September Update

The trio of time criminals has successfully protected the corrupted Seal Tree — but to save the timeline from impending doom, they must awaken the beings slumbering within.

And Cutter Circuit Cookie has chosen none other than Golden Cheese Cookie for this new mission. Can the trio win Golden Cheese Cookie over and save the day?

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Check out Episode 10: The Missing Piece in the Timeline of Fate.

Episode Effect: Data Tampering

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The Data Tampering Episode Effect applies starting from the Cheese Fondue Plaza stage. Whenever certain enemies use specific skills or get hit, your Cookies will gain Virus Points.

Gaining Virus Points reduces the damage your team deals. Once Virus Points are fully stacked, Cookies will gain Lag status. When Lag status wears off or is dispelled, Cookies will gain Data Tampering status instead. Data Tampering permanently reduces Max HP periodically for its duration. The elusive time criminals, Time Shadow Cookie and Pulpo Cookie, as well as the Radiant Queen Golden Cheese Cookie, are less affected by Data Tampering.

Episode Effect: Realm of Spice

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The Realm of Spice Land Rules apply starting from the Ruins of a Forgotten Empire stage.

Whenever enemies take damage, the Realm of Spice bar will gradually fill up and trigger Spice Haze once it is full. Under the effect of Spice Haze, your team is debuffed, while the enemies become stronger. When the Realm of Spice bar fills again, a Spice Typhoon will begin. During a Spice Typhoon, your team will receive an even greater disadvantage, and the enemies will become even more powerful. The elusive time criminals Time Shadow Cookie and Pulpo Cookie, along with the spice-resistant Burning Spice Cookie and Nutmeg Tiger Cookie, will reduce the Territory bar with their attacks and are less affected by the Realm of Spice.

Join Time Shadow Cookie and Pulpo Cookie in this edition of the Arcade Arena.

Enjoy strategic battles across 2 seasons, each with unique battle modes.

Battle modes

Round 1: 6v6 Legendary Clash — September 9, 10:00 – September 15, 09:59 (GMT+9). Find the right strategy in 6v6 battles with x3 Treasures: build your team around the returning Legendary Cookies and equip the right Treasures to win.

Season 2: 7v7 Epic Showdown — September 16, 10:00 – September 22, 09:59 (GMT+9). Participate in the Epic Showdown in 7v7 battles with x5 Treasures and dominate the battlefield with relentless skill barrages.

Seasons

Seasonal Rules: each season will have different rules and seasonal Cookies available. Tallying Period: the tallying period will begin before the season ends, and battling will become temporarily unavailable during tallying — the Arcade Arena Shop will remain open during the tallying period.

Seasonal Cookies & Treasures

The pool of playable Cookies and Treasures will differ depending on the season.

Entry tokens

Use Arcade Arena Tickets to battle in the Arcade Arena. Tickets refill automatically (x1 every 2 hours 24 minutes) and can be purchased with Crystals or by watching an ad.

Arcade Rules

A new rule will be added at the start of a new season to promote battle strategy diversity. Round 1's rule boosts Legendary-rarity Cookies — ATK +50.0%, Cooldown -30.0% and Max HP +30.0% — for the remainder of the season.

Practice Mode

Plan out your strategy in the practice mode. Players can set up their attack teams and test strategies without a separate defense team.

Tiers

Arcade Arena has tiers ranging from Chocolate to Grandmaster. Your tier will reset to Chocolate once the season ends.

Battle conditions

Cookies and their skills will be boosted to Lv.100.

Rewards

Season Rewards: claim rewards depending on the tier reached at the end of the season. Tier Rewards: claim rewards upon reaching a new tier.

Shop

Purchase items in the Arcade Arena Shop with Arcade Arena Coins earned by winning battles. The number of Coins differs for each tier, and the shop will stock different items for each season.

Pedestal

Decorate your Arcade Arena pedestal with various ornaments using the editing feature or by purchasing them.

Arcade Report

Check which Cookies and Treasures were used most during the season. On the first day of the season, data will be collected, and updates will occur daily between 02:00 – 03:00 (GMT+9).

Fire Spirit Cookie's Trial of Glory will be added.

