Last Updated on by Samuel Franklin
These Cookie Run Kingdom (CRK) designs provide layout templates for impressive and efficient kingdoms. With decoration ideas to maximise visual appeal and tips to layout planning that optimise your game currency gains this guide will save time designing your kingdom. This guide also includes critical information on expanding your kingdom size, upgrading the cookie castle, optimising Sugar Gnomes and Decor Points.
Table of Contents:
– Layout Overview
– Layout Planner Tips
– Layout Ideas & Designs
CRK Layout Overview
Territory Expansion
Players start with a small empty kingdom territory area that is littered with rocks, trees and weeds. Using construction tools to remove these obstructions and construct specific buildings players can slowly expand their kingdom into the surrounding forest.
Cookie Castle
Central to your kingdom is the Cookie Castle that levels up alongside your cookie heroes and provides access to new or higher level buildings. Cookie Castle levels are gained through story missions, cookie hero levels, decor points, fulfilled wishes and require specific buildings. This is separate to your Kingdom Level which grows as you complete game content and influences your max hero level and stamina jelly cap.
Sugar Gnomes & Buildings
Players are given two Sugar Gnomes builders for free and can purchase additional builders for gems or directly as a premium purchase. Sugar Gnomes are occupied while constructing or upgrading a building which limits the speed players can grow their kingdom.
Buildings have various purposes from raw material production, material conversion or item crafting which become increasingly efficient through building levels. Each building also provides 24 Decor Points for the 12×12 square area they occupy.
Decorations & Decor Points
Decorate your Cookie Kingdom with decoration (or decor) objects to create a special home for recruited cookie heroes which also adds decor points for each item in your kingdom layout. With themed decorations like paths, roads, water, swings, fences, flowerbeds, tables and lights the decor category allows for unlimited visual customisation.
Community decor ideas will optimise decor points as there are particular milestones required to increase Cookie Castle level. Most decoration themes also have a landmark building which provides powerful account boosts and have a significant gold and/or crystal cost. The Tick Tock Clock Tower of the Crispy Cookie Town theme for example provides a reduction to material and goods production time.
CRK Layout Planner Tips
The following layout tips will optimise the visual and production output of your Cookie Kingdom:
- Don’t overthink where you place buildings initially as buildings can be moved later without penalty.
- When players are ready to redesign their Cookie Kingdom create a Cookie Run Kingdom layout planner for your current territory size before you start placing buildings and decorations. In order to do this map out the number of grid slots you have unlocked currently and the associated shape as these will be different for each account depending on current progression.
- For optimal efficiency players should construct raw and good production buildings together as this makes it faster to queue items and identify when buildings are ready for collection.
- Given the importance of cookie hero levels your first building priority should always be building and upgrading cookie houses when available to maximise EXP Star Jellies.
- Visually the best Cookie Run Kingdom designs will focus on either a single theme category across your entire kingdom or split your kingdom into smaller sections each designed with a specific theme.
- For inspiration players can visit the prestige leader board from the game menu which allows you to visit the kingdoms of popular community players.
CRK Layout Ideas & Designs
I have curated 4 different layout ideas from the top prestige player leader board below for inspiration to bring your Cookie Run Kingdom ideas to life.
Madurasa: This Cookie Kingdom design makes great use of water to separate the map into distinct settings and focuses on a small number of building themes to keep it consistent across the corners of the game map.
MeeGachaYT: A setup that is designed for optimal gameplay with resource buildings in the centre of the map that are grouped together based on their production type. This Cookie Kingdom layout also separates the cookie houses to the upper right of the map so that they don’t clutter the screen while still being accessible to claim.
trantrongquap: A Cookie Kingdom concept that places a number of the impressive landmarks together. Separating these from the other production buildings with paths there are distinct areas for each production building that optimises the landmark boosts and efficient resource gathering in a single setup.
Flowerwood: A design concept that pulls together a few similar themed decoration items to create a unique space and snow mixture with a handful of construction focused buildings on their own islands.
If you have found other creative or unique kingdom layout ideas from the community include their in game name in the comments below for others to visit.
