Cookie Run: Kingdom Glossary
Plain-English definitions for every rarity, Cookie type, gear piece, currency, game mode, and system in Cookie Run: Kingdom. Use this as a reference when a guide assumes a term you haven't seen.
Rarities
How Cookies are tiered. Each rarity has its own soulstone sources and upgrade path, and only Epics get Magic Candy.
Beast
#- The rarity of six Cookies: the five Beasts of the Beast-Yeast story (Mystic Flour, Burning Spice, Shadow Milk, Eternal Sugar, Silent Salt) plus Rajapendra Cookie of Mortality (v7.9, September 2026). cookierun.wiki lists it after Ancient and before Witch. Beast soulstones come from the Cookie Gacha at a low rate, each Beast's time-limited Beast Gacha (which runs on its own event currency), the guild Honor Shop and the Beast Raid and Rajapendra Raid shops. The Timeline of Fate Exploration Logbook chapter Mortal Flames, Eternal Change (v7.9) also gives 10 of Rajapendra's at its fifth and final stage. A Beast's Destiny Gacha theme gives the whole Cookie, never loose soulstones, and Dominion of the Beasts, a permanent event, gives one free copy of a chosen Beast in each of its three parts. The Beast Raid has had no season since Raid: Unfathomable in February 2026. Unlocking a Beast and taking it to 6 stars costs 540 soulstones.
Ancient
#- The rarity of the five Ancient Cookies (Dark Cacao, Golden Cheese, Hollyberry, Pure Vanilla, White Lily), listed between Legendary and Beast. All five have an Awakened form.
Witch
#- The rarity of Dark Enchantress Cookie, introduced with her release in v7.0 (14 January 2026). She is a Witch Cookie, not a Legendary or Awakened one.
Legendary
#- A premium gacha-pull tier below Ancient and Beast. Recent Legendaries include Sugar Swan (v7.2, March 2026) and Timekeeper (v7.4, May 2026).
Dragon
#- The Cookie forms of the legendary dragons of Earthbread, added in v4.5 and on par with Legendary Cookies. Their gacha odds are very low, but their Soulstones and Soulcores can be bought in the Kingdom Arena Medal Shop. Pitaya Dragon is an example.
Super Epic
#- The rarity above Epic, added in v3.0. cookierun.wiki lists it below Dragon, Legendary, Ancient and Beast in power. Examples: Venom Dough (Bomber, v7.1, February 2026) and Oyster (Support). Super Epics come most easily from their own event gachas, and their soulstones can also turn up in the Kingdom Arena Medal Shop, which is the source cookierun.wiki lists for Oyster's.
Epic
#- A mid-power tier with 116 global Cookies as of October 2026, and the only rarity with Magic Candy. Soulstones for 63 of them drop from World Exploration Dark Mode stages, and the Mileage Shop stocks soulstones for most Epics; many recent Epics, including Pavlova, Seltzer, Menthol and Ash Salt, have no Dark Mode stage.
Rare
#- An early-game tier pulled from the gacha, whose soulstones can also be farmed from World Exploration Dark Mode stages. Useful at low levels.
Common
#- The starter tier. GingerBrave, Strawberry Cookie and Wizard Cookie are Common.
Special
#- A small rarity of Cookies that never appear in the regular Gacha. It covers collaboration Cookies (BTS, Sonic the Hedgehog, Wicked, HUNTR/X) and originals such as Marshmallow Bunny and Snapdragon, and cookierun.wiki ranks it between Rare and Epic.
Awakened
#- The upgraded form of an Ancient Cookie, unlocked with Soulprisms and Coins (the first step takes the base Cookie plus 20 Soulprisms). Only the five Ancients can Awaken: Dark Cacao (v5.6), Golden Cheese (v5.11), Pure Vanilla (v6.1), Hollyberry (v6.5, as Aegis Hollyberry) and White Lily (v6.10). Awakening changes the Cookie's skill permanently; only the Awakened appearance can be switched back, because it is a Costume.
Gear System
The three gear layers every Cookie can equip.
Topping
#- The primary gear layer. Cookies equip 5 toppings (a "5-piece set"). The most common types are Searing Raspberry (ATK), Swift Chocolate (CD), and Solid Almond (DMG Resist).
Topping Tart
#- A secondary gear piece that adds a bonus stat on top of toppings. Tarts come in the same flavor types as toppings (Raspberry, Chocolate, Almond, etc.).