Clear the 10th stage in Trial Grounds to access this boss stage. Trial of Glory is a seasonal game mode where your goal is to deal as much damage to the boss within the given time as you can.

Seasons

Trial of Glory resets every week on Wednesdays at midnight (GMT+9). The first season of Fire Spirit Cookie's Trial of Glory opens on September 9, 2026 at 10:00.

Each season features one Trial of Glory, with the featured Cookies rotating in the following order: Fire Spirit Cookie, Sea Fairy Cookie, Frost Queen Cookie, Wind Archer Cookie, Moonlight Cookie, Stormbringer Cookie, Black Pearl Cookie.

Fire Spirit Cookie must be included in the team for Fire Spirit Cookie's Trial of Glory, and each play consumes a Trial Grounds attempt. After playing Trial of Glory once, you can use Time Jumpers and play in practice battles.

Bosses

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There are 3 bosses in Fire Spirit Cookie's Trial of Glory. At the start of a season, one of them is selected at random as the Season Boss, and you can fight the Season Boss until the season ends.

Each of the 3 bosses has different skills, passives, and battlefield effects — devise a strategy that effectively counters them.

Rewards

There are three types of rewards in Trial of Glory: First Win Rewards, earned the first time each Cookie participates in Trial of Glory, regardless of the season; Season Rewards, earned after the first play of each season and available again when the season changes; and Play Rewards, earned each time you use a battle attempt to play Trial of Glory.

Play Rewards can also be earned using Time Jumpers. They are not available in Practice Mode.

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A new theme, Golden Dragon's Domain, has been added to the Destiny Gacha. You can pull from the Golden Dragon's Domain theme for a chance to obtain Ananas Dragon Cookie.

For every 300 pulls from the theme, you can select and obtain a guaranteed Ananas Dragon Cookie. Pull counts are tracked separately for each theme, including Golden Dragon's Domain.

Mission Cards

Complete the conditions on Mission Cards to earn stamps and random rewards. You can change incomplete Mission Cards by using the Refresh button, and Mission Cards are reset every midnight.

Bingo Missions

Complete Mission Cards to fill in vertical, horizontal, and diagonal rows to complete the Bingo Missions and receive generous rewards. The Bingo Missions are reset every midnight.

The first season of Fire Spirit Cookie's Trial of Glory opens on Sep 9, 2026, at 10:00 (GMT+9).

Following the end of the previous Trial of Glory, season change preparations will take place from Sep 8, at 23:59 until Sep 9, at 10:00 (GMT+9). Trial of Glory will be unavailable during this time.

The following packages will have their purchase limits reset and will become available for purchase once again:

Time Shadow Cookie's All-in-One Package Vol.1; Time Shadow Cookie's All-in-One Package Vol.2; Shadowy Gentleman's Watches Package I; Shadowy Gentleman's Watches Package II; Shadowy Gentleman's Watches Package III; Shadowy Gentleman's Watches Package IV; Shadowy Gentleman's Watches Package V; Rekindled Flame Gems Package I; Rekindled Flame Gems Package II; Rekindled Flame Gems Package III; Legendary Costume! Super Rainbow Cube Package; Legendary Costume! Rainbow Cube Value Package; New Cookie: Super Crystal Package.

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As the collapsing core timeline plunges the world into crisis, SCOOP Chief Cutter Circuit Cookie plans an off-the-books operation to take the corrupted Seal Tree under control. The Cookies chosen for the mission are a trio of notorious Grade A time criminals: Time Shadow Cookie, Pulpo Cookie and Ovenhead Cookie. Check out Time Breakers: Fatal Fixers in the Timeline of Fate chapter — Ep. 9, Unofficial Futures, will be released first in this update, and you can play it without clearing previous episodes. Ep. 10 will be released in the next update. New collectibles have been added to the SCOOP Database; play the Time Breakers: Fatal Fixers episodes to collect new SCOOP Database entries. Starting from the Bubbling Hazmat Incubator stage, the Eye of Calamity Episode Effect will be applied: the Surveillance bar increases every second and is filled an additional amount every time a Cookie Skill is used, and when the Surveillance bar is full, all allies receive the Eye of Calamity debuff. When the elusive time criminal Time Shadow Cookie uses his skill, allies gain the Dark Sight buff, letting them avoid the gaze of the eye for a brief period of time, and when Pulpo Cookie uses her skill, the bar is lowered and the Cookie receives a DMG Reduction buff. The Time Breakers Roadster! Tactical Skill becomes available starting from the Creaking Isolation Corridor stage: it summons the Time Breakers Roadster, granting allies various buffs based on its output (1000/2000/3000CW). The Output bar fills over time and whenever your team Cookies use their skills, and the skills of the elusive time criminals, Time Shadow Cookie and Pulpo Cookie, fill the bar faster. If Pulpo Cookie is on the team, the roadster's performance is enhanced: its maximum output increases to 4000CW, and summoning it at maximum output increases the damage enemies take.

