damage you take and drain Max HP, and Ominous Energy throws two Cookies into the Ultimate Oven until you tap their portraits to rescue them. Sugar Swan is the Cookie the rule names: she reduces the Max HP loss and the taps needed, and her skill grants Sacred Swan, which raises periodic healing and damage dealt. Dark Enchantress is immune outright. GingerBrave's Bravery (15-10 to 15-14) frees trapped Cookies at once and blocks the Oven while it lasts.

For team ideas built around each Beast as a boss, see our Beast-Yeast boss counters.

Beast Cookies in Beast-Yeast

A Beast-Yeast stage's clear condition is one Cookie left standing, and the only stages that list a Beast Cookie as required are Episode 15's Plane of Silence I and II (Silent Salt). But the Episode rules hand several of them specific advantages, and that is the cleanest way to judge them for this mode.

Count the rows and Silent Salt comes out ahead on Beast-Yeast's own documented rules: three Episodes name him, and one lists him as a required Cookie. Mystic Flour helps in two, and Burning Spice, Shadow Milk and Eternal Sugar in one each. That is the only ranking this guide makes. For whole-game value, the Beast Cookies tier list weighs them across modes, and the Silent Salt build covers his toppings.

Building one is a long job. Taking a Beast Cookie from unlock to ★6 costs 540 soulstones (20 to unlock, 520 to promote), 315,500 Coins and 290 Soul Essence. Soulstone sources include:

• the standard Cookie Gacha, which drops Beast soulstones directly, and each Beast's own banner in the Destiny Gacha (called the Gacha of Fate before v7.4), which drops the whole Cookie at 0.45% but never loose soulstones (a duplicate copy converts to 20);
• the guild Honor Shop, the one standing shop that stocks them;
• event raid shops: the Beast Raid seasons in the next section, and since v7.9 the Rajapendra Raid for Rajapendra;
• Monster Menace's Soulstone Chest, at long odds (cookierun.wiki lists 0.2602% per Beast);
• Dominion of the Beasts, a permanent event from v6.7 that added parts in v7.0 and v7.7. Each part gives you a free copy of a Beast of your choice: Mystic Flour or Burning Spice in Part 1, Shadow Milk, Eternal Sugar or Silent Salt in Part 2, and any of the five in Part 3. That is up to three copies in all, though each copy is limited to certain modes until you finish its missions.

Beast Raid: six seasons, four reruns, then quiet

Beast Raid launched in v5.1 as "Skirmish Raid" and ran as a seasonal boss event. You bring two Cookie teams (three before v6.0) and can switch between them mid-fight on a 20-second cooldown. Each attempt costs a Beast Raid Ticket; tickets cap at 6, refill at 1 every 6 hours, and 400 Crystals buys 2 more a day (1 during Two-Faced Lies). Difficulties started at Easy, Normal and Hard, with Expert and Master added from Season 2 and Challenge from Season 5. Each difficulty pays a one-time reward on its first clear, your rank depends on damage dealt and clear time, and from Season 2 on, clears pay coins for that season's Beast Raid Shop. Its bosses are not Guild Battle bosses; Guild Battle uses Red Velvet Dragon, Avatar of Destiny, Machine-God of the Eternal Void and Living Abyss.

Both wikis file Raid: Unfathomable under Beast Raid in their 2026 update lists, but neither has a season page for it, so its end date and shop are unknown. Neither wiki's 2026 update list shows a Beast Raid season after it, and none of the official update notices we could find from April 22 to October 7, 2026 announces one. The raids since then are separate limited-time events with their own tickets: the Chaos Dragon Raid (v7.5), the Rajapendra Raid (v7.9), and the Desert Raid that arrived on October 7. Do not plan a Beast Cookie build around a Beast Raid shop coming back.

Treasures when heals and shields are cut

Beast-Yeast's cuts change what a treasure is worth here. Values are level 1 to level 12, from cookierun.wiki's treasure pages.

The reasoning follows the rules section. Old Pilgrim's Scroll is the cleanest pick: its ATK buff sits outside the mode-wide healing and shield cuts, so it keeps its value where a heal or shield treasure loses two thirds. A Jelly Watch hands back flat team Cooldown that topping substats would normally supply, and the three Watches are one family, so you equip one. Sacred Pomegranate Branch is the loser: the shield cut leaves it at roughly a third of its listed size.

The Sugar Swan note. Her skill text sets the condition for her revive: "If there are no other Healing Cookies on the team except Sugar Swan Cookie". With her as your only healer she has two revives per battle, and the Feather cuts that to one while adding its own single revive, so the team total stays at two. In that team the third slot does more as the Jewelry Box. With any other Healing Cookie on the team her revive is off, and the Feather becomes your team's revive. The Sugar Swan guide and the treasures guide go deeper.

Where the story continues: Timeline of Fate

cookierun.wiki calls Timeline of Fate "the continuation of the ending" of Beast-Yeast. It arrived in v7.4 on May 7, 2026, and the things that matter for planning are these:

• It also unlocks at Crispia stage 8-30, so it does not require Beast-Yeast.
• It runs on Fate Stamina Jellies, a separate pool, so it does not compete with Beast-Yeast for Juicy Stamina Jellies.
• It has Story, Normal and Hard. Cutscene nodes cost 5 Jellies and battle stages cost 12. Some stages are locked behind Keys earned elsewhere in the same Episode.
• Unlike Beast-Yeast, there is no opening arc to finish first: from stage 8-30 you can start the Prologue or the first Episode of several later arcs (Episodes 3, 5 and 7 as of the Tartrus of Oblivion update).

That is the pace Beast-Yeast never had: a new Episode roughly every two weeks, one with each update and mid-update, against Beast-Yeast's gaps of up to 16 weeks between arcs.

The rewards are the reason to run both. A Timeline of Fate battle stage pays the same 4, 8 or 12 Beascuit Dough by difficulty, plus one Radiant Beascuit Dough on every battle-stage clear, Bites and Topping Pieces. What it does not list is a Beascuit. So for Dough, Timeline of Fate now matches Beast-Yeast clear for clear and adds a Radiant; for Beascuits from stage clears, Beast-Yeast is still where you go. Since the two run on separate Jellies, the answer is to spend both pools, not to pick one.

One caution: Beast-Yeast's topping-substat rule is explicit, but neither wiki says whether Timeline of Fate switches substats off, so do not assume it carries over. For the arc-by-arc story and the new Cookies, see the Timeline of Fate update guide and the v7.9 Mortal Flames, Eternal Change guide.

Quick Action Checklist

• Clear Story stage 8-30 in Crispia to open both Beast-Yeast and Timeline of Fate
• Read each Episode's effect list and bring the Cookies its rule names before adding levels
• First-clear each stage on the hardest difficulty you can win, so one clear collects every easier first-time reward
• Take every stage of an Episode to Hard to unlock Legendary Beascuits from its Balloon Expeditions (Normal on every stage unlocks Epic)
• From Episode 11 on, run each stage's Challenge mode once for 300 Crystals after its Hard clear
• Farm Beascuit Dough on Hard: 12 Dough for 12 Juicy Stamina Jellies, three times Story's rate
• Plan sustain at a third of its listed value: healing and HP Shields are cut by 65%, and topping substats do nothing
• Spend Fate Stamina Jellies in Timeline of Fate too: same Dough per clear, plus a Radiant Beascuit Dough