Beascuit
#- Gear locked to a Cookie role: Chewy for Charge, Hard for Defense, Crispy for Ambush, Zesty for Magic, Light for Ranged, Spicy for Bomber, Hearty for Support and Sweet for Healing. Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary Beascuits have 1 to 4 bonus-effect slots. Tainted Legendary Beascuits come only from Beast Raids and related events, and their first effect is locked at +20% element DMG.
Substat
#- A topping's bonus effects, unlocked at +6, +9 and +12: one on an XS topping, two on an S, three on an M or Resonant topping. A stat cannot roll twice on one topping, so a topping carries at most one Cooldown roll (1-2%), and substats add at most 10% Cooldown across five toppings. They are switched off in Beast-Yeast and Sublime Cake Tower.
Attune
#- Matching a Beascuit's bonus-effect slots to its type, through Magical Attunement (paid in Crystals) or Attunement Kits. Kits must match the Beascuit's rarity, and spending 20 (Rare), 35 (Epic) or 50 (Legendary) of them guarantees the next attempt matches. A slot's bonus effect applies only once it is attuned to the Beascuit's type.
Currencies & Resources
The in-game currencies and resources that drive progression.
Crystal
#- The primary premium currency. Used for gacha pulls and most major purchases. Earned through events, codes, achievements, and store purchases.
Rainbow Cube
#- The Costume Gacha currency (300 Rainbow Cubes per draw). It comes from limited-time events and the Mileage Shop, and Guild Battle season rewards include it too.
Soulstone
#- Cookie-specific items used to unlock a Cookie and promote it (raise its star level). A Beast Cookie takes 20 to unlock and 520 more to reach 6 stars; an Epic takes 290 in all to reach 5 stars (20 to unlock and 270 more), after which Ascension uses Soulcores. Awakening uses Soulprisms instead.
Soulstone of Fate
#- Handed out as the Soulstone of Fate Choice Chest. Choice Chests are event rewards that let you pick what you receive, and a chest's list of options is fixed when you get it.
Choco Chalk
#- The currency for the MyCookie Icing Gacha. It comes mainly from the Lost & Found event in Cuckoo Town Square and from mining Sweet Power Gem Ore Veins in Into the Depths, plus events.
Butter Amber
#- A Topping Tart crafting material, needed for Epic Tarts and the rarest of the three Tart materials (with Flour Stone and Sugar Ore). It comes mainly from the Into the Depths mines (Mine Ventures, Ore Vein Mining and the Mine Shop), and top Guild Battle season rewards include it too.
Radiant Beascuit Dough
#- Rerolls one chosen bonus effect on a Beascuit, and you keep either the old or the new roll; regular Beascuit Dough rerolls all of them. Breaking Beascuits down always gives regular Dough and has a chance of Radiant Dough (10% for a Common Beascuit up to 30% for a Legendary); both also come from events and Shop packages, and Timeline of Fate stages pay one Radiant Dough per clear.
Magic Candy
#- A Cookie-specific upgrade that adds effects to an Epic Cookie's skill. It is Epic-only: all 40 global Magic Candies belong to Epic Cookies, and no Legendary has one (seven Legendaries have a Crystal Jam instead). It unlocks at Cookie Lv. 50, upgrades cost Soul Essence, Sugar Crystals, a Cookie-specific Resonant Ingredient and Coins, and extra effects unlock at +10, +20 and +30.
Game Modes
The major PvE, PvP, and event modes in CRK.
Kingdom Arena
#- The flagship PvP mode. Players attack other players' defense teams to earn Trophies and climb tiers from Chocolate up to Grandmaster. Seasons normally last 28 days, but Dreaming Miracles 1 is scheduled for three weeks, October 21 to November 11, 2026 (GMT+9, tallying included), to fit the Arena Champions League schedule; seasons return to four weeks from Dreaming Miracles 2. Since Earnest Wish Season 1 each season gives certain Cookies extra buffs.
Arcade Arena
#- A PvP variant of Kingdom Arena with a custom ruleset and Cookie pool each season and its own Arcade Arena Tickets. It began as a limited-time event in v5.13 and became a regular game mode in v7.10 (October 2026); seasons now change every 2 weeks, and rankings are within your group rather than server-wide.
Guild Battle
#- A seasonal guild mode with four bosses (Red Velvet Dragon, Avatar of Destiny, Machine-God of the Eternal Void, Living Abyss), one of which is out of rotation at a time. A season usually runs four weekly rounds; each round you can fight two of the three active bosses, up to 9 times each with 18 tickets, and every battle lasts 60 seconds. Damage is shared across the guild, and bosses reset to Lv. 1 each round.
World Exploration
#- The main story mode, split into three arcs: Crispia, Beast-Yeast and Timeline of Fate. Beast-Yeast and Timeline of Fate both unlock after the final stage of Crispia's Episode 8.