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Fire Spirit Cookie's new Crystal Jam is here — check out the new power of the flames, hotter than ever. The Rally Effect, Concentrated Fire, grants effects at the start of battle to Cookies with Fire-type skills based on their number on the team, including himself: 1 or more grants CRIT% Up; 3 or more grants CRIT% Up and ATK Up; 5 or more grants CRIT% Up, ATK Up and CRIT DMG Up. The Crystal Jam Effect, Orb of Eternal Flame, amplifies the power of flames and alters Fire Spirit Cookie's skill: the damage of Fire Orb and Chain Explosion increases, and they deal additional damage proportional to the number of Burn and Explosive Burn stacks applied to the target. Additionally, at the start of combat, Cookies with Fire-type skills are granted increased Fire-type damage.

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Fire Spirit Cookie has arrived at the Trial Grounds. Enter Everburning Dragon's Valley to obtain the Life Jewels required to create and upgrade Fire Spirit Cookie's Crystal Jam. Starting from Ever-Burning Flames: Scorching Dragon's Valley Stage 1, the Armor of Flame effect will be applied: enemies become clad in fiery armor and periodically gain DMG Dampening buff stacks. Each Burn debuff applied to enemies removes a stack, while Explosive Burn removes additional stacks, and once all DMG Dampening buff stacks are removed, enemies take significantly increased Fire-type damage for a set duration.

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Avatar of Destiny returns to Guild Battle, taking Red Velvet Dragon's place. The Avatar of Destiny had been taking relatively lower damage compared to the other bosses, resulting in lower maximum stage records, which affected rewards, sense of accomplishment and the overall feel of the battle. To reduce the damage gap between bosses and raise the Avatar of Destiny's maximum stage potential, the damage it takes has been increased without altering the existing strategy.

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Behind a courteous greeting lurks a shadow — the Grade A time criminal, Time Shadow Cookie, has arrived in CookieRun: Kingdom. He is an Ambush Cookie who uses the skill "Shadowplay." Time Shadow Cookie slips into the shadows and creates a shadowy domain among the enemies. Mischievous shadows emerge from within, dealing damage and applying Shadow Trick, and when they land a CRIT they also increase the damage the targets receive. Time Shadow Cookie also applies Shadow Deception to one Cookie of a lower rarity than himself, including Safeguarded Cookies, prioritizing the lowest rarity (Common, Rare, Special, Epic). Then a massive shadow appears, dealing damage, and vanishes, dragging one Cookie into the Shadow Realm — the target falls under Shadow Dominion and receives a Shadow Brand and damage. If a Cookie has a Shadow Brand, that Cookie becomes the next target of Shadow Dominion; otherwise Shadow Dominion targets a Cookie of the same or lower rarity than Time Shadow Cookie (Common, Rare, Special, Epic, Super Epic), prioritizing the lowest rarity. When a target with a Shadow Brand is defeated, Time Shadow Cookie gains Brand Absorption. Quick to conceal himself in the shadows, Time Shadow Cookie gains the Time Shadow buff at the start of battle, and upon being defeated he becomes Immortal through Ontological Stabilization once per battle, then immediately uses his skill.

