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Ingredients levels (also known as Ingredient drop levels) are one of the seven level types in Candy Crush Saga. This level type's icon is green with a white arrow pointing downwards. Ingredients levels first appear in Candy Factory, the second episode, with the first ingredient level being level 17.

Ingredients levels are the fourth most common level type, making up 14.12% of Reality levels at 2299 non-mixed appearances out of the 16280 levels. Adding the 3686 mixed appearances, there are 5985 appearances in total (36.76% of all levels).

In Dreamworld, they make up 27.22% of the levels, with 181 total appearances out of the 665 levels.

The current trend is 0-2 ingredient levels per episode. Very early episodes tend to have at least four, with Easter Bunny Hills containing six. Precious Pond has 6 ingredient levels, and is one of the few episodes with more ingredient levels than jelly levels.

Ingredients levels are considered easier than jelly levels, but there are still quite a few nearly impossible ingredients levels, such as 2005, 3127, 3752, 4005, 4584, 7439. and 8407.

In March 2023, King has announced that all remaining ingredients (which are all cherries), were reskinned to dragons, and the theme will be "rescue the Gummi dragons."[1]

Objective[]

To win an ingredients level, the player must collect all required ingredients/Gummi dragons by bringing them all down to the bottom of the board (or anywhere where there is a green arrow). In some levels, only one ingredient is needed, and in others, up to 18 ingredients are needed.

There are 2 types of ingredients a player will have to bring down: cherries and hazelnuts. Some levels require cherries, some require hazelnuts, and some require both. Currently no functional difference exists between the 2 types of ingredients. A certain number of each will have to be brought down to complete the level. 10,000 points are awarded for each ingredient collected.

The ingredients/dragons fall like normal candies. They come in through the top of the board, usually after another ingredient/dragon has been cleared. Some levels start with the dragons already on the board, and sometimes the ingredients/dragons come out of a dispenser.

When all Gummi dragons/ingredients have been collected, a striped candy is made for every move remaining, giving 3,000 points for each. Then each of the striped candies activate themselves.

Web description[]

Ingredients such as hazelnuts and cherries will appear on the board at various points throughout the level. On the side of the board you’ll see how many of each ingredient you need to collect. If you do not collect all the ingredients (bring them to the bottom of the board) before running out of moves, you will fail the level.

Description[]

When you cursor on the ingredient at the middle left of the game, an inscription will show up like the gallery below:

Difficulty[]

Reality[]

Ingredient Drop levels are generally easier than mixed levels, jelly levels and sometimes candy order levels. They were considered overall more difficult than Timed levels, before their removal. Like all level types, earlier ingredients levels are easier than later ones.

Nearly impossible ingredient levels are not common, but an example is 1025.

Due to mixed levels increasing in commonness (8-10 per episode), non-mixed ingredient levels are now only seen once or twice in an episode. However, mixed ingredient levels are fairly common.

Certain levels do have misplaced ingredients. Switching an ingredient left or right is the hardest thing to do when it comes to ingredient levels because only a few arrangements allow such switching. This requires luck and future prediction to set up a horizontal ingredient switch. Luckily, these levels are now extremely rare.

Dreamworld[]

Ingredient Levels were harder in Dreamworld. Although the harder levels in Dreamworld were not often an Ingredient level, there were many consistently hard levels in Dreamworld.

More ingredients were required to complete most levels. Level 383 was an example. Also, there were fewer moves given. The hardest part about these levels is usually only 1 ingredient could spawn on the board. That means that a large cascade was wasted if the ingredient was just as close as 1 square away from the exit. This is the reason why 87 was voted as the hardest level in the Dreamworld before it was nerfed. Level 272 was also another notorious level because of this.

Other very hard ingredient levels in Dreamworld were 325, 376, 409 and 587.

