Special Missions

The **Special Mission** is a game mode existing in the mobile video game Minion Rush.

## Description

In early versions of Minion Rush, there was a kind of limited-time event that asked the player to collect items for prizes, and the method to complete such events is similar to that of Subway Surfers.

In the update 2.5.0 on December 8, 2014, Gameloft introduced a new location, The Arctic Base, and the first special mission called Holiday Quest.

From then on, a series of similar missions start in each following update and the common features of them are:

* It appears before Despicable Ops and the rooms, but the player needs to reach Agent Rank 2 to access the special missions.
* Since the "Gingerbread House" mission, there are 3 stages and 7 milestones per stage in each mission.
* The "Silver Trophy" is awarded after the player completes the first stage and the "Golden Trophy" is awarded after the player completes all three stages.

During "5-Year Celebration" until "Banana Bank", the player could run 6 stages and 5 milestones per stage in each mission. The "3-Stages Award" (now called Silver Trophy) was awarded after the player completed the first three stages and the "6-Stages Award" (now called Golden Trophy) was awarded after the player completed all six stages.

During the "Piggy Power" until "Ticket to Space" mission, one could play a mission multiple times to claim more rewards. The mission consisted of 2 or 3 **Laps** with 3 stages and 16 parts in each lap.

## Strategy

The collection items appear relatively frequently in the early stages, but less frequently in the later stages. The special items for Fevers, are awarded daily and as prizes for intermediate stages, or they can be purchased with 50 Tokens. The optimal approach is to save all the items for the last stage, and to use them with a costume that:

* Increases the amount of Fevers like the Skater costume
* Increases the Fever length like the Spy costume or the Grenadier costume
* Increases the amount of items like the Witch costume

Given the choice of a an item just beyond it, it's usually quicker just to grab the Fever rather than take the time in the mini-game to get the item.

Once all of the items needed for a particular part of a stage have been collected, no additional items will appear, so it's best to use the Fevers when there are still plenty of items left to be collected.

## History

The following list are about the missions that have/had been held so far.

**Special Missions History**

Since the 6.1.0 update, the following Special Missions changed considerably, as follows:

## Items Needed (by style of Missions)

**Missions 1-16**

**Missions 17-22; 27**

**Missions 23-26; 28-41**

**Missions 42-69**

## Trivia

* In the first 22 missions, there was a minion costume as one of the prizes for completing a mission (it was replaced by Tokens if the player purchased/gained the costume before).
* In the first 41 missions, there were 3 stages & 16 parts in each mission.
* During "Piggy Power" until "Episode 3: Attack of the Bubbles", as well as "Minion Break", one can run the a mission for three laps; however, due to the negative feedback that three laps were too tedious to complete since the special items required skyrocketed as the stage became higher, the 3rd lap was removed as of August 9, 2017.
* Wedding Party was scheduled to be held since February 4, 2015; however, it didn't started until the issue in the game was fixed in February 10.
* In the first two missions, there were introduction videos for each stages; however, in April Fool's Prank, there were only two clips for the mission, and it was the last mission with multiple mission introduction videos.
* Locations after Vector's Fortress were introduced with updates with a mission and were the location where the mission were held.
* In the mission Extreme Sports, no new prop was introduced; it instead used all the previous props, Snowboard, Skateboard, BMX Bike, and Minion Glider.
* Since the Horror Night Party mission, it is also possible to collect an item in the Mega Minion, Fluffy Unicorn, and The Moon mini-games, and Blueprint is also introduced since this update and is given as one of the prizes for the mission. An item can also be collected while riding Gru's Rocket. In addition, there are also challenges for achieving certain goal in certain parts of the mission, and the player can be awarded with amounts of items as a reward, but it should be done in a run.
* The missions are often related to the current event (such as festivals) or season at the time rather than the plot in the film and thus are non-canon.
* Missions often start on Wednesday.
* Mower Minions is the first mission that is adapted from non-Despicable Me film content (its original work, *Mower Minions* is the mini-movie for *The Secret Life of Pets*); Piggy Power is the second one, adapted from the film *Sing* and one of the characters, Gunter, appears briefly in the introduction.
* The Mower Minions mission was set to end on October 19, 2016; due to technical issue, however, the mission was stopped suddenly in October 17 and the next mission, Haunted Hustle, started in the same day.
* For missions prior to the Piggy Power mission, once the player completed all the stages. There was a competition to collect the most items with prizes. With the Piggy Power mission, the Market was added, and players can complete multiple laps of the stages to earn more Market tickets. The number of items needed to complete the first lap was significantly lower than the number required for previous missions (for example, the last stage was 500 items, rather than 1,059); the higher laps acquire more items to be collected, but the prizes are more and rather valuable than previous laps.

* Fever Mode is the first mini-game that wasn't categorized as a prop. It was a time-limited item and can be upgraded only in the market; before it, unused props can be stored in the inventory.

* Since the Strike Saga began, main updates cover two special missions. The first one offers a new costume for Dave available only in the Market. Nine blueprints are offered, three at the price of 500 market tickets and six for 1,000 market tickets. The market offers golden tickets for various costumes. The main golden tickets belong to the new costume and sometimes the one that preceded in the beginning of the previous update or costumes that had recently been given a golden ability. Additionally, gold, mega-perks and seasonal pods are always included in the market. During the second mission the market offers Skater at the price of 6,000 market tickets and Island Hopper for 500 market tickets. Additionally, the second special mission offers golden tickets for an older costume that has been given new golden ability, tickets for the first mission's main costume as well as Skater costume. Fifteen blueprints are offered, three at the price of 500, six for 750 and six for 1,000 market tickets, as well as gold, mega-perks and seasonal pods.
* Every two special missions, Skater Minion is offered only in the Market for two main reasons: one is because it is no longer available in the Shop and the other that its powers work mostly in fever mode during special missions. Skater, as well as Spy, Witch, and Grenadier, are the top choices to win special missions faster. Spy's and Grenadier's powers add significant time to Fever Mode duration while Skater's add more fever uses without adding extra time to them and Witch's increases the number of items collected without upgrading the fever duration.
* Skater's powers were originally meant for both the lab / events extending power-up time and prop use (and time). Many jelly lab areas still offer the use of a prop at the beginning of specific levels and the extra props still apply there using Skater.
* Since the 5-Year Celebration, the special missions began a new style. A player would require to complete 6 stages, each one having 5 milestones to reach. Each time a stage succeeds the previous one, the decoration of the room hosting the special mission slightly changes. By the end of the mission, the decoration is complete. The difficulty of the special mission is a lot higher than the previous missions. Starting from Gingerbread House, players would require to complete 3 stages, each one having 7 milestones to reach.