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Pulpo Cookie, a Grade B time criminal who travels through the Dimensional Rift to collect all things beautiful, has arrived in CookieRun: Kingdom. She is a Support Cookie who uses the skill "All, Wrapped Up." Gift Fragments and Gift Boxes rain down upon enemy lines, dealing damage and increasing the Darkness-type damage they receive. Pulpo Cookie wraps the boxes in ribbons, pulling enemies together and Shackling them, and the enemies take extra damage when Shackles ends. Pulpo Cookie gains Mobile Collection whenever a nearby non-Cookie enemy is Incapacitated or becomes Incapacitated while Shackled by her ribbons, and each time Mobile Collection reaches a certain number of stacks, it further increases the Darkness-type damage enemies receive (except bosses).

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Cookie Alliance content has been fully revamped for easier access and deeper strategic play. The required number of Teams has been reduced from 5 to 3, and the 5 difficulty levels have been consolidated into 3: Easy / Hard / Master. You can enter any difficulty immediately without clearing them in order, starting from Easy; clearing a higher difficulty also grants the First Clear Rewards from all lower difficulties; Master difficulty rewards remain equivalent to those from Hero, the former highest difficulty; and the difficulty required to receive the First Clear Rewards has been changed from Expert to Hard. For battle rules, a Weakness debuff is applied to the Boss in each wave, and you can preview each wave's Weakness debuff in the Battle Lobby. The Artifacts that used to offer battle buffs have been removed — you can now obtain helpful battle buffs from the Beacon of Valor instead. Previously, Coins were required to activate the Beacon of Valor for a limited time; now you can activate it or change its effects freely throughout the season, and it grants battle buffs instead of the previous Blast Mode effect. The Beacon of Valor's conditions and effects will be listed for each season: select conditions and obtain buffs according to your selection, only teams meeting the selected conditions will receive the buffs, and if all 3 teams meet the selected conditions, all Cookies will receive the buffs. Activate the Beacon of Valor before using a Cookie Alliance Ticket to gain the buffs, which are available during the respective season only. Guild Rewards based on the total number of times guild members play have been added: rewards consist of 5 stages, reset at the end of the Season, and you must meet the minimum play attempts requirement to claim them. The effects of certain Relics and Relic Sets have also been changed — Golden Cheese Cookie's Sarcophagus now grants more Time Jumpers in Cookie Alliance instead of more Artifact Points in Alliance battles, Hollyberry Cookie Statue now grants CRIT% Up instead of Blast Mode, and the Kingdom History Hall 2, Galleries 1-6 Set Effect now grants ATK Up for 12 Elements instead of 6.