Trivia[]

  • About 1 in 6 levels are ingredients levels. This means an episode has an average of one to three Ingredients levels.
  • On the web version, the drop down will disappear after you passed level, but on the mobile version, they don't disappear.
  • It's impossible to score fewer than 10,000 points on an Ingredients level as bringing down an ingredient will score a player 10,000 points. It is impossible to score less than 100,000 points on an Ingredients level that requires ten or more ingredients.
  • Originally, the in-game text said "Bring all ingredients down to the bottom!". It was changed to "Collect all the ingredients." at the release of Honey Highlands.
    • That was probably because some levels had stuck zones, so the ingredient wouldn't be collected despite it being in the bottom.
  • Bubblegum Bridge had 7 ingredients levels - more than any other episode.
  • Ingredients levels used to be the only levels where the coconut wheel could appear, but starting at level 65, coconut wheels can appear in any level type.
  • In most cases, the required target score is equal to the points awarded when all ingredients are dropped, for example, if you must drop 4 ingredients, then the target score will be 40,000, making the level impossible to fail because of not reaching the target score.
  • The music used in iOS and Android is the Timed levels from the web version.
  • For a long time, ingredients levels were the second most common level type. Now, mixed mode levels are more common than ingredients levels.
  • Ingredients exits have the tilemap code 010.
  • It is similar to Puzzle Mode of Big Money! where on that game, the player has to bring down certain amount of money bags and if no matches or moves were made, the game ends (on Ingredients level of Candy Crush Saga). However, the game will end if their moves reach 0. Both Ingredients level and Puzzle Mode of Big Money! involves bringing down certain amount of items in order to pass.

Glitched levels[]

In September 2015, there was a confirmed glitch on Facebook wherein some levels the ingredients didn't drop until the very last moves of the level, and some didn't drop at all, causing the level to be impossible to complete. This affected some players on Level 264/Dreamworld, Level 376, Level 378, Level 390, Level 428, Level 495, Level 500, Level 551, Level 581/Dreamworld, and Level 587. It is unknown what caused the glitch, but it was fixed in early October.

As of March 2023, there is a glitch with ingredient cannons. The cannons will not spawn sufficient ingredients, even if extra moves are used, rarely. It has been found by players that this happens if too many blockers are cleared at the start.

Notable ingredients levels[]

  • Level 17 - First ingredients level.
  • Level 18 - The first ingredients level with one-layered frostings.
  • Level 64 - The first ingredients level where the number of ingredients is more than what is required.
  • Level 301 - The level requiring the highest number of ingredients - 51.
  • Level 422 - 100th ingredients level.
  • Level 500 - Used to be a level with highest number of moves in the game with 65.
  • Level 711 - First ingredients with rainbow twists.
  • Level 910 - This level used to have the highest three-star target score at 9,000,000 points. Currently, the three-star target is 400,000 points.
  • Level 1688 - The first ingredients level that coincides with jelly (Mixed).
  • Level 2040 - The first ingredients level with mystery candy dispensers (the only one of the three new dispensers which can appear in any level type).
  • Level 2248 - 500th ingredients level.
  • Level 2409 - The first ingredient level with bobbers.
  • Level 2818 - The last ingredients level on the Flash version.
  • Level 2827 - First HTML5-exclusive ingredients level.
  • Level 3252 - First ingredients level with candy cane fences.
  • Level 3503 - First ingredients level with toffee swirls.
  • Level 3717 - First ingredients level with dark chocolate.
  • Level 4089 - First ingredients level with candy cane curl.
  • Level 4206 - Formerly the first ingredients level with extra moves candies.
  • Level 4597 - First ingredients level with crystal candies.
  • Level 4839 - 1000th ingredients level.
  • Level 5128 - First ingredients level with colour bomb cannons.
  • Level 5871 - The first ingredients level that coincides with candy order (Mixed).
  • Level 6534 - First ingredients level with bubblegum pops.
  • Level 7624 - First ingredients level with liquorice curls.
  • Level 7899 - First ingredients level with order locks.
  • Level 8032 - First ingredients level with sour skulls.
  • Level 8466 - The first ingredients level that coincides with rainbow rapids (Mixed).
  • Level 8264 - 1500th ingredients level.
  • Level 8787 - First ingredients level with bonbon blitz.
  • Level 9004 - Officially the first ingredients level with custom colour scheme. Also the 1600th ingredients level.
  • Level 9534 - The level requiring the second highest number of ingredients - 50.
  • Level 12738 - 2000th ingredients level.

Gallery[]

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