Beast-Yeast
#- The second World Exploration arc (v5.0, January 19, 2024), unlocked by clearing Crispia stage 8-30. It is finished: Episode 15, Beyond the Horizon (v7.2, March 11, 2026), is the final one, and Timeline of Fate continues the story. Its stage clears pay Beascuits, Bites and Beascuit Dough, not Beast soulstones; only the Monster Menace Soulstone Chest that some stages drop has a well-under-1% chance of one. Topping bonus effects do nothing there, and its Episodes cut Healing and HP Shield capacity by 65% (Episode 15's Story mode excepted).
Cake Tower
#- Sublime Cake Tower (v5.4) has two towers: Decadent Choco (boss fights, 55 trays) and Endless Strawberry (enemy waves, 300 trays). Entry costs nothing and each tray's rewards are one-time. The mode raises every Cookie to at least Lv. 70 (skills too) and 5 stars, and switches topping bonus effects off. See our Cake Tower walkthrough.
Cookie Alliance
#- A seasonal mode, unlocked at World Exploration stage 6-28, where you field up to five teams against chapters of enemy waves. Each set of four waves carries a Shadow Hex and an elemental weakness and ends in a boss, and each battle costs an Alliance Ticket.
Bounties
#- Boss stages that pay Skill Powders, Sugar Crystals, EXP Star Jellies, Coins or Chaos Cake Pieces, unlocked at World Exploration stage 2-3. Five bosses have 15 levels each. You get 6 attempts a day (9 with the Kingdom Pass), and an attempt is spent only when you win.
Systems & Mechanics
Other game systems worth knowing.
Affection
#- CookieChat's 10-level relationship track, from Stranger to Understanding (level 10 needs 12,000 Hearts). Hearts come from gifts, from sending 20 Hearts up to five times a day, and in 40-Heart grants (up to five a day) when the Cookie wins a Kingdom Arena battle or clears a World Exploration stage. A Favorite gift gives only modestly more than a Neutral one: 390 Hearts against 300 for a Legendary gift.
6-Star Legendary
#- A Legendary on the 6-star Promotion system, which arrived with Beast Cookies in v5.5 and extended to new or plot-relevant Legendary and Dragon Cookies from v7.4 (Timekeeper was the first such Legendary). Its promotions take Legendary Soul Essence and more Soulstones than the standard system, with no Ascension afterwards, and the Cookie's look changes at 2, 4 and 6 stars. Devsisters has said all Legendary and Dragon Cookies will move to it over time.
Warmth of Compassion
#- Awakened Pure Vanilla's skill (15-second cooldown). It heals the five lowest-HP allies, shields the team for 20% of Max HP and grants a Rally Effect of Max HP +15% and DMG Resist +15%. Only one Rally Effect can be active on a team, so it does not stack with Aegis Hollyberry's, which covers Steel-type allies only.
Stinging Fizz
#- A debuff Seltzer inflicts only when Menthol is on the team; Menthol's Gas Explosion sets it off. Both are Water-type Epics released August 27, 2025: Seltzer is a Support and Menthol a Bomber.
Magic Lab
#- The Magic Laboratory, a Kingdom building (v3.3, unlocked at Kingdom Lv. 35) that produces Cookie-upgrade items, most notably the Resonant Ingredients that Epic Cookies' Magic Candies need.
Bell of Glory
#- A Cuckoo Town Square feature at the Lion Fountain, added in the v5.11 mid-update. Ringing it with a Bell of Glory item gives everyone in that Town Square channel a 5-hour Burning Time buff. The items come from hard requirements, such as Grandmaster 2 in Kingdom Arena or, while Beast Raid seasons ran, a Top 200 finish.
Fountain of Abundance
#- A Kingdom building that generates rewards over time: Coins, Star Jellies, materials, Crystals, Speed-Ups, Topping Pieces, Stamina Jellies, Skill Powders and Radiant Shards. It stores at most 8 hours of production, so it pays to collect regularly.
Treasure
#- Items equipped to a team, up to 3 depending on Cookie Castle level. Passive Treasures work on their own; Active ones must be tapped and have charging times and Cooldowns. Higher rarity is not automatically better: the Common Squishy Jelly Watch gives Cooldown -10% at Lv. 1 and -25% at Lv. 12. A Treasure Gacha pull costs 200 Crystals or a Treasure Ticket.
Looking for build-level depth? Browse the Gear Guide for per-Cookie loadouts, the CRK Blog for tier lists and team comps, or the Cake Tower Guide for tower strategy.