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The Town Square Arcade's schedule has been changed, allowing access at any time, across five sessions: 00:00–05:00, 05:00–10:00, 10:00–15:00, 15:00–20:00 and 20:00–24:00. For the Bell of Glory, if you do not own any Bell of Glory Items you can tap the speech bubble above the Lion Fountain to open the item selection screen and then tap the Town Square Shop button to visit the Town Square Shop. The Bell of Glory standby time has been reduced from 20 seconds to 10 seconds, and you can now tap the speech bubble above the Lion Fountain to view the item selection screen even while the Bell of Glory is on Standby. If you own at least one Bell of Glory item, you can now preview the Burning Time buffs available from items stocked in the Town Square Shop, even if you do not own them. When a Bell of Glory Burning Time buff is active, the Bell of Glory icon will appear in the Town Square — tap the icon to view all currently available Bell of Glory Burning Time buffs, and tap the "Go to Bell of Glory Burning Time" button to move directly to the Lion Fountain and activate the buff. Activating a Platinum Bell of Glory Burning Time buff at the Lion Fountain will open the Burning Time buff window, with newly activated buffs marked as NEW. Whenever someone rings the Platinum Bell of Glory in the Town Square, a notification will appear in Global Messages, allowing you to check it from anywhere, and the visual effects for ringing the Platinum Bell of Glory have been improved to look even more spectacular. The Town Square Guide has been added, where you can find info about MyCookie and various Town Square activities, and some entries now include shortcut buttons that take you directly to the relevant activity location. A button for checking Town Square Post Office rewards has been added to the Town Square: use it to check how many times you have claimed Town Square Post Office rewards, and tap it while Post Office rewards are available to move to the reward location. The window for claiming Town Square Post Office rewards has been increased from 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Mine Venture rules have changed: only Cookies at full HP can join a Mine Venture, and the Cookie's HP consumed during Mine Ventures has been reduced. A new Mine Card, Tart Ore Vein, has been added, with a Mining Completion Reward of Sugar Ore x140 and Mining Rewards of Coins, EXP Star Jellies and 1-min Speed-ups; a new Battle Card offering Agar Cube: Ananas Dragon Cookie's Soulstone as a reward is now available; and some Random Mine Card obtain rates have been adjusted. New Venture Tools have been added: Suspicious Tool Bag (obtain Venture Tool Card x1 at the end of the venture), Clunky Wrench (Cart Upgrade Card x1), Razor-Sharp Greatsword (Mine Battle Card x1), Sizzling Frying Pan (Recovery Tool Card x1) and Radiant Golden Pickaxe (start the venture from Floor 25). A feature that allows Recovery Tools to restore a Cookie's HP during ventures has been added: two existing Exploration Tools, Quick Snack and Hearty Lunchbox, become Recovery Tools, with any tools already owned retaining their current quantities. As Recovery Tools now apply to a single Cookie, their healing has been adjusted — Quick Snack from 10 to 50 and Hearty Lunchbox from 25 to 100 — and one new Recovery Tool, Cool Drink, restores 10 HP to a Cookie when used. Finally, the Ore Vein Card Breakdown feature has been added: break down Ore Vein Cards to obtain Radiant Ore Vein Crystals, a new Resource used to obtain various Mine Cards from the new Ore Vein Shop, where you can obtain various Mine Cards at the Mine Exchange and purchase limits reset weekly.

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Added a new Costume for Silent Salt Cookie, the revenant Knight whose grudge for the world endures even in faded memories.

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Obtain a new set of 10 kinds of Toppings usable by certain Cookies only. The following Cookies will be able to equip these Toppings: Time Shadow Cookie, Fire Spirit Cookie and Pulpo Cookie. You do not have to equip Resonant Toppings exclusively for a set effect. Resonant Toppings have higher bonus effect values than regular Toppings, and their bonus effects might differ from those of regular Toppings.

Meet a new Icing set, [SUPER EPIC] Grade A Time Felon, in the Weaving Shop — achieve Super Success to get the Grade A Time Felon Icings. A new Icing set, [SPECIAL] Refined Shadow Gentleman, is now available at Sugar Coat Cookie's Salon, and can be obtained during this period.

Witness true power and unleash it! Meet Ancient Cookies, Beast Cookies and Witch Cookies, and complete missions to unleash their power in the new Call of Destiny event. The existing Might of the Ancients and Dominion of the Beasts events can now be accessed through the Call of Destiny event, and a new domain, Power of Darkness, has been added. Meet the fearsome Witch Cookie wielding the Power of Darkness and complete missions to unleash this might — in Part 1 you can select and obtain Dark Enchantress Cookie, and you cannot change or cancel your initial selection. You will immediately obtain the Cookie selected in Power of Darkness; however, you will have to clear the relevant missions and unlock more stages before this Cookie can enter Today's Bounties, Tropical Soda Islands, Guild Battle, Kingdom Arena and Cookie Alliance. If you have already obtained the selected Cookie, or managed to pull them or their Soulstones x20 after making the selection in the event, you will be able to play with this Cookie without any restrictions. Complete all Power of Darkness Pt. 1 missions to obtain a Profile Background and Badge as the final reward.

The maximum achieved Upgrade Lv. is saved for each Legendary Topping Tart. Resetting does not affect the maximum Upgrade Lv., unless the following round of upgrades succeeds beyond the previous maximum Upgrade Lv., in which case the maximum Upgrade Lv. will be updated. After the update, each Legendary Topping Tart's maximum Upgrade Lv. will be set to its current Upgrade Lv. A confirmation pop-up has also been added when selecting "Change" or "Keep" to help prevent unintended bonus effect changes for Legendary Topping Tarts.

