Redesigning

Nerfing is a community name given to the process of making a level or an ingame element easier or less powerful.

Every now and again, when too many people complain that a level is too difficult and many players reach the level and quit, the Candy Crush team will redesign the level to make it a little easier, or a lot easier in some cases.

Ways of Nerfing Levels

 * Adding Moves - sometimes more moves are given to complete the level. Level 167 is an example - the moves were raised from 45 to 50. This can also come in the form of giving bombs more moves before exploding.
 * Lowering the Target Score - sometimes done if the target score is too difficult to reach. Level 98 and Level 183 are good examples.
 * Removing Jelly - sometimes jellies are removed from Jelly Levels. This can either be reducing double jellies to single jellies (Level 65) or removing jellies completely.
 * Removal of Blockers - a very common type of nerf. Typically this involves taking layers off meringues or removing meringues completely. Other blockers can be removed from levels as well. Level 305 is a good example - many layers were taken off the meringues and others removed. Level 325's nerf removed the Liquorice Swirls.
 * Removal of a colour - a very powerful nerf. This usually involves dropping a six-colour level to five colours. As this makes such a difference, this is usually ballanced out by lowering the moves and/or adding blockers, but it still makes the level easier. Level 213 and Level 311 are very good examples of this type of nerf. The difficulties were lowered from insanely hard to medium or considerably hard following these nerfs.
 * Redesigning - sometimes a level is redesigned completely in an easier fasion. This is usually how Candy Order Levels are nerfed. The Orders are often changed to easier orders. Redesigning can also involve moving components of the level around. Level 347 is an example.

Jelly Fish nerf
Other elements have been nerfed besides levels. The most notable case is the Jelly Fish from the Sugar Crush of jelly levels on Facebook. The fish used to give 1020 points each, and still do on iOS, but now only a few fish give 1020 points, the rest giving none. This nerf has been resented by many players.

Trivia

 * Nerfing upsets a lot of players, specifically those that completed the level when it was still hard.
 * Level nerfing usually occurs at the same time as an episode release.
 * It is unknown why Level 350 hasn't been nerfed yet - it may be nerfed in the future.
 * Sometimes levels go through multiple nerfs.