For the list of levels with this blocker, see here.
Properties[]
The sugar coat encases elements, just like the liquorice lock and marmalade. Sugar coats encases moveable elements, while keeping the element moveable. It prevents that particular moveable candy from being cleared in case of a match or a special candy effect.
When it's matched with candies with not all of them being encased in sugar coats, one layer is reduced.
If all candies are in sugar coats, that will be done several times all at once until one of the candies is out of the sugar coat. This is a technical complication.
Sugar coats will block ingredients and gummi dragons from being collected/released from the board when they are placed in a drop zone.
Combos cannot be performed if one of the special candies are encased in sugar coat.
Sugar coat cannons have a unique behaviour, compared to most candy cannons. Firstly, sugar coat cannons can spawn one-layered, two-layered or three-layered sugar coats depending on the level but the symbol on the cannon is always a three-layered sugar coat. Candy cannons that only spawn sugar coats will spawn regular candies encased in the designated sugar coat layer. Candy cannons that spawn sugar coats along with another element will give one of three possibilities:
Sugar coats (encasing regular candies) spawn separately from the other element(s) (seen with the ingredient + sugar coat cannon in level 5993).
Sugar coats that spawn can encase both regular candies and the other element(s) that spawns from the candy cannon (seen with the striped candy + sugar coat cannon in level 5995).
Sugar coats will always spawn from the cannon encasing the candy cannon's other element(s) (seen with the lucky candy + sugar coat cannon in level 6005).
Notable levels[]
Level 4252 - Unofficial introduction of sugar coats.
Level 5991 - First appearance of all three layers.
Level 5992 - First appearance of toffee swirls encased in sugar coats.
Level 5993 - First appearance of ingredients encased in multilayered sugar coats. First time when sugar coats can spawn from cannons.
Level 5995 - First appearance of colour bombs encased in sugar coats.
Level 5998 - First appearance of ingredients in single-layered sugar coats.
Level 6001 - First appearance of liquorice swirls encased in sugar coats.
Level 6072 - First level where sugar coats can be spawned by magic mixers.
Level 6277 - First level where sugar coat layers are required for candy orders and first order-ingredients level with sugar coat order.
Level 6284 - First time when lucky candies can yield sugar coats and first regular candy order level with sugar coat order.
Level 6407 - First jelly-order level with sugar coat order.
Level 6629 - First appearance of chameleon candies encased in sugar coats.
Sugar Coat order is required to unlock order locks from Level 7909.
Given the pink colour of Sugar Coats, and that its debut episode features a pink Soda, it suggests that Sugar Coats were made out of soda.
Sugar Coat is the blocker with the shortest gap between its initial reveal and the release date. It was revealed with the leak of Level 5991 on 28 November 2019 and released on 4 December 2019 on Windows 10, a gap of just one week.
This is the last blocker to be released in the 2010s.
This is currently the last (and likely last, period) blocker that can be spawned by candy cannons.