On low-end iOS devices, the Kingdom will reload during gameplay when available memory runs low to free up memory. Cookie Activity and Cookie Animation options have been added to the Settings menu, allowing low-end devices to reduce the performance load caused by Cookies.

When Fountain of Abundance rewards have been claimed, the time remaining until the next reward will be displayed. The daily Free Gift has been moved to the reward area on the left, and a Claim Reward button has been added. More Bounty Battles can now be added directly from the Play Portal — once you've used all your Bounty Battle attempts, use this button to recharge them, and as before you can recharge using Bonus Bounty Tickets or Crystals.

Revamped the Shop menu and categories for easier access to featured products. Quickly browse the Best Deals and Special offers via navigating the respective tabs, and the item filter previously available only in the Best Deals tab can now be used in all categories.

The number of Cookies required per class for the Skill Level Blessing in the Hall of Ancient Heroes has been reduced from 5 to 3, and the number of Cookie slots in the Hall of Ancient Heroes has been increased from 30 to 40.

Time Shadow Cookie, Pulpo Cookie, Grapefruit Cookie, Lime Cookie, Orange Cookie and Lemon Cookie will be added to CookieChat.

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Golden Cheese Cookie's Architect of Abundance and Burning Spice Cookie's Destroyer of Virtual Worlds have been added to the Rainbow Crystal Shop for Rainbow Crystals x1,000. Shadow Milk Cookie's Sage of Truth is now available at a discounted price of Rainbow Crystals x500.

12 Special Hair Dyes will be added to the Icing Gacha — use these Hair Dyes to unlock the new color, Pink Melon Soda Daydream. 4 Epic Hair Dyes will also be added to the Icing Gacha: Abundant Tales of Old Hair Dye, Morning and Night Sea Hair Dye, Colorful Berry Variations Hair Dye and Crumbling into Darkness Hair Dye. Hair Dye item descriptions will now display the name of the color they apply.

Previously, Login Packages remained visible based on the remaining login days even after the end of the initial promotion period. After this update, Login Packages will no longer appear in the Shop once their promotion period ends, and any unclaimed rewards for such items will be sent to your mailbox.

The purchase limit for the Trials of the Nether Realm Package has been changed from Weekly x1 to Weekly x3.

The following packages will have their purchase limits reset and will become available for purchase once again: Nether Queen Cookie's All-in-One Package Vol.1, Nether Queen Cookie's All-in-One Package Vol.2, Bells of Oblivion Package I, Bells of Oblivion Package II, Bells of Oblivion Package III, Bells of Oblivion Package IV, Bells of Oblivion Package V, Trials of the Nether Realm Package, 125 Crystals and 15,600 Crystals. Once the Crystal products are reset, purchasing them again will grant the first-purchase bonus once more.

The following will be discontinued: Tower of Frozen Waves Package; 15 Beast-Yeast Adventure Packages (package pop-ups will no longer be available after the end of the promotion period, however rewards for completed Package Missions will be sent to your mailbox); First Greetings / First Promotion / Ascension Time Hot Deals for each Epic Cookie; Magic Candy Package / Ultimate Magic Candy Package Hot Deals (even if a Hot Deal's remaining purchase time extends beyond the upcoming update, the items will no longer be available for purchase); Mont Blanc Boutique Rainbow Cube Package; Ultimate Goods Package; Epic Topping Package; 636 Crystals; 1,250 Crystals; 4,000 Crystals; and 6,800 Crystals.

Ep. 10 of the Time Breakers: Fatal Fixers chapter arrives in the next update, alongside the teaser shown at the close of the August 26 update notice.

[Mine] Added an Epic Salty Tart Vein offering Sugar Ore.

[Mine] Added an option to instantly complete all available Mine Battles with Time Jumpers.

[Monster Menace] Fixed an issue where the Monster Menace menu was unavailable if Beast-Yeast Stage 1-1 was not completed.

[System] Fixed an issue where excessive app data could be backed up to iCloud on iOS devices.

[Legendary Topping Tarts] The highest achieved Upgrade Lv. will be restored for each of your Legendary Topping Tarts.

[Legendary Topping Tarts] Added a confirmation pop-up when choosing whether to Change or Keep a bonus effect.